I'm watching this in 2023, 20 years after the original airing because I recalled season 3 as being one of the most fun, and sure it's wild twisty ride but I guess back then I wasn't inclined to pick apart a show for logic flaws but this is a doozy.
Since when has Jack Bauer been elected President, to decide matters like this on his own? A President isn't a hothouse flower. He's elected to make the hard choices. Jack is flat out undermining democracy.
And if Jack decided that he's "allowed" to make these decisions on his own recognizance, why did he choose such a convoluted plot, when he could do this a lot more simply?
When he's still with the Salazars, he makes his pitch to Ramon and Hector so he can use their terrorist connections: hey I heard about this billion-dollar virus. Let's go after it!
Or, if he only learned of the virus after putting Ramon behind bars (argh what timing huh?) then let some other mole in the Salazar company arrange the virus transaction. The Salazars obviously trusted Gael. Let him do it.
There was no need for any dramatics with the virus-infected corpse and speaking of that, how did Jack (or the Salazars?) get their hands on the virus in order to do that? Was Jack part of that, I guess he must have been, since the virus thing was never the Salazars' idea, but he was on the outs with the Salazars so how did that all happen?
And what about the other 20 people whose corpses were buried in a pit on Hector's ranch? Was Jack also responsible for their deaths like he was responsible for the guard's death in the Russian Roulette game and for terrorizing the Singer family and nearly causing Kyle to commit suicide?
Jack's got a lot of blood on his hands and for no damn good reason either.
Since when has Jack Bauer been elected President, to decide matters like this on his own? A President isn't a hothouse flower. He's elected to make the hard choices. Jack is flat out undermining democracy.
And if Jack decided that he's "allowed" to make these decisions on his own recognizance, why did he choose such a convoluted plot, when he could do this a lot more simply?
When he's still with the Salazars, he makes his pitch to Ramon and Hector so he can use their terrorist connections: hey I heard about this billion-dollar virus. Let's go after it!
Or, if he only learned of the virus after putting Ramon behind bars (argh what timing huh?) then let some other mole in the Salazar company arrange the virus transaction. The Salazars obviously trusted Gael. Let him do it.
There was no need for any dramatics with the virus-infected corpse and speaking of that, how did Jack (or the Salazars?) get their hands on the virus in order to do that? Was Jack part of that, I guess he must have been, since the virus thing was never the Salazars' idea, but he was on the outs with the Salazars so how did that all happen?
And what about the other 20 people whose corpses were buried in a pit on Hector's ranch? Was Jack also responsible for their deaths like he was responsible for the guard's death in the Russian Roulette game and for terrorizing the Singer family and nearly causing Kyle to commit suicide?
Jack's got a lot of blood on his hands and for no damn good reason either.