Has CTU's Budget Been Cut?

Last year we noticed that Jack Bauer, who saves the world regularly on the Fox's hit television show, "24" kept his CTU earpieces in one of those Okuma / Wheatley type metal fly boxes with the spring loaded doors. This year it looks like there might have been budget cuts. In this past Monday's episode, Agent Doyle (Ricky Schroder) takes his earpiece out of a Meiho M-62 plastic fly box. I carry two of these handy boxes in my chest pack at all times.

Their website wouldn't let me get a screen capture but you can still check it out for yourself by viewing last week's episode. Skip ahead to the last segment and take a look. It shows up at the 35:43 minute mark.

Fly box photo via LL Bean. where they sell for $8.50