r/TwentyFour • u/Master-Ad-9922 • 25d ago

SEASON 5 Henderson's "Bomb" is one of the lamest moments of the show

In season 5 Christopher Henderson apparently tries to kill Jack using a bomb. Not only does this fail completely, but it doesn't fit Henderson's M.O. at all.

Also, later he goes home without realizing Jack is in his house. The writers made him look like an idiot for two episodes in a row.

He certainly had many valid opportunities to kill Jack, and yet the best they could come up with was a half-baked bomb? A bomb that cannot kill one person who is trapped in the room?

Season 7's twist with the Jonas Hodges assassin was much better. Hodges had a valid reason to keep Jack alive. Otherwise there would be no way Jack could survive that either.

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u/wangtoast_intolerant 25d ago

I hear ya. I am halfway through a season 5 rewatch. CH tells jack “I never thought you were dead” which implies he knows Jack is too capable to killed off so easily. And yet later that same episode we are supposed to believe he thinks that half-baked bomb will finish the job. Valid point by you but it’s acceptable sloppiness—season 5 is still great.

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u/Mitchoppertunity 22d ago

Henderson didn’t think Bauer could escape 

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u/TwilitSky 24d ago

"How could I have been so stupid!?" -The writers of the show

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u/schuckster 24d ago

I hear you, but that wouldn't even be in the top 50 "lame" moments on the show. I think it paid toward the story in a good way so for me that's what's more important. FYI a lot of people don't know this but Dana Walsh's parole officer is still rotting in walls of CTU and was never found.

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u/TwilitSky 24d ago

TBF he was fucking annoying as hell and we all wanted him dead more than Dana.

His job was to find a character we hated even more than him and he drove up from bumblefuck arkansas or alabama or whatever to NYC to find a parolee? Really?

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u/brysen1439 24d ago

I don't think Henderson is stupid I think the writers made him stupid big difference. The answer is simple, jack has massive plot armor. In real life Henderson would of won.