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(S05E19) They're creepy and they're kooky, they're altogether evil, they're President Logan and friends. Logan spells out the fact that he's a baddie to his wife this week, and we get a taste of the creative genius that seems to *actually* be behind the terrorists' plans to blow up a good portion of the U.S. and kill some citizens, all for the "good of the country." If you were calling a body count for tonight, it's probably good if it was a low guess. If you're calling for a body count with at least one "high value target" as they say in the trade, then you're probably spot on.

Not surprisingly, Jack leaves Audrey behind with Henderson after he's been caught and handcuffed to a post, and after a certain someone takes a certain plunge off a cliff in a certain vehicle, there's a good chance she'll waste him, right? Apparently not. Jack's so trusting with weaponry, it's a shocker that he didn't just give a gun to Henderson and leave him in the building himself. And what's with bad guys always showing up while Jack & Co. are holed up in someplace that looks like a hideout in a shoot 'em up videogame, anyway?

Mrs. Logan getting locked into a room and just yelling and screaming and banging on the door was a little offputting when it comes down to it, and the fact that some of the Secret Service agents are either in on what the Prez is up to -- or -- just happen to listen to everything he says and aren't at least a bit suspicious. I mean, who else thinks it's strange that one agent would supposedly be "reassigned" in the middle of a slew of terrorist attacks and shady goings-about at the Presidential ranch?

The one development I'm glad to have seen is that CTU -- at least some of it -- might be on the "good team" for the rest of this season, with Buchanan getting a warning about getting Chloe out the door, a suggestion that will probably end up saving Jack in the long run, knowing how this stuff usually works out. The death of Secretary Heller (well, at least we think he's dead) is now on the head of President Logan, and you know that Audrey will most certainly hold that against him, if you were looking for a way that she could be erased from the show. As it is, Logan is going to have a stack of people after him, including Bauer, Mike Novick, Wayne Palmer, his wife, Aaron Pierce, the entire American public, and probably the Chinese government if they ever find out that Jack Bauer is alive. But hey, what do I know.

Seeing these other men with their Bluetooth headsets hanging out discussing what Logan & Friends were up to made me think very much of an old James Bond flick, where the dastardly evildoers would sit around, flinging money back and forth, drinking Seven & Sevens on the rocks and dreaming up new plans. Okay, so maybe that's a little bit over the top, but didn't this week's doubtfulness by a few of the involved parties look like someone was going to get the trapdoor into the pool of sharks?

As far as developments go, we landed some pretty solid confirmation that Walt Cummings' "suicide" was not so much, that even after getting busted in the head, Curtis will always back up Jack, that Audrey isn't a cold-blooded killer, and that Logan most certainly only cares about himself. Then again, with his wife's comments about how she hates him, I could see him attempting to redeem himself with a last-ditch effort to kibosh whatever else is going to happen. Something else *has* to happen, right? I mean, outside of Jack hanging out in chilly, unpressurized luggage cabins. There's got to be one name we're familiar with on this plane, and it looks like we'll see our hero take the whole place on. He just better watch out for Harrison Ford a la Air Force One or anyone from the Delta Force. Heck, that'd at least get us our Chuck Norris - Jack Bauer matchup, right? (I knew I could work that in somehow.)