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So Karen's going back to CTU, James Cromwell is Jack's dad and tiny Tom is still plotting to throw out the constitution. (Bring Back Mike!!)

As usual, there was some truly awful dialogue this episode, but I don't let that worry me too much; I mean, it's not like I'm watching this show for intellectual depth is it? (Jack looks good in the grey sweater, know what I'm sayin'?)

Anyway, I didn't see that ending coming up at all, that Morris was the technician that McCarthy had targeted - nice plot twist - although all the stuff earlier about his brother was a bit lame - I mean he agreed to stay at CTU so easily, after Chloe talked about those millions of lives he could help save. Okay, so it set up the ending, but it was still wimpy.

The scenes with Jack and Romano (sorry, it's hard to think of him as anyone else!) were tough though - he's torturing his brother and hugging him at the same time - it was oddly touching. Am I weird for thinking that? That's the thing about this show - it's terribly cliched one moment, and then throws something like that at you. Oh well... And bro owns up to his part in Palmer's assassination etc. last season, making Jack think that's the "big secret" he's been hiding. Which of course it isn't.

In the meantime, tiddly Tom is hatching his eeevil plan *muahahahah* to chuck out the constitution with the bathwater and dippy prez Wayne is letting him think he's getting his way by calling a cabinet meeting. But what Tom doesn't know is that the lovely Karen has fortified the Prez with her parting words - "you've been your own best counsel". What a gal. So, with the equally eeevil and smarmy VP on the phone on AF1(?), Wayne smacks 'em all down and tells them to stuff it. Hooray.

Jack's dad turns out to be a bit of a bugger, too. I didn't think I'd feel sorry for Romano Graham, but I did a bit at the end. What a family, eh? Dad doesn't trust Graham to not crack under torture, because they'll do worse to him at CTU than he's just gone through - so he takes matters into his own hands. No wonder his kids are so screwed up.


Heh.