who?

this season's 24 is unraveling more like a whodunit, with each episode trying to play can-you-top-that in terms of revealing who's pulling the strings. it seems every time we got the mastermind pegged, the rug keeps getting pulled out from under us. as of the Redemption prequel, we all thought it was ultimately His Snakefaceness Jon Voight/Jonas Hodges (the father of the Jonas Brothers). turns out he's just little fish! and the turning of Tony Almeida wasn't really unexpected anymore, especially with the preseason hype on his return from the dead. with few hours left for this season, the teaser line is that there's still gonna be one more big plot twist, one more big reveal, one more unmasking of a traitor in the ranks. who is the final villain who will make us choke on our eggplant parmigiana, spew our Coors Light at the TV set, and scream WTF! and various invectives at nobody in particular (except the 24 writers)? who is ... the Last BOSS????


Tony Almeida ... ehhhhhh
Alan Wilson (Will Patton) ... his face is already there
First Daughter Olivia Taylor ... 1 in 3 (or not)
Philip Bauer ... 1 in 4
ex-Chief of Staff Ethan Kanin ... 1 in 5 (Chiefs of Staff are always sneaky)
Jack Bauer ... 1 in 24 (ok, joke!)
Tim Woods, Secretary of Homeland Security ... 1 in 50 (running around pretty useless seems like a good cover)
Michelle Dessler ... 1 in 55 (hey, they died, they rose again, they divorced, they reunited close enough to get revenge)
James Heller ... 1 in 60 (all a plot to destroy Jack, whom he holds responsible for ruining Audrey)
Morris O'Brian ... 1 in 99 (he wants Chloe to be a full-time mom)
Chloe O'Brian ... 1 in 99 (she wants to quit the show; what better than go out in flames?)
First Gentleman Henry Taylor ... 1 in 100
Mike Doyle ... 1 in 125 (because he still wants to be an ass, plus he's disfigured - pretty good reasons)
Janis Gold ... 1 in 200
Kim Bauer ... 1 in 250
Kim Bauer's psychiatrist ex-boyfriend ... 1 in 251
Jack McCullough ... 1 in 275
Aaron Pierce ... 1 in 300 (only character other than Jack to appear in all seasons - and 24 is synonymous with death)
Cheng Zhi ... 1 in 400
Larry Moss ... 1 in 500 (are you sure he's dead?)
Carl Benton ... 1 in 600 (are you sure he's dead?)
Habib Marwan ... 1 in 700 (are you sure he's dead?)
President Wayne Palmer ... 1 in 800 (are you sure he's alive?)
President David Palmer ... 1 in 900 (are you sure he's dead?)
Edgar Stiles ... 1 in 950 (are you sure he's dead?)
That Hobbit with a junkie sister ... 1 in 975 (are you sure he's dead?)
President Charles Logan ... 1 in 999 (are you sure he's dead?)
President Allison Taylor ... 1 in 1000
Kumar in a brief, evil cameo role ... 1 in 2000 (because he now works in the White House?)
George W. Bush ... 1 in 5000

place your bets!