This season of 24 has been all over the place. Characters popping up here, not really caring about deaths that occurred several hours before there, and people disappearing into the CTU labrynth all over the shop. But one character who we're glad didn't take the five-hour flight from Washington to LA is Karen Hayes.
Karen's the silent hero of the show and it seems that she's actually been running America since vacant R Kelly clone Wayne Palmer came to power. As soon as we discovered she'd married Bill between series, it seemed likely that one of the two would meet a nasty end - and as Karen's now on the wrong side of snidey silver fox vice president Daniels, I'm still worried for her safety. But her quest to ensure the forces of good win out, using only her straight-talking, power-dressing, matriarchal ways, has earmarked her as an early forerunner for this season's number one hero.
Although the women of 24 always end up getting kidnapped by terrorists, locked in cupboards by coniving colleagues, hiding babies in the drawers ala the Brittas Empire or just letting their emotions get the better of them and stabbing their husbands while needlessly slicing kiwi fruit, a rare few feisty females do slip through the testosterone-filled net. This season, Karen Hayes, Sandra Palmer and their attempts to force drippy Wayne out of his light-to-no coma rule.
Let's hope they both make it through the day.
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