Dana Walsh’ character (played by Katee Sackhoff) morphs from an unrealistic sideshow to an enraging key character.

1. A person with a criminal past CANNOT scrub their identity clean enough to get a job at CTU. Yes, its a fictional agency, but in the show it has direct contact with the President, its own strike teams with go-anywhere powers, access to all the governmental acronyms resources and top talent from their fields. Its equivalent in real life would be very high up the food chain and the background checks would be exhaustive and invasive.
2. A facility as secure as CTU would never allow a felon to come and visit an employee at the premises (when her ex shows up in his beater van to talk with her outside the door).
3. Access to information necessary to pull off their little robbery must trigger alarms and flags all over the place. If tools are built in to the system to allow easy access, there will be checks and balances. Its hard to believe one employee of one agency can orchestrate a heist in 7 minutes with absolutely no immediate consequences.
4. A facility as important as CTU would never allow some unshaven parole officer to come onto the operations floor while investigating an AWOL criminal regardless of paperwork he files.

1. If she is such a badass, why did she dance with her ex for so long? Why not pop him or set him up to get pwned from the beginning? She is about to betray her country and willingly assist in the murder of tens of thousands of New Yorkers, so throwing in the love and friendship argument is pointless.
2. If she is such a wizard at computing and surveillance, why allow the parole officer to even arrive at CTU? This was her big payday, she would have known he was a fly in the ointment and could easily have delayed him with traffic, gotten him cited or flagged for something, sent him to the wrong location or worse. By the time he figured it out she would have been gone with her cash.

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