this show is INTENSE!
those scenes tonight about killing ali's family were probably some of the worst i've seen on tv. they were bad, but i'm glad they showed them because it makes the show realistic and i'm very against censorship. those scenes raised a very interesting ethical issue.
anyway, just wanted to point out something that impressed me. it's a known fact that if you wanted to detonate a nuclear bomb and have it do the most damage, you'd detonate it high above ground. i knew about this even before tonight's episode. i have even wondered how terrorists would accomplish this in real life if a nuclear bomb were to be detonated in the USA. i thought about how they would get the bomb high above ground. although obvious now, i didn't even think of what they said in 24 tonight: fly a plane over a city and detonate the bomb in air. that is frighteningly realistic. if it ever happens, that's probably how they'd do it; you could even fly the plane to the exact altitude of maximum blast damage.