Could a bleeding heart civil-liberties lawyer and an uppity judge stop a terrorism interrogation in progress?
Not even if this was the United States of Sweden. One of the show’s most dramatic twists comes when an associate of Marwan’s, an ex-Marine named Joe Prado, is arrested and brought to CTU for interrogation — which, in the world of CTU, means torture. Marwan, who’s now got his nuclear warhead, needs Prado to stay silent, so he turns to a sure-fire ally: liberals. A Marwan aide informs a legal advocacy group, “Amnesty Global,” that CTU is about to torture an innocent American citizen. Within 15 minutes (!) of Prado’s after-midnight arrest, a self-righteous and impeccably tailored shyster named David Weiss arrives at CTU brandishing a court order protecting Prado. Immediately Jack Bauer has two people he’d like to torture (three if you count the absent judge, who explains to CTU division chief Bill Buchanan that since Prado isn’t a known terrorist, the interrogation must proceed with kid gloves if at all). When President Logan won’t immediately intercede, Weiss marches Prado out of CTU sa
