Here is a list of what Jack Bauer can do what a Magician can't.

1) Make every terrorist dissappear.

2) Make Helen Keller Talk.

3) When he forgets where he puts his keys, he can torture himself to reveal the location.

4) Get off the Lost Island in 24.

5) Killing him does not make him dead.

6) When 1.6 Billion Chiness are angry with Jack, it will be a fair fight.

7) He can escape when surrounded and being shot at.

Go 24 hours with a full bladder.

His cell phone battery is truley amazing.

he never goes to the can.

and my favorite part, NOTHING absolutly NOTHING in Los Angeles is more than 10 minutes away!

oh and it occures to me that CTU and the president in general need a better job interview process. LOTS of bad guys seem to slip through to positions of power.

He's an expert at building suspense with the 'tick tock, tick tock' of that stupid clock. Anticipation, anticipation, anticipation! He always leaves us wanting more, which is something we should all strive for as magicians.

I love how everything happens in 10 minute blocks...followed by five minutes of nothing much for the ads.