Body Count: 1 (potentially 2)
This was one of those episodes that just put everything into place for the next two. You can always tell which these episodes because the villain will say something big is going to happen in an increment of time that won’t occur until the following episode.
Panic Room:
Whoever designed that panic room needs to give the people of not-Darfur back their money. What’s the point of having a secure room where the air vent can be tampered? Well, maybe they didn’t count on having to keep Jack Bauer out of that room. Jack and Tony teach kids how to make toxic chemicals at home and gas out President Matobo and his cowardly wife. Seriously, what a punk. He was ready to die for his country and but she was like “Momma, I wanna live!” and opened the door. Agent Freckles catches up with them only to get caught by the lead singer of Maroon 5. Jack and Tony convince Emerson to keep her alive for awhile but once the mole tells big boss man that she doesn’t know shit, he has Jack take her out to a ditch and shoot her. Being that Jack is Jack, he shoots her in the upper neck/shoulder to make it look like a head shot (he did a similar thing with Nina Myers in season one). Emerson, having read Jack’s file, make Tony and Jack bury Agent Freckles alive while she lie under a plastic tarp. I can’t tell if the silent clock was for effect or Agent Freckles is dead. I hope it’s the former because Agent Freckles doesn’t deserve a silent clock reserved for techies with endearing speech impediments.
