Culture: 24 - 8-9pm

Okay, tonight, yet another episode... what's next???

So here is a recap from the last hour, last week...

They quickly resolved the question of whether or not Nadia was the mole in CTU. Morris certified the device found at the drone pilot scene was indeed authentic and was the means by which they tapped into CTU's systems thus clearing Nadia who shares a soap opera moment with Milo.

With the drone pilot dead, there are no leads but Chloe comes to the rescue by picking up a phone call from Gradenko to Mark Hauser who is a security consultant to a nuclear power plant. I wonder if this would be a violation of the current laws on tapping cell phones without warrants? I suppose under the circumstances POTUS would issue the necessary orders for CTU to tap anyone they think they have to and have the AG figure it out later.

On the implausibility alert ... you got to be amazed at President Wayne Palmer's powers of recovery or the doctor's medical skill!

BTW, did Tom Lennox say the nuke they were going to lob into UNNAMED Middle-Eastern country was a 300 kiloton tactical warhead?

IN the bad old days of the Cold War, the USA and USSR kept both tactical nukes and strategic nukes. The tactical ones would be used on the battlefield and were relatively small. The strategic ones were meant to destroy ICBM fields and wipe out cities. To read more than you would ever want to know about USA nukes go here. Anyway, it would appear that trigger happy VEEP is ordering a sub to fire a Trident nuclear missile which the web page I just cited (if the info is accurate) would be either 100 or 475 kilotons. Maybe the script writer checked a different web page!

The episode ends with the VEEP asking to talk to the AG to invoke the 25th Amendment, section 4. Just another day in the White House bunker ... as the sands of the hourglass are the days of our lives ...