As Season 7 comes to an end, Jack reaches an emotional breaking point.
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Jack's daughter, Kim, is in harm's way, and the continuing terror threat fuels the rivalry between Chloe and Janis.
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As this hour begins, Tony is sinking even deeper in that amoral cesspool he dove headfirst into a couple weeks back. It's truly disturbing watching the former CTU agent set up these innocent Muslim men as fall guys for his group's latest terrorist attack — taping their mouths closed, holding guns to their heads, forcing concerned older brother Jibraan Al-Zarian (Omid Abtahi) to spout terrorist threats on video. Is this really the Tony we all thought was a hero — albeit a somewhat-dark one — and a genuine friend of Jack's? Scary.
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Jack's got a lot of news to deliver this hour — and, this being 24, it's pretty much all bad. First up, through all his shaking and sputtering, Jack manages to tell Renee that Tony's "the second man" who smuggled the canister off of Starkwood's complex. Realizing that means Tony killed Larry, Renee is crushed. Ten, there's a flash of anger that tells us she'll be out for revenge.
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Well, now we know for sure: Larry's really dead, glassy eyes, blood-smeared mouth and all. In order to set up his cover story for Larry's murder — and presumably continue working his evil plan from the inside — Tony pulls the old shooting-himself-and-waiting-for-help move. Clichéd, but effective.
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This hour might start a little slow, but it's the stunner of an ending — one too good to spoil here, on the off chance any 24 devotees haven't yet watched — that makes this one of the finest and most action-packed hours of the season. For now, I'll just say this: The episode was full of deaths, double-crosses and wow.
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Agent Larry's standoff with a platoon of Starkwood thugs ends without a shot being fired, but that doesn't mean this hour of 24 isn't action-packed. Get the full recap after the jump.
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This hour picks up right where we left Jack — on a deserted road — but now a CDC team has descended on the location and begun investigating the pathogen Jack was exposed to. Of course, this involves Jack stripping and being hosed down (enjoy it, ladies?). Though at this point, I'd say whatever Jack's been exposed to has done its work, and a chemical shower won't make much of a difference. Still, guess it couldn't hurt.
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As this hour opens, everybody's playing catch-up, letting their colleagues and/or significant others know where they stand.
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You can tell this was a "bridge" episode, joining the first half of Day 7 to the second because aside from a shocking event in the first five minutes — as has been the norm the lately — not much even happens before the first commercial break.
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As the White House invasion is resolved and before this hour even hits its first break, we bid farewell to one of 24's longest-running characters, who goes out in a literal blaze of glory.
But first there is the statement General Juma is forcing President Taylor to recite while the whole world watches. Taylor tries to demand Juma release the hostages in a show of good faith — and the General actually seems to be extending an olive branch when he offers to release one person. Then he promptly shoots that hostage ...
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As with several recent episodes, this hour of 24 opens with a bang: While Col. Dubaku lies unconscious in the hospital following last week's deadly car crash, an "orderly" working for Gen. Juma injects something bad into his IV line. The colonel goes code blue, attempts to restart his heart fail, and we bid goodbye to one of the series' more interesting villains.
And now it appears that Dubaku's former boss, Gen. Juma, is trying to spin the U.S. invasion to look like he and his regime are America's poor, helpless victims. "We survived their slave ships," he declares in a recorded message. "And we will survive their warships, too."
As we rejoin Jack, he's preparing for a new mission: to break into the White House and interrogate Sen. Mayer's chief of stuff, Ryan Burnett (Eyal Podell). Of course, this is illegal, dangerous and highly secretive — so secretive that only a couple of people can know. And, surprisingly, Bill Buchanan isn't one of them. "I'm driving off a cliff here," Jack explains to Tony. "I don't need to put Bill in the passenger seat."
Nonetheless, riding shotgun will be...
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Not even five minutes into Monday's episode of 24, and we've got the identity of mole no. 2 — which, in another thoroughly unsurprising twist, is...
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After weeks of guessing, we finally learn the identity of the FBI mole.
Picking up right where we left off last hour, first gentleman Henry Taylor lies bleeding from a gunshot wound as a crew of EMTs rush the scene — and, thankfully, take over for Jack, who appears to be trying to pinch the wound closed with his fingers. Maybe that's some kind of top-secret CTU emergency technique not known to the general public. Either way, the FG is losing a lot of blood...
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"I am here to assure you that those responsible are no longer a threat to this country ... We will not give in to terrorists." So President Taylor assures the American people as 24 opens another action-packed hour. But somehow, I think Dubaku, watching the President's speech on a street vendor's TV, might dispute that over-confident assertion.
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As the hour kicks off, the Matobos have been delivered into General Dubaku's bloody hands — but not for long since Jack and the gang are following close behind, doing the whole black-ops thing as they scale the walls of his makeshift headquarters. Jack, Tony and Bill certainly look cool in those get-ups, but you do have to wonder how effective they are in broad daylight.
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As we all expected, Renee Walker isn't dead — or rather, she was dead, but only for a minute or two. It was long enough to make things interesting, but not so long that Chloe and Bill can't pinpoint her location and dig the FBI agent out of her makeshift grave. So Renee does indeed die — hence the silent clock that had us all debating last week — until, Pulp Fiction-style, Bill brings her back with a needle of adrenaline straight to the heart.
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Guess not everyone gets a free pass on the torture for as long as Jack Bauer did. Just a few minutes into Hour 5, Agent Walker is already being sued for the extreme interrogation techniques she used on hospitalized suspect Tanner. When Walker argues that she got the intel they needed, FBI bossman Larry Moss reminds her, "You know as well as I do that coercive intelligence is not reliable." Maybe Jack never learned that lesson — or he just proved it wrong so many times, it no longer applied.
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In hour three of 24, we learn the truth behind Tony's involvement with the terrorists — and the breadth of their operation.
As it turns out, this season's two seemingly disparate antagonists — the terrorist group Tony is involved with and the violent regime in Sengala — are working together to create one massive 24-style crisis of conscience.
On one side is the practical: How does the FBI stop General Dubaku (Hakeem Kae-Kazim) from taking innocent American lives through the compromised communications network? And on the other side is the ethical: Are American lives more important than those of the Sengalans President Taylor hopes to save through military force?
Unsurprisingly, the hour's most compelling moment is an interrogation-room showdown between Tony and Jack, during which the former seemingly tries to convince the latter to come around to his worldview: "You need to start living in the real world, because every second you help the government, you're spittin' on Terry's grave!"
That's all it takes to push Jack over the edge, and he...
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Finally, 24 is back with its long-awaited seventh season — and it gets off to a pulse-pounding start in downtown Washington, DC, with a vehicular smash-and-grab by black-clad thugs toting heavy firepower. Their target is tech expert Michael Latham (John Billingsley), who will soon be put to use hacking through the firewall that protects America's most vital communication networks.
Jack Bauer makes his far-from-triumphant first appearance in a Senate hearing, where he is being questioned over possible human-rights violations. As Sen. Blaine Meyer (Kurtwood Smith) grills the former CTU agent, it almost feels like 24 itself is on trial for a seemingly cavalier attitude toward extreme interrogation methods (AKA torture).
"Basically what you're saying, Mr. Bauer, is that the ends justify the means, and that you are above the law?" Sen. Meyer asks.
Yet Jack is unashamed, telling Meyer, "When I am activated, when I am brought into a situation, there is a reason. And that reason is to complete the objectives of my mission at all costs. ... The people that I deal with, they don't care about your rules. All they care about is a result."
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