"24" Predictions Wrap-Up

TeeVee contributor David Rout writes in with an in-depth analysis of the odds for next season’s 24.

If you haven’t seen the 24 finale yet, don’t look. Or look and be damned.

Chance of there being a new season of 24. 100%
Chance of Jack Bauer’s return to 24. 100%
Chance of Jack surviving a Chinese prison. 100%
Chance of Jack Bauer working in a Chinese prison making pirated copies of “High School Musical.” 25%
Chance of former President Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin) returning to 24. 100%
Chance of former President Logan being imprisoned. 50%
If imprisoned, chance of former President Logan convincing Multiple Miggs to swallow his tongue. 10%
Chance of former President Logan to look more Nixon-like without plastic surgery. 0%
Chance of Vice President Hal Gardner (Ray Wise) becoming the new President. 100%
Chance of Vice President Gardner crossing paths with Jack Bauer. 100%
Chance of Vice President Gardner being charged with the 1990 slaying of Washington state teenager Laura Palmer. 5%
Chance of Audrey Raines (Kim Raver) being a victim of one or more the following; stabbed, shot at, shot, electrocuted, poisoned, burned, non-lethally poisoned, injured in car crash and/or infected with Lyme disease.Certain.
Chance of Audrey Raines still being in love with Jack Bauer. 100%
Chance of Audrey sleeping with somebody else anyway. 99%
Chance of Chloe O’Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub) returning to CTU. 100%
Chance of Chloe being reconciled with her fey ex-husband. 50%
If reconciled, the chance of Chloe being nine-months pregnant. 50%
If pregnant, chance of Chloe going into childbirth at an extremely inopportune moment. 100%
Chance of another authoritarian hard-as-nails blonde taking charge of CTU. 75%
Chance of 24 having a blonde female character who isn’t noble, defiant and tough like the true daughters of the Aryan race. 1%
Chance of the return of Naked Mandy. 25%
Chance of “Naked Mandy” staying brunette. 100%
Chance of Chief of Staff Mike Novick (Jude Ciccolella) putting on fifty pounds and completing his transformation into real-life Vice President Dick Cheney. 55%
Chance of Christopher Henderson (Peter Weller) surviving the multiple gunshots Jack used to kill him. 1%
If dead, chance of Henderson being revived by a faction of Red Lectroids from across the 8th dimension. 95%
Chance of 24 being cancelled midseason due to the incredible appeal of NBC’s Heroes. 2%

—David Rout

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