24: Season 9, Episode 5 “3:00pm-4:00pm” (C-)
Let’s take a look at the ridiculousness of this episode, starting specifically with the Al-Hazari family storyline. The logic of cutting off one of Simone’s fingers to keep Navid alive so that someone could observe him piloting the drone for just a few minutes before killing him just one hour later is absurd, especially since Margot putting a bullet in him only serves to show how cutthroat she is, a fact that she does not need to prove to anyone other than Navid. She certainly doesn’t need to intimidate her daughter, who still pledges allegiance to her despite the aforementioned severing. It seems futile to have killed him when they could easily have kept him alive and punished him for his repeated disobedience in some other way. It reminds me of how Jack tranquilized George Mason back in the pilot so many years ago, because he wouldn’t give up a source that Jack ended up not using at all after that. It was a quick humorous joke back then, but now it’s come to define the show. Though it’s far less outlandish, Navarro abandoning his post to go out into the field to track down one lead isn’t smart or sensible, and of course only Kate and Chloe are able to figure out what’s really going on while everyone else still thinks they know best. Jack has gone in just a few hours from public enemy number one to an ally permitted to be alone in a room close to the president, who managed to stay awfully conveniently coherent for the entirety of this episode.
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