Day 8 Spoilers

[Chloe O'brien]

At CTU, all surveillance and radiological detection has been taken out by the EMP. Hastings wants Kayla taken back to the UN to be evacuated with her family. Jack calls Phil Holden at the NSA asking for his satellite coverage, but all he can offer is traffic cams. He also shuts down all bridge and tunnel traffic into Manhattan. The only way in is now across the East River, by boat.

Ali informs Samir that CTU is down. Samir has the rods prepared for transport, and tells a troubled Tarin that it was necessary to sacrifice Kayla. Back at CTU, Hastings tells Kayla that Tarin is alive and staged her escape. He needs her to identify the terrorists who were working with him.

At the waterfront, Samir is warned of an approaching vehicle: a black SUV. It's Jack and Cole, with Agents Owen and King. He gets snipers into position. Cole sees a flash of a heat source. Jack tries to call the NSA, but can't get through. He realizes their communication is being scrambled. The terrorists know they're here. He backs the SUV up, but it's too late - the snipers have begun to fire, and they blow out the tires. They all pile out of the SUV as the windows begin to crack and take refuge between the vehicle and a wall. Ali is one of the snipers.

From his report, Tarin realizes that Jack is here, and he warns Ali not to underestimate him. Ali says they're trapped, so Samir begins to take his boat with the rods across the river. Cole can see the boat leaving. Jack says they need to warn NYPD, but with comms jammed, they'll need to reach the call box on the building across the way. But how? Jack has a plan: they'll disassemble the SUV and use its armored panels to take cover.

As Hastings assesses the damage, arrogant Frank Haynam, the senior engineer from the NSA, arrives to help repair the damage and get the server back online. He insists on using his own people, as he was part of the team that designed this place. "Can't say I'm thrilled with what you've done with it," he snarks. He tells Hastings that they learned about CTU's situation from Jack, but they've been unable to call him back. Chloe asks Hastings to send a team to look for Jack. Hastings can't spare the resources until they get their eyes and ears back.

Hastings orders Chloe to the server room to help Haynam, who proves unwilling to listen to Chloe's suggestion for speeding up the repairs by tapping directly into the trunk line. Haynam says it's too dangerous; the whole building could burn down. Chloe thinks she has a workaround, but Haynam doesn't want to hear it, and sends her away. Chloe calls Renee and has her try to find Jack, and Renee urges Chloe to make the NSA listen to her. "Do what you have to do, Chloe."

Dana takes Bill Prady aside and tells him that the surveillance video he wanted has been erased by the EMP. He asks about backups, but Dana says that all backups were on site. She wishes Prady luck finding Kevin. He says he'll be back in Rock Springs, and to call him if anything changes with the files. Meanwhile, Chloe returns to the server room. When Haynam again refuses to hear her workaround, she steels herself, takes out a gun, orders Haynam and his men out, then locks the door and begins to work as Haynam has his men call security.

As the snipers begin to advance on Jack and his team, they make a break for it with the armor plating. However, King is struck in the foot and falls. The others take cover in a warehouse. Jack doesn't want them to go back for King; the snipers are trying to draw them out. However, Owen can't abandon King and makes a break for it. Jack and Cole are forced to move to try to cover Owen, but as Owen drags King to shelter, King is shot in the head while Owen is shot in the gut. Jack and Cole drag them to shelter, but King is dead, Owen is badly wounded, and the snipers are moving in.

Kayla is reunited with her parents just as her family is being readied for evacuation through a subterranean exit that will be safe from any nuclear attack. President Taylor and the other delegates are waiting. Hassan, speaking privately to Dalia, says he almost lost his entire family over a peace agreement that could fall apart at any moment. Dalia persuades him not to doubt that what he is doing is an absolute good.

Hasting's men drill through the CTU server room door, and he and Haynam confront Chloe. Hanam thinks Chloe's plan is too dangerous, and Dana concurs. Chloe makes an impassioned plea. Hastings hired her because she thinks differently, but she's been punished for that ever since she got here. She's been right more than once today. She just needs ten more minutes. Hastings agrees, and orders everyone else out of the room. Outside, as Dana listens in, Hastings is informed that a probation officer named Bill Prady wants to speak to him. Hastings will meet with him in fifteen minutes.

Chloe fires up the tap into the trunk line. There is a momentary spark from the circuitry, but the power does indeed return. As the satellites come back online, Chloe says that if they find Jack, they need to call Renee Walker; she went out looking for him. Hastings asks Haynam to go see if Chloe needs a hand. "And be civil this time."

At the waterfront, Agent Owen dies. Jack has a last ditch plan: he'll run out and draw their fire, giving Cole a chance to run for the call box. Cole objects to this suicide run, but Jack says it's an order. He asks Cole to make sure that Hastings keeps his word and not have Renee brought back in. The plan is put into action, but Jack is shot and taken down when Cole is only halfway to the phone. Ali has Jack's head in his scope and is about to fire... but then shots ring out, killing Ali. It's Renee. She and Cole take out the remaining snipers.

As Cole dashes for the call box, Renee tends to Jack, who warns her that the nuclear rods are now headed into the city. Renee finds that Jack has a collapsed lung. Cole reports that CTU is having the NYPD send choppers.

Back at CTU, Arlo, who took Cole's call, updates Hastings on the situation. Hastings has Chloe ask the NYPD to divert all units to the shoreline and lay down a cordon. He begins to thank Chloe for her work, but Chloe cuts him off. "I'm not good with praise."

Meanwhile, Dana confronts Prady, who says he's convinced that she knows where Kevin is and is protecting him, and he's going to nail her for it. Suddenly, Dana attacks Prady, kicking him in the gut... and then strangling him to death with a thick cable. She stows his body in a vent, and then calls Samir. She's in league with the terrorists. She warns him that CTU is back online. She couldn't let him know earlier because she was too busy trying to preserve her cover. Samir knows the police will be cordoning off the area. They'll need her help getting clear. "Don't worry. I'll get you out of there," promises Dana.

Samir, Tarin and their cronies have already reached Manhattan, the nuclear rods in tow. They get into a taxicab and drive off, the Manhattan skyline stretching out behind them.

[Perdita]

Eriq La Salle has signed to appear on the series finale of 24.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the former ER star will portray a charming UN Secretary General in the show's final two episodes.

Fox has confirmed speculation that it has decided to cancel 24 in its eighth season.

In February, 20th Century Fox announced plans to make a feature based on the real-time drama.

The film will see Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer facing enemies outside of the US.

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[Chloe O'brien]

An EMT checks Jack's wounds; Jack brushes off the idea that his ribs may be broken, though the EMT warns him that more stress could cause a collapsed lung. The taxi bearing Samir, Tarin and the rods is quickly found via satellite drone, but Dana helps them evade capture by disabling the drone for thirty seconds. Samir asks for NYPD patrol patterns and checkpoints, but Dana can't get them for him now; it's not safe.

Hastings calls President Taylor to say he can no longer guarantee Manhattan's safety. As the National Security Team is assembled, the President calls Jack and asks him to supervise the evacuation of President Hassan. Renee insists on going with him.

The taxi pulls into an underground garage, where Samir gives the rods to Ahman, the bomb maker. The device will be functional just as soon as the rods are loaded in. Samir says to get ready to leave; he wants to place the bomb just as soon as he's spoken to the President.

As Jack meets with Hassan and his Secret Service detail, led by young Agent Molly O'Connor, the National Security team has a contentious meeting. General Brucker wants to retaliate against the IRK, while Ethan Kanin insists that the Islamic Republic is an ally. Samir calls and tells the President that his bomb is a radiological dispersal device that will contaminate forty square blocks. He wants Hassan turned over to him. The President refuses. She has exactly one hour to change her mind.

With over 100,000 lives at stake, Rob Weiss recommends turning Hassan over to save American lives, and Brucker points out that the retaliation he was just recommending could well escalate. Kanin is aghast, and the President is angered. There's no guarantee that the terrorists won't detonate the bomb anyway. She won't give in to a terrorist demand, and "if the worst happens, we will deal with it," she says. "We will pick ourselves up off the floor and deal with it. Why? Because that's what we do. Americans don't stay down. We rise up in times of crisis. We carry on. Is that clear?"

Dana asks Chloe for an updated list of checkpoints and road closures, then calls Samir, who is sure that President Taylor will cave as the time pressure builds. Ahman says the bomb is ready.

General Brucker takes Rob Weiss aside and suggests a covert operation to turn Hassan over to the terrorists while making it look like they took him hostage, thus sparing New York while also preserving America's standing in the world by appearing to stand by its ideals. Weiss is interested, but hesitant. Brucker needs Hassan's evacuation route. Weiss doesn't have access; it's being handled by the Secretary of State's office. Brucker says they're just going to have to get it from Kanin. Weiss says that this is sedition, but Brucker believes that the President's orders are illegal, and that it's their moral obligation to disobey. Weiss isn't buying it, but General Brucker reminds him that Weiss himself said that it's the primary role of government to protect its citizens.


As Hastings urges the CTU staffers to make a last-ditch effort, Dana sends Samir the NYPD movement info. Meanwhile, Brucker and Weiss sneak into Kanin's office. As they begin to copy Hassan's itinerary onto a thumb drive, Kanin catches them in the act. Brucker bars his exit. Kanin tries to surreptitiously dial Jack, but Brucker takes his cell phone; Weiss hangs up before Jack can answer. Kanin begs Weiss not to betray his President. Then suddenly, Kanin begins to suffer a heart attack. He drops his nitrate pills, and though Weiss helps him, the medication has no effect. Weiss wants to call an ambulance, but Brucker forbids it until they have Hassan in hand.

In the evacuation tunnel, Jack tries to call Kanin back. Not only is he not picking up, but the operator at McGuire Air Force Base can't reach him. Jack shares his suspicions with Renee. Meanwhile, Brucker calls Michael Bishop, the head of his black ops team, and says to do whatever he must do in order to take Hassan alive.

Jack, Renee, the Hassan family and their security detail are 200 yards from the evacuation vehicle, but Bishop's team, ski masks over their faces, is now in place. In Kanin's office, as an ashen Kanin rests on the couch, there is a knock at the door. It's Kanin's aide, saying that Jack is calling for him. Weiss doesn't let her in, and says he'll take care of it. He tells Jack that Kanin is tied up with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Weiss can't get rid of Jack, who insists that Kanin wouldn't have called him during a sensitive evacuation unless he had important news. Weiss insists that it's not possible to speak to Kanin. When Jack continues to insist, Weiss yells at him to just do his job and then hangs up.

Jack becomes suspicious, and tells Agent O'Connor to stop because something isn't right. They're going back to the UN. When Bishop sees them turning around, a mere 100 yards short, he gives the order to take out as many as possible. Jack pulls Hassan behind a stack of pallets, while Renee has Dalia and Kayla. Jack tells Renee to get them into the side tunnel; Jack will be right behind her. O'Connor says they're pinned down. Jack covers her long enough for them to retreat further into the maze of pallets, then tells her she's going to have to hold them off. Jack's orders are to stay with Hassan, or he'd stay and fight. She understands, and she gives orders to draw the black ops team into a crossfire.

Hassan, seeing the Secret Service agents being slaughtered, wants to stay and help, but Jack says they need to keep moving so their sacrifice won't be in vain. They flee down the side tunnel. As their pursuers catch up with them, Hassan insists on being handed a weapon. Kayla twists her ankle and can't walk. Jack throws a smoke grenade as Renee lets loose a spray of gunfire. Jack slips into the smoke and begins to take out the commandos.

As the last two surviving commandos are about to get the drop on Jack, Hassan shoots one of them. Jack captures the other and unmasks him. He's shocked to find that the man is an American. It's Bishop, who explains the situation to Jack, and presses him to deliver Hassan to the terrorists or else the bomb will be detonated by 06:15 hours. That's in less than twenty minutes. Jack notes that he only follows orders from the President of the United States. He takes Bishop hostage.

Samir calls Dana, who tells him that Hassan is being transported to the McGuire Air Force Base, and they lost communication with his security detail twenty minutes ago. Samir realizes that President Taylor has no intention of giving up Hassan. Dana tries to convince him not to use the bomb because he'll lose his leverage, but Samir hangs up. He calls Tarin, who is now the driver in place of the recently killed Ali, and tells him to start the countdown. "Your name will never be forgotten, my friend," Samir says. "Your family will be honored above all others."

"The next world is the true life," Tarin replies in Arabic, and Samir echoes the phrase. Tarin begins the countdown. Fifteen minutes to detonation.

[Chloe O'brien]

Rob Weiss checks an ailing Ethan Kanin's pulse, then leaves Kanin in his office, locking the door behind him. Weiss reiterates to General Brucker that Kanin needs immediate medical attention, but Brucker again refuses until the mission is complete. They enter the Situation Room, where President Taylor is preparing an address. She wants Kanin to read it. Weiss pauses for a moment, then says he'll go find him. It's ten minutes until the dirty bomb is scheduled to go off. The President is awaiting Hassan's arrival.

However, Hassan has other ideas. He cannot stomach the idea of saving his life at the cost of so many others. Dalia tries to persuade him that he's the best hope of ending hostilities. As Jack stuffs Bishop into a storage room, saying that Bishop's wounds are slowing them down, Hassan grabs a crowbar and attacks Jack. At gunpoint, he frees Bishop and locks his family and Renee in the storage room with Jack. Hassan plans to turn himself over to the terrorists in order to save the citizens of New York. Jack shouts that he can't trust them, but it's too late. Hassan leaves with Bishop.

Hassan and Bishop emerge onto a busy New York street. Hassan gazes at all the pedestrians rushing past, the sweep and bustle of life. Bishop says that these people owe him their lives, and he's doing the right thing. They get into a SUV, and as they drive off, Bishop calls Brucker, who conferences Samir into the call. Hassan wants assurances that Samir will stop the bomb. Samir simply yells to do exactly as he says and hangs up. Still, Samir keeps his word. He calls a sweating Tarin and has him stop the bomb with only seven seconds left on the clock.

At CTU, Chloe gets a call from Jack, telling her what happened and to keep it a secret until she can get him a line to the President. Jack has Renee take Dalia and Kayla to Taylor while he looks for Hassan. Chloe calls back with the White House. Jack asks her to get a feed from the security camera where they've emerged onto the street and roll it back to find where Hassan may be. As President Taylor again asks Weiss to find Kanin, her phone rings. Jack tells her about Brucker's treasonous plan, and he needs to know where the exchange is taking place.

Chloe has tracked the SUV bearing Bishop and Hassan to the upper west side. As Jack heads for the area, Bishop arrives at the exchange site. Tarin calls Hassan, and Hassan recognizes his voice, though he doesn't identify himself. Instead, Tarin asks for Bishop while dropping a set of keys on the sidewalk. Watching from a distance, Tarin directs Bishop across the street, telling him not to turn around. Tarin gets into the SUV and drives off with Hassan. Bishop finds the keys and Tarin's van, with the bomb, around the corner.

Secret Service Agent Hoskins informs the President that Brucker and Weiss are in Kanin's office. They've both betrayed her. The Secret Service break into Kanin's office, where Brucker and Weiss are placed under arrest. Kanin is barely alive. As military paramedics begin to work on him, Taylor demands Weiss tell her where Hassan is. He refuses, and is certain he's done the right thing. He's saved New York and given her plausible deniability. She's enraged because he has endangered the peace process. Taylor reminds him that the penalty for treason is death, but it's not too late if he'll just tell her where Hassan is. Just then, Weiss' phone buzzes with a text from Bishop. The swap is complete. They have the bomb, and a team is dispatched to disarm it.

Hastings briefs CTU on the current situation and they try to track Bishop's SUV. Dana attempts to slip away, but Chloe snaps at her to remain at her station. Meanwhile, Jack has arrived at the bomb site and watches as the bomb is defused and Bishop is arrested. Bishop thinks he's done the right thing, but Jack says he betrayed his President and his country.

Chloe calls Jack. They've located Hassan, and the President wants him to lead the operation to recover him. Jack needs Cole's help. Dana uses this as an excuse to leave her station. She tries to call Tarin, but Cole arrives and she has to hang up. He asks what happened with the probation officer, and Dana says he finally left.

In the SUV, Hassan explains to Tarin that he was trying to make their country stronger. An angry Tarin says that he was planning to hand them over to the Americans, and that Hassan only cared about personal glory. He watched as Hassan betrayed his wife with a "Western whore." Hassan admits to making mistakes, but Tarin cannot win. Others will finish what he's started. "Think what you like," says Tarin. "You won't be around to find out."

As Kanin is loaded into an ambulance, Taylor whispers to him that she needs him now. Dalia and Kayla arrive with Renee, who asks to be sent to CTU. The President complies. As Dalia and Kayla join Taylor in observing the satellite tracking of Bishop's SUV, Jack closes in with Cole's help.

Dana makes an excuse to leave her station, saying she's checking the trunk line. She goes to the server room and sets up a laptop that's monitoring the satellite feed. Suddenly, Arlo enters. She closes the monitor's window, but he's seen it. She's suspiciously sitting on the opposite end of the room from the trunk line. Arlo sits at her laptop to check up on her computer activity and Dana sneaks up on him with a piece of wire. As she's about to strangle him, Arlo gets a call from Hastings summoning him back to the floor. Arlo tells Dana he'll leave her to do whatever she was doing. Finally alone, Dana retrieves the satellite feed and phones Tarin to warn him about CTU. She directs him to a parking garage. Dana plans to call Samir and then get out of CTU before she's caught.

Jack gets Bishop's SUV in sight just as Tarin swerves into the parking garage. Jack traps him on the roof, causing Tarin to drive the SUV over the ledge and plummet four stories. Jack hurries down to find Tarin dead and Hassan gone. Unbeknownst to Jack, Hassan is bundled into the trunk of a blue Honda, sedated and unconscious. One of Samir's soldiers addresses a woman in a blonde wig, telling her she knows where to go.

Jack locates Tarin's phone. He tells Renee that there must be a mole inside CTU; as soon as Chloe gets an uplink to the phone, they can find out who it is. Until then, nobody else can know. He hangs up as, unobserved by Jack, the mysterious woman drives away.

[Chloe O'brien]

Dana goes to leave CTU, but due to the EMP attack, nobody can get in or out without being personally cleared by Hastings. Meanwhile, Chloe tries to track the blue car carrying Hassan, but it's off the grid. Hastings tells President Taylor that Hassan was likely switched to another car. Taylor thinks they must have another agenda.

Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Novakovich notes to President Taylor that if Hassan dies, Russia will pull out of the peace agreement. Taylor accuses him of hoping for that outcome; the Russians have been searching for any excuse to pull out of the accord. Novakovich calls this a baseless accusation, and Taylor apologizes for speaking harshly, but makes it clear she still expects his support.

As Chloe and Renee begin to download Tarin's cell phone record from Jack to find the mole, Dana asks Hastings for access to his workstation, claiming she wants to check that it's been reset properly after the EMP; it'll only take a couple of minutes. Hastings agrees, and Dana furtively works to program her passkey to clear her exit from the building. Hastings joins Chloe and Renee on the floor, who tell him Jack's theory about the mole within CTU. They check the cell phone records and find that the phone was Dana's. Hastings looks up to his office; Dana is gone.

Dana sets out to leave but when the security guard checks her passkey, the computer signals a red alert. As he's about to arrest Dana, she draws a gun and shoots him and the other converging guards. As she tries to escape, Hastings tells a horrified Cole that Dana's been working with the terrorists all along. Dana gets pinned down and caught in the parking garage. Cole holds a gun to her head, screaming "Who are you?" Hastings gets a shaking Cole to back down, then has Dana arrested. Dana won't tell where Hassan is; instead, she insists on talking to Jack Bauer.

Cole tells Hastings about Dana's past as Jenny Scott, but thinks it's not relevant to finding Hassan. Neither is his mysterious AWOL from earlier relevant. He begs to be kept in the field, but Hastings needs people he can trust. He orders Cole to give a complete debriefing.

Jack arrives and meets with Dana in the interrogation room. Dana won't talk unless she gets immunity and compensation. When they catch the IRK agents, they can retrieve their cash. Dana wants her share. Jack wants proof, but Dana says Hassan will be dead in a half hour. She suggests Jack head the operation to recover Hassan. Jack thinks she's hiding something; it's not just about money.

The blue Honda arrives at a tenement building and Hassan is marched up the stairs. As they enter the hideout of Samir and Ahman, the woman removes her blonde wig. Ahman wants to kill Hassan now, before he can be found and rescued, but Samir would rather Hassan confess his crimes and renounce his lies. Hassan is bound to a chair and Samir asks if he remembers him. He served under Hassan in the Revolutionary Guard. He was a great leader then. What happened? Hassan asks if Samir recalls a particular battle, one the generals did not think he could win. He was confident he could and he lead them to victory. Hassan believes in the peace accord just as strongly. Samir strikes Hassan and tells him he will record an apology to his people and renounce the peace accord. Hassan says that will never happen. Samir begins preparations to torture him. A syringe is plunged into Hassan's neck.

President Taylor signs Dana's immunity agreement, then speaks to a recovering Ethan Kanin at the infirmary. She wonders if whoever might succeed Hassan in death will be someone she can deal with. Kanin says that the IRK constitution is vague about succession of power, and that Hassan barely managed to get consensus on the accord during his own administration. Kanin counsels her to simply let CTU do their job and rescue Hassan.

Hastings informs an outraged Cole about Dana's immunity. He also lets him know that Jack wants Cole on the team to recover Hassan, but that Dana is briefing that team. Can he handle it? Cole says he can, and Hastings hands him back his gun. Meanwhile, Dana tells Jack that Samir has about six men left because Jack killed the rest. Samir is hiding in a tenement filled with families so he can use them as human shields should he be found. As Dana is taken back to holding, she and Cole coldly lock eyes.

Samir tasers Hassan repeatedly, but cannot get him to read the confession. So Samir dons a ski mask and says he will tell the world of Hassan's crimes and then carry out his sentence. As the video camera is readied, President Taylor tells Dalia and Kayla that Hassan has been found and that CTU is preparing to go in. Yet the internet video feed starts. She sees Hassan with Samir, who is reading the list of charges.

At CTU, Chloe uses the light on Hassan's face to determine that he's in an east-facing apartment on the fourth floor. Jack's team is in place. He warns them to be silent; they need to catch the terrorists by surprise. Jack then asks Renee to be on the assault team, but only if she'll promise to stay behind him and do exactly as he says. She agrees, and he kisses her.

They enter the building, not knowing who is a hostile and who is an innocent. One man in the hallway laconically ignores Jack's command in Arabic to get down. Jack shoots him. When Jack searches the man's body, it transpires that he did indeed have a gun. On the fourth floor, they hear Samir reading the statement and enter the apartment, where they find a child and her mother. Renee and Jack tell them to keep quiet. Jack, following the sound of Samir's voice, opens her closet. He finds a hidden passageway in the back of the closet. Renee notices a blonde wig on the floor. She whirls around and finds the "mother" -- actually the woman from the blue Honda -- aiming a gun at her. Renee quickly gets the first shot and kills her.

Renee joins Jack, and they burst into Samir's hideout with a spray of bullets. Samir and his men are shot and killed, but Samir's voice continues reading his statement. Jack and Renee find Hassan already dead. His throat has been slashed. The video is playing on a computer monitor. They're too late. The video was prerecorded; he's been dead all along. Jack kneels before Hassan's body, takes his head in his hands, closes Hassan's eyes, and whispers, "I'm sorry."

In the Situation Room, President Taylor and Tim Woods watch in horror as the video shows President Hassan's throat being cut. Jack reports to Hastings that Hassan is dead and the video was on a tape delay. A numb, shaken and grieving Taylor tells Tim Woods to call CTU and find out what the hell happened. She then steels herself and goes into the next room, where Dalia and Kayla are waiting. The President informs them that they were too late and couldn't save Hassan. Kayla cries into her mother's arms as Dalia stares at the Taylor in stunned disbelief.

[Perdita]

Kiefer Sutherland has revealed that he has a sex scene in an upcoming episode of 24.

Bang Showbiz reports that Sutherland's character Jack Bauer will romance investigating officer Renee Walker, played by Annie Wersching.

"It's the only intimate scene Jack's ever had," Sutherland explained.

However, Sutherland also hinted that the couple will face problems as a result of the fling.

"Somebody's watching them," he said.

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[Chloe O'brien]

Jack apologizes to President Taylor for Hassan's death. She says that it was Hassan's choice to give himself up to the terrorists, but Jack still feels he didn't do enough. Jack exhorts her to continue the peace process. Yet without Hassan and no clear chain of succession in the IRK, Taylor is convinced that the peace process is dead.

Samir is still alive. The plan is to question him. One of the paramedics tending to Samir surreptitiously injects him with a hypodermic. As the paramedic leaves, he and Renee catch each other's eye. She thinks she recognizes him, but lets him pass.

President Taylor prepares to address the delegates. Russian delegate Novakovich speaks to IRK delegate Jamot, implying that Jamot must be pleased about Hassan's death because Hassan had Jamot brutally interrogated for no reason. Jamot, containing his anger, says that Hassan was a great leader who temporarily lost his way. Jamot excuses himself, and runs into the President just as she's about to go in and address the delegates. He tells her that if she can spare a moment, he thinks there is a way to save the peace talks. She agrees to hear him out.

Novakovich speaks with the fake EMT named Pavel, who reports that Samir will be dead within 30 minutes; everybody else who could identify them is already dead. However, Pavel recognized Renee. He was working with Vladimir at the same time she was, and she disappeared just before the arrest of Vladimir's crew. He is having the taxi that's carrying Renee and Jack tailed.

President Taylor and Jamot meet with Dalia. At Jamot's suggestion, they ask her to succeed Hassan as President of the IRK. She is popular at home and shares Hassan's ideals. Dalia protests that she's not a politican, but is ultimately persuaded to take her late husband's place at the peace conference. Taylor gives Tim Woods the go-ahead to implement the changes they discussed.

Tim calls Chloe and informs her that, based on the transcripts of today's events, Hastings is being removed as head of CTU. He gives Chloe temporary command. Chloe protests, but Tim says the decision has already been made. Hastings is being informed even as they speak. When they hang up, Chloe goes to Hastings' office and says she doesn't think it's fair for them to blame him for everything that went wrong. Yet Hastings accepts responsibility for all of CTU's successes and failures under his command. He's the one who recruited Dana, after all. After an awkward moment, he gets down to business. They need to review protocols. No more time to waste.

At Jack's apartment, Renee tells Jack she won't hold him to any promises he made to her in the heat of the moment. Jack cuts her off with a kiss. In the apartment directly across the street, an elderly man is shot and killed by Pavel, who has broken into the apartment. He takes out a rifle and aims across the street at Jack and Renee, who are making love.

Novakovich meets with President Taylor, and tells her that Russia will be pulling out of the peace agreement. He is unimpressed with her plan to move forward on Dalia's authority, even though the IRK is about to install her as provisional president. Taylor again accuses him of having no interest in the peace process, and asks whether she needs to take this up with President Suvarov. Novakovich insists he has full authority.

President Taylor visits a recovering Ethan Kanin, and recoils when he says that the only hope of getting Moscow's endorsement is former President Charles Logan. He may be a criminal, but he was pardoned by President Daniels. He has a special relationship with the Russians, and he's in town right now on a speaking engagement.

Hastings says his farewells to the CTU staff, and he and Chloe exchange words of respect and support. As he leaves, Chloe inherits her first crisis: Samir is going into cardiac arrest. Cole says he was with Samir the whole time, all the way from the scene. Yet what about on the scene, Chloe wonders. She orders a complete toxicology panel.

Kayla is horrified to find that her mother has agreed to assume the Presidency. She worries that Dalia will be killed. Dalia tells her that the decision was hers to make, and she needs Kayla to help her to be strong.

President Taylor meets with President Logan. She doesn't trust him one bit, and orders his assistant out of the room. Logan is sure he can get the Russians to change their minds because he will be able to exercise some leverage. He refuses to elaborate, saying only that no laws will be broken and it won't tarnish her Presidency. In exchange, Logan wants her public acknowledgement of his help and to be present at the signing. Taylor angrily accuses Logan of only being interested in repairing his reputation. Logan says that she wouldn't have called him unless she was out of options. They can dwell on the past or he can let him help her. She reluctantly agrees, and he asks to meet with Novakovich. "God help you if you make me regret this," Taylor warns him.

Back at Jack's place, Renee, wrapped in a sheet, lounges in bed. Jack gets up from bed for a drink of water. As Pavel continues to watch Renee in his scope, Jack's phone rings. Jack tells Renee to ignore it, but she answers anyway. It's Chloe, who says that Samir was murdered; the toxicology report showed an unidentified toxin in his blood. Renee remembers the EMT, and finally realizes she recognized him from when she was infiltrating the Red Square mob. She asks for the old surveillance files so she can identify him.

As Renee leaves the bedroom to tell Jack this update, a shot rings out. Renee is hit and drops to the floor. Jack scrambles over to her, dodging Pavel's bullets, then grabs the phone. He tells Chloe to have a trauma team ready at St. Andrew's hospital. Jack takes Renee in his arms and sprints across his apartment, just ahead of Pavel's gunshots. Jack manages to bundle Renee and himself into a taxi, and they pull away before Pavel can get off a shot. The cabbie drives crazily, dodging and screeching around traffic at Jack's behest.

The taxi arrives at the hospital, and Renee is rushed into surgery while Jack waits outside the OR. Chloe calls to check up, and Jack reports that Renee is not in good shape. Chloe says the shooter got away. She also tells Jack about Samir's death and the EMT that Renee recognized. Suddenly, the surgical team exits, looking grim. Jack puts down the phone as the surgeon tells him he's sorry, but Renee didn't make it. Jack, devastated and beginning to break down, approaches Renee's body. He gives her one last kiss, then collapses into tears, sobbing in rage and grief.

[Chloe O'brien]

Kiefer Sutherland has revealed that he has a sex scene in an upcoming episode of 24.

Bang Showbiz reports that Sutherland's character Jack Bauer will romance investigating officer Renee Walker, played by Annie Wersching.

"It's the only intimate scene Jack's ever had," Sutherland explained.

However, Sutherland also hinted that the couple will face problems as a result of the fling.

"Somebody's watching them," he said.

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Never mind that you missed out the most important news Chloe is in charge of CTU

[Abigail]

Kath, how many episodes of season 8 have aired? I'm in the process of "acquiring" them and I'm up to episode 7, not sure what time that is.

[Chloe O'brien]

Abigail we are now at 8am in the uk two hours behind the USA. We only have 8 more hours left as it began at 4pm.