The family drama continues…
By fred | February 7, 2007
Another hour in the new day of not only Jack Bauer but his whole family went by, and it wasn’t really exciting. It’s not that nothing happened, because obviously quite a few things occurred with the Bauer’s, it’s that we all saw it coming.
Starting with the fact that daddy Bauer is not such a nice guy after all. Truth be told, he might just be even worst then his son Graham, and we all know he was highly ranked on the bad-guys list.
But the problem is that it was no shocking revelation, when we finally saw Phillip (James Cromwell) unmistakably revealing his dark side, we knew – or at least highly suspected – for a while that he was one of the bad guy. And it was even a bit weird to see CTU special agent Jack Bauer not realizing his father just killed the guy.
I mean when both of them escaped from the two “bodyguards� ordered by Graham to kill them, Jack used the gun of one of the two to kill the second one, then the gun got sent away from the two as they fought. Jack then sent him to the ground, and goes to nicely ask him a few questions when out of nowhere Phillip, using the gun of the dead bodyguard, just shot him.
Plain & simple. No hesitation, no warning, he executed him when he was no threat to him or Jack, when he wasn’t even armed, and right before Jack could question him. It was really obvious he did it fully alert of everything, because he didn’t want to let Jack question him, or actually risk having him giving Jack answers!
Sure it’s his father, and he wants to believe he’s a good guy, but still Jack is highly trained and should have seen something was odd. Because the guy wasn’t armed or threatening, and Phillip wasn’t over-stressed on his own, I mean his bodyguard was already lying dead, he had time to take his gun & see what’s going on.
And he seems to know how to handle a gun, so Jack has to know he does, and that was a shoot to kill. A bit weird, but after all Jack is known for his bad judgment when it comes to people close to him, I mean his “mistress” was a mole who killed his pregnant wife after all…
So maybe Jack didn’t know. Or didn’t want to believe. But we sure did, and although it’s understandable Jack could fall for it, the touching moment when Phillip told him he deserved a better family, but “not this, not us� was certainly not working on us.
And pretty much the same goes for the killing of his own son Graham. I didn’t saw it coming long before like the truth about Darth Father, but he really got there quite slow. He really, really, really took his time, and the last minutes between them were really sounding like a father saying goodbye to the son he’s about to murder.
So much it’s quite inexplicable that Graham did not got it himself. It’s not like he’s just a regular guy thrown into this mess, he was involved in terrorist activities and such for a while, and he’s been dealing with his father for a long time, how could he not grasp what was taking place before Phillip put his hand on his mouth?!
In fact, how come none of the CTU agents there saw that coming?!!
that’s right the whole plot with jack’s father was way to predictable, but like you said if graem was not to be dead cause their father was being framed it would be cool!!
but i don’t think so, they need to move on to bigger story for the 2 hours next week
also i wondering if “the company” the bauer are working for is the same one scofield’s father is working for ;)