Day 6: 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Characters Introduced:

• Mark Hauser (Deon Gummersall): A very moral older brother who takes advantage of his mentally challenged younger brother and gets him to hack computers for him.
• Brady Hauser (Scott Michael Campbell): The mentally challenged younger brother.

Returning Characters:

Not this hour

Key Moments:

• Gredenko can’t get in touch with Victor and Fayed is pissed off that the bomb did not detonate in San Francisco. Gredenko says they should move on and use the last 2 bombs. Fayed pulls his gun and threatens Gredenko but they eventually agree.
• Gredenko calls Mark Hauser and needs him to access some files for him. He will be there in 40 minutes. Mark turns to his brother Brady to gain access to the files.
• Chloe finds the Gredenko/Hauser connection and Jack is given the address.
• A CTU agent finds evidence that exonerates Nadia at the drone pilot site. Instead of processing it, he hands it to Doyle.
• Karen convinces Sandra to wake up Wayne.
• Daniels is in the middle of telling everyone how they are going to blow up the world when he is told that Wayne is being revived.
• Jack and friends are outside the Hauser house. They move in and shoot Mark in the leg when he grabs a shotgun. Brady freaks out but Jack calms him down. Brady tells Jack that he was accessing the files of a nuclear power plant for Mark. Jack moves on to Mark and tells him he will protect Brady if Mark gives up Gredenko.
• Jack allows Mark to talk to Brady and he tells his brother to trust Jack. Mark calls Gredenko and tells him that he will leave the data with Brady. Gredenko agrees and gives a location for the exchange.
• Milo finds out about the evidence that would clear Nadia and confronts Doyle. Bill breaks it up and Morris runs over to say that Doyle gave it to him for confirmation. Nadia is cleared and Milo apologizes but Doyle tells him to forget about it.
• Bill frees Nadia and sits down for a chat. He tells her that she can quit and sue or she can stay and help them because he needs her. Nadia agrees to stay.
• The drugs Dr. Welton gave Wayne to wake him up have caused him to go into some sort of crisis.
• Jack gives Brady a comm. unit and sends him off to the exchange. Gredenko pulls up and gets out of the SUV. Brady gives him the memory stick. For such a dumbass plot, this was a great scene. The sniper can’t get a clear shot of Gredenko, so Jack tells Brady to get on the ground. Brady doesn’t understand but eventually drops to the ground right before Gredenko’s man kills him. The sniper tranqs Gredenko and his guard. Jack runs up and kills the third man in the SUV.
• Jack begins his questioning of Gredenko. The later seasons of 24 have some of my favorite small moments; it is the light of recognition when the villain knows exactly who Jack Bauer is and want no part of his tactics. Gredenko tells Jack that Fayed has the bombs and is waiting for his call. He wants amnesty and not to be returned to Russia. Jack just stares at him.
• The roundtable of blowing up shit is listening to Daniels rail on again about blowing up half the world. A general tells him that the planes with his bombs have been diverted. The order came from Wayne Palmer. Wayne calls the roundtable and tells Daniels that he has called off the bombing and is resuming the office. Daniels hangs up and tells everyone that he doesn’t think Wayne is fit for duty.

Ridiculousness:

• How deep into the bottom of the barrel are we now that Jack is putting the mentally handicapped undercover?
• Was the cabinet voting out David Palmer so fantastic that we needed to do it again?

Running Totals:

Jack’s body count: 2 (153)

• Victor dies from the wounds inflicted upon him by Jack.
• Jack kills the last man to protect Brady.