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Here’s the post for tonight’s JBKC3.5 9pm-10pm. Enter your best guess in the comments. We sort of lost track of who had what in the first 5 hours because Arlo got his hands on the database. We’ll have Chloe rebuild things shortly.

Since last season’s kill counter worked after a fashion, we’ll be running it again with only one modification since there will be a lot of Kim Bauer mentions. It will be a points based system that awards Jack Bauer points for doing good things like killing someone and negative points for doing bad things like saying “I’m sorry”.

Each week we will ask you to submit how many points you think Jack will get, the person closest wins. Submit how many points Jack Bauer will rack up in tonight’s episodes in the comments – we will publish the winner on Tuesday (1/26).

Here is the preliminary list of points. We may remove and/or add to this list as the season progresses, so send us any suggestions you may have.

Kill Counter 3.5
Killing Someone = 1 point
Killing a good guy = -1 point

Bonus Points
“Dammit” = 1 point
“We don’t have enough time” = 1 point
Shooting down a helicopter = 5 points
Apologizing for anything = -5 points
Crying = -5 points
Surrendering to bad guys = -10 points

Previous Jack Bauer Kill Counters
Season 5 Kill Counter
Season 6 Kill Counter
Redemption Kill Counter

We’ll start things somewhere around 8:30 pm. For those of you who want to watch this in a separate window, click here.

Since last season’s kill counter worked after a fashion, we’ll be running it again with only one modification since there will be a lot of Kim Bauer mentions. It will be a points based system that awards Jack Bauer points for doing good things like killing someone and negative points for doing bad things like saying “I’m sorry”.

Each week we will ask you to submit how many points you think Jack will get, the person closest wins. Submit how many points Jack Bauer will rack up in the first 4 episodes in the comments or, for this week only because we’re cutting it so close, in the live thread – we will publish the winner on Tuesday (1/20).

Here is the preliminary list of points. We may remove and/or add to this list as the season progresses, so send us any suggestions you may have.

Kill Counter 3.5
Killing Someone = 1 point
Killing a good guy = -1 point

Bonus Points
“Dammit” = 1 point
“We don’t have enough time” = 1 point
Shooting down a helicopter = 5 points
Apologizing for anything = -5 points
Crying = -5 points
Surrendering to bad guys = -10 points

Previous Jack Bauer Kill Counters
Season 5 Kill Counter
Season 6 Kill Counter
Redemption Kill Counter

Revisions/extensions (10:09 pm 4/13/2009) - Figures I’d get the first episode to feature a full-on-negative Kill Counter. DAMMIT!

Yes, I know it’s Central time; those of you in the Eastern time zone will need to add an hour.

I’m going to miss Big Bad Bill, but I will remember that he didn’t die for nothing.

Thanks to Fred at Real Debate Wisconsin for sending me the screencap.

Brent Baker at Newsbusters brings us a couple of choice denounciations from USA Today’s “dossier”.

First up, Janeane Garofalo (Janis Gold) – “(I) was initially very reticent to do it, because I heard about the right-wing nature of Joel’s [24 co-creator Joel Surnow] politics and the torture-heavy scripts. And then I thought, ‘I’m unemployed!’”

Next up, Cherry Jones (President Allison Taylor) – “(I)t’s too bad this season’s topic is not Wall Street. The torture thing is very unfortunate; I have trouble with it. Fortunately, my President is opposed to it….

“She’s…very committed to restoring stability in this country and also the country’s reputation around the world, not unlike where we are now.”

Hopefully this philosphy doesn’t leak into Jack’s head.