Yesterday's 24 on Fox was really quite good. The plane that was bringing Jack Bauer and Nina Meyers back crashed creating a potentially hazardous situation because they were in the middle of no where and an injured Jack would have to walk Nina, a criminal and traitor, all the way to safety. Nina who was once Jack's close friend at the Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) had killed Jack's wife in last season's 24. Nina is also the reason that info was given to terrorist who blew up the CTU building and plan to explode a nuclear device in LA. So she is one dangerous madre. Also, a key issue is that she is the only person who can lead them to the bomb and she has negotiated immunity in exchange for the knowledge of its whereabouts.

The plan goes down, and of course, true to trite formulas, only Jack and Nina survive in relatively good shape. And because they have to flee assasins who apparently shot down their plane, he has to trust her with ammunition which she eventually turns against him and takes him hostage. The show ends with her asking for a presidential pardon for a crime that she is about to commit, the murder of Jack Bauer. The president has to grant it in an emotional scene, emotional because Jack saved his life in last season's 24.

The acting is getting better. The president guy, I forget his name, was less wooden. I like his chief of staff and his wife. The story line with Jack Bauer's daughter is getting stupider by the second. The story line with Kim (?) lady who finds out that someone in her dad's company has something to do with terrorism is intriuging, but it needs to go somewhere fast.

Even though things are rapidly deteriorating between Jack and Nina, Jack's hatred of her grows as does her fear of him and desire to kill him, I'm sticking to my original prediction that they are going to end up together romantically involved. Don't ask me how.