Day 6: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Characters Introduced:

• Ambassador (Ajay Mehta): What … the … fuck? Not only is the country never named, the man is never given a name! He is just the Ambassador all day.

Returning Characters:

Not yet

Key Moments:

• Bill is told that there is a missing prisoner at the airport.
• While Curtis takes a couple more swipes at Assad, Wayne calls Jack and asks him to lead the investigation for the suitcase nukes. Jack tries to decline but his inner Jackness means he takes the job. He turns to Curtis and asks for his support and for him to back off Assad. Curtis responds that the Chinese broke Jack. Jack starts to get into it but Assad calls them over. They found evidence that the bomb was delivered recently. As they head out, Jack calls Chloe and asks her to look for a connection between Curtis and Assad.
• The prisoner has arrived at Fayed’s warehouse and gets to work on the nuke.
• Ahmed and Ray argue over delivering the package. Ray convinces him to let his wife go with threats if she calls the authorities. Ahmed gives Ray Fayed’s address. Jillian gets away and calls the police.
• Bill sends Jillian’s call to Jack. After hearing her story, Jack takes the team to the Wallace house. He ignores Curtis’ objections over Assad being brought on a mission.
• Wayne meets with the man so good at his job that he is only known as the “Ambassador”. They talk Assad’s credibility and Wayne is told that his move towards the mainstream is legit. He calls Jack with this information and then talks with Assad. Assad is offered full immunity for his crimes in exchange for finding Fayed and bringing about peace. Curtis hears all of this, so that can’t be good.
• Ray delivers the package to Fayed. Fayed tells his people to keep Ray there and leaves the warehouse. He calls Ahmed and tells him to kill Scott and leave. Ahmed does stall for a second before agreeing.
• After talking with Karen and Lennox about how to inform the public about Assad’s assistance, Wayne thanks Lennox for his loyalty even though Wayne is not agreeing with his recommendations.
• Jack and team arrive at the Wallace house and move in. Ahmed can’t pull the trigger on Scott and after taking too long CTU bursts into the house. Ahmed tries to run but a CTU agent shoots him. Scott tells Jack that he knows the address his father delivered the package to. Jack forwards the address to Bill.
• Jack delivers the immunity deal to Assad. They shake hands because Jack is going after the bomb while Assad is heading to CTU. Curtis spies from a hallway, so Jack explains the situation to him. Jack is distracted by Jillian’s arrival and when Chloe calls telling him that Assad murdered Curtis’ team years ago, Jack starts looking for Curtis and Assad. While Assad is being lead to the SUV, Curtis walks up and grabs Assad and pushes him against the vehicle with his gun to his head. He asks Assad if he remembers Curtis. Jack tries to talk to Curtis and we get the showdown. Curtis will not back down and when it is clear he is about to pull the trigger, Jack shoots him in the fucking neck! We get a real gruesome shot of Curtis dying with a look of shock and horror on his face. Jack is completely despondent and walks off into the distance. He stops to puke and lay on the grass. Once again because he is awesome, Bill calls immediately to consol Jack. He begs and pleads for him to come back to CTU but Jack says he is done, hangs up, and breaks down.
• The CTU team is converging on the warehouse. CTU and the White House is watching the feed of them moving through and taking out many of Fayed’s men. Since they are all no named agents, they fail spectacularly as the bomb is detonated. A mushroom cloud is a way to counteract a crying Jack.
• There are 4 more suitcase nukes.
• Jack stares at a mushroom cloud in suburban LA.

Ridiculousness:

• Is there just a standard immunity deal that all these people sign? The deal Assad signed could not have detailed all of his crimes because it was ready within 15 minutes. I don’t understand at all. That doesn’t even take into account how it was all slickly bound and ready for Assad even though Jack is in the field. How did it get there?
• The Jack/Curtis showdown was fabulously acted but really annoying. Jack couldn't wound Curtis? He had to kill him? And wouldn't Curtis' past with Assad been red-flagged immediately? It's not like it was a black ops mission or anything. And damnit I liked Curtis.
• Yes a nuclear bomb detonated within LA is used as a way to show just dangerous the threat is this season. There is a problem with escalation when you use the nuclear bomb right out of the gate.

Running Totals:

Jack’s body count: 1 (141)

• Poor Curtis became expendable for some reason this season.

The healing power of Jack tears: 1 (10)

• Killing Curtis was a bit too much for Jack to take.