Culture: 24, 12-1pm

Well, the three threads continue to unfold.

(1) Fayed finds an engineer to arm the nukes and its Morris! I didn't see that one coming but should have when they got Morris to leave CTU to see his allegedly dying brother. It was of course just a ruse to nab him. Will Morris survive for next season or will once again Chloe be left to mourn yet again?
(2) White House inner circle intrigue continues. This is familiar territory from some past seasons when one part of the government wants war and the other side urges restraint. We shall see whose side who is on in the episodes to come. These kinds of power struggle scenes can get boring if they get too talky and aren't properly paced. So far so good.
(3) Meanwhile in the family Bauer we get a twist that was telegraphed: turns out daddy Bauer is in on the plot with the brother Graem and not surprisingly this week the tables are turned and Graem appears to be dead.

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Implausibility alert: I don't think there were any huge whoppers this week. Yes, CTU might have been more suspicious about the ruse to get Morris to leave but given the chaos after a nuclear blast it might have slipped their minds to be more skeptical. Would the CTU agents have left Graem completely unguarded so daddy Bauer can kill him? Dunno, maybe, maybe not.

UPDATE: Another implausibility item that occurred to me as we await the special two-hour installment this coming Monday was the two guys assigned to kill Philip and Jack Bauer. Graem and Philip intended that episode to convince Jack that Graem was the bad guy and Philip was the good guy. Did the two guys know this plan? If yes, they wound up dead for their troubles and if they didn't, the plan could have gone awry with Philip and Jack dead! Oh, well.