Will she ever come back? Is she really fired? Will she get fired again? Or is she a mole? and how come we've never heard of her before?

That's what made the whole thing hilarious to me. I had figured that they were simply calling attention to a new player on the show, but it turned out that TPTB were simply introducing a someone to get fired. It seemed so perfectly ridiculous, and so ridiculously perfect at the same time. Some guys appear simply to get shot; Carrie gets fired.

On the one hand, I wouldn't mind her coming back, if only to bring another character into the mix. On the other hand, never seeing her again would preserve the purity of the great silliness of having her there in the first place.

I love how Chloe brought up that "Lynn fired her for no reason". It seemed to me like Carrie won't be important if/when she comes back, and the writers had Chloe say that to avoid more 'dropped story line' complaints.

Or they can just bring her back in time for the next CTU head melt-down and have her get fired again. CTU Designated Fireee.

Pfft, dead.

Man, today was just not your day, Carrie.

Imagine if this was the day that she was hired.

I can just imagine Carrie's last thoughts, channelling Dante from "Clerks": "I'm not even supposed to be here today!"

She made a classic mistake: at CTU, you NEVER go into a server or maintenance room alone. I mean, that's just asking for trouble. That's like going by yourself to switch the generator back on at Camp Crystal Lake.

She might have known that if this wasn't her first day at CTU (I'm kidding).

Little did she know that it would be her last.

When a young child I watched Star Trek with my older sibs and Carrie was what we termed an "expendable". Someone who showed up on an episode for the sole purpose of being the one that the bad guy got first. Happened every week. Poor thing got it twice in 2 episodes. Too bad she would have replaced Agent Breck kinda nicely....cute, she was.

Ha! I told my mother the same thing. She went off to check it out and I went "oooh red shirt..."

Well Carrie gets both. Stabbed, more accurately. I knew as soon as she went to check it out alone, and I laughed a little because it was that ridiculous.

Oh my poor Carrie. The only eye candy female CTU agent and she gets fired. Only to be re-hired one hour later to be stabbed....and now her dead body is at ground zero of the nerve gas. But I would die if she somehow had a non fatal wound and was immune to the nerve gas! What would be better than Carrie walking out of CTU next week in perfect health while Jack & Co. are stuck in the holding room looking on thinking, huh?!

As much as I love the idea of CTU zombies roaming Los Angeles (did the whole lockdown sequence remind anyone else of a zombie movie?), Edgar checked her pulse. She is well and truly dead.

I'm afraid so - I found the extras flailing & thrashing about as unintentionally hilarious as a bad zombie flick.

Following a comedian from the 80s, probably Richard Jeni, we always referred to the expendables as "Ensign Lebowitz".

I looked up Danielle Burgio, the actress who plays Carrie and she apparently got her start as a stuntwoman. There are stills from The Matrix at her website so she must have some some of the stunt work there.

I like how they trumpet: "Look for Danielle on 24 starting February 27th, 2006".

The extras coming up to claw at the sealed-up room's glass reminded me of George of the Jungle swinging into a tree, being stopped cold, then slowly sliding down the trunk to the ground.

CTU's got cabinets with flak jackets and probably weapons. It doesn't have a stash of gas masks handy?

I was very surprised to see her back since Lynn fired her. Oh whatever, she only had two appearances, we never got to know her and never will either. But of course she didn´t deserve to die they way she did.

This was probably already said, but it's rare for an extra CTU tech to have more than just one episode if their not a large part of the season. Obviously she was only brought in to draw Edgar away from his desk to die, but still, it was rare.

I saw Danielle's site and apparently she has some movie coming out called Backlash, coming this fall. Looks stupid, but good to know that Carrie got out of Gassed CTU alive.

The moment she stormed off from Edgar to check out the ventilation room, I knew she was a goner. I kinda liked the way she died. It was like a horror movie scene:

Carrie: (enters room) Hello? Is someone checking on the system? (sees canister of nerve gas)
Fucked-Up Accent Guy: (wearing a scary Jason mask) Hello, there, sweetie.
Carrie: (turns around to see Fucked-Up with a knife) AHHHHHHH-ACK! GAG! CHOKE! Fuck you, Edgar!

Okay, so maybe it didn't happen like that. Still a cool scene. IMO the scariest death. Unsurprising, but I still get chills watching it.

The rest of the season I was wondering if anyone had found Carrie. The only other people in the ventilation room (Edgar, McGill, FUAG) are dead, and I don't think anyone thought to look there. Kinda sad to see that she's probably still rotting in there.

They'll probably send some poor redshirt in there two weeks later to find out why there's a nasty smell coming through the ventilation system, even though all the Sentox was flushed out.

Redshirt: Yo! Anyone in he- EEEURGH!

If there was some way that she survived, would the Sentox be in the ventilation room itself? Kinda a stupid question, but I feel so bad for Carrie that I want there to be some way that she could still be alive.