Insulting
To ask why federal dollars should be spent repairing damage to a state? Good thing that liberal professor was there to save the day from those marauding Brits, I guess.

I can't understand that comment to mean anything except that NCIS is the place to look for intelligent characters, and Fringe is not the place to look. Which is interesting, even though I do enjoy NCIS.

No, she realized who he was just as she was about to let him in for a little chat, giving him a great opportunity to disarm her and then chase her around for a while.

Also, boring episode.

Pretty Annoyed
By the scene in Olivia's doorway that occurs immediately after she resolves the mystery, only to have her face a guy who is OBVIOUSLY the killer, yet be totally oblivious until it's almost too late.

I assume it would have been there eventually but those particular scenes seemed to have been selected semi-chronologically and would naturally come before. Also sense the two were sharing a heaven, which apparently is uncommon, it seems plausible that these memories were put together on an ad hoc basis for the…

Am I the Only One
Who doesn't like Michael "Phil" Scott and thinks that this show is at its transcendent best when it's machining Luke into the ground over and over again?

The problem with this crap is that it takes interesting, well-acted characters who are believable and relatable as real human beings — something which isn't exactly standard fare on TV — and then buries that humanity in ludicrous mazes of deception and retard level intrigue, rendering the characters into ciphers.

This Reveal
About Lenny being a conman, presumably without a law degree or license, is probably the stupidest thing I have ever seen.

I think the show
Is most interesting when there's a battle of wills between intelligent adversaries (even if Patty is always a little too good or the bad guys sometimes make really stupid mistakes). This episode didn't have any of that as far as I could tell. Didn't go anywhere either.

Not gonna complain about a garroting though, which was awesome. Plenty of other stuff to whine about in this episode anyway; like Jack taking 50 minutes or so to cross an alleyway, or the fact that while messing with the trunk line, Chloe was not showered by molten sparks, reducing her to a pile of ash.

How did 24 get to the point
Where a pivotal conceit of the season is that a creepy-looking parole officer from Alabama (or wherever) can wander into the New York headquarters of a federal counter-terrorist agency — in the midst of a major crisis — and harass its employees with complete impunity?

One Constant
With this show is that its plotlines will never live up to its characters. Or at least, its male characters.

All I hope for at this point is that we don't have to see Chloe, Dana, Drone Guy, Brian, or any other CTU idiot again this season.

Incidentally, tonight's Dana Walsh idiocy marks the first time I've ever skipped through an episode of 24.

Nice to see
That tactical body armor is completely ineffective against pistols at moderate to long range.

Except that the "right wing torture porn" is what makes the show good, and this season sucks because it lacks it.

Why not, if they put some kid who is not only unqualified but TRANSPARENTLY unqualified in charge of their field team?

You know what WOULD have set off the vest? "Jamming" it by flooding the airwaves with the frequency that detonates it.

Jesus Christ. I just finished this episode and I don't think I have ever been more annoyed by 24.