24 Shut Down So Jack Bauer, I Mean Kiefer Sutherland Can Recover From a Ruptured Cyst

In the picture you are looking at 24's Jack Bauer being tortured by a Russian bad guy on this week's episode.

I think we are only on hour 5 or 6 and Jack has already suffered 2 rather severe beatings. The first one was by a New York City cop who gave Jack a sound thrashing because he thought Jack was a cop killer.

Jack seemed to really quickly heal from the cop beating. Jack is always a quick healer. Even from things like Deadly Toxins.

This week's Russian administered torture was particularly brutal. A hole had been cut in Jack. I think the hole was by a kidney and was used to administer extreme pain, along with what looked to be an electric taser.

Of course, Jack quickly got the upper hand and dispatched his torturer. And quickly recovered from the torture. Maybe being tortured is not as bad as it is reputed to be.

There is an entire website devoted to the voluminous torturing of Jack Bauer. It is called "Jack Bauer Torture Report."

In other Jack Bauer news this week, there were reports that Jack's Kiefer Sutherland alter ego had been hospitalized due to a ruptured cyst, with 6 weeks of show production remaining to complete this year's 24 hours.

Is Jack's hospitalization the result of a particularly brutal torture episode? It looks as if filming those torture scenes would be torture. It would not shock me too much to learn that it was the filming of a torture scene that ended up with Kiefer Sutherland in the hospital. Something that never happens to Jack Bauer after he's endured yet one more epic torture.