It's nice that they brought Jon Voight back to be in 'National Treasure 3,' what with the secret White House water entrance and all. Aaron should have hidden the First Daughter in the secret TARDIS compartment in the Resolute Desk.
And Speedle's back! Bonus points if he dies because his gun misfires from not being cleaned in months and Jack plugs him in the chest.
Is there some reason that Juma's men needed a sketch of the White House? In case they didn't recognize one of the most famous buildings in the world, the location of their primary enemy at the moment that would have been shown in almost every news piece about the President's response to the Sengala crisis? Could the same information not have been conveyed with a floorplan that said The White House rather than blatantly obvious pic to beat you over the head with the location that was already given away by the previews for the episode?
Maybe if Juma had not sent himself, his chief lieutenant, and his best troops who can apparently deal with ten to one odds to the US, his country might not have been conquered in what, three or four hours?
I was expecting Juma to have at least 50 guys, not a dozen. I don't care if they have anti-tank weapons, 12 guys are not taking the White House from the Secret Service, even with the secret entrance, their own African Chloe, and insiders helping them out.
I think the reason Tony didn't want to disclose who his inside source working with Juma on the Washington attack was because Tony was that source. You can tell by the shame in his voice and expression during that scene, and his hesitation when Jack asked who his source was. He didn't know the exact location of the attack, but he knew all along that an attack was coming, and only changed his mind once Jack became intimately involved. He didn't want an attack on innocent American civilians, but he had no problem with an attack on a government target out of revenge.
As much as I want both of them to survive as two characters with minor Bauer-level badassity, I thought it was a bit of a cop-out for neither Bill nor Aaron to bite the big one when the situation obviously called for it given the reaction of Juma and his men to everyone else who opposed them.
Why does the White House "lockdown" not have features even the most basic panic room has, like the ability to communicate with those in the house and with the outside world? That was a really lazy plot device.
Can we have a VP worthy of some respect? Just once? He's not even part of the conspiracy, yet he might as well be with his self-serving attitude and ability to get in the way of people trying to do the right thing. Clearly Juma didn't have the President given his lack of confirmation of having her and the fact that they were all huddled around the lockdown room. Plus, you're telling me that African Chloe can access the Secret Service Presidential locator system (albeit with help), but the SECRET SERVICE can't?
Senator Red Foreman needs to be one of the hostages that gets executed, because I don't buy him forgiving Bauer even if he saves his life given his attitude in the episode.
All that being said, even with this being one of the most 24 cliche laden episodes of 24, it was still awesome, especially the nonstop excitement of the second half. Plus, Tony Todd is always badass, and definitely an improvement over Dubaku's romantic comedy issues.
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