Would Jack Bauer be more believable invisible?

Last night, I watched the joy ride that is the Monday "double feature" of 24 and Heroes. With the Tivo dual tuner set up, you could switch back and forth and avoid commercials entirely. However, doing this causes some serious disruption to the time/space continuum of both shows. I found myself trying to impose the "real time" format to Heroes occasionally. For example, how did Matt get to the airport in 2 minutes? How did Claire get to the trailer park in 5 minutes? Slightly confusing, but then I realized that 24, within its own "real time" constraints also has some leaps of credulity. Okay, it's not like this is exactly news, but still:

Helicopters fly across just nuked LA in one minute?
Morris recovers from being drilled in just a few minutes, and can then go back to work? That CTU medical staff can work wonders!
How about Milo uploading the entire contents of a laptop in 10 minutes? And in those same 10 minutes, analyzing the whole laptop and then finding a "fragment" of a message from a crazy Russian nationalist? Who has ever tried to find an old message in Outlook on your own PC? If you're looking for a message that you wrote, on your own (non-damaged) PC, that probably wasn't in Arabic nor encoded, didn't it take you more than 10 minutes? And that's assuming that there's some superpowered "remote" data pipeline in the safe house apartments or one of those remarkable CTU vans that allows you to instantly upload an entire laptop? Doesn't downloading a "patch" for Windows take half the fucking day, even on DSL?

That said, 24 was very entertaining last night. Keifer's scenes reacting to the death of his brother were outstanding. Tom's freak out before (almost) resigning and Bauer dad's chilling threats were also among the highlights. And I don't care that she almost got Jack blown up to save her (and possibly Jack's?) son, Rena Sofer is gorgeous. Beautiful eyes. I know she's a notorious "show killer" (and when she was paired with Eric Balfour, I was expecting Fox to break into the show and just cancel it on the spot), but hopefully after this and her recurring stint on Heroes as Nathan's wife, she'll be around for a while and creep further up my Top 10 list.

I'm also beginning to think that the CTU tactical teams should go ahead and just start wearing "red shirts."

Speaking of Trek, there were several (more) Trekkian moments on Heroes, too. Hiro's vulcan salute and "I come in peace!" "Thanks for the help, Sulu!" before punching out poor Hiro. And last night's ep was directed by B'lanna Torres (Voyager's Roxann Dawson).

Last night was also about the first time I think I liked Matt and the skank Niki.

Though we didn't "see" the invisible man last night, while I was wondering about leaps of faith in the 24 timeline I also considered exactly how Claude's powers of invisibility work. He can turn invisible, but also turn his clothes invisible? And anything he touches (pretzels, purses, etc.) also turns invisible? For how long? What about when he puts it down? Then why doesn't the lampost or table or door or anything he touches turn invisible, too? Or does he simply "think about" the specific things that are supposed to be invisible? Does he have to continue to think about the pretzel after he eats it while it's digesting? How exactly does this work? And then Peter, who can absorb powers, turns invisible when he touches Claude? And can stay invisible when he's in "close proximity" to Claude? After all, he "flew" after being around Nathan and read minds when being around Matt. How long do his "absorbed" powers last? After all, he healed long after Claire left when he got his ass kicked by Sylar. But when Claude was "testing him" last week during the purse snatching, he instantly reappeared and became visible the second Claude pushed him aside. Okay, I know. It's a TV show. Just go with the flow. But does anyone else worry about this stuff?

Whodat? from Heroes, in addition to the B'lanna directing credit:

The shady chick manipulating poor Hiro and Ando was Missy Pyle. Known for (among other things) being the alien chick that falls for Tony Shaloub in the underrated Galaxy Quest, Alexandra in Josie & they Pussycats (the band "Du Jour" still cracks me up) and the East German chick in Dodgeball.
Hotel guy (who turns out to be a federal agent) was Bill Fagerbakke -- Dauber in Coach and Tom Cullen (M - o - o - n!) in The Stand.