Question of the Week
WARNING: There are spoilers for this season of 24 below. If you haven’t watched it yet, and you intend to, stop reading now.
After watching the Season Finale of 24, tonight’s Question of the Week was going to be this:
What part of “Season Finale” don’t you understand, 24?
But I have a bigger question that was inspired by some of the events in the last few episodes. If you haven’t seen them, here are the main points relevant to my question:
Olivia has a serious grudge against Jonas. She contacts her friend Martin and asks if he knows someone who can kill Jonas for her. Martin gives her number to an anonymous Hitman. Hitman calls Olivia and gives her a bank account number and a price. He tells her that, after she transfers the money into the bank account, he will kill Jonas. She agrees, but after she gets off the phone, she gets cold feet and decides not to transfer the money. She has no way to contact Hitman directly. Hitman realizes he will soon lose his window of opportunity to kill Jonas, and contacts Martin, who vouches for Olivia being good for the money. Hitman kills Jonas. Olivia contacts Martin, who tells her that she should transfer the money because Hitman isn’t the kind of guy you want to mess with. Out of fear, Olivia transfers the money.
The Question of the Week is this:
Is Olivia guilty of murder? If so, what category?
You can also feel free to post your thoughts on this season of 24, or the Season Finale.
WARNING: Comments may contain additional spoilers.
May 20th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Olivia, in addition to being a total whck job, is definitely guilty of conspiracy to commit murder. This is not like cancelling your Fresh Direct order. She talked to some very dangerous people and made an agreement with them. So you tried to stop it at the last minute and you were too late?!?! What did you expect? Do you think you can just call up your friendly neighborhood hit man and say, “Hey Joe, so I was thinking about that whole murder thing and yea, let’s just go ahead and cancel that for now. I’ll call you if I change my mind again. Love to your wife and kids.” This is a classic case of lying down with dogs and getting up with fleas.
July 7th, 2009 at 11:00 am
24 – One becomes an irrevocable part of a conpiracy to a crime when they engage in a single act promoting that crime. If I were her defense, I’d argue she did not make the key money transfer prior to the killing. If I were the prosecution, I’d argue she summoned up a known hit-man to make arrangements. Her statements to Aaron are not enough in themselves, but I would try to use them to indicate her state of mind.
The Simpsons – What I really wanted to post is about The Simpsons. (I’m slowly catching up on this season’s recorded episodes.) In May (I think), they did a show with characters telling several stories, and one of them was a version of Macbeth. Keep an eye out for the repeat (the setting is Marge and Lisa going to the nail salon). The following has a small clip of that story (it doesn’t show Marge being Lady Macbeth): http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/homer-plays-macbeth/18011606