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1. RFTR and Kim Bauer spend some “quality time” in his secret underground lair.
2. Hey, look at that: Unlike Janis Gold, Kim sits when she pees!
3. Sadly, even lo-def is not Kim’s friend anymore!
Just when you thought we were blessed with a Kim Bauer fix without some silly sideplot. She didn’t drag soulman (C. Thomas Howell) to the office or get kidnapped. Nope, this time she made Jack Bauer a grandparent. Really, Jack Bauer is a grandpa! I have a grandpa, he served in WW2 – she has a Grandpa and he saves the world in 24-hour increments.
Imagine all the nightime stories Grandpa Baer can read to Kim Bauer Jr.?
“Tell me the story about the time you landed an airplane on the LA Freeway grampa Bauer”
“Gramdpa Bauer says forcing a bad guy to swallow a towel is more effective than hooking up car batteries to bad guys junk in most cases”
Then the questions will come up about where Grandma is and who’s the red-haired bimbo hanging out with grandpa. Then baby Bauer will be told that great-grandpa was a bad guy and is most likely in hell with Uncle Graem.
God help her if she ever googles “Jack Bauer”.
Babies aren't supposed to have stuffed cougars in their crib
Blogs4Bauer has ranked the hottest women of 24, (you’ve gotta admit, there’s no reason whatsoever to rank the hottest men of 24, unless you conceded right off the bat that Jack’s No. 1 and everyone else is just sloppy seconds).
Anyway, now we’re looking at the people we love to hate. From we break down the top villains of our favorite show and reveal the Top 10 – 24 Villains of all time.
Today, we look at the hottest male villain. It was a tough call and Vladimir Bierko almost made it (sorry, Julian Sands), but I had to go in another direction.
Name: Syed Ali
Season: Two
Occupation: Leader of Second Wave, an Islamic fundamentalist terrorist group.
First seen: 4:00pm-5:00pm
Last Seen: 11:00pm-12:00am
Status: Dead
Syed Ali recruited the woman who was perhaps the hottest female 24 villain (other than Mandy, OK Wyatt?), Marie Warner.
The best thing about Marie, however, was that her involvement brought us the best Bauer Girl yet, her sister, Kate Warner.
But this is about Ali. Sorry, got sidetracked.
Ali was the mastermind of the Season 2 plot to nuke L.A. (the bad guys didn’t get this accomplished until Season 6, remember).
Using intel from Nina Myers, Ali attacks CTU with C4 explosives to keep them busy and unable to investigate his bomb plot. Shockingly, this does not stop Jack.
Anyhow, Ali had planned to fly the Cessna loaded with the nuke all by his lonesome, the ultimate suicide bombing. But before he heads out to the airfield, he stops at a mosque to pray. Bad choice. That’s where Jack captures him and starts torturing him.
Given that Ali was about to nuke himself along with L.A., the torture’s not all that effective. So Jack ups the ante and sets up a video connection to Ali’s family, who are tied to chairs and being held by gunmen.
He still refuses to give Jack any info, so Jack gives the signal and Ali’s son is executed in cold blood. That works.
After George Mason (already dying of radiation exposure) sacrifices himself by flying the nuke over the desert to be detonated, the U.S. wants to retaliate against whoever’s reponsible. CTU raids Ali’s hotel room and finds a recorded conversation (henceforth known as the “Cyprus recording”) between Ali and high-ranking officials from his and two other unnamed Middle Eastern countries.
Michelle and Jack don’t believe the recording is real. Jack tells Ali that his son isn’t really dead. Ali again insists the recording is fake, but he’s then assassinated. Jack must then prove the Cyprus recording is fake.
This whole plot line leads to the removal of President David Palmer by his Cabinet under the 25th Amendment and his eventual reinstatement because, of course, Jack was right, he was right all along.
It turns out that Marie Warner helped Ali bring the bomb into the country, in part by funnelling at least $475K from her dad’s company to Ali for Second Wave. She shoots a CTU agent and her fiance, Reza, in cold blood to prevent the truth from coming out. But Marie’s ultimate motivations and how she got involved with Ali are never really explained.
Extra: Palmer’s temporary removal led to an abiding friendship with Secret Service Agent Aaron Pierce, who became one of the coolest of the cool in later seasons. (Pierce was in Season 1 as well; he and Jack Bauer are the only two characters to appear in every single season so far. Here’s hoping he’s in Season 7.)
Also, Day 2 is set 18 months after Day 1 and is believed to take place in September 2005.
ALSO, this is the infamous cougar bait season. It has nothing to do with Ali, unfortunately, but has provided much wonderful humor for years.
Final Rankings (out of 10)
Meanness: 4
Coolness: 4
Reign of Terror: 5
Sexiness: 10
Total Points: 23
–EXCLUSIVE–
Those of you who check out Blogs4Bauer on a semi-regular basis know that we’re not a spoiler site in any way whatsoever. We are like the Tuesday morning quarterbacks of 24.
Well that all changes today! One of my friends works with a key sponsor of 24 and Fox. On a recent business trip, she was invited to meet some of the writers of 24 at a party. After a few drinks, her and Manny Coto hit it off pretty well and they exchanged email addresses to keep in touch. As a sponsor, she would like to know ahead of time what is going on with the show.
Well….she sent me this email from Manny talking about a favorite character of ours. Yes, RFTR will be glad to hear that Kim Bauer will soon make her glorious return. Thats right, Kim Bauer is 
coming back later this season! You heard it here first!
Now we have a couple more shockers that we will be coming down the pipe on future episodes of 24. If you are a fan of the show, make sure you check back tomorrow to find out….oh heck, just check back tomorrow for more insider information.
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