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"She's dead, Jack..."

(March 16th, 2006 - 7:26PM)

WOW. They killed off Tony Almeida. I am shocked.

The commercials said that someone was going to die on this week's episode. I figured it was going to be someone new and insignificant. At first, I thought I was right: Lynn McGill got wiped out. And it was quite touching. I thought that was the worst that would happen.

And then, at the end of the episode, Tony got killed.

For those of you who follow 24, you know that this is a big deal: Tony was one of the few remaining characters from the first season. He's been a central character on the show since its debut in 2001. With Tony out of the way, the only character left from the first season is Jack. And yes, I know that technically Kim was from the first season, but she's annoying so she doesn't count.

Without Tony, it's just Jack and a bunch of newbies. I don't know what'll happen now; so many characters have been getting killed off that pretty soon there won't be many left.