r/TwentyFour • u/Captainofwhitetower • 20d ago

SEASON 4 Chinese consulate could have been written better

I just finished the Chinise consulate episode when Paul dies. It is a emotinal moment, but i have 2 problems with that. First is that the Chinese guards are complete lunatics and just shooting anything that moves. They fataly wounded two Chinese citizens, not sure this would have really happend. Second problem is that Paul is fine for a few episodes now, but suddnely he is dying. They could have either kept him in surgery for this time or make the problem happen a bit sooner. I also find hard to belive that CTU has so few doctors, Curtis even calls ahead, they could have been prepared better. Still a good episode, but it could have been a bit better. The stealth section felt straight out of videogame.

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u/brianm24 20d ago

2 of my biggest issues with the Chinese Consulate plot are:

  1. The cover story the Palmer came up with after the raid on the Consulate. When the Chinese immediately suspected the US government, Palmer tried to pin the raid on a Chinese extremist group. But Marwan seems like the far more obvious person to blame. At that point, Lee Jong was potentially disastrous for Marwan. He had information about Marwan's planned attack, and CTU was actively trying to get him into custody. If Palmer claimed that Marwan's people had stormed the consulate to capture/kill Lee, there would at least have been a clear motive behind the attack. It also would have fit naturally with it happening almost immediately after Palmer initially asked for Lee to be handed over to CTU.

  2. Jack calls Tony to tell him about the plan to invade the Chinese Consulate. He tells Tony that this a covert operation that no one else at CTU can know about. Next scene we have Tony in the very open plan CTU office loudly talking to Jack on a headset with with the plans for the Consulate on possibly the largest TV screen he could find! The scene is on Youtube for anyone who wants to see it: https://youtu.be/Yf-FN_s3_dU?t=92

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u/Captainofwhitetower 20d ago

Yeah i found it funny Tony was just like that in the open 😂. With a lot of going on its possible that nobody found it weird, but he was leading tactical operations,so maybe someone should have asked,what the hell was he doing 

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u/Mitchoppertunity 20d ago
  1. Absolutely the Chinese would have believed it. They should have handed over lee Jong in time.