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Another busy, dangerous `24' hours for Jack Bauer begins.
Byline: Steve Johnson
Like an airport novel freed of the page and, indeed, the airport, the Fox series "24" returns Tuesday with the beginning of another very busy day.
It brings with it last season's same gift for immediately innards-knotting suspense, fate-of-the-free-world plotting and page-turning viewing, if such a metaphor can be mixed.
It also hits the implausibility buttons much earlier in its run, although part of "24's" genius is that it drives so relentlessly forward that it leaves no time for contemplation.
The series made most critics' 10-best-lists last year, largely for its innovative structure that sees episodes unfold in real time, each hourlong episode representing one hour in the stunningly complicated life of appropriately cranky counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer (Keifer Sutherland).
Most people eventually heard the raves for the show last year, but, because the plot engine was well down the tracks, opted not to chase it. "24" finished ranked toward the…
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