I almost don’t know what to say.

OK, I know one thing to say: If you haven’t watched tonight’s episode of 24 yet, stop reading NOW. NOWWWWWWW.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

In fact, tonight’s episode was so frakkin’ unbelievable that I’m not going to write ANOTHER WORD before the jump in case someone isn’t listening to me.

So, Tony Almeida: Bad or good?

We’re certainly exepcted to believe he’s a bad guy. And he certainly may be.

I do know that Adam over at The Jack Sack is going to possibly quit 24 forEVer if Tony stays bad.

That alone is enough for me to say:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

But even without that potential, I still would say:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I mean, we endured Tony’s Season 5 “death,” where he didn’t even get the silent clock treatment.

We endured the bizarre twist that brought him back (actually, brought him back to life).

We endured thinking he’d turned bad because Michelle was killed and rejoiced when we were told he was a good man who’d just temporarily gone bad.

But Tony killing Larry (who, as one of my B4B compatriots so eloquently put it, we’d hated until about 5 minutes before he was killed, so his loss wasn’t so punishing) and letting the bad guy go free with the biological weapon? WTF is that? Whiskey Foxtrot Tango, they’re making Tony the big bad. Possibly bigger and badder than Jonas Hodges?

There are still six hours left in this day, time enough to rectify this situation.

And I love 24 and its insane twists.

But making Tony the truly bad guy is just insanity.