Day 6: 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

Characters Introduced:

• Hamri Al-Assad (Alexander Siddig): Finally 24 taps the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine well for actors. Assad goes on the pile of wasted characters. He was strong from his introduction gets sidelined then brought back and killed.
• Walid Al-Rezani (Harry Lennix): What a great actor buried in one of the worst storylines in the history of the show.
• Samuels (Scott William Winters): Oz represent once again! Another in a long line of slightly dickish government agents, this time he is a FBI agent.
• Sandra Palmer (Regina King): We get another Palmer family member. The sister is a lawyer and really freaking annoying.
• Masheer (Sammy Sheik): The suicide bomber spotter that plays the normal 24 role of the guy being tailed to find the actual bad guy.

Returning Characters:

None

Key Moments:

• Fayed calls off the search for Jack.
• Jack steals a car that luckily has a cell phone in it. He calls CTU and tells them to call off the strike on Assad. Bill connects Jack to Wayne. Jack tells him what he heard from Fayed. Assad is trying to mainstream his organization and Fayed is using these attacks to stop him. He asks Wayne to at least change the orders to capture Assad instead of bombing him. Every human being in earshot argues against Jack. Well I’m sure he’ll give and go home now. Jack hangs up and heads to Assad’s location.
• After Fayed calls about the package again, Ahmed heads back to his house.
• Jack arrives at Assad’s hideout minutes before the bombers will annihilate the place. He removes the outside guard then takes the next guy he sees hostage as he walks inside. Assad and Jack point guns at each other. Jack tells him that one of his men gave up his location to Fayed. He puts his gun down to get Assad to believe him. When a man behind Fayed picks up a gun, Jack points him out and Assad questions him. The man says Assad has failed the organization. Jack and Assad drag the man out of the building seconds before a bomb detonates the area. This is a really cool shot of the building exploding and Jack and friends diving for cover.
• The Walid plot begins and I’m not wasting any time on it.
• Curtis is at the bombing site and does not find Assad among the remains. Bill calls the White House with the bad news.
• Fayed arrives at a warehouse to give a pep talk to his next suicide bomber.
• Jack spots a moving van, so he and Assad sneak into the empty house. Jack and Assad talk about finding Fayed and whether or not Assad is really going to mainstream his organization. Assad goes quiet when Jack takes his shirt off and spots all of his scars.
• Chloe finds a satellite image of Jack and Assad running from the house before the bombing. She tells Bill and Bill, being awesome, tells her to keep it quiet and let Jack play it out. He tells her to start looking for Fayed.
• Jack and Assad disagree on involving CTU. The man wakes up and Jack switches to torture mode. HOLY FUCKING SHIT! He stabbed that dude in the shoulder with a pen! When the guys starts screaming, Jack is freaked out and stops. Jack claims the guy doesn’t know anything and walks away. Assad steps up and stabs the dude in the knee. The guy gives up the location of the suicide bomber. Assad compliments him on his convictions then kills him. Jack looks like he has seen a ghost and tells Assad that he doesn’t know if can do this anymore. Assad responds by saying that you will remember.
• Ahmed digs the package out of the wall in his house. The redneck returns and Ahmed shoots him after a bit of a scuffle. Scott arrives and Ahemd takes him hostage.
• Jack and Assad are hanging out downtown people watching. Assad spots the suicide bomber and they chase after the bomber and his spotter, Masheer. They split up with Jack going after the bomber and Assad tracking Masheer. Jack and the bomber get on the subway. Jack scares the shit out of the ticket taker and his reaction alerts the bomber that something is wrong. When he reaches for the detonator, Jack grabs his hand to initiate a sweet little fight. The bomber eventually pushes Jack away and presses the detonator. Jack reacts by kicking him out of the back of the train. The man goes boom and Jack pulls the brake. Fayed is told that the bomb went off early.
• Karen tells Wayne that a phone call was intercepted proving that Fayed is behind the attacks not Assad.
• Jack and Assad update each other and discuss tracking Masheer.

Ridiculousness:

• Milo is oddly a dick about Jack dying, which would have made sense if he were just a new guy at CTU. But not only does he know Jack, he worked with Jack years ago and saw the sacrifices he made!
• The Walid plot literally plays no part in the season’s story as a whole. They usually wrap the side plots into the main, but not this time. So here is what is going to happen. Walid runs an Islamic-American association and the FBI wants it’s membership list. This is clearly illegal and Sandra tells them to screw off. They come back with a warrant so Sandra deletes the information they are looking for in a well thought out plan. Walid and Sandra are arrested and tossed into the new Muslim interment camps. Wayne saves Sandra but Walid is put in the cage. He makes friends with some Muslims who are cheering on the attacks. He goes undercover for the FBI only to find out that they are just angry citizens getting information off the internet. He gets his ass kicked and the storyline is never mentioned again. It was a complete and total waste of time.
• It’s so lucky that the house Jack broke into had man living there who is as short as Kiefer Sutherland. What are the chances of that?

Running Totals:

Torture doesn’t mean you can’t be creative: 2 (38)

• Jack stabs a guy with a pen then starts digging around in the wound.
• Assad tags in later on and puts a knife through his knee. I don’t even want to think about how painful that would be.