What I’m Watching: 24

24: Season 9, Episode 6 “4:00pm-5:00pm” (C-)

Continuing on the ridiculousness of last week, I’m not sure whether to start with the Al-Hazari family or the British. Simone, who let her mother cut off her finger only an hour before deciding that it was worth it to punish her husband for his betrayal by killing him, is fine with letting her husband, a man she seems to have loved, if not as much as her mother, die but not able to go through with killing her niece. I think she learned an important lesson that scaring someone into running away without telling them why they’re in danger just doesn’t work, and now she’s been taken out, at least momentarily if not permanently, and the girl who saw her aunt kill her mother is on the loose. Margot, who is now bent on alienating both her children, is soon going to be out of allies and is going to have to pilot those damn drones herself. Moving on to the British, it seems highly implausible that the Prime Minister’s staff would be aware of Heller’s condition and that it wouldn’t have leaked to the public if they were able to find out about it. Sending in a team to follow Jack and then jump to conclusions wouldn’t have been so imbecilic if the entire team hadn’t allowed themselves to be killed, leaving Jack and Kate the only ones standing. Kate proved herself more than capable of being a worthy partner for Jack, agreeing immediately to his crazy plan and then strangling someone with her legs while she was chained up. She should just be thankful that he forgot to start using the drill during that commercial break.