- Someone annoying is kidnapped.
- A terrorist informs another terrorist that “Everything is proceeding as planned.”
- A terrorist assumes Jack is dead.
- The person in charge of CTU makes a bad call.
- Jack goes rogue.
- Jack is fired.
- Jack is arrested.
- Jack breaks out of CTU.
- Jack is reinstated to CTU.
- “Protocol.”
- Someone gives a hopelessly vague order (“Take precautions.” “Make something happen.”)
- Someone gives a redundant order (“Proceed as planned.” “Execute the next stage.”)
- The president screws up a common phrase (“Keep me closely posted.” “We’ll cross that bridge when the situation presents itself.”)
- Someone at CTU has to go behind their boss’s back to help Jack.
- “We don’t have time!”