Besides Jack, Chloe is the one constant in 24. Since Day 3, her character has always been loyal (to Jack, at least), competent and involved in the action with very little personal drama or wasted subplots getting in the way.
However, during the last two days, Chloe was always treated as a sideshow- forced to withstand the mendacity of the intellectually challenged Agents Janis, Arlo and Dana. But tonight, that all changed. 24 may be the story of the longest days in Jack Bauer’s life, but tonight’s episode was all Chloe.
It would be an understatement to say that Chloe has been underused this season. Just like last season, Chloe has played the part of a fish out of water in the new CTU (although last year, it was the FBI). But in her actions tonight to get CTU back up and running after an EMP attack, Chloe’s story brought me back to simpler times when she stopped a terrorist’s runaway car with an automatic weapon. Or that time she put down a lecherous barfly with a taser.
