Spoiler warnings are useful in this case because, while some folks (like ChainsawAsh, ADM and myself) keep up with the show week-to-week as it airs here in the US, there are other people who out of choice (my wife prefers to do season-set DVD marathons) or necessity (UKers who don't download torrents are several weeks behind--I guess it's what they get for seeing BSG before we do) aren't current with what happened before the last sequence of "dleek-kthoom" at XX:59:59 on the Bauer clock.

**So yeah, like, there might be some spoilers and stuff below.**

I was a little disappointed a few weeks ago when Chloe didn't smack Miss I-was-a-chemistry-major-nobody-better-fuckin'-touch-me with her laptop, but seeing her zap hotel-bar-dude not once but twice definitely made up for it. However, by sending her out into the field late in the season twice in a row, they've set a tricky precedent for next year.

I'm still undecided as to whether I'm intrigued or frustrated by the idea that terrorist plots are like ogres. Just when we thought we'd worked through all the oniony layers to the core duo (no Intel reference intended) of Logan and Henderson, we see that the helicopter falling off the roof of that Chicago hospital was simply a way for Dr. Rocket Romano to disappear into his lair of headset-wearing puppet-mastery. Or is he merely another, bigger marionette than Bierko and the others? Is John Malkovich behind it all? Tune in next week, same Bauer-time, same Bauer-channel!