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Will they do it? Will 24 let terrorists blow up New York City tonight? On the one hand, of course not. Yes, they nuked Los Angeles, but everybody hates Los Angeles, and New York is different in both being a much better-liked city and, you know, having already had a gruesome tragedy at the hands of psychos nine years ago. On the other hand, it's 24; they are loose cannons, and they have little regard for what's in good taste.
If this episode weren't filmed before the show was officially canceled, I'd actually think there would be a chance the dirty bomb would go off -- as some sort of crazy ass swan song or something -- but it wasn't, so it won't. Jack will defeat Tarin and Samir just in time and we'll hopefully get to watch an old-fashioned Jack Bauer chain-choking, throat-ripping terrorist beatdown of at least one of them (probably Tarin; Samir is for the finale, of course). And hey, maybe Dana will get murdered too! We've got two hours, and you don't need a dirty bomb detonation for there to be bloodshed, after all.
24 airs on Fox tonight from 8 PM to 10 PM, opposite a new Gossip Girl, Dancing With the Stars and Chuck. And Life Unexpected and Trauma as well, sure, if you're maverick enough to consider those shows.
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I'm sure the producers of all those other shows you mentioned breathed many, many sighs of relief upon hearing 24 was canceled. The Chuck producers especially.
It seems to me that 24's fictional setting has always been an alt-verse (like the one on Fringe?) in which many occurrences are obviously different from ours. Perhaps they could link the alt-NYC tragedy with an undeniable symbolic reminder that 24's alt-NYC is definitely fictional (a massive red ball floating in the sky?).