Day 7: 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Characters Introduced:

• Tom Chapman (Philip Anthony-Rodriguez): Hodges’ lead tech guy.

Returning Characters:

• John Quinn (24: Redemption)

Key Moments:

• Hayworth still won’t authorize the assault on the White House.
• Olivia is apologizing to her mother as they share a hostage moment. Allison tells her to be ready. Jack tells Bill his plan; he has released gas into the safe room that will ignite when a gun goes off near it. He will make a break to draw fire and the explosion should take out most of Juma’s men. Why do all of Jack’s plans in these moments usually end with him dying? He tells Bill to be ready to protect the President. He tells Mayer to shut up when he butts in.
• Juma tells Taylor about the speech she will give. She agrees but tells him to release the hostages first. Juma says okay takes a hostage and shoots him in front of her. Juma is kind of a badass. She takes the speech and begins reading it into the camera.
• Hayworth wants this taken off the air but it is told that they can’t shutdown the internet. Larry pushes for the assault but continues to be denied.
• Bill tells Jack that Juma is working with someone on the outside. He says Jack is the only one that can track this down and protect the President. After he says this, he tackles a guard into the safe room, takes his gun, and fires it into the air. A huge explosion rips apart everything. Larry moves in without Hayworth’s authorization. Jack gets to work on the remaining Juma soldiers. He calls out to Pierce to protect Taylor. Jack continues to fire as Pierce takes the Taylors to safety. Juma tells one of his men to kill the hostages. Mayer sees him come into the room and screams; Jack kills the man saving Mayer’s life. He walks up to Juma to arrest him but when Juma grabs his shotgun Jack kills him. The White House is secure. Jack sits and cries by Bill’s body. SILENT FUCKING CLOCK FOR BILL FUCKING BUCHANAN. You goddamn right.
• Taylor refuses to leave the White House.
• Maybe just maybe Renee finally realizes who Jack is as she sees him mourn over his friend. Jack doesn’t like that Bill sacrificed himself when it was supposed to be Jack. Jack brings his suspicions to Larry. Larry responds by arresting Jack. Renee tries to support Jack and Larry yells at her.
• Ethan arrives back at the White House and Renee stops him to tell him Jack’s idea.
• Hodges and Seaton discuss Juma’s failure. They are tense but Seaton tells him that the shipment will be ready for pickup in a couple of hours.
• Larry is waiting to put Jack on a helicopter out of the area. Ethan calls and tells him to send Jack to question Burnett. Ethan says this is on his authority not the President. He doesn’t care about Larry’s objections.
• Ethan and Taylor greet each other in a nice moment. She wants to bring Olivia into her administration since they just lost a bunch of people. Ethan argues against it because Olivia did some dirty shit during the election. Taylor has already decided and wants Ethan to talk to Olivia to create peace between them.
• Larry is pissed and just stares at Jack. Renee talks with Larry and apologizes but says that Jack has been right all day. He tells her that he is going with Jack and she can head back to headquarters and pack her shit because she is suspended. Larry gives Jack shit as they fly to hospital where Burnett is being treated.
• Hodges is talking about targets with Chapman for some attack he is planning. Seaton tells him about what Jack is doing. He tells him that he sent Quinn to handle it. Hodges says Quinn is good but so is Jack in a bit of mild interest to see who wins.
• Jack and Larry are in the hospital but will need to wait for Burnett to come out of sedation.
• Quinn is also in the hospital and smothering the elderly. The beeping code clears out the nurses and he accesses their computer to download a schematic. He climbs into the crawlspace.
• Olivia checks in on Pierce. She tries to talk to him about Martha but he cuts her off on that topic. Thanks for that. Ethan catches up with her afterwards. He offers her an advisor role to her mother. She admits she was wrong in the past but attacks him for failing her mother with today’s events. Deep breathes; just remember that she will get what’s coming to her.
• Larry warns Jack one last time before he heads into Burnett’s room. Quinn is still in the crawlspace. Burnett wakes up and nearly jumps out of his bed when he sees Jack standing over him. While Burnett begs, Quinn starts screwing with the monitoring equipment. Quinn drops some gas into the room and Jack falls to the ground. Quinn drops in and gets to work. He puts Jack’s prints on some jagged glass and then kills Burnett with it. Jack wakes up as Larry comes running. Jack climbs into the ductwork before Larry can break into the room. Larry calls an alert for Jack. Jack knocks out a security guard and grabs the footage. Quinn calls Seaton to tell him Burnett is dead and Jack is the lead suspect. Jack calls Larry to explain what happened. Jack starts running through the streets.

Ridiculousness:

Great hour

Running Totals:

Jack’s body count: 6 (220)

• Jack sweeps through most of Juma’s men after Bill’s sacrifice.

The healing power of Jack tears: 1 (11)

• When Bill died, I cried with you Jack.

Jack loves America not Americans: 1 (37)

• Poor hospital security guard just sitting in his chair.