While the terrorists prepare to make their big move, Jack tries to get President Hassan and his family to a safer location — though that's easier said than done.
As the hour opens, Jack is getting bandaged up and refusing painkillers, despite the fact that he may have broken some ribs and could now be susceptible to a collapsed lung. Just another day on the job for Jack, though. And he doesn't even get paid for this anymore!
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In another action-packed hour, 24 saves the best for last: CTU Agent Dana Walsh is, in fact, working with the terrorists, and she's a cold-blooded murderer to boot.
As the hour begins...
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In a classic 24-style surprise, we learn that the seemingly innocent Tarin is actually working hand-in-hand with the terrorists trying to thwart President Hassan's plans and set off a dirty bomb in New York City.
As the hour starts, we learn more about another terrorist, crazy-eyed Marcos, and his reasons for becoming, well, a crazy-eyed terrorist. Apparently, his professor father was jailed by President Wayne Palmer's administration for suspected ties to a radical Kamistani organization, and eventually committed suicide as a result of the fallout.
Using this information, Jack does his best to convince Marcos that helping the terrorists isn't the best way to honor his father's memory, but he won't be reasoned with, telling Jack: "I came here prepared to die, and that's what's gonna happen."
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The final two hours of 24 involve Jack Bauer's attempt to assassinate Russian President Suvarov, the man who ordered the hit on Renee Walker. As Jack prepares his sniper rifle, Chloe and Cole attempt to locate him, lest he be discovered first by CTU and killed on sight. Meanwhile, as the three delegates prepare to sign the peace treaty, President Taylor battles with her decision to participate in the cover-up, including who really killed President Omar Hassan.
HOUR 23:
The series finale opens on...
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The last regular hour of 24 finds Jack not only shooting two Secret Service agents, but kidnapping and assaulting a former President. The gloves are off now.
As the hour opens, President Taylor's press secretary is announcing that Secretary of State Ethan Kanin has stepped down for "health reasons," and that President Logan has been such a big help with this whole peace process. Watching from a private room, Logan smiles with self-satisfaction, but his moment of triumph is short-lived.
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In this hour, Jack continues to hunt down anyone responsible for Renee Walker's murder, while Logan and his underlings continue their hunt for Jack...
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In this hour, Jack goes further than ever in his quest for revenge, and another 24 villain bites the dust.
This episode picks up right where the last left off, in the middle of Dalia Hassan's United Nations press conference announcing her decision to take her late husband's place and ensure the peace agreement is signed.
If there's an opposite of the U.N. building, it's the dank warehouse where private security company agent Mark Bledsoe (D.B. Sweeney) is currently giving Walsh the water board treatment. And when she won't talk, the advice he offers is chilling, but also darkly funny (if you have a sick sense of humor). "Take short and shallow breaths. You'll recover faster. That way we won't have so much downtime between sessions."
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In this hour, Jack remains a wanted man whose quest for justice forces former allies to take sides — and some of their choices are surprising.
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As the hour opens, Jack is a complete mess, and understandably so — he just saw Renee shot to death and is now wandering around the ER wearing a shirt stained with her blood. Thankfully, one of the doctors takes the initiative to grab him a new shirt and a pair of boots for his bare feet.
Once Chloe calls to offer her condolences, though, Jack snaps back into being Jack, demanding to see the recently MIA Papa Bazhaev, who is currently CTU's only lead. Chloe isn't quite so willing to circumvent the official channels and processes now that she's running CTU, but she ultimately relents and tells Jack where Bazhaev's bail hearing is being held (which, unsurprisingly, he's denied).
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In this hour's stunning final minutes, Jack suffers a personal loss that is sure to haunt him well beyond the series' final moments...
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6:00 AM - 7:00 AM
Another hour, another terrorist goes down — but at what price?
As the first of two new hours opens, President Taylor is holding firm on her decision not to turn President Hassan over to the terrorists, while General Brucker and Chief of Staff Toolie are trying to keep their counter-operation under wraps, which means still not getting medical attention for Ethan Kanin's heart.
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In this hour, Kayla and Tarin's doomed love affair converges with Jack and the CTU team's anti-terrorist operation — with deadly consequences
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In this hour, Jack and company continue to pursue the nuclear rods, while President Hassan's family drama takes center stage.
As we pick up with the Ortiz/Walsh story, it's apparent that, thank the sweet Lord, KevinEx is really dead. If only we could shake Walsh so easily. With that settled, Ortiz sets to work stripping down the bad guys' van and helping Dana dispose of their bodies (in a conveniently located nearby pond). Dopey Brooklyn accent or not, the guy is loyal and clear-headed in a crisis — though his commitment to a romantic future with "Dana" is clearly in doubt at this point.
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In an action-packed hour, yet another bad guy goes down, while Jack gets just the motivation he needs to see this crazy day through.
As the hour begins, Josef has arrived at the drop point where he plans to meet with Farhad. But before President Hassan's traitorous brother shows up, Josef gets a call from Papa Bazhaev, with Jack and others at CTU dialed into the party line. Amazingly, Sergei manages to convince his son to turn the nuclear rods over to CTU in exchange for the immunity deal he's negotiated.
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Renee finally goes over the edge and takes her revenge on Laitanan — thankfully, Jack is there to catch her when she falls.
As the hour begins, Jack makes his way back to Laitanan's base of operations, where he once tries to convince Renee to abandon her undercover operation. And once again, she declines — anyone noticing a pattern here?
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As the hour opens, Jack is trying once again to convince Hastings that Renee isn't fit for her undercover mission with the Russian mafia. But when Jack suggests arresting Laitanan and forcing him to talk (and we all know what that means), Hastings cuts him off: "If you're saying what I think you are, we don't do that any more...
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In this hour of 24, Renee goes back undercover with the Russian mob while Jack tries his best to keep her from harming anyone else — or herself.
As the hour opens, Oleg (Gene Farber), the son of Sergei Bazhaev (Jurgen Prochnow), is dying of radiation poisoning from smuggling in Farhad Hassan's enriched plutonium. But Papa Bazhaev seems far more concerned with keeping their operation under wraps than getting treatment for his son.
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As hour three begins, Jack is on the hunt for the real people behind the planned assassination of Kamistan President Omar Hassan — and one of them just may be the President's brother himself. But more on that later...
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Over the last couple seasons, 24 has acquired a reputation for getting a little soft and flabby in its midsection. But the long-running series never fails to deliver a taut, action-packed opener and closer, and the Season 8 premiere proves no exception.
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