On the Road Again Season 7 Episode 24
How did you think it was going to cease? With a BEEEEEEEEEEEP? A silent clock? A ho-hum-mo montage set up to Carrie Underwood's cover of "Home Sugariness Home"? No, y'all knew damn well that Jack Bauer wasn't going to dice. Simply geez was our boy left hanging on the border of the Grim Reaper'due south scythe, while we clung to the conventionalities that Kim would make that last-minute stalk-cell salve. (And who knew his nigh-deathbed would be filled with such… introspection?) In other news, karma bitchslapped Tony and the First Daughter, while the seemingly loyal Ethan Kanin was ultimately revealed to be… actually loyal Ethan Kanin. (Warden Norton, you red-herringed u.s.a.!) No, this wasn't 24's most explosive! exhilarating! shocking! finale — it went for the middle instead of the jugular — but it finer capped a much-needed comeback year for the bear witness. Earlier we stand down, awaiting the arrival of flavor 8 (c'monday, 2010 — hurry upwards!), let'southward relive the drama of flavor 7's ii-60 minutes finale.
Jack is the host with the most (pathogen) Post-obit Faux Tricia's bring-me-Tony-or-Kim-dies instructions, Jack commandeered the van carrying Tony, Renee, and another agent — even shooting said agent in the leg to prove he meant business concern. Ultimately Jack tipped the situation to Renee, who called Tony a…sonuvabitch. When Tony emerged from the van with Jack, Fake Tricia was bellyaching; they didn't need a hostage. No, Tony reasoned, simply they wanted more bioweapons. "The pathogen is in his blood," he explained. "It'due south in his organs. We'll exist able to harvest everything we need from his torso." Cold. And creepy.
At a makeshift surgical suite within an industrial warehouse, Jack was forced onto a gurney. Ane needle was inserted to immobilize him, a second, more painful one to check his pathogen levels. (Nearby, Tony convinced Fake Tricia to adjust a meeting with "the top guy," a.g.a. Alan Wilson, to discuss a promotion.) Of course, modern medicine is no lucifer for Jack Bauer. He opened an centre, then dispatched his captors — one neck sliced, i stabbed, i snapped — before fleeing out the door. After Tony and Faux Tricia discovered his escape ("Sonuvabitch, he'due south gone!"), Tony tracked him to a garage, where they engaged in a nifty cat-and-mouse game. (When Tony used the forklift to open the door, I hoped Jack would discover a bulldozer so they could have a heavy metal confront-off.) Jack even tried to get out in a blaze — must destroy pathogen inside me — but Tony kicked the flare out of his easily. He needed Jack in one piece. For now…
Next Page: From First to Worst Daughter
From Commencement to Worst Daughter Admit information technology: It was satisfying to see the smug Showtime Daughter strength-fed her merely desserts. While Olivia fended off questions from the Justice Department'southward early on risers well-nigh Jonas' car bombing, Agent Pierce persuaded Ethan to retrieve an incriminating data card from her function. Alas, FD saw signs of the stealth op (film frame: ajar), and had Ethan searched. Found: ane data menu. "I don't remember you understand the seriousness of what you lot're doing," Ethan warned FD. "I don't think yous practice," she taunted. Simply surprise! As Aaron escorted Ethan out of the White Firm, Ethan muttered, "Lucky for united states of america, I'chiliad a paranoid sonuvabitch" (practise nosotros drink on a self-referenced sonuvabitch?), and Agent Pierce reached into his sling and slipped him the real information card (yes, there's a handoff hint in the beginning scene). Luckier even so, Ethan had a companion device in his car that could play the carte. Aaron'south hunch=confirmed.
The fun began when Ethan and Aaron confronted FD with the testify, and she threw herself at Ethan'due south mercy, offering him his former chore. His counter: Come up clean to Mother-in-Chief. "Whether she decides to prosecute this or bury it, that's her telephone call," he noted. And what a juicy scene that was, as FD tearily unspooled a hitman story that kept getting worse. "How could yous exercise this, Olivia?" flabbergasted the Prez. "How could you do something so stupid?" The fast-healing Offset Gentleman came to FD'due south defense, noting that Hodges deserved to die and that the recording must be destroyed. Prez: "And cover up a murder??? Henry, I tin't simply disregard the constabulary!" FG: "Allison, spare me your sanctimony! You're Olivia's female parent!" Prez: "I'm also the President of the Usa." FG: "And our family unit has already paid a steep enough price for that." FG cutting fifty-fifty deeper, saying, "Your job cost our son his life." Before the Prez was pulled abroad by Tim, FG implored her again to deep-six the recording and "save what'southward left of this family." (His desperate desire to protect FD was understandable, simply his resentment for her job felt jarring.)
Upon her render, the Prez embraced them lovingly: "I never imagined that this job would be so difficult on both of yous. I had no idea of the toll this family unit would pay. And for that, I am so sorry. Only" — and this would be the mother of all buts — "I take a sworn duty to enforce the Constitution, and declining to award that oath would be worst kind of hypocrisy." Heartbroken, the Prez offered her support to the devastated FD earlier having Amanuensis Pierce take her into custody. Seething, FG looked away as the Prez called out to him. "I've lost everyone," she lamented to Ethan in the hallway. "Not everyone," he comforted, agreeing to rescind his resignation. Are they headed for an Aaron-and-Martha-like romance? Are the Prez and FG headed to divorce courtroom? In whatever case, the First Family unit is an official hot mess.
Adjacent Folio: Kim takes action
Kim: Taking activeness while standing by She was no VictKim — in fact, she was more than worried almost getting on her flying than chasing after an armed baddie. Only let's back up: Enjoyed the tension that built equally the communicative long-haired husband and his oh-honey! wife (who were the near interesting part of this story) tried to keep Kim conned. Yet Kim noticed the curiously positioned laptop and LHH's bloody cervix — R.I.P., Agent Franks — before receiving a gate call from Renee, who warned that Tony'southward operatives were watching. (All-time eeek! moment: When LHH suddenly appeared as Kim described him to Renee.) Noticing an increase in security, LHH cued his wife: She took a knife to Kim's neck while he swapped bullets with security. Kim used the power of pen to break free — and security took out Wifey — while a wounded LHH bolted through an Authorized Personnel But door. Instead of waiting for airport police force to mobilize, and frustrated past a dead cell bombardment ("Dammit!"), Kim chased afterwards him. In semi-heels. With no gun. A niggling cool? You bet. But she's no victim!
Kim tracked LHH to the parking garage, tipping off the cops. Equally LHH sped toward the exit, he was shot, his car flipping over and igniting. Wisely realizing that LHH's laptop may lead the FBI to Jack, but stupidly not bringing the fallen cop's gun, Kim reached into the car. He grabbed her arm, and their latop tug of state of war became so heated, they both defenseless on burn. She finally wrested information technology from his grip and tore off her burning jacket equally LHH slow-roasted to death. Then a whiff of comedy. Kim to Renee: "With a D11 inverse router we may able to backtrace the signal to the people that take my male parent." Renee: (strange look) Kim: "I worked at CTU, systems analyst."
Tony to Jack: I'm the hero, you're the bomb! Expert news: Tony and Jack finally talked it out. Bad news: No face-punching. Handcuffed, Jack urged Tony not to convert him into a bioweapon factory, and Tony claimed no such intentions. That was just a ruse to kill Alan, the mastermind behind decadent ex-Prez Charles Logan who besides ordered the hits on David Palmer and Michelle. (In brusk, Alan was the Russian Doll inside all the other Russian dolls.) "This is the man who murdered my wife, Jack!" declared Tony. "Everything that you've done today is for personal revenge???" said Jack, echoing our incredulity. "It'southward most justice," retorted Tony. What nearly all the innocent people he killed? "X times as many people would've died if it hadn't have been for me," scoffed Tony. He said that he enlisted Nib and Chloe to take down the madmen in this conspiracy but Jack fouled information technology upwards: "Yous meet, I'k the one who saved lives today, Jack, not you. I'm the one who helped yous recover the CIP device. I'm the one who warned yous near the White House attacks! I'm the one who stopped Jonas Hodges from launching those missiles!" Jack, of course, threw the subway assault in his face, but conspicuously the facts weren't going to get in the style of Tony's Justice Jam ?09. (Given what we know at present, do all of Tony'southward actions add up? I'one thousand not and so sure. But his good guy/expressionless guy/bad guy switcheroos have been entertaining.)
There was one more than wrinkle to Tony's program. "I'thou not going to kill him, Jack," Tony said, holding upwards a c4 belt. "You lot are." (Whoa. Didn't Locke say the aforementioned thing to Ben in the Lost finale?) Tony explained that he wouldn't be able to become close to Alan, but bio-wonderboy Jack was "the one he's coming for." After Jack uttered, "[Michelle] would despise you for this," Tony noticed Fake Tricia approaching, and taped Jack's mouth shut. End of give-and-take.
NEXT Folio: Tony gets revenge?
Tony gets revenge arrested Tony was near to blast Jack and Alan into oblivion with his cellphone detonator when Renee crashed the scene in an FBI helicopter. During the shoot-out, Renee gunned her manner over to a weakened Jack and apace disarmed his bomb belt. Could they observe Alan earlier Tony did? No. Tony located him, flanked by Simulated Tricia, and she got out simply a few words of relief before he shot his lover dead. (Perhaps she shouldn't have kissed Alan on the cheek.) Then he held a gun to Alan'southward caput, savoring the moment with an it-took-a-long-time-to-track-you-down-but-I-was-patient spoken communication. "Because always since the day y'all had her killed," said Tony, "the just affair that keep me live was this moment correct hither." "Yous sound like you were involved in some kind of a tragedy," Alan responded, "simply I had nothing to exercise with it."
Tony pistol-whipped and kicked him, ranting that Alan had ruined the new life that he and Michelle were starting. "Information technology wasn't just my married woman you murdered. She was carrying my son… You killed my son! My son! And now I'k going to impale you!" (Our condolences. Would've liked to come across a scowling baby Tony running around.) Just earlier he concluded Alan, Renee shot him in the shoulder. And when he ignored Jack's orders to cease itch toward his gun, Jack shot him besides — but merely in the wrist. As FBI agents took Tony and Alan into custody, I thought: Poor Tony. The dude'due south been on a hellish mission to avenge Michelle's death. First, the lethal needle he was about to jab into Henderson was redirected into his own chest; now this. (I bet someone volition skid a paper into Tony's cell that contains the info on the human being behind Alan who really ordered the hit on Michelle, and when Tony goes to pick it up, information technology'll be yanked away on an invisible cord.) On the plus side, the writers conspicuously left him alive, cracking the door open for a render…
Renee goes dark If Tony couldn't extract justice from Alan, neither could Renee: Facing a mountain of charges (treason, conspiracy to commit terrorist attacks), Alan played impaired. "Whatsoever this conspiracy is that yous call back that I'yard a part of," he said coyly, "I guarantee you lot won't find a shred of cloth evidence connecting me to it." Renee was and then frustrated, she let loose her 2d sonuvabitch of the dark.
Earlier Jack was taken away on a gurney, he and Renee had a poignant heart-to-center about how far she could go in the name of the law. "I tin can't tell you lot what to practice," said Jack. "I've been wrestling with this one my whole life. I see 15 people held hostage on a motorcoach, everything else goes out the window. I will do any it takes to save them, and I hateful, whatever information technology takes—" A chuckle. "I judge that maybe I idea if I saved them, I'd save myself." While he talked virtually the decision to choose lives over laws, he did caution: "When yous cantankerous that line it always starts off with a minor footstep. Earlier you know it, yous're running equally fast as you can in the wrong direction, just to justify what you started in the offset place…I guess the only advice I tin can give yous is, try to make choices that you lot can live with." At that moment, Jack's hurting flared up. "I don't know what to say," said Renee, welling up. He touched her cheek and held her paw. "Don't say anything at all," he said before being wheeled off. (Although that came dangerously shut to soap, Kiefer can always save the scene.)
So, what did Renee glean from their talk? Bad(ass) Jack got the chore washed. When Janis (nonetheless riding that compliment loftier from Chloe) asked Renee to sign transfer documents for Alan, Renee killed the camera on the monitor, ominously warning her, "Get out of here." Janis refused. Renee shorted out the door entry keypad and forced Janis at gunpoint to gage herself. "Let the courts take it from here," pleaded Janis. "Stop this now earlier information technology'due south likewise late…." Renee stared at Alan through the i-mode drinking glass. "Larry would non have wanted this," said Janis. Don't dishonor his expiry like this." Renee placed her badge on the table, entered the interrogation room, and closed the door. She was completing her path to the dark side, just as Jack had been moving toward the light, in all senses of the word.
Side by side Folio: Jack gets his soul saved
The soul-saver and the life-saver As Dr. Macer talked to Jack about putting him in a coma to ease the pain — the disease was at an advanced stage — they were interrupted past a visitor: Muhtadi Gohar, the imam from Jibraan's mosque! "Cheers for coming," said Jack. "I was surprised to get your telephone call," answered Muhtadi. "I made and then many mistakes," said Jack. "And I ever thought that I would accept the time to correct them." "You accept the fourth dimension," Muhtadi responded. "Right now." Raw as hell, Jack started crying: "Yous don't know what I've washed." Muhtadi soon took Jack'southward hand and said: "Allow us both forgive ourselves for all the wrongs that we have done." Afterward, Jack thanked Muhtadi before whispering, "It'due south fourth dimension," and closing his eyes again. (This scene was near as poignant equally it was unexpected.)
Visiting hours were not over withal, though. Kim ran into the area, fretting that she was too late. Dr. Macer explained that he was just in a coma, and Muhtadi introduced himself: "I'm a friend…We spent the last few minutes talking and I tin can tell you he's accepted what is happening." "Perchance he has," Kim said, "only I oasis't." She asked Dr. Macer if was too belatedly to practice the stem prison cell treatment. Dr. Macer mentioned the fine print — it's experimental, the odds of success are unsightly, it's risky — only Kim was on a mission. "I empathise the risks, and I know my male parent didn't want me to take that chance, merely it's my selection now. And I made up my heed." While Dr. Macer prepared for surgery, Kim walked in the room to see Jack. Holding his manus, she said, "I'thousand sorry, Daddy. But I'm not prepare to allow you go." Beep-BEEP-Beep-BEEP. And all together now: That'southward information technology? Are yous serious?
Given that there's a flavor 8 with Jack, I judge we assume that Kim's Hail Mary handling worked, as outlandish as that scenario may exist. While season seven didn't match the highs of, say, seasons 1 and 5, it won us dorsum afterward season 6, and proved that the franchise can even so thrill. And if nothing else, this will get down as the flavour that we saw a more aware Jack Bauer — and a Jack Bauer that TASERED A PHONE.
Then, what did you call up of the finale? Of the final moment? Of the season? What were the all-time and worst moments of the year? What's on your wish list for adjacent flavor in the Large Apple? Remember, this is our last recap, so make it count.
Only before y'all start pecking abroad, I did want to thank you for taking the time out of your Tuesday mornings to read my reenactments/ramblings. Nosotros 24 fans have a special bond (nosotros try non to let reality get in the way of enjoying a skilful plot twist), and I had fun riding the crazy coaster with you lot. Your theories and predictions were impressive, and I tip my chapeau to those of you who continue to believe that Dominate Moss is alive somehow, somewhere. I hope to see you downwardly the flavor 8 route. And dammit, have a great summertime.
Kiefer Sutherland
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