Day 7 Offical Spoilers

[Chloe O'brien]

After an 18 months gap 24 returned last night in the USA. We will see the new series tonight on SKY1 at 9 pm. Here are the spoilers from the first two episodes and there will be two tomorrow as the USA are getting a 4 hour premier:

8:00am - 9:00am

Michael Latham, an engineer who was abducted, is in a warehouse being forced to work on a firewall module by a man named Masters. Meanwhile, Jack gives testimony to a Senate Hearing in Washington, D.C. about human rights violations by the recently disbanded CTU. He answers questions posed by Senator Mayer but refuses to regret the choices he made as a CTU agent because he only did what was necessary to prevent terrorists from killing innocent people. The hearing is interrupted by FBI Agent Renee Walker. She has a subpoena to obtain Jack immediately. At FBI headquarters, Agent Larry Moss briefs his team while analysts Janis Gold and Sean Hillinger prepare for Jack's arrival. Masters monitors air traffic control systems about a flight headed for New York. When Jack arrives at FBI, Larry explains that they need his help with an investigation. The CIP firewall protecting the national infrastructure might be breached. Renee shows Jack that one of the men behind the threat is Tony Almeida. Jack cannot believe that Tony is still alive. Apparently, Tony was rushed from CTU after Jack saw him "killed." Tony enters the warehouse and Masters tells him that they have accessed air traffic control, but their CIP module is spotty. Tony orders Latham to make the module work or else they will kill him. In the Oval Office, President Allison Taylor watches newscasts about General Juma's "ethnic cleansing" in Sangala, Africa. She discusses with her Chief of Staff Ethan Kanin that she is adamant to send troops in to stop Juma. Taylor's husband Henry doesn't think the invasion will go over well with the press and he offers to handle a reporter. Ethan privately tells the President that Henry may not be up to the job because he's still not over the death of their son, Roger. Latham gets the module to work. FAA air traffic controllers notice a blip in their system. Renee thinks that Tony is angry about his wife's murder and wants justice. Jack is sure that there is a logical explanation, but he agrees to help the FBI find Tony. Word of the air traffic control interception comes in, and the FBI notifies the White House. In the White House situation room, President Taylor argues with her generals and cabinet members about the invasion. She is interrupted with news about the FAA breach. Taylor is suspect about the timing of this event and her decision on Sangala. Henry receives a call from the private investigator he hired to look into Roger's "alleged" suicide. Roger's girlfriend might be hiding something and Henry wants to talk to her personally. Henry asks his Secret Service tail Agent Gedge to escort him somewhere and keep it off the manifest. With full access to the FBI intelligence, Jack realizes that Tony must have forged an access card and may have used an old CTU informant named Schector, who is in Washington. Jack knows that Schector will call his lawyers if the FBI goes in with a warrant. Larry accuses Jack of wanting to resort to his torture methods instead. Renee offers to accompany Jack to see Schector. She promises Larry that she will keep Jack on a short leash. Jack and Renee go to see Schector, who knows what Jack is capable of. Schector claims he doesn't know that Tony is alive nor did he help steal a device to breach the firewall. Renee tries to bargain, but Schector refuses to budge. Jack grabs the gun from Schector's bodyguard and holds Schector at gunpoint to find out about Tony. Renee begrudgingly gives Jack the go-ahead to "do whatever it takes." Schector is in fear when Jack holds a ballpoint pen to his throat. Schector is about to tell them about Tony when shots fire through the window. Schector falls dead. The phone rings, and Jack answers. It's Tony, who tells Jack to stay away. The flight to New York begins to descend as the FAA controllers lose communication with its pilots. Yet the pilots don't know anything is wrong. Tony speaks to them as if he is an air traffic controller. He instructs Masters to change the flight's course.
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Episode originally aired 1/11/09


9:00am - 10:00am


The FAA still cannot get in touch with the flight but notice that it is changing its course. They hear a recording of Tony speaking to the pilots, and notify the FBI. Renee radios Larry Moss and she informs him that Schector was shot. He sends a SWAT team. Jack questions how Tony knew that he was there, suspecting a mole in FBI. Renee isn't sure what to believe, but the agents on the ground know that the sniper is still on the scene. All of the FAA screens suddenly lock. Tony instructs Masters to send another airplane into the same landing pattern as the one heading for New York. Tony calls the FAA manager and says, "I want you to see what we can do." The FAA controllers see that the two planes are about to crash into each other on the runway. Suddenly, Tony orders one of the planes to pull up. This avoids a collision. The FAA screens are unlocked. "Whatever we do next will be the real thing," Tony says. A man named Emerson arrives at Tony's hideout and he is shown the module. Emerson asks Tony about the FBI intrusion, and Tony says he can handle Jack. Yet Emerson refuses to tell Tony about the end goal of their mission. White House Press Secretary Angela Nelson informs reporters that the President supports protecting the African country against Juma and is meeting with former Sangala Prime Minister Matobo. President Taylor assures Matobo that she will help his rebel faction but she demands that be Juma dealt with in a court of law instead of held to a summary execution. Ethan informs the President about the near miss on the runway and Tony's involvement. They don't yet know what he wants. Taylor calls for an emergency meeting with Homeland Security. The sniper calls Tony and says that he is trapped inside the building. Meanwhile, the SWAT teams swarm outside in the hunt to find him. Agent Lennert radios his whereabouts to the tactical leader outside. He finds the sniper and tells him he's there to get him out. Lennert gives the sniper an FBI jacket and instructs him where a car is waiting. Lennert radios that he is clear. Outside, Jack sees a man in an FBI jacket sneak off. Jack notices that the man is wearing construction boots instead of the regulation black agent boots. He points him out to Renee as the sniper, and she confirms that all her agents are accounted for. Jack stops her from notifying the tac leader until she knows how deep the Bureau has been compromised. He suggests they go after him alone. Renee and Jack take a car and follow the man, who drives off. Emerson shows the module to Colonel Dubaku of Juma's army. Homeland and NSA brief the President about the implications of a potential threat to the CIP firewall. Ethan Kanin gets a call from Secret Sevice Gedge that Henry Taylor is going to confront Roger's girlfriend because he doesn't believe he committed suicide. Gedge says he is concerned about Henry's state of mind. Janis tells Larry that Renee and Jack left the scene of the crime. Larry becomes alarmed and calls Renee. She claims they are following up on a lead. Larry calls her on the lie, but Renee asks him to trust her. Larry still has Janis perform a triangulation to track Renee's walkie. Renee asks Jack how far he was prepared to go with Schector. She wants to know how he justifies the things he has done. Jack doesn't answer, and points out that he is helping her find Tony. Henry arrives at Samantha Roth's office and she meets him on the roof. Gedge is in close proximity. Henry asks about the $400,000 wired to an offshore account after Roger's death. Did someone pay her to keep quiet? Samantha says that the money is really that of a relative and she helped hide it. She says that she loved Roger and isn't lying. Jack and Renee follow the sniper to Tony's hideout on a boat. Renee gives Jack a gun and they surround the sniper before he enters the gate. Jack attacks the guy and demands to know if Tony is there. Jack shoots the surveillance camera guarding the door. Tony sends men out to check the entrance, and Jack and Renee fire at them. They enter the boat where Tony is. Renee sees the computers deleting their files. Jack chases Tony outside and calls for him to stop. Tony looks at Jack and starts to run. Jack catches him and they fight. Jack holds Tony, and Renee says that the device is gone and the files have been deleted. Jack demands to know where the device is but Tony says nothing. Suddenly, Larry arrives on a chopper and sees that Jack has Tony in custody. "What the hell happened to you?" Jack says to his friend in frustration.

[Chloe O'brien]

10:00am - 11:00am


Colonel Dubaku demands that the President withdraw troops in Sangala. If she does not do so, he will authorize use of the CIP module to infiltrate the U.S infrastructure. Renee tells Larry that there may be a mole within the FBI. Jack questions Tony, who brings up how the U.S. government allowed Jack's wife Teri to be murdered. This infuriates Jack, who slams Tony against the wall. No one in the FBI can see Tony whisper the phrase "deep sky" in Jack's ear. Jack knows that this is an old CTU code name.
He slips out of the interrogation room and dials a number. Bill Buchanan is surprised when Jack calls. Chloe is working with Bill, who explains to Jack that Tony is deep undercover to break the corruption in the government helping Dubaku. Bill, Chloe and Tony are working outside any agency.
Janis catches Sean in the server room and she thinks he is working with Tony as the mole. He says that his wife is on one of the planes under siege and he is just circumventing protocol to make sure she lands safely.
Samantha Roth calls Henry Taylor and says that Roger was murdered. She asks him to meet.
Jack knocks Renee out and takes her FBI keycard. As Chloe guides him over his cell, Jack uses the card to get Tony out to the FBI garage roof. They engage in gunfire with the agents, and use a car to crash two stories below. Buchanan picks them up and they escape.

Episode originally aired 1/12/09


11:00am - 12:00pm



11:00am - 12:00pm

The President charges Larry Moss with making Jack and Tony the FBI's top priority. She has less than two hours to meet Dubaku's demands. Back at Buchanan and Chloe's hideout, they show Jack that Tony has befriended a private contractor named Emerson. He was the one who recovered Tony's body from CTU and saved his life in order to recruit him as a traitor. Tony explains that he was really working for Emerson perpetrating crimes because he was angry about what happened to Michelle, but when he discovered Emerson was working for Dubaku and the CIP device might kill innocent Americans he grew a conscience. That was when he went to Buchanan to expose the corruption inside the U.S. government.
They need to get Tony back into Emerson's crew to finish the job. Tony calls Emerson and tells him that Jack is on board after helping him escape. Emerson is skeptical and plans to kill Jack. Yet Jack turns on a thug set to kill him and claims he has nowhere else to go. Emerson accepts.
President Taylor is forced to tell former Prime Minister Matobo that she has to decide whether to withdraw her troops or else endanger American citizens. Ethan Kanin advises her to succumb to Dubaku's demands, but she fears letting Sangala down.
Jack and Tony's first assignment is to capture Matobo.
Samantha tells Henry that Roger was framed for trading inside SEC information, and that the same men who did this killed him and made it look like a suicide. Roger had uncovered bank records revealing that senior White House Administration officials were doing business in Sangala and had a vested interest in the U.S. military actions there. She gives him a thumb drive with all of the data.
Renee enlists Janis to go with her to a hospital where an accomplice of Tony's is laid up. The man asks for his lawyers, but Renee has Janis distracts them. Breaking federal law, Renee blocks the man's ventilator to get him to tell her about Tony and the CIP module. She informs Larry that she discovered Tony's crew is going to abduct Matobo. Renee heads to the residence as Larry sends backup.
Larry alerts Matobo's head of security, who places Matobo and his wife Alama into a safe room. Emerson and his men arrive and realize that the room can only be opened from the inside. Jack and Tony know they must get Matobo out in order to have a chance to access Dubaku.

Episode originally aired 1/12/09

[Chloe O'brien]

12:00pm - 1:00pm


Larry Moss briefs Agent Remick about the Matobo situation. He learns that Tanner's lawyers are going after the FBI and calls Renee, who is on her way to the scene. "We got the information we needed," is her only answer. Larry demands that she return to the office, but she refuses, blaming herself for Jack's escape. Renee shuts off her mobile phone. Sean speaks to his wife, who has landed. She wonders if he had something to do with her flight getting priority. He says she got lucky.
Locked in the safe room, Matobo tells his wife Alama that the people who have come for them work for Dubaku. He will not give up the names of his allies. She realizes that they want to use her to get him to talk. Alama encourages him to be the leader that the people of Sangala need. Sean calls Matobo's security guard, and Emerson sees the FBI number on the man's phone. Tony and Jack are insistent that they cannot leave without Matobo. Jack thinks he can flush him out with gas before the SWAT teams arrive.
Jack whips up something in the kitchen and blows it into the safe room's ventilation. Emerson warns Matobo, who doesn't want his wife to be sacrificed. Alama is afraid to die and opens the safe room door. Emerson's team carries them out into a waiting van.
Tanner's lawyers arrive at the FBI, but Larry doesn't let them question Janis because of the national emergency. Meanwhile, Renee arrives at the Matobo house and calls Larry about the abduction. One of Emerson's men finds her and takes her hostage. Renee curses at Jack, who convinces Emerson not to kill her, and they load her into the van as well. They pull away before the SWAT team arrives. "I can't believe I trusted you," Renee sneers at Jack.
Despite Ethan's argument, President Taylor still wants to authorize the military action in Sangala because she refuses to give in to terrorist blackmail. She is shocked to learn that Matobo was abducted by Jack and Tony, which now affects the U.S. invasion. Yet Taylor wants to find Matobo first before she meets Dubaku's deadline.
Janis picks up that there's something going on between Sean and another girl in the office named Erika. She assigns Sean a task. Larry is upset that Renee has been captured.
Emerson gets a call from Nichols. His source at the FBI said that Renee found out about their Matobo abduction by breaking Tanner. They detour to a construction site to kill Renee.
Janis notes to Sean that she thinks Larry has feelings for Renee.
Dubaku is concerned that the American troops have not withdrawn in Sangala. Nichols encourages him to use the CIP device to cause another attack and convince the President otherwise.
Agent Gedge tells Henry he will have a friend help decipher the thumb drive, and they head to the friend's house. Henry says he cannot take the evidence to his wife until he can prove his theory about his son's murder. They arrive at a condominium and Henry sees photos of his son on the mantle. Putting on rubber gloves, Gedge tells him that it is Samantha's apartment. Henry realizes that Gedge killed Roger. Suddenly, Henry falls down, almost paralyzed. Gedge spiked his coffee with a neuromuscular paralytic. Gedge says that Roger was "looking into things he shouldn't have."
Gedge calls another agent, Vossler, who is tracking Samantha. Their plan is to make it appear she killed Henry. Vossler approaches Samantha and says that Henry believes she is in danger. She goes with Vossler to her apartment.
Sean intercepts a call with mention of Renee. They hear Nichols instruct Emerson to kill her. Meanwhile, the van arrives at the site. Emerson instructs Jack to shoot her. Jack walks her out toward a ditch, and whispers in her ear to trust him. He points his gun at the back of her head and fires. Renee falls to the ground, still alive but with blood on her neck. Emerson sees Jack roll her into the ditch and place a plastic tarp over her body. Emerson orders Jack and Tony to bury her. Renee watches silently in fear as they shovel dirt on her.

[Chloe O'brien]

1:00pm - 2:00pm


Larry expands the search for Jack and Tony because they abducted Renee. Sean intercepts a phone call saying that Renee can be killed because they don't need her. Buchanan and Chloe arrive at the construction site where Tony has sent them. They dig up Renee, who is passed out. Buchanan pumps her heart and injects her heart with adrenalin to start it. Renee breathes. They explain that they are working with Jack, outside of any agency to uncover Dubaku's breach of the U.S. government. They plan to use Matobo to get to Dubaku.
In the van, Jack asks Emerson why he hasn't told Tony how he got him out of CTU. Emerson says that he was helped by Christopher Anderson, who purposefully missed Tony's artery when he "killed" him. Anderson wanted Tony alive. Emerson says that Tony chose to stay with his team because he was angry about what the government did to Michelle.
When the van arrives at a hangar, Emerson grabs Jack from behind. Tony pulls his gun on Emerson, saying he doesn't want to kill the Matobos. Jack urges Tony to take the shot and he does so reluctantly. Tony rushes to Emerson's side to tend to his wounds. Emerson refuses to forgive him. He then dies.
Jack calls Buchanan and tells him to come. He informs the Matobos that he is really working to stop Dubaku, and he needs to deliver both of them to Dubaku to get inside.
Ethan advises President Taylor to prepare to pull back troops because they need Matobo's support, and he is now missing. She is firmly against this.
Dubaku orders Nichols to dump all of Emerson's crew. With no caving from the President, Dubaku wants to next target an airplane heading for Washington. He calls the White House and tells Taylor to look out the window. She sees two planes collide and fall to the ground. He threatens to harm more if she does not comply. The President meets with the Cabinet, who all agree that they need to withdraw their troops because they cannot protect Americans from Dubaku. Taylor does not give in. "We will not be blackmailed," she says sternly to the discordant Homeland Security chief Tim Woods, asking for his resignation.
Buchanan drives to the hangar. As Chloe fits Matobo with a transmitter, Jack tells Renee that she would have never believed him had he told her the truth earlier.
In Samantha's condo, Henry Taylor sits on the couch paralyzed. When Samantha arrives home, she is surprised to see him there. He is unable to speak. Gedge stabs her from behind, as Henry watches helplessly. Ethan calls Gedge, looking for Henry. He is furious that Gedge allowed Henry to get near her, and Ethan orders him to return him to the White House. Gedge hangs up and puts Henry's fingerprints on the knife used to kill Samantha.
Tony greets Nichols at the hangar, telling him that Jack and Emerson are dead because he wants to keep the payment for himself. Tony hands over the Matobos. As Nichols' men are about to shoot Tony, Jack takes them out. Tony sends Nichols off with the Matobos. Chloe is tracking them.
Gedge rigs a rope to make it look like Henry hung himself. Henry musters up whatever strength he can and fights him. The two fall over the loft balcony, and Henry lands on Gedge, who is killed.
Annoyed that President Taylor will not give up, Dubaku sets up the next target -- a chemical plant in Ohio that, with a leak, will kill almost 18,000 people.

[Chloe O'brien]

The Matobos are brought to Dubaku's hideout inside an office building. Meanwhile, Renee helps Jack, Tony and Buchanan infiltrate the building where they have tracked Matobo. At the FBI, Janis looks for potential firewall breaches and she sees weird activity over Kidron, Ohio. She calls the plant manager at a chemical plant there, and he mentions that his he has lost control of safety valves on toxic insecticide tanks. When he tries to shut down the tanks, they do not respond. Janis tells him to evacuate the premises. The President is briefed that half the town of Kidron would be killed by the plant leak.
Janis pulls up the operating procedures of the tanks and walks the plant manager through releasing pressure on the valves. Unfortunately, it leaks the insecticide into the sealed room where the plant manager is. He sacrifices himself to save his workers.
Dubaku sees Jack and Tony entering his building. Fearing he will be caught, he orders the CIP module to be disengaged so that they can escape. At the FBI, Sean sees the firewall breach close. Janis notifies the plant manager, who says that the tanks are shutting down. Yet he is already infected and dies on the scene.
Jack, Tony and Buchanan raid Dubaku's hideout in a shootout. Renee rescues the Matobos. The CIP device is destroyed. Dubaku grabs Latham, the captured engineer who built the CIP device, and rigs him with explosives. When Jack and his team find Latham, Dubaku sets off the bomb and escapes from the building.
Ethan Kanin is annoyed because he cannot get in touch with Agent Gedge or Henry Taylor. With the national security threat still in place, Ethan reluctantly tells the President that her husband is missing after trying to drudge up information on their son's death.
Agent Vossler hears the Secret Service radio alert for Gedge and tries to call him. The ringing wakes Henry. Vossler holds Henry at gunpoint. Dubaku calls Vossler and orders him to bring Henry to him alive.
Jack convinces Buchanan that they need to bring in help from the feds to find Dubaku. He believes that Matobo can help them access President Taylor because they don't know who else they can trust. Matobo calls the President and asks to meet her privately at the White House. She is confused, but agrees.
Jack is surprised when Tony leaves instead of accompanying him with the Matobos.
Dubaku arrives at his apartment and there's a knock at the door. It is his girlfriend, an American woman named Marika, who calls him "Samuel." He hides his gun. She reminds him that he is supposed to come to her place for dinner. When she leaves, Dubaku calls Vossler to arrange for Taylor to be brought to him.

[Chloe O'brien]

President Taylor makes a speech to the nation about the terrorist attacks and she pledges her commitment to Sangala. Meanwhile, Vossler brings Henry to Dubaku. Henry accuses Dubaku of murdering his son. Jack, Buchanan and Renee bring Matobo to the White House. Renee and Matobo assure the President that Jack is on her side. Jack explains that there is a mole inside her Administration working with Dubaku and he needs to go around the FBI and Homeland to uncover the source. Dubaku calls President Taylor and tells her that he has captured her husband. He demands she withdraw her forces in Sangala and deliver Matobo to him. He starts to cut off Henry's finger to get her to acquiesce. Ethan learns that Gedge helped abduct Henry and killed Samantha. This confirms Jack's story, and he pledges to try to bring Henry back himself. Taylor is unsure if she can trust him. "With all due respect, Madam President, ask around." Jack says. She agrees.
Jack asks Renee to search Gedge's phone records, and she says she will need Larry to do it. She calls Larry's cell and begs him not to tell anyone she is alive because the FBI is corrupted. Yet Larry wants to meet her in person to prove that she is not under duress.
At the FBI, Sean doesn't understand why the President is ignoring the fact that the CIP is still out there. He thinks they are being kept out of the loop. Janis realizes that Sean is having an affair with Erika, and he confesses that it is true.
Renee and Jack go to Lafayette Park to meet Larry, who says that Gedge spoke to Vossler and that Vossler used to be Special Forces in Sangala. Jack questions whether Vossler has a family, and wants Renee to go to his house. Larry thinks that forceful interrogation is not the way to go, but Jack is insistent because it is "necessary." Larry faces off with Jack about Renee turning into a torturer like him.
Dubaku gets a call from his girlfriend Marika and claims he will not make dinner because he has a "stack of shipping requests." Marika's sister Rosa accuses her of not knowing anything about "Samuel" the importer. Although Rosa is trying to protect her, Marika will not listen.
Renee arrives at Vossler's house and takes his wife and baby hostage at gunpoint. She handcuffs the woman to the table, not allowing her to tend to her crying child.
Larry searches Vossler's location and Jack follows, crashing into Vossler's car. Vossler will not give up Henry's location, and Jack calls Renee who puts her phone on speaker. Vossler speaks to his wife, who is frightened. Renee goes to the baby out of the woman's eyesight with her gun, and Vossler is forced to confess to Jack where Henry us. Renee has tears in her eyes as she gives the woman her baby. When Vossler attacks Jack with a knife, Jack fights back but Vossler is stabbed in the stomach. Jack leaves him and hijacks a car on the street. He calls Renee and tells her about Vossler's death. She admits that she cannot handle this, and Jack asks if she wants out. She is determined to stay.
Ethan and Buchanan devise a plan to send a Matobo look-alike to Dubaku in order to buy time.
Sean asks Larry why Homeland is lowering their security level when the CIP device is still at large. Larry brushes him off. Renee calls Larry and asks him to keep Vossler's death quiet. He is furious that she is going against the rules like Jack.
Rosa calls "Samuel" and says that she knows that no one with his name has emigrated from Sangala. She threatens to tell Marika the truth unless he breaks up with her.
When the Matobo decoy arrives at the meeting site, Dubaku gives the order to blow up the car. Taylor watches in horror over the satellite.
Jack and Renee meet at the location Vossler gave up behind a grocery store. Dubaku calls his men at the hideout and order them to kill Henry. Before they do anything, Jack and Renee raid the premises and a gunfight ensues. One of the guards shoots Henry in the chest. Jack rushes to his side and has Renee call for an ambulance.

[Chloe O'brien]

As Jack works to keep the wounded Henry Taylor alive, the police and EMTs arrive and take over. Jack calls the President and tells her about her husband's condition, and that Dubaku has fled and will probably try to leave the country. The President tells Ethan Kanin she wants to be by Henry's side at the hospital; he objects, but she insists, and Bill Buchanan offers to take responsibility for her security, along with Chloe. Their government clearance is provisionally reinstated, again over Ethan's objections. Dubaku meets Marika behind the diner where she works. He tells her that his passport visa expired months ago and he has to leave the country - and he wants her to come with him. Tonight. She doesn't want to leave Rosa behind, but Dubaku claims that she will join them later. Marika finally agrees. He tells her to go home to pack and wait for his call. Dubaku then calls Ryan Burnett, a suited man in a government office who is arranging an FAA flight path for just two passengers on Dubaku's orders. Burnett thinks Juma will be displeased, but Dubaku says the mission is over. They arrange to meet to get Dubaku his passports and itinerary, at the Roosevelt Continental Hotel. At the hotel, Dubaku realizes that Burnett has men positioned to take him out, and tells him that if anything happens to him or to Marika, a data file containing the names and bank transactions of everyone involved will be sent to the Justice Department. Outmaneuvered, Burnett complies.
Larry calls Agent Walker. He's horrified at what she did, and that Vossler ended up dead. Vossler's wife had to be sedated and the child is being treated for psychological trauma. Walker is shaken, but continues to work with Jack, who has found a possible safe-house address for Dubaku. Meanwhile, Marika arrives home and finds Rosa asleep in front of the TV; quietly, she begins to pack. Meanwhile, Chloe arrives at the FBI, ostensibly to help shore up the CIP firewall. Janis doesn't trust her. Larry shows her to a workstation where she'll be able to track Jack and Renee via satellite. Larry then offends Chloe by implying that Jack's dangerous and gets his associates killed. Chloe tells him to worry about Dubaku rather than Jack.
Rosa wakes and finds Marika packing. Marika tells her that they're going to live with "Samuel" in Belize. Rosa knows he's lying, but Marika won't listen. Suddenly, Jack and Renee burst into the room and hold them at gunpoint, demanding information on Dubaku. Marika claims not to be able to recognize a photo of him, but Rosa identifies him. Marika begins to cry.
President Taylor arrives at the hospital, where the doctor tells her that Henry's chances aren't good. She comforts Henry, and tells him he was right about Roger's death. As he's wheeled into surgery, she asks Bill Buchanan to have her daughter Olivia brought here; they haven't spoken in years.
Marika reels as she learns the truth about Dubaku. He calls, and Jack begs her to answer the phone. Although she's terrified, she gets through a conversation with him. He's sending a driver for her and won't say where they're going. To Rosa's horror - as well as Renee's - Jack asks Marika to go with the driver; they'll track her from a mile behind via the GPS in her cell phone. Marika agrees. Jack calls Larry, who puts him through to Chloe, who will be doing the tracking. Meanwhile, Janis is trying to log into the conference room server, and her suspicions are aroused when she can't. She asks Sean for the digital beta key, afraid that Chloe is being considered as a replacement for her. Sean refuses - until Janis threatens to expose his office affair with Erika.
Olivia Taylor is having a business meeting when she is interrupted, much to her annoyance, by Aaron Pierce. She won't go with him; she refused Secret Service protection long ago. However, her confrontational stance evaporates when Aaron tells her that her father has been shot - information that is currently confidential.
As Marika prepares to leave, Renee tries to give the frightened girl a code she can dial if she gets into trouble, but Jack angrily cuts her off - do nothing that will raise the driver's suspicion. The driver arrives. Marika gets in the car. Just as Jack and Renee begin pursuit via directions from Chloe, Janis gains access to the computer Chloe is using. Chloe's screen glitches out for a moment; shortly after it returns, she realizes there's been a security breach - somebody in the office knows exactly what they're doing.
Meanwhile, Jack and Renee find themselves trapped in a roadblock formed by the Metro Police, who arrest them based on a warrant sent out from the FBI - or rather, from the mole there. Larry calls the police captain and demands that they be released and insists he has the authority to revoke those warrants. Janis returns the passkey to Sean, who then calls Burnett. Sean's the mole; he's been tapping into Larry's phone and knows exactly what's going on. Burnett tells Sean about Dubaku's blackmail, so now Sean is also invested in helping Dubaku get away. Burnett calls Dubaku and tells him that Marika has been turned by the FBI, but they've managed to temporarily stall the surveillance team. He offers to have his driver take care of her, but Dubaku, angry and betrayed, says he'll take care of her himself.

:cheer: Its true Superman Agent Pearce is back :cheer:

[Chloe O'brien]

Erika confronts Sean; she's discovered that he issued the warrant on Jack and Renee's vehicle. He said he did it to sideline them so Dubaku could get away, and not to worry, he has things under control. Meanwhile, Agent Walker berates Jack for thinking of Marika as an asset rather than as a human being. They have to protect her. At that moment, Marika meets with Dubaku, who reveals he knows she's been working with the FBI. He destroys her cell phone - and then forgives her. He tells her the FBI showed her lies; he brought peace to Sangala. He convinces her to come with him. Jack and Renee are finally released by the D.C. police, and they resume their pursuit; though the cell phone signal is gone, Chloe gets an image on satellite. Jack drives straight through a city park to catch up with Dubaku, but they end up cut off by traffic. As Marika realizes the FBI won't be rescuing her, she suddenly grabs the wheel. Dubaku's van swerves wildly, then flips over.
As Jack and Renee race towards the vehicle, it explodes. Jack wants to get Dubaku, but Renee pulls her gun on Jack to force him to help her free Marika from the wreckage. Dubaku is badly injured; Marika is dead.
As President Taylor agonizes over her guilt for what happened to Henry, Bill Buchanan reports on the situation with Dubaku; if he dies, their chances of uncovering the conspiracy die with him. Bill urges her to return to the White House for her own safety; her daughter will also be re-routed there.
As the EMTs work on Dubaku, Jack makes them revive him. Jack threatens to torture Dubaku's family if he doesn't give up the names of everybody involved; Dubaku agrees, but passes out. As the EMTs work on him, they detect something metal under his skin. Jack demands he be cut open then and there, and a computer chip is found. Jack calls Larry Moss and says he thinks he found the list, but it's not a sort of drive he's ever seen before -- he can't directly upload it. Instead, Jack gives it to a chopper pilot and tells him to put it directly into Moss' hands. Sean, who can listen in on every phone conversation at the FBI offices, tells a panicking Erika there's a situation -- their names are on that list -- but he's got it under control. As soon as Chloe downloads the information, he's going to crash the entire system from the mainframe room and force every computer to completely reformat, wiping them all clean. He needs Erika to help bypass all the safety protocols. She agrees.
At the hospital, as Dubaku is being operated on, an officer gives Renee a plastic bag with Marika's personal effects. She doesn't understand how Jack can just do what's "necessary." Is it really that easy for him? Meanwhile, Chloe receives the drive and recognizes it as a PX-3. They only have one shot at downloading it, because it has an auto-erase function.
In the mainframe room, Erika panics for a moment, then remembers how to bypass the security protocols. The system crash begins, and Chloe is powerless to stop it. She and Moss race for the mainframe room. Erika confirms to Sean that the reformat was successful. He kisses her -- then shoots her point blank. He then shoots himself in the arm and throws the gun over to Erika's body. When security arrives with Chloe and Moss, he claims that everything was Erika's doing; he tried to stop her. Chloe confirms that the servers have been wiped clean; Dubaku's files are gone. However, it soon transpires that Chloe has recovered the files; she was running a mirror file on an off-site server. Sean tries to escape before his name is found on the list, but he's too late, and he is arrested by an angry and betrayed Moss.
Rosa arrives at the hospital and is horrified to find that her sister Marika is dead. She accuses a tearful Renee of killing her. Jack, who just got off the phone with Bill, tells Renee they did what they had to do, and now it's over -- the list was recovered and arrests are being made. Renee thinks Jack sounds inhuman. Doesn't he feel anything? When his wife died, did he feel that? She slaps his face, asking if he can feel it. She then collapses, sobbing, onto his shoulder. He tries to comfort her by telling her she'll learn to live with it. Disgusted again, she says she doesn't want to learn to live with it. He then tells her that if she ever pulls her gun on him again, as she did by Dubaku's van, she'd better intend to use it. "I did," she says.
At the White House, President Taylor is reunited with her long-estranged daughter, Olivia. She tells her that her father is in critical condition; the bullet went through his lung. Olivia wants to go to the hospital to be with him, but the President won't let her; she won't risk anything happening to Olivia as well. They nearly get into an argument, but Bill Buchanan interrupts. He tells the President that they have Dubaku's list, and he asks her to talk to Senator Mayer about Jack; he doesn't deserve to spend his life in prison just because the Senator is on a personal crusade. The President doesn't promise anything, but says she'll think about it.
Jack sits on the steps of the Capitol building; Tony Almeida joins him. He warns Jack that it's not over; an attack is planned in D.C. -- not by Dubaku, but by Juma, who is panicking as he realizes that he's about to lose control of Sangala. He wants to strike at the U.S. to rally his people behind him. He's telling Jack rather than the FBI because the attack is coming at nineteen-hundred hours and there isn't time to wade through the FBI's procedures and protocols. The target is high profile and the attack will be high impact. One of the people involved is Ryan Burnett -- Senator Mayer's Chief of Staff. Tony's certain that the Senator himself is not involved. Jack says that Burnett's on Dubaku's list; they'll need to get to Burnett before the authorities do. Tony's already got a tail on Burnett, and asks for Jack's help.
Senator Mayer tells Burnett he's going to the White House because the President wants to speak to him about Jack Bauer. He doesn't like the timing of it. He wants Burnett to come with him. As Burnett gathers his laptop, his cell phone beeps. There's a text message: "Units in place. Operation on schedule."

[Chloe O'brien]

Disguised as an orderly, Udo, a soldier of Juma's, sneaks into the hospital where Dubaku is recuperating and poisons him with a lethal injection that induces a heart attack. Meanwhile, President Taylor watches Juma on television giving a defiant speech about the American invasion of Sangala. The recording was probably made before the invasion, so where is Juma now?
In a warehouse near the Capitol building, Juma secretly assembles his men. Young Laurent, Dubaku's son, is among them. Udo calls to report on Dubaku's death. Juma tells him that Laurent must never know of his father's cowardice.
At the FBI, Chloe gets a call from Jack, who asks her to delete Ryan Burnett's name from the list of corrupt government officials. She hesitates, but does so just before Janis enters, asking to help with processing the list, and lingering at Chloe's station just a little too long for comfort.
Tony and Jack arrive at the White House. As a still-wanted felon, Tony must wait outside. Meanwhile, Burnett calls Juma asking if the attack can be delayed because he's stuck at the White House. Their call is interrupted as he's welcomed by Ethan Kanin. Kanin asks Senator Mayer to quietly drop his prosecution of Jack Bauer in exchange for the President's support of his war crimes bill. If he doesn't play along, the President may simply pardon Bauer. Mayer is outraged.
Jack arrives at Bill Buchanan's office and pulls a gun on him, demanding to know Burnett's whereabouts. Bill won't divulge the information without knowing what's going on, but Jack doesn't want to implicate Bill in this. Bill tells Jack that he's throwing away a chance to walk away with a clean slate, but Jack says there's no other way. He knocks Bill out with a sleeper hold.
Renee calls Larry and tells him that she believes Dubaku was murdered. She bristles angrily when Larry suggests the theory is actually Bauer's. She should be the one calling the shots, not him. A hospital security guard brings Renee a security photo of the mysterious orderly's license plate.
Janis has discovered that a name has been deleted. Chloe insists on "investigating" this herself, further inflaming Janis' suspicions. Chloe calls Jack and warns him that time is running out. In the West Wing, Senator Mayer tells Burnett to prepare a press release that will make it politically toxic for the President to pardon Bauer; they can use the fact that her husband was shot to make it look like President Taylor is acting emotionally and not rationally. The Senator is summoned to the President's side. Burnett calls Juma and tells him he's leaving now; he's to rendezvous with Juma at 21:30 hours. However, Jack bursts into the room and tasers Burnett.
Janis goes to Larry. She has found the deleted name and even unscrambled Chloe's cell phone conversations with Jack. Chloe is arrested. As the President talks to Senator Mayer about Jack, Larry calls the White House and conveys his belief that Jack is illegally interrogating Burnett as they speak. And indeed, Jack is tasering Burnett again and again.
Just as Jack is about to get a confession, a security team bursts in, accompanied by the President and the Senator. Jack tells the Senator that whatever happens now is on his conscience, but the Senator is even more outraged to find that Jack's source is Tony Almeida, a wanted fugitive. Ethan Kanin advises the President to trust Bauer, but she ultimately has him arrested. She offers Burnett immunity from prosecution for treason if he talks, but Burnett stays mum.
Renee tracks Udo's car to the warehouse were Juma and his soldiers are stationed. She reports this to Larry, who tells Janis to scramble a chopper and then call the metro police. Renee eavesdrops as Juma continues to hide Dubaku's death from Laurent. Juma orders the soldiers to move out; Larry and his men are still ten minutes away. The soldiers board a cabin boat. As the boat sails away from the dock, Renee leaps off the pier and just barely manages to scramble aboard. However, she accidentally drops her cell phone into the Potomac.
Buchanan revises and calls Tony. They bring each other up to speed. Immunity for Burnett was the only plan. Tony's original intel source is now dead. Meanwhile, Renee spies on Juma showing tactical maps to his soldiers, but she can't see the maps. The boat drops anchor and the soldiers suit up in scuba equipment, diving into the water. Lauren stays behind to stand guard. Renee sneaks into the cabin to find that the target is the White House. Laurent nearly catches her, but she dives off the boat and desperately begins to swim for shore as Laurent fires at her. Juma and his men swim into an underwater catacomb and drill into the rocks above. They pull themselves up into a dry tunnel. As Laurent pursues Renee through the water, Juma and his men are ready to carry out their attack on the White House.

[Chloe O'brien]

Olivia Taylor still wants to go see her father in the hospital. Aaron Pierce persuades her to stay put at the White House, as her mother, the President, has ordered this for her own safety. Meanwhile, the President plans to tell the public the truth about a second attack that is looming. Larry calls and tells her that Juma's involved and that he's lost contact with Renee.
Renee climbs out of the Potomac. She finds a park ranger and tells him to call and report an imminent terrorist attack at the White House, but the ranger is cut down by bullets from Laurent's gun. Renee flees, Laurent in pursuit. Meanwhile, in a holding cell, Jack pleads with Bill Buchanan to torture Burnett until he talks. Bill is sorry, but he just can't do that.
With the help of an inside man, Juma and his men break into the White House. They shoot down a detail of Secret Service. With nine minutes until the next Secret Service roll call, they must find the President.
Laurent catches up with Renee, who tells him that his father is dead by Juma's hand. Laurent doesn't believe her. Just as he's about to strangle her to death, he's shot dead by Larry and the FBI men who have finally arrived. Renee says that she knows Juma's target.
Back at the White House, Jack is in handcuffs as Bill leads him away. Larry calls to inform Bill that the White House is the target. Bill immediately uncuffs Jack and tells him to do exactly as he says. As Juma and his men kill the President's press secretary, Secret Service agents inform the President that the White House is under attack. They spirit her away to lockdown, meeting up with Jack and Bill on the way. Bill takes the President's tracker in order to draw Juma away from her while Jack and the other agents continue to head for lockdown. Juma quickly finds and captures Bill, realizing that he's been tricked.
Jack and the President make it to the lockdown room just as Juma is catching up with them. The President orders Jack not to close the door until her daughter can join them, but it's too late and the security doors close. Aaron Pierce will have to find another way out of the building with Olivia. Suddenly, the phone cuts out -- Juma has blocked all communication in and out of lockdown. The Secret Service, led by Agent Hovis, are bearing down on Juma's men, but Juma bluffs that he's captured the President and will kill her if they don't back off. Hovis has no choice but to call off his men. Juma then has his men fan out to take hostages and seal off the exits.
As he hides with Olivia in an air vent, Aaron Pierce realizes that Juma must be bluffing. They have to find a way to get word to Hovis as soon as possible for his men to retake the building. Juma's number two and tech support, Ngozi, says that if the specifications they got from Hodges are correct, it will take him about ten to fifteen minutes to get through the doors of the lockdown room.
Larry and Agent Hovis brief each other on the situation. Hovis' men can move in at any time, but the order must now come from the Vice President. Meanwhile, the hostages, including Bill and Senator Mayer, are rounded up. Jack and the President scan the faces on a closed circuit monitor for Olivia, but she's not there. Jack realizes that Juma must have had inside help and that Juma is on a suicide mission.
Ngozi tries to break the lockdown door's access code but Jack shorts out the lock. Explosives will take too long, so Juma must find another way in. He calls Jonas Hodges of Starkwood, who had provided the codes and other information he needed to infiltrate the White House. Hodges isn't going to help, but Juma says that Hodges won't get his shipment if he doesn't find Juma another way in. Hodges tells him to find Olivia Taylor in order to pressure the President.
Larry and Renee urge Vice President Hayworth to give Hovis clearance to retake the building, but he won't act until he is absolutely certain that the President is safe. As Juma's men search the hostages for Olivia, she and Aaron see that there's no way out. Aaron says he can at least get a signal out from the windows upstairs in the Residence. He wants to leave Olivia in a secure place but she insists on coming with him. En route to the Residence, Aaron is shot. He sends Olivia to a window to flash Morse code with a flashlight, but both she and Aaron are captured.
Ngozi finds a fiber-optic camera in the chandelier. He brings Olivia to the camera and tells the President that if she doesn't open the door, he will kill Olivia slowly, carving her up piece by piece. The President wants Jack to open the door. Jack protests. She asks him if he could stand by if his own daughter was being butchered. He says that he couldn't, but he's not the President of the United States. She orders him to open the door.
Just as Juma is about to cut out Olivia's eyes, the door opens. Jack is led to sit with the other hostages. The President asks Juma to release the hostages now that he has her. Juma slaps her hard across the face and tells her that she doesn't give orders. As he leaves, Juma commands Udo to get the camera ready for the President's statement. This will be the last statement she will ever make.

[Chloe O'brien]

President Taylor and Olivia emotionally reconcile their differences. The moment is interrupted as one of Juma's men pulls the President away. Jack and Buchanan form a plan. Jack opened canisters of CH-4 in the lockdown room just before surrendering. The room will soon be saturated with natural gas. A single spark from a single bullet will ignite it and take out enough of Juma's men so they can rescue the President. Jack plans to rush Juma's men shortly to try to get off the shot. The President demands that Juma release the hostages before she reads his statement. Instead, Juma shoots one of the hostages and threatens to kill the rest if she does not comply. She reads his statement on a live feed. The Vice President, watching from a secure location, orders that the feed be shut down, but it can't be. Larry calls, convinced that Juma is on a suicide mission, and again begs the VP to order that the FBI initiate a rescue. Yet the VP refuses, still convinced that Juma can be negotiated with.
Buchanan tells Jack that Juma's not working alone. He overheard Juma talking on a SAT phone coordinating with somebody on the outside. He tells Jack to find out who it is and then dives for the lockdown door. He manages to get off the shot, triggering the CH-4 explosion. As Jack jumps into action, Larry orders his men to move in under his authority -- and over the VP's continued protests. In the melee, Aaron Pierce manages to spirit the President and Olivia away to safety. Juma's men are cut down, and after a tense standoff, Jack manages to kill Juma as well. Jack runs back to the lockdown room, only to find the body of Bill Buchanan, who was killed in the explosion.
The FBI wants to move the President to Andrews Air Force base for her own safety, but she insists on staying at the White House. She and Olivia then cement their reconciliation. With Jack just sitting, stunned, near Bill's body, Renee tells him that the President is secure. She tries to comfort him but he is wracked with guilt. It was supposed to be Jack who set off the explosion. Jack then tells Renee and Larry that Juma wasn't working alone, and he begs Larry to let him speak to Ryan Burnett. He swears that he won't torture or touch Burnett in any way. He will only scare Burnett into talking. Instead, Larry has Jack placed back into custody, over Renee's objection that Jack's plan is a good one. Renee then passes on to Ethan Kanin the info that Juma wasn't working alone. She also tells him Jack's plan. Ethan calls Larry Moss and orders him to release Jack and implement his plan to question Burnett -- on Ethan's authority. The President won't be told.
At Starkwood, Jonas Hodges is surprised but calm at the news that the President is still alive and that Juma is dead. He is still getting what he wanted out of his deal with Juma; the shipment will arrive in a couple of hours. Time to nail down a few targets.
The President wants Olivia brought on to her staff as a Special Advisor. Ethan objects, because during the campaign, Olivia leaked damaging personal information about her opponent to the press and nearly cost the election. Olivia is a liability. President Taylor believes that Olivia has changed, and she asks Ethan to offer the job to her himself.
Larry berates Renee for going behind his back to Ethan, and orders her to go back to HQ and turn in her badge. She is suspended indefinitely. Jack tells Larry that Walker's the best agent he's got, but Larry says he can't ignore her circumvention of his authority.
At Starkwood, twelve targets are found along the eastern seaboard within 300 kilometers of "the base." The population density is high, causing a large kill ratio. Yet Hodges hopes he'll never have to find out. A memo is intercepted from the FBI regarding Jack's release to question Burnett. A man named Quinn is dispatched to Burnett's hospital to deal with the problem. As Jack and Larry arrive at the hospital, Quinn, disguised in scrubs, enters an old man's hospital room and smothers him to death. As duty nurses are distracted by this, Quinn downloads hospital information about Burnett's room and the schematics of the building. He then slips into an access hatch and draws a gun.
Olivia visits Aaron Pierce in triage to thank him. Ethan finds her and offers her the Special Advisor job. Olivia is surprised, but takes the job, conceding that she overstepped her bounds during the campaign. She then angrily blames Ethan for allowing corruption right under his nose, calling him a failure and suggests that he should have already tendered his resignation. Ethan is offended, but Olivia swears she will find out who betrayed her mother and make sure they can never do it again.
At the hospital, Jack is left alone with a just-reviving Burnett. Larry watches nearby via video feed. Burnett is terrified and is about to confess everything when suddenly, Larry's sound cuts out and the picture freezes. From above the room, Quinn opens a panel and drops in a canister of nerve gas, almost immediately immobilizing Jack and Burnett. As Jack watches, Quinn drops into the room and cuts Burnett's throat. He then smashes the room's electronic security lock and leaves through the roof. Jack revives moments later and, as Larry pounds on the door, Jack pursues Quinn.
Quinn calls Starkwood to report his success. Jack has been framed for Burnett's death. Jack loses track of Quinn and instead focuses on escaping from the hospital. Larry breaks down the door to find Burnett dead and no Jack. Jack calls Larry to tell him that he is being set up. Larry says that, if he's innocent, they will sort it out. Jack knows that whoever did this wants Jack out of play. He urges Larry not to get distracted because this threat isn't over. Jack runs off into the night, a fugitive once more.

:crying: No Not Bill Buchanan :crying:

[Chloe O'brien]

Jack steals a car from the hospital parking garage to make his escape. Meanwhile, Morris O'Brian has arrived at the FBI demanding to know where his wife is and he finds that Chloe has been arrested. Larry calls Janis to inform her Ryan Burnett is dead and Jack is the suspect. He has her put out an APB. Renee, in the process of filling out her suspension paperwork, overhears this and asks Janis what's going on. All Janis knows is that Burnett is dead and Jack has gone missing.
Renee goes to her office -- and Jack calls, declaring his innocence. He took a surveillance DVD from the hospital and is viewing it on a laptop in the car. He emails her a frame-grab of Quinn and says that this is who killed Burnett. He is the only connection they've got to whoever else is still involved.
Quinn calls Hodges and tells him that Jack got away. Hodges isn't concerned; his shipment from Juma will arrive within the hour. Once they deploy the weapons, it won't matter what Jack finds out. Hodges' number two, Greg Seaton, looks discomfited. Hodges insists that he gets no pleasure out of killing people. Even one death is tragic -- but they are fighting a war, and what they're doing is absolutely, fundamentally necessary. He tells Seaton to wake up their colleagues and tell them to assemble in one hour.
Renee calls Jack back. She has identified Quinn as a former Black Ops combat vet who now works for Starkwood, which turns out to be a private paramilitary organization. Senator Mayer may know more because he had been investigating Starkwood. Jack will need to talk to him. As Renee looks up Mayer's current location, Larry enters. The conversation they have about Jack convinces Larry that she's been talking to him. He secretly has Janis access Renee's phone log and workstation. Renee is their best chance of catching Jack.
President Taylor prepares to make a statement. Olivia advises her mother to not just reassure the nation, but to also claim victory and reaffirm that standing up to terrorism works. The President agrees. Ethan arrives and briefs them on what happened with Jack and Ryan Burnett. He also confesses his culpability in sanctioning Jack's plan.
As Renee attempts to leave the FBI, she is stopped by Larry and a security team. He demands to know where Jack is. She refuses to talk, and insists that as soon as Jack has the evidence he needs, he will call. Larry has her arrested.
Jack confronts Senator Mayer in his own home, holding him hostage. Mayer doesn't recognize Quinn. When he hears Jack's story, Mayer says that if Starkwood was connected to Juma or Sangala, he'd have known about it because he investigated Starkwood for six months. Jack insists on seeing his case files. Mayer asks whether Jack will turn himself in if the evidence isn't there. Jack just demands he open the files.
As the President makes her statement on television, a news reporter asks Ethan for a statement about Jack Bauer being a suspect in the murder of Ryan Burnett. The reporter also wants to know about Ethan's involvement. Ethan won't comment. He realizes that Olivia leaked this to the press, and he confronts her about trying to hurt him while inflicting political damage on her mother. The President is on record as condemning torture as unacceptable under any circumstances. It will now look as if she's condoned exactly that.
Janis has trouble decoding the information on Renee's computer and asks Morris for help. He does so, under the condition that Chloe gets full immunity with all charges expunged from her record. Larry agrees, with Janis as witness. In mere moments, Morris decrypts the files and finds that Jack's probable location is the home of Senator Mayer. Larry musters the SWAT teams to move in on Jack. Morris is reunited with Chloe -- who is upset that he helped the FBI catch Jack. Morris apologies, explaining that his child and marriage come first, but she's already done enough for Jack. He can prove he's telling the truth when he's taken into custody. Chloe, though, isn't sure the FBI will give Jack the chance.
As Jack goes through Mayer's files, he talks with the Senator about regret and sacrifice. Jack finds a photo of Quinn at the scene of a car accident that killed a source inside Starkwood. The victim had been making wild, seemingly unsubstantiated accusations about Starkwood -- they blackmailed Pentagon officials, were involved in assassination plots and were seeking to acquire W.M.D.s, including a bioweapon. Jack says that is the connection: Juma tested a bioweapon on his own people. It was not pursued because Juma destroyed the evidence by firebombing his village before the U.N. team could get there. Starkwood may have wanted bioweapons to fight back against Mayer's attempts to shut them down, and Juma provided them with a safe haven to test those weapons. Suddenly, there's a voice claiming to be the police at Mayer's door. Jack is about to run, but Mayer convinces him that he can protect him and convince the FBI to listen. Mayer answers the door -- but it's not the FBI. It's Quinn, who shoots Mayer dead. Quinn attacks Jack, who is forced to flee. Quinn goes after him as the police begin to arrive. He leaps through a French window and lacerates his arm.
Olivia meets with the President and Ethan in the Oval Office. She professes her innocence and insists she can verify that she's not the leak. The source at CNB news will guarantee that the leak didn't come from the White House. Olivia offered him exclusive time with the President in exchange for his killing the story. The President is impressed with her daughter's acumen. Ethan is chagrined, and apologies to Olivia.
Quinn pursues Jack onto a construction site and enters a trailer. Suddenly, the trailer tips over. Jack has pushed it with a bulldozer. Quinn manages to escape the trailer, and he and Jack fight. Jack manages to get a hold of a screwdriver and impales Quinn, demanding to know when the weapons will arrive. With his dying breath, Quinn says that they're already here. Jack finds a text message on Quinn's cell phone that reads, "Port of Alexandria. Yard C. 2230."
Larry and the Metro PD enter Mayer's house. Larry calls Janis and tells her that Jack has murdered the Senator. Orders are to now shoot Jack on sight. Meanwhile, Jack uses Quinn's phone to call Tony Almeida for help. Jack asks him to bring weapons and a surveillance package to the Port of Alexandria. He will explain when Tony arrives.

[Trinity]

OMG - Larry has really got it in for Jack now!

[Chloe O'brien]

As the FBI continue their search for Jack, Larry calls Ethan and tells him that Senator Mayer is dead. They believe that Jack murdered him. Ethan is angry with Larry for letting Jack get away, but Larry reminds him that he advised Ethan against using Jack in the first place. This sobers Ethan, who subsequently tenders his resignation to the President.
With her husband on the mend, the President was hoping the day would end on a more positive note. She tries to persuade Ethan not to resign, but he feels that his poor decisions will tarnish her administration if he does not resign immediately.
Jack calls Tony and explains about the bioweapon that Starkwood is about to get a hold of in order to fight their congressional order to be dismantled. U.S. civilians will be killed to prove that Starkwood is needed as a secondary security force. Jack believes the weapon is still at the port. There's only one Port Authority Officer on duty, named Carl Gadsen. As Gadsen gets off the phone with his very pregnant wife while working double shifts to make ends meet, Jack and Tony grab him. They disarm him and force him at gunpoint to get the port manifest.
At Starkwood, Hodges is informed that Quinn hasn't checked in. He then addresses Starkwood's board, exhorting them to stop cooperating with the government subcommittee. They are not to answer any more subpoenas. Starkwood can be a vital tool in protecting an America that has an army stretched to the breaking point and the draft off the table. After the meeting, Douglas Knowles, the Board's chairman, tells Hodges he thinks it's folly to fight Senator Mayer. Hodges informs him that Mayer has been killed by a rogue federal agent. Knowles is horrified, and asks for Hodges' assurance that he wasn't involved. Hodges feigns offense, but coolly suggests that while Starkwood is not in the business of political assassinations, it's certainly a growth market they could look into.
At the port, Gadsen tells Jack and Tony that he was trying to make extra cash to support his impending twins conceived with expensive fertility treatments. He had planned to aid men that he thought were simple electronics smugglers. They haven't arrived yet. Jack tries to call in the FBI, but communication is jammed. The men arrive at the gate. Jack tells Gadsen to let them in. He and Tony will follow them and call for help once they're out of jamming range. Gadsen is reluctant, but Jack promises that they have his back. Gadsen opens the gate to find a small army waiting, led by Stokes, who is suspicious of how nervous Gadsen is. He forces Gadsen to come along with them to the pickup site. Tony whispers to Jack that he knew Gadsen was a dead man the moment he walked out that door.
Olivia tells Ethan that she is personally sorry for his resignation, though she still think it's what's best for her mother. Ethan apologizes for accusing her of leaking his role in Jack's escape to the press. He advises her that running the country isn't like running a campaign -- you need to do what's right for the people, not just whatever it takes to win. Olivia responds that sometimes those things aren't mutually exclusive. Once he's gone, she calls network White House reporter Ken Dellao to inform him that he can now run with the story about Ethan and Jack. She was the leak.
At Senator Mayer's home, evidence is found that points to a third person being involved with the murder. Larry calls Renee to say that he is prepared to entertain the idea that Jack is innocent. He wants her to tell him what she knows. She's reluctant to blow Jack's cover, but finally discloses what she knows about Quinn and Starkwood, and the fact that Jack was trying to prove that Starkwood was behind today's attacks.
At the port, Tony wants to move out, but Jack can't abandon Gadsen. He already promised one person today that he'd protect them, and now they are dead. He can't let that happen again. When a thug is dispatched to lead Gadsen off to be executed, Jack takes aim. Tony exhorts him not to do it because it will blow the whole mission, causing so many more innocents to die. Jack pulls the trigger, saving Gadsen, who runs away to safety.
Jack and Tony come up with a fallback plan: hijack the truck. The dead man is found in short order, and Tony and Jack open fire. In the course of the gunfire, Jack manages to leap aboard the truck and throw the driver out of the cab while Tony keeps them distracted. However, Tony gets captured. As Jack prepares to drive away with the bioweapon, he hears over the walkie-talkie about Tony getting caught. Stokes recognizes him. Jack calls Larry and asks him to scramble together teams to meet him at a weigh station.
Just as Jack gets off the phone, a flashing light alerts him to a breach. He stops the truck and checks in the truck's pallet to find a gash in one of the containers causing bioweapon gas to leak out. Unfortunately, he's stopped near a suburban area. Jack desperately manages to hammer the leak closed.
Moments later, the Starkwood team arrives with gunmen and a helicopter. Jack is forced to take cover while the gunmen airlift the bioweapon away. Stokes calls Hodges and reports he'll be there in ten minutes. Meanwhile, Jack calls Larry and tells him that Starkwood recovered the weapon and headed due west from his position. Larry says there's a large military facility in that area, but he can't assault a private compound without evidence that a weapon exists. Jack tells him to send his CDC men to him and they'll have all the proof they need -- Jack was exposed to the bioweapon chemical.

[Perdita]

Kiefer Sutherland has promised that the end of the current season of 24 will be "powerful".

The actor revealed that the seventh season of the show will not end in an obvious way.

Speaking to Parade, he said: "It is going to end with some of the characters going through a very difficult emotional dilemma which will be much more dramatic than a big action sequence.

"I believe that it's the most powerful important ending that we've ever had to a season."

Sutherland also hinted that 24 fans may have to wait until the show has finished before a film is underway.

He suggested that it would be unfair on the writers to work on a film while they are still writing for the series, saying: "We collectively decided that when the show is finished then we would take [the film] on."

The final episode of the show's seventh season will air in the US in May.

[Chloe O'brien]

How more powerful can it get, it's only halfway through the series and I on prozac already :lol:

[Chloe O'brien]

The CDC arrives to test Jack and find out what he may have been contaminated with. He is not yet showing any symptoms. Jack tells them what little he can about the bioweapon. It will take 15 minutes to find out whether he's infected. In the meantime, he asks to be taken to the FBI.
The deadly canisters arrive at Starkwood -- as does the captured Tony Almeida. Hodges demands that the bioweapon be ready to deploy ASAP because two hours is too long. Tony is roughed up, and Hodges promises that he will get out of this alive if he talks. Tony keeps mum. Greg Seaton interrupts; he thinks the plan should be called off now that the government knows because it was supposed to be covert. Hodges angrily tells him to keep his doubts to himself.
At the White House, Olivia recommends a man named Rick Berman from the private sector to replace Ethan Kanin as Chief of Staff. President Taylor says that she wants Olivia to be the provisional Chief of Staff during the search. Olivia is reluctant, but accepts. Larry Moss calls the President to tell her that Jack is innocent, and that Starkwood was involved with today's terrorist attacks. They are preparing to strike right now, so Larry asks for permission to move on Starkwood immediately. The President calls for the Joint Chiefs to be assembled.
Larry releases Renee from holding because he wants her to be the one to debrief Jack. He apologizes for not trusting her, and she apologizes for not trusting him as well. Meanwhile, Olivia meets with Aaron Pierce and asks him to be the agent in charge of her security detail Although she will arrange for his reinstatement, he's reluctant. Before he can give a final answer, she's called into the meeting with the Joint Chiefs. The bioweapon has been identified as an agent that attacks the brain and nervous system and kills within a day or two. There is no cure. Unfortunately, there are no good and legal ways of moving on Starkwood with military force. It would take Congressional approval. The President insists on finding a way.
Tony continues to refuse to talk. Just as Stokes is about to shoot Tony, he is shot dead by Greg Seaton. Seaton thinks Hodges has lost his mind, and he frees Tony. The two sneak into Seaton's office, when Hodges calls. Seaton claims that Stokes is still trying to get Tony to talk. Hodges wants Seaton on deck, ASAP. As soon as Hodges is off the phone, they call Larry at the FBI. Seaton wants immunity in exchange for the location of the bioweapon canisters. Larry needs to run this by the President. While they are waiting, Larry updates Tony on Jack's condition.
In the CDC van en route to the FBI, the results of Jack's blood work come in. Jack reads the diagnosis, his face unreadable. He arrives at the FBI, where Renee is surprised to find that he's not in quarantine. Jack is indeed infected, but he's not contagious.
President Taylor and Olivia watch horrific footage recovered from Sangala of the bioweapon being tested on innocent people. The President is more resolved than ever to bring down Starkwood. Tim Woods, head of Homeland Security, along with Admiral Smith, bring the President into a secure internet conference with the FBI and Tony. Woods and Smith, upon hearing Seaton's story, concur that they may not get another chance. The President gives Larry authorization to move on Starkwood, and digitally signs Seaton's pardon. Seaton gives the location of the warehouse where the canisters are stored. It will take the FBI ten minutes to reach Starkwood. Renee asks Seaton to get Tony into the warehouse. Jack begs Larry to join them, but Larry can't risk Jack coming down with symptoms while he's in the field. Jack realizes that Larry is right.
Seaton takes Tony to the warehouse and recons via phone with Larry. Inside, Hodges and teams of security and scientists are working on the weapon. They're an hour away from being armed. Larry contacts Starkwood's air tower with an executive order to search that warehouse. Any interference will result in arrest. The air traffic controller lets them in.
Hodges, looking anxious, hears the helicopters approach. Larry has the doors blown open. The FBI team enters to find an empty warehouse. Larry demands to know where the weapons are, and Seaton claims he doesn't know. He says that Tony had threatened to kill him and he only told Tony what he wanted to hear. Larry isn't buying it, but there's nothing to be done but place Seaton under arrest. Hodges observes this scene via a security monitor. He and the weapons are in a completely different warehouse on the other side of the compound. Seaton's bought them some time. Now they just have the keep the FBI over there.
Larry leads the FBI out of the empty warehouse, determined to keep searching Starkwood, but he's met by a heavily-armed team led by Stokes, who is still alive after all. He says they cooperated with the FBI's demand to search this particular warehouse and now asks them to leave. They are on private property. As the groups take aim at one another, Stokes says that Starkwood will defend themselves against a hostile government that is trying to shut them down and will be within their legal rights to do so. If the FBI try to advance any farther, they will be fired upon. Larry doesn't answer. No one moves. No one blinks. It's a standoff.

[Chloe O'brien]

As Tony and Larry realize that this was a trap, Hodges confronts the FBI team and orders them off his property. There are no weapons of mass destruction here. He gives them five minutes to leave and demands Seaton's release.
Back at the FBI, Renee and Jack confer. Jack finds another contact inside Starkwood named Douglas Knowles who was cooperating with Senator Mayer's investigation. Jack calls Knowles, who is relieved to hear from the FBI. He thinks that he knows where the canisters are. Jack calls Tony and Larry, urging them to have the FBI withdraw and find a way to leave Tony behind to meet up with Knowles.
Larry creates a diversion by insisting on arresting Seaton and then getting into a fistfight with him. Tony slips away during the scuffle. A Starkwood commando puts a gun to Larry's head, and Larry backs off. He and the rest of the SWAT team leave. Tony finds Knowles, who says that the weapons are likely in a secure area. He has no idea how they'll get there without being caught.
Tony calls Jack for support, but Jack's starting to tremble and shake. The bioweapon is starting to affect him. Janis takes over, providing satellite support, and gives them the go-ahead to proceed. Jack's trying to hide his symptoms, but Renee has noticed and is worried. They call the President, who is appalled that Starkwood was prepared to fire on federal agents. She is willing to order a surgical air strike on Starkwood but only when she has visual confirmation of exactly where the canisters are. Since Jack is the only one who has seen them, the confirmation has to come from him.
Olivia gets a call from TV reporter Ken Dellao, who has heard rumors that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were called in. He has a source from Port Authority telling him something about weapons of mass destruction. Dellao demands to know what's going on and threatens to make Olivia's unseating of Ethan Kanin his top story the next morning if she doesn't talk. They arrange to meet in a room at the Roosevelt Continental Hotel.
Knowles leads Tony to the general area where security has been beefed up. Of all the buildings in the area, there's one that Jack sees no infrared signature from. That building must have blackout shielding, and is therefore where the canisters are probably located. Knowles distracts the guard by demanding to be let in as Chairman of the Board, claiming he's just out for a walk. As Tony slips inside, Knowles is detained by the guard, who is under order from Hodges to clear away all "non-essential" personnel. Tony moves deeper into the building. Jack suddenly starts to tremble and shake violently, and then collapses to the floor, unable to speak.
When Hodges learns about Knowles, he orders him taken back to his office and kept comfortable until he arrives. Hodges also tells him to double down security with a half-hour until the weapon is ready.
Olivia meets with Ken, and has a reluctant Aaron Pierce wait in the hallway. She then tells Ken what's going on and asks that he kill the story so as not to cause a panic. He agrees, on the condition that she sleep with him. She insists that their relationship is over, but he won't relent. Olivia reluctantly lets him begin to kiss her.
At the FBI, Jack is given an injection to temporarily control his symptoms. He needs to take another shot at least once every two hours because the bioweapon is more virulent than they thought. However, there have been recent medical experiments that suggest a possible treatment. There's a slight chance of a cure if they can use stem cells from a genetically compatible donor. The only candidate is Jack's daughter, Kim. To Renee's bewilderment, Jack refuses to contact Kim.
Jack returns to his post at Janis's terminal and warns Tony of a security detail heading towards him. Tony makes short work of the commandos, and switches clothing with one of them. He rides an elevator downwards with lead scientist Dr. Chapman, and his disguise works. Tony reports back that he is four stories down. Janis says they have no information on subterranean floors for that building. Staying out of sight, he manages to get a video feed to them and Jack IDs the canisters. They will alert the White House. Since the place will be dust in ten minutes, it's time for Tony to get out of there.
Hodges meets with Knowles, who demands to know what's going on. Hodges admits everything. He's angry that the country he was asked to defend, who never cared how he got things done, is suddenly asking questions and holding him accountable for his methods. Knowles warns him that he can't take on the federal government. Hodges sadly reflects that, for twenty years, he's treated Knowles like a son. He expected and deserved a little loyalty. Hodges then bludgeons Knowles with a decanter and throws him off the balcony, killing him. As Hodges attempts to wipe the bloodstains from his shirt, Seaton calls. Radar shows a squadron of F-18s are heading their way and will arrive in ten minutes. They have three canisters loaded and ready. Hodges says to put in a call to the President. He'll be there momentarily.
At the hotel, Olivia is getting dressed. All she cares about is that Ken not write the story, but he says he's going to anyway. The story will make his career. However, Olivia reveals that she's filmed their lovemaking with her cell phone. If he runs the story, or ever tries to blackmail her again, she'll let the world -- and his wife -- know just how he gets his leads. Olivia suggests he find a new beat because she doesn't ever want to see him around the White House again. As she leaves, the President calls to order her back immediately.
In the Situation Room, Admiral Smith tells President Taylor that Starkwood has a phased array radar system and knows that they are coming. Yet they seem to have no anti-aircraft capability. Just then, Tim Woods tells the President that Jonas Hodges is calling and wants a private conversation on a proprietary line he's established. The President takes the call, alone, in the Operations Room. Hodges says he has three missiles ready to launch at cities on the eastern seaboard, and proves it by showing her the missiles. He demands that she turn the planes around. He also wants a private conversation at the White House within the hour. Until then, it's to both their advantages that the American people not know the exact nature of their standoff. He gives her thirty seconds to comply.
Aghast, President Taylor races back to the Situation Room and orders the air strike aborted, which Admiral Smith does reluctantly. All eyes are on the President, uncomprehending, but she cannot risk explaining herself to them. She meets their eyes, and then leaves the room.

[Chloe O'brien]

Jack calls Tony with news that the President called off the air strikes. Tony spots something that tells him why -- a fuel truck pumping RP-7, which is used for surface-to-surface missiles. Hodges must be threatening to launch. Tony's got three charges of C-4 and a remote detonator. Jack tells him to get into the depot and blow those tanks.
Jack calls President Taylor to ask permission. She has been fending off the Joint Chiefs and trying to keep the situation a secret, so she refuses to authorize the plan. Yet the President tells Jack she expects he will do what he thinks is right. Jack takes that as a request to undertake a covert action that she can deny authorizing if those missiles are launched.
Hodges, with Seaton in tow, arrives at the White House for his meeting with the President. Larry gives his stamp of approval to Jack's plan. He will move in as soon as Tony takes out the missiles. Stokes is in charge of the fueling truck, and Tony forces him at gunpoint to lead him to the fuel tanks, where Tony begins setting up the C-4.
Hodges sits down with the President in the Oval Office -- a place he used to be welcome at under the old administration. He wants Starkwood to be involved in shaping her military policy and operations, making them essentially a fifth branch of the military. Seaton hands her a non-negotiable outline of the protocols under which their "partnership" would function.
Tony returns to the fuel truck with Stokes in tow and is ambushed from behind. The detonator drops into a drainage gate. A vicious hand-to-hand fight ensues, and Tony manages to subdue both attackers, but not before Stokes sounds an alarm. The detonator seems to be just out of Tony's reach. Below, Chapman sees the alarm and prepares to launch, but the lead technician wants to be sure it's not a false alarm before he enters the code. Chapman says this is not protocol. The technician refuses to proceed, so Chapman throws him out of the way and does it himself.
Above, Tony sees the launch portal opening. He gropes for the detonator again, and finally gets a hold of it. He presses the button and there is a tremendous explosion. The entire chamber and the men below are vaporized in the back blast. Tony flees the scene.
Larry sees the explosion from a distance and gives the order to move in. Back in the Oval Office, Tim Woods interrupts the meeting to alert the President that the bioweapons have been destroyed. She immediately has Hodges and Seaton arrested. Hodges says she is making a mistake because this doesn't end with him. He is merely a cog in a much bigger machine. She questions what he's talking about. "You'll find out," he says mysteriously as he is led away.
The President calls Jack, who asks for clemency for Tony when he's put on trial. Midway through his plea, he suddenly falls silent. He couldn't remember what he was just saying. The President excuses him, and promises she will take Tony's actions today into account.
Larry locks down Starkwood and recovers Tony, reluctantly taking him into custody. Back at the FBI, Dr. Mercer tells Jack that memory loss is a symptom of the disease. She can't do anything to stop it and it may cause personality changes and hallucinations.
Renee meets with Kim Bauer. When Jack finds Renee, he tells her that he needs to go on record about the events of the day as soon as possible. She informs him that his daughter is in the building and this enrages Jack because he specifically told her not to bring Kim into this. He had accepted dying until Renee put in front of him the one person he has that's worth living for. Renee says that nobody dragged Kim into this -- she has been trying to see him all day and leaving messages with the FBI to reach him. Renee only just got the messages. Kim was at his Senate hearing, but Jack was pulled out before she could get to him. She offers to tell Kim that Jack's not there. Chastened, Jack asks Renee to take him to see his daughter.
Jack apologizes to Kim, explaining that he thought he was doing the right thing by staying away. He encounters so many enemies in his line of work, and that puts the ones he loves in danger. The experimental treatment for his exposure to the bioweapon involves a risk to her if she helps. The slight chance of recovery isn't worth the pain of having her watch him dying. Kim says she doesn't want to lose her father, and the two embrace, sobbing. Suddenly, Jack suffers from a spasm. He tells her gently that it's time for her to go. "I love you so much," Kim says as he leaves.
At Starkwood, an FBI agent is killed by Galvez, a Starkwood commando. He is caught by the agent's partner, who makes Galvez drop the duffel bag he is carrying. Keeping his gun trained on Galvez, the agent opens the bag to find a canister of the bioweapon. He calls Larry to report this, but Galvez overpowers him and shoots him. Galvez then steals the agent's vehicle. Larry sends out the word that a Starkwood commando has the bioweapon and may be escaping in an FBI vehicle. There is enough bioweapon in that canister to take out a small city.
Roadblocks are set up as Larry takes off in a chopper, accompanied by Tony. Janis tracks the GPS of the stolen vehicle. Larry catches up to Galvez, who is now on foot. With no time to wait for backup, Larry has the chopper land. As soon as it does, the helicopter pilot is shot dead. Automatic gunfire strafes their position. Larry and Tony take cover. Tony is unarmed. Galvez manages to shoot Larry in the abdomen. Larry collapses, and Tony scrambles over to check his condition. Larry sees Galvez sneaking up behind Tony, his rifle at the ready. Gasping and barely able to speak, he just barely manages to alert Tony to look behind him. Tony sees Galvez and silently gestures to him. Galvez, unexpectedly, lowers his weapon, deferring to Tony. "I'm sorry, Larry," Tony says as he puts his hands over Larry's nose and mouth to suffocate him to death. Galvez shows the canister to Tony, who has him go find a place to hide it. As Galvez takes off, Tony waits for the arrival of the FBI to come rescue him.

[Trinity]

Ahhh! What is Tony playing at!!!!

Surely Larry isn't really dead???

OMG!v Once a week is just not enough...

[Chloe O'brien]

I can't work out if Tony's the good guy or bad it's just like old times in the early days of 24. Larry's toast and there's still 6 more episodes to go so there's still time for a couple of more casualties.

[kt183]

i couldn't believe that ending! Quite possibly the most shocking twist ever! Surely it can't be another trick and he will turn out to be a good guy after all, can it?

[Chloe O'brien]

Na I think Tony maybe bad but will he survive to the end of the series.

[Chloe O'brien]

Jonas Hodges' favorite attorney, Patricia Eames, gets a phone call at her home. Hodges wants her to represent him. As she opens her front door to leave, she's ambushed by a man hidden behind a mask who gasses her and then gives her a lethal injection. Just before she dies, she sees a woman who seems to be her exact double. The double, Cara Bowden, steals Patricia's glasses. The man uses a device to scan Patricia's thumbprint and transplant it to Cara's hand in the form of a thin plastic coating. At the FBI, Galvez is ID'd from a Starkwood security camera. A four-block area is locked down. Within that perimeter, Tony shoots himself in the side and then tells Galvez via phone to stay put because the canister Galvez stole is worth a lot of money to the people Tony's working for. The FBI arrives to find Tony shot and Larry Moss dead. He claims they were ambushed.
Later, Tony calls Galvez to warn him about the FBI's movements. Tony advises him to find a large store or warehouse in the area that he can lure the FBI into and then blow it up. Back at the FBI, Kim Bauer says goodbye to Renee. Her father won't agree to the treatment, and she knows there's no point in trying to change his mind. Kim is just happy they got to say some of the things they have always wanted to express. Just then, Renee gets the call informing her that Larry Moss is dead. She is now the ranking agent in charge. Renee is stunned, but pulls herself together and begins issuing orders. She shows no trace of emotion, and cuts Janis off when she tries to offer condolences.
Jack is having trouble with his debriefing because his memory is starting to fade due to the bioweapon's effects. He is distracted by the sight of Renee addressing a SWAT team, and he goes to investigate. When Jack learns that the bioweapon is still out there and that Larry is dead, he insists on going along with Renee. Jack promises that he will stand down if his condition compromises the operation in any way. She continues to protest, but he cuts her off. He is going, and that's final.
At the White House, President Taylor worries about Hodges' claim to be a small cog in a much larger machine. She wants him interrogated by the FBI. Olivia knows he will want some kind of deal in exchange for information. The President promises not to make any deals with the monster who is responsible for her son Roger's death.
Cara, disguised as Patricia, arrives at the White House brig to see Hodges. He knows exactly who she is. She tells him that his actions have put everybody in a very difficult position. He shouldn't have worried about Senator Mayer's subpoenas because he and Starkwood would have been taken care of. The bioweapon wasn't for his own personal use. The consensus is that Hodges has had a psychotic break. He has exposed himself, and there is concern that he will expose the others. Hodges says he doesn't even know who the others are. Cara surmises that he knows enough to be dangerous. She threatens his family, but promises their safety if he does "the right thing." She slips him a capsule that will induce cardiac arrest without leaving a trace. It will look like a natural death. Without Hodges to prosecute, the case against him and Starkwood will be difficult, if not impossible. Starkwood's legacy can be preserved.
Olivia arrives in the brig and Cara's time alone with her client is over. He is being moved. Cara calls Alan Wilson and tells him she hopes his impending interrogation will pressure him to "resolve" the situation. He asks if she's heard from Tony. She assures him that Tony will have the canister secured soon. Wilson notes that Tony is her guy and he'd better not screw up. Cara has faith that Tony will come through.
Tony finds a secluded area and speak to Galvez, who has found a building for the FBI set up. He has less than twenty minutes to rig it with C-4. Meanwhile, Jack and Renee head to the scene in a chopper. Jack tries to advise her on how to cope with the pain of losing a partner, but she doesn't want to hear it. They arrive at Tony's location. Jack realizes that Tony's story about the ambush doesn't quite check out. Most of the bullet holes are from a .45 caliber gun, but Tony was shot with a 9mm. Yet Jack assumes that Galvez must have had someone else helping him.
From a taxi, Kim calls her husband, Stephen, to let him know she's coming home. He asks if she at least told Jack about his granddaughter, 14-month-old Teri. Kim didn't tell him because it would have made things harder for her father. She explains that she will be on the 7:10am flight and be home by nine.
Renee is concerned that the sweep isn't happening fast enough. The FBI are being slowed by civilians who are protesting that their homes are searched without a warrant. Renee orders any civilians who interfere to be arrested. Jack's body begins to shake, and he retreats to an area to administer himself anti-seizure medication. Tony tries to persuade him to go back to the FBI, but Jack says he is here to support Renee.
A static-filled transmission comes in. It's Galvez, pretending to be Agent Stoller, whom he has really just killed. Galvez claims to have a confirmed visual on the suspect and the canister entering an abandoned apartment building. Jack asks if there was anyone with Galvez. The reply is no, which troubles Jack. As Renee and the FBI team prepare to move out, Jack stays behind to monitor operations. Galvez, as Stoller, lures the FBI up to the second floor of the building. Jack gets a call from Agent Mizelli, who was conducting his debriefing earlier, to try to clear up a discrepancy. Is Jack sure that Tony's source on the White House attack was named Vincent Cardiff? Jack is sure, even with his condition. Something catches Jack's attention and he hangs up on Mizelli.
As Renee and the other agents go deeper into the building, Jack sees that the agents' transponders are showing that Stoller isn't in the building with the rest of the team. He radios Renee to get out because it's a trap. As the agents begin to retreat, Galvez, hearing this exchange, sets off the detonator. Confused reports come in of agents being down and requests for assistance. Jack takes command and demands that the perimeter teams hold position. This was an attempt to draw them off their line. Any hole in the cordon and they lose the canister. When Renee appears to be missing, Jack rushes over to the site with Tony in tow.
Hodges is transported to the FBI, and he notices a tattoo on the arm of one of the Marines who have him in custody. It symbolizes that the Marine served in Pakistan, side by side with Starkwood operatives. Hodges asks how he'd rate their professionalism and performance under fire. The Marine tells him they were good men who were well trained. Hodges is moved, and says that he just made his day. Hodges then retrieves the capsule. He regards it for a moment, then swallows it. He goes into cardiac arrest.
Jack and Tony enter the building. Tony meets with Galvez, who is disguised in Stoller's uniform. Galvez confirms that he still has the canister, then dips his hands in the blood of an agent killed in the blast. He smears the blood all over his face.
Jack finds Renee alive and well. Her radio was knocked out and she's been tending to a severely wounded agent. Renee realizes that whoever did this knew their sweep pattern. Jack calls Mizelli back, and Mizelli tells him that Vincent Cardiff didn't expire as a result of the interrogation as Tony had said. Cardiff was arrested by Customs an hour ago while trying to sneak over the Canada border. He shows no signs of any physical abuse whatsoever.
Jack confronts Tony, who is just bundling Galvez into an ambulance. As the ambulance drives away, Jack draws a gun on Tony. He threatens that if Tony ever lied to him, Jack will take him down himself. Tony tries to talk his way out of it, but Jack isn't buying his story. Suddenly, Jack begins to spasm again. He drops to his knees, shaking. He tries to find his hypo kit. Yet Tony has stolen it from him. Tony takes away Jack's gun and says he never wanted to hurt him. As Tony is about to shoot Jack, two medical techs run up so Tony hides the gun. He asks them to help Jack and walks away. Jack tries to shout a warning, but he cannot speak.
When the ambulance carrying Galvez is waved through the roadblock, Galvez stabs the med tech tending to him in the throat. Glavez then takes the driver hostage at knife point.

[Chloe O'brien]

Dr. Macer gives Jack the injection he needs to stop his spasms, and he tells the FBI to put out an APB on Tony. They do so, but it's a moment too late; Tony shoots a couple of FBI agents dead, disconnects their SUV's tracking system, and steals the car. Jack is remorseful that he vouched for Tony.
At a motel, Tony meets up with Galvez. The money's been wired to Galvez's account, but instead of giving Tony the canister, Galvez pulls a gun on Tony and demands the name of the buyer. He doesn't know who he's messing with. Tony gets the drop on Galvez and kills him. He then finds the canister in the closet. Cara arrives and wants to make the delivery, but Tony says no. They will sit on the canister for six months. Cara says it's necessary in order to replace the 27 lost canisters, but Tony knows the time to strike is now while the country is reeling. Also the FBI is stretched thin and making mistakes.
Meanwhile, Tim Woods tells the President that Hodges tried to poison himself, but the guards intervened in time. He is still alive. Renee and Jack call with the bad news about Tony. The President says she may have a lead, and tells them that Hodges mentioned some bigger group she wouldn't be able to stop. Jack wants to interview Hodges -- not to torture him, but to offer him what he needs: proof of death. This will help convince those threatening Hodges' family to think they have succeeded.
Olivia is horrified to find her mother is considering giving Witness Protection to Hodges, the man who murdered her son. She thinks he should be declared an enemy combatant and tortured. President Taylor says she swore to defend the Constitution. This tears her apart, but it needs to be done.
Cara teleconferences with the secret cabal via laptop. All of them are at laptops, talking via computer with their voices disguised and trying to get permission to go ahead with Tony's plan. The attack will be blamed on an Arab immigrant, Jibraan Al-Zarian, who will be found dead at the scene. Jibraan is an innocent they'll set up to look like a terrorist. The cabal is skittish, but Cara IMs Alan Wilson and coaxes him to weigh in on her side. Wilson tells the group that Hodges did them a favor by pushing the country to the brink. They should seize the opportunity while they have it. The cabal unanimously votes for the plan to go ahead. Cara and Tony share a passionate kiss.
Hodges has regained consciousness and is yelling that they have doomed his wife and family. Jack enters to interrogate him, while the President monitors the conversation from the White House. Jack explains the deal to Hodges. Olivia cannot watch, and she leaves the room. Hodges tells Jack that he was part of a group who can protect the country better than any government ever could. The plan was to launch simultaneous attacks early next year so that the public would see the government couldn't protect them. The people would demand drastic measures and then the group would step in. They were supplying weapons to America's enemies and sleeper cells to offload the blame. Hodges thinks Jack should understand because he was doing what was necessary. Jack replies that they have nothing in common. He's disgusted that Hodges is just protecting his contracts. Jack was serving his country.
If Hodges doesn't confess the names of his cohorts, Jack threatens to go public with the fact that Hodges is still alive. Hodges swears he doesn't have the names, even when Jack's dialing the Washington Post. He tells Jack that everybody was anonymous, even to each other. Tactics were handled through an intermediary, a woman whose name he never knew. Jack confers with the President and says they must be planning to strike today because it would be the right strategic move. The feds would need an immediate threat assessment, which requires a reconstitution of the CTU servers that were sealed by Senator Mayer's investigation. The President orders them re-commissioned.
This action needs somebody already familiar with the protocols, so Jack calls Chloe, waking her up. She asks about Bill and Jack tells her what happened. He also says there's an imminent biological weapon threat and that her expertise is needed. A car is being sent to pick her up. She agrees, then hugs her sleeping child. Chloe wakes Morris, who is sleeping on the couch. She tells him to take Prescott and get out of town. Morris asks Chloe to come with them, but she can't be persuaded.
Jack gives himself another injection as the strain begins to show. Renee and Jack brief a group of FBI agents on the mission. They need to look for fabricated evidence that would offload blame for the attacks. Janis objects to using the CTU computers, but Renee orders her to do so. Chloe arrives and Jack breaks the news to her that Tony has betrayed them. Chloe doesn't believe it, but Jack tells her that the Tony they knew is gone. Jack makes Chloe say out loud that she is still with him.
Tony, Cara and various operatives ready themselves outside of Jibraan's apartment. He's a 27-year-old day laborer with an expired visa. He has no ties to any extremist groups, but his parents were killed in a US air strike near the Pakistani border when he was a child. He raised his brother alone. Inside, Jibraan tells his 17-year-old brother, Hamid, to be careful because it is not a good day to be a Muslim even though Muslims had nothing to do with the attacks. Hamid brushes off his concern. Most of the guys at work think he's Puerto Rican anyway. Outside, another sedan joins Tony and Cara, containing two more operatives. They converge on the apartment.
Aaron Pierce discovers an emotional Olivia drafting Hodges' Witness Protection papers. She vents to him that this isn't justice. Hodges will get to live his life in comfort while her brother is dead. Olivia wishes out loud that Aaron could kill Hodges. She then apologizes and says she was just venting. After Aaron leaves, Olivia calls Martin Collier, a hardball political consultant she's worked with before. He once told her that there was no problem that couldn't be handled or eliminated. She won't tell him what she needs over the phone, so they plan to meet at the White House in fifteen minutes.
At the FBI, Chloe supervises the reconstitution of the CTU servers. Janis complains that they're violating the Bill of Rights and acting as Big Brother. Jack, enraged and goaded by Janis' constant sniping, yells at her. If she doesn't like it then she can leave. In his rant, he says that the servers were re-commissioned by "President David Palmer." Jack stalks off and buries his face in his hands. Chloe is dumbstruck. What's wrong with Jack?
At Jibraan's apartment, the lights go out and the operatives invade. Hamid is chloroformed, and a terrified Jibraan is held by Tony at gunpoint and ordered to keep silent. Tony threatens to put a bullet in his brain.

[Jojo]

This series has had so many twists and turns - talk about adrenaline overload!!!

Roll on tomorrow!

[Chloe O'brien]

As Cara puts Jihadist propaganda on Jibraan's computer, Tony forces him to read a terrorist statement in front of a camera or he and his brother will be killed. Tony keeps promising him that if he does as he's told, he'll live through this. Two cops come by, called by the neighbors about the noise. With Tony holding him at gunpoint behind the door, Jibraan tells them it was just noisy, drunken friends who he sent away.
Chloe isn't finding any chatter on the CTU servers. Jack has her expand the search by checking on all Muslims in the D.C. Metro area. Janis protests this racial profiling, but Jack says there is no other choice. Jack forgets what he's saying mid-sentence, and Janis realizes that Jack hasn't told her about his illness. She confronts Jack as he injects himself. He confesses that he only has a day or two left to live, but that's not important. He's accepted it, and he wants everyone focused on doing their job.
They get back to work, and Chloe finds that $2 million from the account of a Muslim Relief organization has been transferred over the last six months to the account of a Jibraan Al-Zarian, whose web account shows he's been looking at Jihadist propaganda. His visa has expired, so they don't have an address, but his INS form lists a personal contact -- Muhtadi Gohar is the Imam at a Georgetown mosque. Jack insists on going with Renee to talk to the Imam. He has to see this through.
Olivia meets with Martin Collier, who is taken aback that she wants him to "take care of" Jonas Hodges. He warns her that once she does this, she'll have to live with it the rest of her life. Olivia doesn't want any lectures about conscience from him, and she promises him a White House staff position in return. He agrees to her plan. Meanwhile, U.S. Marshal Sullivan gives Jonas a dossier about his new identity. Hodges is incensed at Sullivan's attitude towards him. Hodges throws the dossier at him as he leaves.
Jack and Renee talk to Gohar, the Imam, who recognizes Jack from his hearing on television. Gohar won't reveal Jibraan's address and insists that Jibraan is an innocent man. Janis calls with the address. It was found on the police report of the domestic disturbance call at Jibraan's home. Jack forces Gohar to come with them so that he can't warn Jibraan that they are coming.
Tony coerces Jibraan to announce to his brother Hamid that he is a terrorist. They need Hamid to tell the police later that his brother was an extremist. By convincing Hamid of this, Jibraan will be saving his life. Hamid, disbelieving at first, spits in Jibraan's face. Cara's concerned that Hamid isn't really convinced, but Tony says if he's not yet, he will be after the attack.
Olivia talks to a hired assassin Martin over the phone. He wants her to transfer the $250 million payment. She hangs up, goes to her computer and then hesitates. Will she click "Execute" or "Cancel?" Aaron Pierce enters with news that the President has had her father transferred to the White House for his safety because of the possible bioweapon attack. Olivia says she'll be there in a moment. She finally clicks on "Cancel" and calls Martin's voicemail to say that she couldn't go through with it.
Olivia joins her mother at her father's bedside and the two have an emotional reunion. The President tells Henry she's not sure her d?tente with Olivia is holding, but Olivia says that she understands now how hard it is for a leader to make decisions. Olivia knows how painful the decision to let Hodges get off easy was. Henry happily watches his wife and daughter reconcile.
As Jack and Renee speed towards Jibraan's home, Chloe calls. She's found that the time stamps on the money transfers and Jibraan's web browsing history were faked. All were created thirty minutes ago. He's being framed. Jack tells Gohar the news and uncuffs him. Gohar is surprised that the authorities would admit to being wrong, and tells Jack that he forgives him. Gohar hopes that Jack will at least forgive himself. "I gave up on that a long time ago," says Jack. Gohar answers that it is never too late to turn towards God.
Sullivan, getting ready to transport Hodges to his new life, refers to him by his new name -- Mr. Tippett. Hodges is looking at photos of his family, but Sullivan confiscates them. He cannot keep anything that would tie him to his old life. Hodges asks Sullivan if he likes his job because he doesn't appear to be someone satisfied ferrying around prisoners. Sullivan says he doesn't plan to have this job his whole life. Hodges approves, and says he doesn't intend to be Mr. Tippett forever either. Hodges is bundled into an SUV. Once he's alone in the back seat, Hodges retrieves a photo of his wife and daughter from his shirt. While Sullivan fills out paperwork with an FBI guard, the SUV suddenly explodes in a fiery blast, killing Hodges instantly.
Tim Woods reports to President Taylor and Olivia about the status of Jack's mission. A call comes in that Hodges was killed by a car bomb. Woods says that this must have been an inside job. Olivia ducks out and makes a panicked call to Martin, who tells her to calm down and stop talking about this over the phone. He wants to meet with her in Pershing Park as soon as she can get there.
Jack, Renee and Gohar arrive at Jibraan's home, where a SWAT team is already staked out. A hostile is holding a man hostage. Gohar identifies the bound man as Hamid. They're holding Hamid as leverage, which means that the attack is probably already in motion. The hostile inside is their last chance to find out where and when the attack is taking place.
Jack leads the team inside, where a flash grenade distracts the hostile. He tries to take Hamid hostage, but Hamid moves quickly, smashing a mirror and driving a shard into the man's neck. Jack shouts at him to stop. They need this man alive to find out where to find Jibraan. Hamid relents and Jack calls for a medic.
As Cara works with a weapons engineer to prime the bioweapon, Tony drags Jibraan into the back of a mobile unit with some other operatives. The attack will happen in the next ten or fifteen minutes. The computer screens are showing live footage from a subway platform as early morning commuters board a train. "What are you going to have me do?" asks Jibraan. "You'll find out," says Tony.

We only have 3 more episodes to go and we still don't know who is behind the Bio attack. I can't stand it much longer.

[Chloe O'brien]

Cara reports that the bioweapon will be ready on time for an attack at Washington Center Station, so Tony instructs Jibraan to take the subway there. Meanwhile, Jack delays the med tech from giving morphine to Harbinson, the operative who was holding Jibraan's brother Hamid hostage. Jack tortures Harbinson until he screams that he doesn't know the attack location. However, he does have a number for Tony. Jack has him call Tony, but they're not on the line long enough for Chloe to run a full trace.
Chloe and Janis get into an argument about how Chloe deliberately makes Janis feel stupid. Chloe narrows the location down to the Adams Morgan district. As Jack and his team scramble in that direction, Jibraan enters the subway station. He nervously removes his earpiece and begs the token vendor for help. The bemused vendor waves him over to a transit cop, who is really one of Tony's operatives in disguise. He forces Jibraan to put the earpiece back in. Tony tells him that he's always being watched and if he tries something like that again, his brother will die.
Aaron Pierce calls Olivia Taylor, wondering why she's not at the White House and isn't under Secret Service protection. The Jonas Hodges car bombing is being investigated and they need phone and internet records from all eleven people who knew that Hodges was alive. It's obvious the information was leaked. Olivia makes a suspicious Aaron promise to cover for her until she gets back. She then meets with Martin Collier, who told the assassin to go ahead with the killing. The time for conscience was before she set this into motion. Now she needs to pull herself together in order to avoid bringing him down, along with her mother and her administration. Collier warns Olivia to transfer the funds, or the assassin will be unhappy with her.
At the airport, Kim Bauer calls her husband Stephen with news that her flight's been delayed. Stephen thinks it's a sign she should stay and try to convince her father to spend his last moments with her. As Kim's cell phone battery dies, she sees a man staring at her intensely. A moment later, he's gone. She is unsettled.
A disguised Cara enters the same subway car Jibraan is on. She stashes a duffel bag with the bioweapon below a seat. It's set to go off when the train reaches Washington Center. Jibraan gets a glimpse of her and is puzzled as to why she seems familiar. Cara leaves the train at the next stop as Tony moves to pick her up.
At the FBI, Chloe decodes Tony's location data and alerts Jack that Tony is actually moving towards him. The van passes right by where Jack is staked out. Jack rams his SUV with it. Jack drags Tony out of the back of the van. Tony tries to smash his mobile computer, but Jack manages to get it away before it is completely destroyed. Tony won't talk. Jack threatens to shoot him, but Tony's got nothing to lose. Yet Jack can't bring himself to do it.
Janis manages to one-up Chloe by tapping into the damaged computer's memory after Chloe says it can't be done. They find that Tony had been tracking Jibraan. They run the tracking program and see that he's on the subway. The end of the line at Washington Center is the target. They've only got a few minutes. Chloe patches Jack through to Jibraan's earpiece. He explains to Jibraan who he is and that that his brother is safe. Jack asks if Jibraan was given a package, but he says no. Jibraan realizes that the woman he saw earlier was with the men who attacked him.
Jibraan nervously starts looking for a package, attracting the attention of a business-suited man who eyes him suspiciously. Jack tells Jibraan to stay on the train until all the passengers get off. He does so, and finds the package. Jibraan sees that there's only a little over two minutes on the timer. Hazmat can't get down there in time, so he'll have to immediately bring it up. Scared as hell, Jibraan runs for the escalators clutching the duffel bag, pushing people out of his way. The business-suited man points him out to a transit cop.
To avoid being delayed, a desperate Jibraan takes the canister out of the duffel bag and screams that he has a bomb. Fearful people clear away from him, and he manages to get outside just as the SWAT team, a Hazmat truck and Jack pull up. Jack takes the canister and gets it into a containment chamber in the Hazmat truck just in time. He tells Jibraan that his brother will be brought right away. As Jibraan moves off to have his statement taken, Jack slumps in exhaustion. He then begins to tremble. Renee tries to get him to take an injection, but Jack says he just took one twenty minutes ago. It's not working. Renee holds him, assuring Jack that he can finally rest.
As Kim waits for her plane, she sees the man staring at her again. She goes and sits by another female passenger named Sarah and asks her to check if he's still looking. He's not, but is now moving away. The man is FBI Agent Franks, who was asked by Jack to keep tabs on Kim. He calls Jack.
Renee tells Jack about Hodges' death. Jack realizes that whoever did it may try to kill Tony as well. He orders a full security detail assigned to Tony. Cara calls Wilson with news that the FBI now has the canister, Tony and Jibraan. She doesn't think they need to kill Tony because they have got another play. Back at the airport, it's time for Kim to board her flight. Sarah's husband, Bob, offers to go get some coffee. Instead, Bob follows Agent Franks into the bathroom, breaks his neck, and then hides his body in a locked stall.
As Olivia returns to the White House, Aaron Pierce demands to know why she broke protocol. He threatens to resign as her Secret Service agent. She claims that she was simply overwhelmed by the day's events and needed to clear her head. This seems to win his trust back. As soon as she's gone, he calls Ethan Kanin and asks if the voice-activated recording system that Mike Novick installed in the Chief of Staff's office is still there. It is, but it currently requires Kanin's thumbprint to activate it. He'll be at the White House within the next 30 minutes. Meanwhile, Olivia goes ahead and transfers the funds to the assassin.
At the FBI, Janis is upset that Chloe hasn't thanked her for her work or even acknowledged that she'd been wrong. The argument is cut off as Chloe finds a photo of Cara and sends it to the field agents. Jibraan identifies her. He is then reunited with his brother.
At the airport, Bob returns with coffee and then sits opposite Kim and Sarah. His laptop's camera is trained on Kim. As Renee angrily tells Tony he's going to pay for what he did to Larry Moss, Jack gets a call from Cara. She sends him a link so he can see that they've got Kim in their sights. Cara tells him that Agent Franks has been neutralized. If Jack doesn't help Tony escape, they will kill Kim. Cara orders him to leave the line open. If he tries to warn anybody, Kim will be killed.
Jack gets into the armored van with Renee and Tony. Cara tells him that he'll do exactly what she tells him to do. If any FBI agent gets in his way, he must kill them. Horrified, Jack steals a glance at Renee as Tony, knowing what's happening, gives Jack the slightest smug smile.

[Perdita]

Kiefer Sutherland has said that the season seven finale of 24 is the "best yet".

The actor told E! that because his character Jack Bauer is dying after becoming exposed to a bio-weapon, the upcoming final episode "will be much more dramatic" than previous season climaxes.

"This is why with the last two episodes, I was so excited about playing them and why I'm so excited for people to finally see them," Sutherland said.

"It's a real character shift for Jack Bauer."

The star also added that the next season of 24 is going "to be centered in one of the most realistic circumstances" yet.

"I can tell you that it's grounded in a political shift that's taking place," he said. "Some of our stuff, to be fair, is kind of far fetched. This one is actually quite possible."

The season seven finale of 24 airs next Monday on Sky1.

[Chloe O'brien]

As Olivia begins an interview with the Justice Department regarding the killing of Jonas Hodges, the President starts a briefing with the Joint Chiefs, warning them about the existence of the shadowy cabal of private military firms planning to undermine the government. They don't have much information, but hope to find out more from the captured Tony Almeida.

Cara gives Jack the order to start Tony's rescue. Jack commandeers the van, explaining to a shocked and betrayed Renee that his daughter's life is on the line. At the airport, Bob, the operative whose laptop camera is trained on Kim, is asked to move his stuff so that an old lady can sit down. Kim realizes something's amiss when she notices that the laptop's been open and unused all this time. She also sees that Bob's bleeding from a scratch to the neck and points it out. He's flustered. His wife, Sarah, says it must have happened when the door hit him getting out of the cab. Truth, or is she covering for him? Kim thinks the wound looks fresh. Bob walks off, ostensibly to take care of the wound. He calls Cara to warn that Kim's getting suspicious. Cara tells him to stand by. If Kim realizes who they are, they can't allow themselves to be taken. Cara tells him to do what he has to do.

On Cara's order, Jack has the armored van pull into a tunnel where the FBI loses visual. The transponders are out as well. Cara is waiting in an SUV in the tunnel. Tony makes Jack gives him his gun and then cuff himself. Tony takes Jack hostage. Cara thinks Tony should shoot Jack, but Tony points out that Jack's blood contains the pathogen. They can make more bioweapons by harvesting it from his body.

Aaron Pierce meets with Ethan Kanin regarding his suspicions about Olivia's involvement in Hodges' murder. Kanin is reluctant to break into his old office and access classified recordings because it is a federal crime. However, Aaron convinces him. Ethan gets the data card just before Olivia returns from the inquiry. Olivia discovers him in the office, and Ethan claims he'd left some files behind. After he leaves, she notices an open panel on the wall and finds the recording equipment within. She calls security and orders Ethan detained.

Chloe and Janis are unable to find Jack's location, so Agent Walker has Chloe patch into Kim's departure gate. At the airport, Kim's name is called as some standby passengers are allowed to get their boarding pass. While in line, she gets a phone call comes from Renee, who tells her about Jack and Tony. Renee warns her there's an operative in close proximity and it may be someone with a camera or a laptop. Before Kim can describe them, Bob suddenly appears behind her. She pretends to be having a conversation about her baggage. Renee realizes that they're about to move on Kim and she orders the terminal locked down. Bob notices security guards arriving and he realizes something's wrong. He whispers, "Take her" to Sarah, who has readied a knife. Bob whips out a gun and shoots the security guards while Sarah takes Kim at knifepoint. Chaos erupts. Kim gets a pen out of her pocket and stabs Sarah in the leg with it. As Kim gets free, Sarah is shot dead by a security guard. Bob, however, manages to escape. Kim calls Renee and tells her that Bob's getting away. Renee says they need him in order to find Jack. Yet before Kim can tell her what direction he's headed, her cell phone battery goes dead. She thinks for a moment. Then, gathering her resolve, begins to pursue Bob herself.

Olivia meets Ethan in a holding room and demands that he return what he took. He refuses, so she has him searched. Ethan demands to speak to President Taylor, but Olivia claims that the President is the one who had him detained. When he asks to hear that from the President directly, Olivia claims that her mother has recused herself from the investigation because of her personal relationship with Ethan. The data card is found and given to Olivia, who tells the guard to process Ethan out. When she is alone, she crushes the card. On the way out, Ethan is handed off to Aaron Pierce and the two confer. Ethan knows Olivia's hiding something. He has a data card -- the real one. The card that the guard found was blank.
Jack, trembling and too weak to resist, is led to a makeshift medical room in an industrial warehouse. He is restrained and given an injection to immobilize him. It will take about fifteen minutes before they know if there's enough pathogen in his spinal fluid to be useful. Tony asks Cara for a bigger role in the organization. Cara says it doesn't work like that; you have to be invited. Tony knows she's in contact with the top guy. He just wants to be in the same room with him to make his case. Cara says she can't do that because he is protective of his anonymity. Behind them, Jack screams in agony as a gigantic needle is inserted into his spine.

On the phone, Martin tries to reassure Olivia not to worry about Ethan. Tim Woods arrives and tells Olivia that her mother has requested her in the Oval Office for a briefing about the situation at the airport. Meanwhile, Renee and her team arrive at the airport and realizes that Kim's either a hostage or following the operative.

In the parking garage, Kim tails Bob. As he heads to the top floor, Kim runs to a pair of airport cops and tells them to patch her through to Agent Walker. She gives Renee Bob's location just as Bob arrives in his car, driving straight at them and shooting. One officer is shot, but the other officer manages to shoot Bob in the throat through his windshield. Bob's car veers out of control and flips over. Kim tends to the wounded officer for a moment, then peers into the window of the wrecked car, now in flames. She spies Bob's laptop and reaches in to get it. Bob, still alive, grabs her wrist, trying to stop her. She manages to get the laptop out with her other hand, but Bob's still got a death grip on her wrist. The flames leap up and burn both their hands until Kim's finally able to wrest herself free. She gets herself and the laptop away from Bob's car just as it explodes. Renee arrives and Kim hands them the laptop. With knowledge from her days as a CTU systems analyst, Kim instructs Renee how to use the laptop to backtrace the signal. Renee prepares to get Chloe on the line.

Ethan returns to his car and listens to the contents of the data card. Olivia and Martin are conspiring to kill Hodges. Meanwhile, the doctor reports to Tony that there's plenty of the virus in Jack's spinal fluid but not enough to reconstitute the pathogen. They will need his organs for that. Jack's got a couple of hours to live, at most, but the pathogen can survive death of the host for up to two hours and sometimes longer. Jack's playing possum and listening intently.

Cara talks to Alan Wilson about Tony's request. Wilson will arrive in the next half-hour to meet Tony, but if he doesn't like what he sees, for any reason, then Tony's not walking out of that meeting alive.

Tony orders Jack readied for transport. As the restraints are removed, Jack springs into action, surprisingly strong, and kills the doctors with their own scalpels. He gets out of the building just as the sun begins to rise. Tony and Cara give chase.

[Chloe O'brien]

Chloe and Janis are having trouble backtracing the laptop's signal to find Jack. Meanwhile, Jack tries to take refuge in a taxi garage. He closes the garage door, but Tony fires off some shots before the door closes, puncturing a taxi's gas tank. Tony begins to open the garage door with a fork lift. When he gets in, Jack is igniting a flare, intending to blow himself and Tony up. Tony overpowers him and drags Jack off.

At the White House, Ethan Kanin and Aaron Pierce confront Olivia with the recording of her conspiring to kill Jonas Hodges. This isn't about Ethan getting his job back. It's about the truth, even if it destroys the President's Administration. Ethan wants the President to decide what to do next -- prosecute or bury it. He'll let Olivia tell the President herself.
Jack revives to find himself chained to a wall in an industrial space as Tony works intently. Jack begs Tony not to use him to kill innocent people. Tony reveals that everything he's done today, including the attack on Washington Square Station, was done in order to get access to Alan Wilson, the leader of the cabal that planned today's attacks. Wilson was also the man behind former President Charles Logan, who had ordered the hit on David Palmer and Tony's wife Michelle. Jack is disgusted that Tony has killed innocent people for revenge. He says that if Wilson dies, any chance of exposing the rest of the conspiracy dies with him. Tony doesn't plan on killing Wilson. He's going to have Jack do it.

Tony reveals what he's been working on: a belt of C-4 explosives, which he slips under Jack's shirt. Jack yells that Tony is not honoring Michelle's life, but reveling in her death instead. Michelle would despise him for this. Jack spits in Tony's face. Tony duct tapes Jack's mouth shut so that he can't warn Cara, who has arrived.

Wilson arrives with a motorcade. His men meet Tony and Cara in the parking lot and disarm them. Other men are sent to fetch Jack. As Jack is brought outside, an FBI helicopter bearing Agent Walker appears. A shootout begins, and everyone runs for cover. Jack frees himself from his captors and Renee finds him, disarming the detonator. Wilson and Cara run through the warehouse and find Tony. Cara's happy to see him. Yet Tony coldly shoots her point blank, then turns his gun on Wilson, telling him that he's responsible for the death of his wife and his son. Michelle was pregnant when she was killed. Just as he's about to pull the trigger, Tony is shot in the shoulder and drops his gun. Jack and Renee have arrived. Tony doggedly crawls towards his gun, ignoring Jack's entreaty to stop moving. Jack is forced to shoot him in the hand. As Tony is led away and Wilson is cuffed, he screams at Jack that these people think they can take everything away from them, and Jack is just running away. He's now one of them. "You're a coward, Jack," he says.

Renee confronts Wilson and tells him he can avoid the death penalty if he cooperates. Wilson calmly claims he is innocent, and that she won't find a shred of evidence connecting him to any conspiracy. Jack is about to be taken to the hospital, and he and Renee have a moment alone. Jack asks why she didn't kill Wilson for his responsibility in Larry Moss's death. Renee says she doesn't really know what to do. Jack admits that he has been wrestling with this all his life. When he sees fifteen people being taken hostage on a bus, he knows in his head that the law is more important than those fifteen people. Yet he can't live with it. Renee asks if he regrets anything he did today. Jack says no, but he doesn't work for the FBI. He didn't take an oath to uphold the law. Tony managed to justify everything he did. When you cross the line, it always starts with a small step, but you eventually end up running full speed in the wrong direction. The only advice Jack can give is for Renee to make choices she can live with. Jack touches her face gently. Renee doesn't know what to say. "Then don't say anything," he says, as the med tech arrives to take him to the hospital.

Olivia confesses her role in Hodges's death to her disbelieving parents. The President is shocked when Henry advocates destroying the recording and covering up the murder. Henry, cruelly, says their family has already paid a steep enough price. He blames their son's death on her job as President, and he pleads with her that they've already lost one child. "Save what's left of our family," Henry asks. President Taylor is called away by Tim Woods to get good news from the FBI. Olivia breaks down crying, and Henry comforts her that they're going to figure this out. Later, in the Oval Office, a conflicted President Taylor sheds a tear as she looks at a photo of her family in happier days.

As they get ready for Chloe to exit the office, Janis thanks her for all her help today. Chloe says, that considering what she has to work with, Janis does pretty well. Janis says she'll take that as a compliment. Chloe confirms that it was indeed meant as one. They both smile.

Jack lays dying at the hospital. Dr. Macer can give him morphine to ease him into a coma to avoid the pain, but Jack says not yet. He has a visitor. It is Gohar, Jibraan's Imam. Jack called for him. Jack says he has made so many mistakes, and he always thought he would have time to correct them. Gohar says he has the time, right now. Jack says he doesn't know what he has done, but Gohar says that they live in complex times. Nothing is black and white. "Let us both forgive ourselves for all the wrongs we have done," the Imam says. Jack thanks him. His breathing gets ragged. "It's time," says Jack.

The President returns to her family. She embraces them, then apologizes for never realizing how hard her job would be on them, or what sacrifices they would have to make. However, she has a sworn duty to protect the Constitution. She will do everything she can to support Olivia and help her through this. As President, this is what she has to do, no matter how much it breaks her heart. Aaron leads Olivia away to remand her to the Justice Department. The President turns to her husband, but he just glares and turns away.

Wilson, in shackles, is brought to a holding room at the FBI. Tim Woods is on his way to transfer him. Renee and Janis are in the observation room. Renee's face hardens, and she tells Janis to leave the room. Janis refuses. Renee pulls out her gun and forces Janis to cuff herself to the furniture. Janis begs her to stop because she is throwing away her career. Larry wouldn't have wanted this. Renee stares at her badge, remembering what Jack said. She then puts her badge down on a table and goes into the holding room. Wilson looks up as the door closes behind her.

Kim arrives at the hospital to find that Jack has already been put into the morphine-induced coma. He won't be waking up again. Kim asks Dr. Macer if it is too late to try the experimental stem-cell treatment. Dr. Macer says no, but reminds her that the odds of success are low. Kim knows the risks, and though her father didn't want her to take them, it's now her choice. She has made up her mind. As Dr. Macer makes a phone call to prepare for the procedure, Kim goes to Jack's bedside and takes his hand. "I'm sorry, Daddy," she says. "But I'm not ready to let you go."

:crying: OMG It's all over for another 243 days :crying:

[Chloe O'brien]

After the stale Day Six, the latest season of 24 was a remarkably consistent return to form. With Big Bads giving way to Bigger Bads like some kind of terrorist Russian Doll, Day Seven was packed full of shocking thrills, great cliffhangers, effective human drama and a cougar-free Kim Bauer. In memory of Bill Buchanan and his superb blow-dry hairstyle, let's dish out some awards for the best and worst of these memorable 24 hours....
Best Gurner

Jon Voight's acting prowess is undeniable and his casting as the ruthless Jonas Hodges was a masterstroke. Yet some of his over-the-top facial expressions, especially when angered, could have put him in pole position at the World Gurning Championships. This mugging looked like someone had wired up Voight's facial muscles to a remote control while someone over-enthusiastically twiddled the knobs just off camera. The acclaimed actor and spawner of Angelina Jolie does have history on this front - just rent the DVD of Anaconda to see him in overacting overdrive.


Biggest Waste

The evil aura surrounding the human butcher General Juma was nicely built up in 24: Redemption and it wasn't too long before the barbarian surfaced on US shores for a cunningly plotted White House attack. Portrayed by chilling Candyman legend Tony Todd, it looked like Jack Bauer had a fierce adversary on his hands. Yet despite the hype, he barely lasted a couple of hours before he was sadly gunned down! Not even saying 'General Juma' five times in front of a mirror could bring him back...


Biggest Shock

Tony Almeida's murder of Agent Moss was simply stunning. We'd just learnt to trust the former CTU legend and his dodgy lower lip hair again, only for the treacherous snake to kill off a beloved new character and prevent Moss from locking lips with Agent Walker again! Incredibly, Almeida managed to regain some sympathy in the season finale when his true motivation of revenge for his wife's death came to the fore. His moving "you killed my son" rant at Alan Wilson was terrific drama.


Cattiest Bitchfest

No doubt about it - Chloe O'Brian's conflict with fellow analyst Janis Gold really put the MIAOWWW factor into 24 this year. Bickering over firewalls and security protocols when forced to work together, it led to Janis receiving the full on hairdryer treatment from a frothing at the mouth Jack Bauer after she became jealous of Chloe's higher status. Still, by the end of the season the pair managed to trade compliments and are probably planning to link up for a game of World Of Warcraft sometime soon.


Best Emperor Dalek Impression

Tony Almeida's revelation that he wanted to "harvest" Jack Bauer's contaminated internal organs as a means to recreate the lethal pathogen had strong echoes of a certain villain in Doctor Who episode 'The Parting Of The Ways'. Just listen to the Dalek Emperor's following words to see the parallel with 24: "Centuries passed and we quietly infiltrated the systems of Earth. Harvesting the waste of humanity, the prisoners, the refugees, the dispossessed, they all came to us. The bodies were filleted, pulped, sifted, the seed of the Human race is perverted, only one cell in a billion was fit to be nurtured!" Obviously the Emperor never encountered Senor Bauer.


The Aviation Industry PR Award

For anyone who had a fear of flying before watching Day Seven of 24, it was unlikely that the ensuing events did anything to address such a phobia. In fact, it gives credence to the old saying 'If God wanted man to fly he'd have given him wings'. Not only did Dubaku bring down a plane by overriding air traffic control, and almost cause further catastrophes, but even the airport departure lounges turned out to be a source of danger for passengers caught in a Kim Bauer-based gunfight!


Most Unwanted Hospital Visitor

Placing Jack Bauer at risk of death is always a double-edged sword, as we know that his survival is integral to 24 continuing and the show was recommissioned for Day Eight a while ago. So when it emerged midway through the season that Jack could only survive with stem cells from his estranged daughter Kim, it was blindingly predictable that she would somehow end up delivering the goods. Plenty of to-ing and fro-ing occurred and Jack was all set to die in hospital in the latter stages of the season.

Then a visitor shows up... and it's the imam Muhtadi Gohar! Brilliant! An unexpected and sublime route into spirituality saw Jack being purged of his guilt and making peace. Then, predictably, Kim shows up afterwards and spoils this surprise but welcome detour.

The Will He/Won't He Award

Special Agent Aaron Pierce undoubtedly has a heart of gold, but he does have a history of canoodling with manipulative women in the White House. Disgraced former President Charles Logan's wife Martha was certainly on his radar. So was his initally overprotective stance towards the sneaky President's daughter Olivia the sign of something stirring in Pierce's loins? The intrigue rumbled on for a while, but he eventually chose to do the right thing and expose Olivia's role in the death of Jonas Hodges instead of anything untoward