I have a really hard time believing this. No mole in CTU? That’s like no groundhog on Groundhog Day. Or “Groundhog Day” without Bill Murray.

As usual, I get ahead of myself. So let’s start with Rain Man (sorry, that’s probably not PC and I mean no insult to autistic people, but c’mon, the actor portraying Brady last night was so channelling Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man). First off, awww, Hauser is obviously just selling national security secrets to bad Russians in order to have enough money to take care of his autistic brother. Who he’s using to access those national security secrets.

Of course, if the nukes go off, Brady will become an Acid Rain Man, so how exactly is he protecting his brother?

I somehow think that Brady would have freaked out a little more when the Tac Team came busting through the door and shot his brother. He handled it exceptionally well, I think. And Jack, Jack just shows a tender side we all know is there. How on earth did he know how to properly deal with Rain Man? I never have that much patience and I’m not trying to stop nukes from going off.

Brady was so totally a better field agent than Milo. He didn’t even get himself shot! He may have pooped in his pants (hey – you know you would have in that situation), but he got the job done. CTU should hire him. He’s like Chloe would be if she were a man and autistic. Oh, and nice. Seriously. Chloe probably doesn’t like red food, either.

Speaking of the lovely lass, she had one of the great lines of the night — “We all thought she was guilty. This is going to be awkward.”

Loved her calling out Milo on his crush. I just don’t believe that Nadia would like him. If he’d cornered me and planted one, I so would have slapped him. Especially if I’d just been released from detention after everyone thought I’d betrayed my nation just because I was Muslim. Including Milo.

So, Milo’s not a mole? I knew Nadia wasn’t. That was far too obvious, and 24 doesn’t go for the exceedingly obvious. Usually anything you know you know is wrong. I’m not 100 percent convinced that there is no mole, however. Maybe there’s molé sauce on the enchiladas in the CTU comissary (not that we’ll ever see that particular room).

Sorry, getting a little goofy.

I’m just all over the place on this blog today. Since I jumped to the mole issue again, I’ll stay there for a bit before going back to Gredenko’s capture.

Is there actually no mole? I have to admit, I have no comprehension whatsoever of how whatever it was that Johnson found that completely exonerated Nadia. Not that I need to be able to understand it, so long as Morris did and could verify it. What? Milo’s not totally out of the woods, so far as I’m concerned. He might still be a mole. Just a mole who has the hots for Nadia (hey, Nadia is totally hot. My husband and brother-in-law tend to agree).

What’s up with Johnson? Why does he have it in for Doyle? What happened in Denver? Milo and Doyle might be friends now? Doyle’s honest? I have to admit, I thought the Doyle/Nadia storyline would be played out a bit longer and Jack would have to give Doyle a beat-down when he found out that he’d made it so Nadia stayed in detention far longer than necessary. Now that we have found out how stand-up Doyle is, I think they might be setting him up to be the new Jack if they kill off Jack this season (hey – I am not saying I wish that to be so, but it’s been bandied about quite a bit that Jack might not survive the season. Or might quit for good. I mean, how the hell much else can happen to him in service to his nation?).

Back to Gredenko. First off, what the hell is going on with him and Fayed. Don’t terrorists working with different agendas realize that they can’t trust each other when they start out? I’m not exactly clear on why Fayed needs Gredenko. Our Russkie claims he’s the only one who can give Fayed the targets he wants. But why do you need security protocols for a nuke plant when you have a nuclear bomb? I’m thinking there aren’t too many security protocols that can prevent a nuke from getting through. But I’m just a journalist, not a rocket scientist, so I could be wrong, I suppose.

Fayed is so totally fed up with Gredenko tho, and it seems the feeling is mutual. Gredenko was rather quick to offer up Fayed, so long as he could save his own hide in the process. After all, the only reason he was working with Fayed was so “the Muslims” would get blamed for the bombings rather than the Russians. Of course, they’re renegade Russians, not nice ones like Suvarov (‘cuz Russian presidents are just such pussycats).

Speaking of blaming Muslims for terrorism, Veep Cy Tolliver is totally off the charts! He’s just about to nuke “the Middle East,” (c’mon, can’t you guys come up with a fake ‘stan to nuke instead of the generic Middle East?). That’s a pretty broad area, guys.

So I saved the best for last — Muppet Baby Zombie Palmer. They’re bringing in the crash cart one second and the next he’s totally lucid and calling off a nuclear strike? That was the most lucid and strong-willed I’ve seen the Prez so far this season. He should get nearly blown up more often. He was channelling big bro, for sure. And for the first time, I didn’t hate Sandra Palmer. I kind of felt sorry for her and she wasn’t totally annoying. Now that Walid’s out of danger, I guess she’s not quite so whiny.

Plus, check out the live blog from last night by The Jack Sack, over on Blogs4Bauer. He makes so many of the same points as I did, but in live time!