PLOTS WITHIN PLOTS. Greater DeKalb resident Rick at Right Wing Nut House has the latest "24" summary up. The show gets weirder and weirder. Apparently a precondition for a security clearance at the Counter-Terrorism Unit, let alone at the LaSalle and Bureau County Railway (or whoever is stealing the unit one boxcar at a time) is you have to be some kind of a fruit loop. But leave that aside. Focus on the latest postponed terrorist attack. I know just enough about gas works to be dangerous, and the act of going into a locked room with containers of nerve gas, that, once opened, mix with lower-pressure natural gas that goes through that room, then out a not-well-marked gas main bothers me ... those bad guys should either have suffocated or triggered an explosion starting the timers on those less convincing canisters.

Never mind, it's fiction.

Now consider Mr Moran's prediction.

It’s Henderson vs. Jack with the future freedom of the United States hanging in the balance. The Greeks would kill them both off at the end. Let’s see what Fox comes up with.

They won't come up with it early in next week's show. At the end of the just-ended hour, protagonist Jack Bauer has terrorist squad leader Bierko (who reports to a renegade former Penn Central, er, Counter Terrorism Unit, official) in a submission hold just as the gasworks goes boom right on top of them. The upcoming hour starts opposite the tip-off of the men's collegiate finals. Expect Jack, or a corpse, or the ghost of Robert R. Young, to appear at the end of the hour.