All the “24 has wimped out!” stuff I saw on FR yesterday made me tune in. Seeing him get grilled by the libs at a hearing and saying he would torture the terrorist again if it meant saving kids lives was awesome.
If this is wimping out, how macho was the show before?
I liked the part where he was going to poke the guy’s eye out with a ballpoint pen when he wouldn’t tell where Tony was hiding. Wonder if that’s considered torture? /sarc Evidently the new female FBI agent is as much into “expendiency” as Bauer.
Like when Jack shot the knee of the wife of one of the guys he was questioning? He knew that the guy would take too long to torture to get information out of, so he shot the guys wife and refused to let him get her help until he gave Jack the info.
That was classic Jack.
The first episode I watched, don't remember if it was season 2 or 3, Jack was grilling a perp in CTU. The prep laughed at Jack and said something like
"What are you going to do, shoot me?"
Jack shot him in the head.
That hooked me.
I went to Blockbuster and rented the previous year/years. Spent a weekend catching up.
“how macho was the show before?”
...gonna need a hacksaw...