Culture: 24 - 9-10pm and the 25th Amendment

Wow, that was some twist and turn 24 we all know and love!

Okay, in DC intrigue, the Cabinet was knotted 7-7 on declaring the President incapacitated.

According to the Whitehouse.gov there are 15 cabinet members. Thus, the tie vote the writers of 24 dreamed up is possible because in a crisis not all cabinet members might be available for an incapacity vote.

Alas, the writers of 24 made a huge boo-boo ... Karen Hayes, national security advisor, who cast the tying vote is not a cabinet member!

The Veep's chief of staff obviously forgot her Con Law class materials. She didn't need to dream up the false testimony that the Veep had no intention of reinstating Hayes as a cabinet member. The AG should have pointed out Hayes couldn't vote. The Supreme Court would have laughed that the White House Counsel's office didn't catch that boo boo before waking them up at 1 AM (I presume the 24 time clock is Pacific Time) and gone back to sleep!

All in all a huge blunder by the fact checkers at 24!!

Meanwhile back at CTU, Doyle, Nadia and Milo all make nice to fight the bad guys.

Gredenko loses an arm to lose the tracking device but comes to the end of the road underneath the Santa Monica Pier. Meanwhile, Fayed is captured and looks to be in for some tough times in the next episode.

Didn't see the Tom Lennox Jujutsu move coming. Way to go!

Saw the losing the arm thing (Chase did that in the end of was it season 3?) coming once I realized they were tracking Grudenko with something surgically put into his arm.

And then there is the surprise at the end! Whoa, really didn't see that one coming!

Then again, I'm pretty slow about these things so maybe it wasn't such a shocker!