Day 4: 6:00 AM - 7:00 AM

Characters Introduced:

Finale time

Returning Characters:

Finale time II

Key Moments:

• Before Mandy’s pardon is official, Pierce pops in to show Palmer footage of Mandy shaking his hand all those years ago. Logan has the decency to wait until David gives him the okay before signing the immunity deal. Mandy gets a confirmation from her lawyer and tells Jack where Marwan’s chopper is located.
• Marwan doesn’t like that Mandy is late and decides it is time to leave.
• Jack has the CTU chopper hover over Marwan’s chopper while he fires bullets into it’s motor until it dies. Before running for his life, Marwan shoots his PDA. Jack and Curtis chase after Marwan taking his pilot out along the way. Marwan shoots Curtis in the vest and Jack goes on alone. Jack crawls on his belly and hits Marwan in his ankle. Marwan crawls to the ledge and tries to leap to his death. Jack cataches him but can’t hold on after Marwan takes a knife to Jack’s hand. A really bad CGI shot shows Marwan falling to his death.
• Logan is on a rampage over Jack’s failure to keep Marwan alive. This is interrupted by a call from the Chinese. They play the video of Howard implicating Jack. Chinese want Jack Bauer. Logan looks for opinions; Walt says give them Jack, David vehemently argues against that, so Walt switches to killing Jack, David flips out, and Logan calmly tells Walt no.
• Chloe and Edgar are able to find the data they need from Marwan’s busted PDA. The missile is headed for LA.
• People are looking to the skies and watching monitors until a fighter shoots down the missile.
• Tony and Michelle reunite to swelling music.
• Audrey dumps Jack.
• David calls Jack with the bad news that he will be handed off to the Chinese. David tells him that he will make it his life’s work to bring him back home. Jack being Jack says he will do what has to be done.
• Walt calls the Secret Service agent and tells him that instead of picking up Jack, you can go ahead and kill him. Sneaky Mike peers from around the corner having listened to the phone call.
• Mike tells David. David tells Logan. Logan denies and says he will not be suspicious of people in his government.
• Jack and Tony are hanging in the CTU locker room talking about Jack’s shitty situation. David calls Jack and tells him to get out of CTU. Jack hangs up and goes back to Tony.
• Secret Service guys shows up and meets with Bill. After Bill gives him shit about taking Jack, the alarm goes off. Tony calls Bill and tells him that Jack is trying to escape.
• The Secret Service guy heads out to “capture” Jack. When Tony calls out to Jack, Jack fires on them causing lots of sparks. Jack and the Secret Service guy exchange fire until Tony pulls the guy back. He says he is going in and will bring Jack out. He turns a corner to find Jack with a pool of blood under his head. Tony says Jack’s dead. Everyone leaves but Tony, Michelle, and Chloe. Tony asks Michelle for the wake up drug and Tony sticks Jack in the chest. Tony starts contractions and yelling at Jack to wake up. Jack starts coughing and Tony tells Chloe to go fix the records.
• Bill has the pleasure of telling Audrey what happened. Audrey cries.
• Tony and Michelle are already driving away from CTU. Jack pops up from the backseat; they give him an id and a clean phone. Jack thanks them and hops out. Tony calls him back for the handshake of friendship. Jack walks off and makes a call to David. They share a moment of being awesome one last time. Jack Bauer is dead. He heads out onto the train tracks, pops on the aviators, fixes his messenger bag, and walks into the rising sun. Damn right he does. And yes that is the greatest visual in the history of 24.

Ridiculousness:

None for as far as the eye can see

Running Totals:

Jack’s body count: 1 (101)

• Jack kills the pilot but I can’t give him credit for Marwan since he was trying to keep him alive.