Didn’t watch? Don’t read. That’s all I’m gonna say.

They could not have made Tony look any more suspicious last night if they’d said to him, “Hey, Carlos, make Tony look really suspicious tonight.” Actually, that’s probably what they did.

Thing is, Tony knows that if anyone could sniff out his duplicity, it’s Jack. And he also knows that the only way to stop Jack once he knows what you’re up to is to kill him.

Which makes me think that maybe Tony isn’t truly Darth Zombie Tony Almeida, but merely Zombie Tony Almeida, double agent.

24 loves the red herring. They always try to make you think things are one way and then toss in something else that makes you go, whaaaaaaa? Like when we discovered President Logan was evil. And then discovered that he was answering to someone else entirely. And then discovered the next season that that someone else was Jack’s family.

The show is sometimes like a Matryoshka doll, twists inside of twists inside of twists.

To quote Winston Churchill:

It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.

Sure, Churchill was talking about Soviet Russia, but same difference.

So, what do we know for sure about Tony?

• Tony killed Larry. Larry is definitely dead. But remember, Jack killed Chappell and Curtis to serve the greater good. Just because he killed a good guy (who we hated until only about 10 minutes before he died – admit it, you know you did) doesn’t automatically make him a bad guy.

• He helped random bad dude escape. Can we count how many times Jack’s let a bad guy loose in order to track down who the really bad guy is? Again, doesn’t have to mean anything.

• He looked REALLY untrustworthy throughout the entire episode. OK, two things about that – first, the show creators love to make us distrust everyone. Who haven’t we thought was a mole so far this season? OK, except for Jack and Chloe. And Morris, but only because he does love Chloe and we just wanted to see him get the hell off the screen already. Second, we “knew” he was a bad guy, so we were looking for him to act all suspiciously. I bet he made that same face multiple times the week before, but we assumed he was just being suspicious of someone else.

So, what is the truth about Tony?

Something tells me we’re not going to know for sure until the last 15 minutes or so of Hour 24. Or sometime in Season 8.