With all the talk about the graphic torture scenes in this season's 24, I visited a couple of web sites that keep track of the number of people Jack Bauer kills to see how the post-Chinese prison sixth season Bauer compares to last season's.

According to the folks at Jack Bauer 24 Kill Count, Jack has killed seven people thus far this season, including the gory killing by biting in hour one and the shooting of angry colleague Curtis Manning in hour four. By the 12th hour last season, the web site reported Jack had killed 15 people.

However the bloggers at Blogs 4 Bauer say this season Jack has killed eight people. (Since I haven't kept a running tally on the number, I don't know which site is correct.)