KEVIN GREENE-ILLUSTRATOR

24

Well, my man Jack Bauer is back on Sunday night....the most dangerous man on television returns to bust caps in bad guys. Ah, television violence at it's finest. I knew from the very first episode of 24 that Jack Bauer is going to be a different type of television hero. He shot some jackass who tried to kill him, but being far away from his CTU office he didn't know how to get info on the dead dude. So what does he do? He cuts the guys thumb off and when gets back to CTU he tosses it to some poor guy and tells him to fingerprint it. I sat back and said "O.K. That was unusual for T.V." Over the course of the last four seasons Jack Bauer has killed his boss on the orders of that seasons main bad guy ( he had no choice), shot an unarmed, injured women who was laid out flat on her back ( granted, she killed his wife), chopped off his partners hand because a soon-to-explode toxic bomb in a suitcase was handcuffed to it, instructed his daughter over the phone to shoot an unconscious man who posed a threat to her(twice!), shot a pedophile and chopped his head off to get in good with a militia-
style terrorist and prevented doctors at gunpoint from working on the injured, estranged husband of his girlfriend to save another man who had info he needed (the husband died on the operating table...a tad awkward). There's never been a character on television that has that kind of mayhem on their resumé. So this season I'm going to attempt something that I've wanted to do since the start. I will try to keep a running tab on the deaths on 24. The methods, the amount, all of that. And figure out just what Jack did, because you can always count on him to slay in a great variety of ways(although he usually counts on his trusty nine for the bulk of the dispatching). I'll call it the "24 Death Chart". It oughta be interesting...lol...
Dennis Haysbert, who plays ex-President David Palmer is gonna be in a new show on CBS and they've already promised major deaths in the first ten minutes of the season premiere so I'm guessin' he may go. Which is sad, because he's a great character and I'd hate to see him die....damn. But really, his role has kinda run it's course in a way.
Anyway, Monday morning I'll have the stats of the two hour premiere( two hours? That's twice the killling!). My man Jack is back on the case.