Who was he talking to on the phone? What does he have to gain from the terrorist attacks? Can RoboCop defeat Jack Bauer?

On the other side, Peter Weller kicks ass and it's cool to see him on the show.

As soon as he tazered Jack, I knew that this guy could be a match for him.

Only if he breaks the law...which he has from time to time.

Peter Weller does good evil. It's great to see this actor again (Buckaroo Bonzai is a favorite of mine). How cool is it to have a worthy adversary for Jack? I don't think he'll be killing this RoboTerrorist with his thighs or putting him out with the dreaded sleeper hold.

He was the best thing about tonight's hour. I hope he isn't killed off anytime soon. He may just become one of my favorite 24 villains, up there with Salazar and Gaines.

Given the history between him and Jack, it'd be nice if he can stick around for a while - maybe even into next season (like Nina).

The voice on the phone sounded female to me. ;)

I was a little annoyed by the way he tried to drag Nina & George's names through the mud. Nina did enough bad stuff on her own without RoboCop pinning his crap on her as well!

But anyway, I always like a little bit of continuity porn, and I thought it was pretty cool how we're finally getting to meet this character now, years after he was first referred to in Season 1 (not by name). I assume he's the one that Teddy Hanlin (that annoying sniper dude played by the guy from Reservoir Dogs) kept insisting was innocent...am I right?

Peter Weller has not aged well at all. That close up of his face when he and Jack were in the bunker.... yikes. One step away from looking like Clint Eastwood.

As someone pointed out in the episode thread, I think RoboTerror mentioned those names just to fog up Jack's radar, which I think it did.

Finally -- another villain played by a great actor with a strong emotional connection to Jack. These are always the best, and Weller is an instant hit for me. Their scenes together just sparkled. If they axe him quick, I'll be livid. Even though the Russians seem to be the villains of the day, the American villains are to a man more interesting -- Cummings, Nathanson and especially Henderson.

No, Hanlin's partner was Seth Campbell. Since Henderson was never criminally charged, I don't think he was one of the other "two" that Jack busted for accepting bribes, but "selling classified information to defense contractors" also equals money so it very well could have been part of the same probe.

Could we call him RoboCORPSE? Dude looks awful.

But he is awesome so far...there is definitely more to him than meets the eye, and my guess is that he turns out to be on the "right" side, minutes before dying an awful death. Because that's what this show DOES.

I love Henderson. I want him to stay around for many episodes to go one on one with Jack. I would be willing to sacrifice almost any other character to see that happen.

I love the general feeling that Henderson wasn't guilty of what he was accused of. That he and Jack are equal and have about the same vaules, yet he knows that Jack won't agree with what he's doing.

I know he's "the only lead" but I want this man to be around for the rest of the show.

Tony better not kill him next week. We've got CTU locked down so Tony and Henderson will be locked in the same place together. What I'd like to see is Henderson beating Tony up and escaping CTU using an oxygen mask. What would be even better is if Henderson walked past the room where Jack is and flashed him a smile on his way out...

But yes, he's an amazing character and it would be a shame for him to be killed off so soon. I love that he's not an out and out villian despite trying to kill Jack. He and Jack are so similar, though Henderson is probably more hardcore. I think the character works best on screen with Jack, so he wouldn't be as fun if he escaped CTU and was on his own. I'm thinking that maybe they could do a few episodes ala Season 3, where Jack teamed up with Ramon.

I like that idea.
...or Jack having to 'rescue' Henderson (their oly lead) from Tony - thereby fueling more discontent between Tony & Jack - and THEN Henderson escaping, so that Henderson & Jack can play cat'n'mouse some more.

blackwing and Ed, I do have to admit I notice things like an actor's aging when it seems excessive. Do either of you know who Steve Howe is? Not the '80s Dodgers and '90s Yankees reliever (yeah, the repeat drug offender). Not him, but the guitarist in Yes. Anymore he kinda looks like Peter Weller meets the late Sen. Alan Cranston (D-CA) meets Dr. Laura Schlesinger.

To be less impertinent, though: Good actor, and interesting character in the mix. I was glad to see the ol' CTU torture chamber back in use, too! It got so much action last year, CTU probably had to repaint and put in new carpeting.

I like Weller on the show, he's a good actor and his ease around Jack is intriguing. Not many people feel safe around Jack Bauer. I think with him and Tony locked in a room together, there's gonna be a smackdown and Tony will come out on top. And since RoboCop is their only lead, Tony will probably spoil that.
Also, loved dropping George Mason and Nina Myers' names.

It would be hilarious if the drugs Robo had been given during his interrogation as a side effect made him immune to the sentox. "It was all part of my plan, Jack!" he smirks as he heads for the exit, leaving a seething Jack trapped in the situation room.

I actually wanted Henderson to stay out of Jack's clutches for a while longer. It would have been great to see that Jack's former mentor still had a few tricks up his sleeves which he hadn't passed on to his one-time pupil. Everywhere Jack goes, Henderson's already there waiting with a taser...

How does Robocop go from nervous system shut down (being cooked?) to killing off Tony? Unless he has no nervous system.
Since he knows Jack, I'm assuming Henderson knows that Jack will never rest until one of them is dead. They make good adversaries and now with real vengence on Jack's mind the storyline becomes even more tense.

But will he pull a Nina (and Mandy, et al) and demand immunity before he tells Jack the crucial information that is needed to stop the attack at the last minute?

Judging from last night it looks like Henderson will be the Marwan of this season.

I get the impression that he's concerned about something beyond just saving his leathery hide. He'll make some sort of demand, but it probably won't be simple immunity.

By the way, this makes two appearances by actors from Cronenberg's Naked Lunch in one season. Now we just need Roy Scheider to take off his Chloe costume, and have Kiefer get his next briefing from a giant cockroach.

Henderson already made that demand when Jack took him to CTU (at the parking lot) but Jack blew him off.

As for me, I just want that little scum bag dead cos he killed Tony and therefore has to die.

Henderson will be on until the season finale. I checked IMDB, and the actor is playing until teh finale.

That´s a spoiler!!! Arrggghhhh. I don´t mean to be rude but I hate spoilers. Also, there´s a spoiler thread for these sorts of information.

Red herring information is sometimes put on Imdb about 24. Last year it showed Chase coming back for several episodes. There have been other instances of misdirection that I cannot remember. So Henderson may or may not be back...TPTB know we look at imdb so they use it for their own purposes!

While I wouldn't doubt that TPTB could use imdb, I'm more likely that's it's just misinformation put in deliberately or unintentionally by a fan. Any one can edit imbd and there has been a lot of cases where wrong info has been put in by prankesters just to see what kind of reaction it is. Right now it says that bother Tony and Palmer appear in 5.16 and as much as I hated to see those two characters go, I doubt that IMDB is right on this. Heck, imdb has even had Ed Nortan as taking over for Kiefer at some point.

I wouldn't believe it.

Partly,

I´m releaved now. Thank goodness. Thank you. Besides, I want him as dead as Kentucky fried chicken. I can´t wait for him to be toast. He killed Tony!

Egg, sorry things didn't quite work out!
I'd just like to echo those of us who have protested these facts about Henderson's escape:
1. All that poison ivy juice in Henderson's veins, and Eric's (or what's his name--Burke, Berg?) considered medical opinion that he was nearly dead, didn't stop him from you-know-what.
2. Henderson wasn't strapped to the gurney.

Anyway, it's going to be a great cat-and-mouse game between Jack and Henderson from here on out! I was looking for more of this between Jack and Nathanson, but of course all we got was a desperate Nathanson trying (in vein, I mean vain) to avoid getting killed. Earwig and Bierko--nah, too Slavic, a type which usually strikes me as a little bit like comic book villains, kinda like Jack dealing with the Drazens.

With Henderson, Jack shares not only a similar background but a long and complicated personal history, including familiarity with each other's loved ones: Henderson "was there" for Kim; Jack shot Mrs. Henderson through the thigh. And now Henderson just killed Jack's best friend. So, they'll be reading each other every step of the way, and the intensity is cranked way up.

Finally, their relentless, even savage, commitment to their goals is very similar--just that Jack's is leavened with a basic goodness that Henderson strikingly seems to lack. It's like Jack is battling Bizarro Jack.

Actually, as I recall, Henderson said that he could get immunity if he asked for it, but that he wasn't going to ask for it. Somehow, I don't think he's changed his mind since. ;)

I was expecting to see at least a glimpse of Henderson limping around CTU; it just seems weird that after being a prominent part of the last two episodes, he is non-existent in this one.

I agree whitechocolate. All they had to do was show him going out a side door in a split screen. I guess that wouldn't have lived up to his super antihero status. Poof, he's gone must have fit better.

and yet he´s back to kill good ol´Wayne Palmer. This guy needs to give me a break. He already killed Tony. Jack had better catch him soon.

BTW, why doesn´t Jack care to find him? This guy´s a supervillian and, um, he killed Tony.

Innyone?

Jack's trying to head off the immediate danger. It would be un-Jack to pursue a personal vendetta when there are hundreds of thousands of lives that need saving first.

Don't worry, it looks like Bierko's thread is wrapping up. Once Jack has all Bierko's information, he'll have plenty of time to go after Henderson.

Actually, that's why Jack took after Bierko at the end of last week's epi. He yelled to Curtis that Bierko was their only lead to Henderson.

So it looks like Jack's going after him after all, now.

Where is his poor wife? She was shot. In the leg. You'd think she'd be trying to get in touch with him and with CTU, Division or whoever.

Jack had Chloe call for an ambulence, so presumably she's in a real hospital safely away from CTU medical.

After he basically told her that he'd let her be tortured and killed for a secret he wouldn't share with her, I don't think she'd be in a hurry to see him again.

She's waiting outside CTU for him with a meat cleaver.

I really hope so. That would be such a great scene.

I wanna see that, too. Still at large and still the guy who killed Tony. He must dieeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone else feel that the Nathanson and Henderson characters should have been combined into one? The season would tie together much better that way, I think. I'd have a tough time choosing which actor to drop in favor of the other though..

"Actually that would've been a little bit better wouldn't it? I was thinking something along those lines after Nathanson got killed.

It was only after Nathanson's death that we got to Henderson right? Until then we didn't even know he existed.

I love Henderson and could see him lurking in the dark giving order to everyone, but I also like the cell-like structure that this season had. Niether Nathanson nor Cummings new who else was involved in this. They, like Logan, believe that they are patriots and were upset when the plan to ship the nerve gas out the the country failed. I'm still a little fuzzy as to what Henderson is up to, exactly.

I think henderson has gotta be up to something else, well he did hint at that in the previews for monday's show, but i do think that he does still (somewhat) care for jack in one twisted way or another.

I agree, Egg. In last week's scene where he was holding Audrey hostage, I kind of got the feeling that it was important to Henderson that Jack understand why he was doing what he was doing. Undeniably they still respect each other's abilities. Kudos to Keifer and Peter Weller for infusing their scenes with this vibe - makes for great drama.

I am sick and tired of Henderson being the new Marwan. Basically, there's no way anyone can possibly kill him, *even* when it is in their best interest. Audrey should have put a bullet in his head and took off. Henderson's men would not know where she is. Instead, Henderson's directing them to her. While it all worked out in the end, Henderson should be dead.

Well, sure. But it's entirely in character for Audrey not to be able to kill him. If even a hardened field operative like Tony had a hard time capping a helpless man, Audrey never stood a chance. Nor is it necessarily in her best interest to kill Henderson, it just might make her feel better (or not, according to Jack). I don't think Henderson dodged a bullet unfairly there.

Heller had apologized for his bad behavior prior to driving off a cliff so he was back in Jack's good graces which means that Jack was well..... upset when Heller died. The fact that Jack didn't kill him counts as a minor miracle. Jack does not have the worlds best impulse control especially when really, really pissed. And he was pissed. So I am shocked that Henderson is alive.

Someone pointed out in the episode topic that Henderson has his own version of the velvet and almost caught Audrey with it. Maybe that is how he is surviving. Afterall, he is Jack 1.0.

I see him as more of a Jack Beta 1.0--an early model, but still needing the bugs worked out. The main reason he's still alive is that the writers need an arch villain to be Jack's nemesis so Jack has someone to chase and to threaten him or Audrey, CTU, etc.

Did anyone else *really* hope that Henderson would turn from the bad side when he was persuading Audrey her father could be alive? I know, it was so that she would make the call, but does anyone think there's any good left in him? I don't know if he could look Jack straight in the eye and pull the trigger, because I don't think he's quite the full Nina yet.