OT: A guide to watching "24"

"24" is a fun show, but just about every new season contains repetitive elements from previous episodes.

Here are some plot devices you can be pretty sure to see, whether you're starting to watch the show from the beginning or just picking it up now, at the start of the sixth season. Spoiler warning: this list reveals a lot about the show.

_ When someone says, "We're bringing you to CTU, it's safe there," you can be pretty sure that it's anything but safe there. How times has CTU been the site of murders, explosions and contaminations? A lot of times.

_ There's a mole inside CTU. Maybe more than one. Who is it this season?

_ Jack will get arrested.

_ Jack will make phone calls to the president.

_ Jack will get captured and escape.

_ The president will pardon a terrorist in exchange for his cooperation.

_ There will be a countdown, and Jack will barely beat the ticking clock.

_ The terrorists will use nuclear and biological weapons.

_ The terrorists will take hostages.

_ There will be a car chase.

_ Jack's love interest will either be killed or held hostage.

_ Torture will be used as a first resort ("We have no time!!!")

_ Jack's past will come back to haunt him.

_ Most all of Jack's friends will end up dead.

_ Chloe will disobey orders to help Jack.

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Predictions:

_ Eventually, an umbrella terrorist organization will mess with Jack personally to get revenge. This organization will have something to do with his Season 1 connections to the Balkans and Nina Myers. These terrorists will have a link to Operation Nightfall.

_ The hand virus given to the President Arnold Palmer at the end of Season 2 will never be adequately explained.

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Only two characters from Season 1 have not been killed off and have appeared in every season. They are:

_ Jack Bauer
_ Aaron Pierce

The body count will be high.