Day 8: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Characters Introduced:

None

Returning Characters:

• Yuri Suvarov (5am – 6am episode of season 6)

Key Moments:

• Pillar calls Logan with the news of Tokarev’s death. He reiterates that Logan needs to back out but Logan tells him the press has already been notified of his help today. Pillar then tells him what Jack did to Tokarev.
• Ricker tells Jack he has to go back to his place to track the cell number Jack gave him. After he leaves, Meredith continues to bitch to Jack about what just went down. Jack tells her that she has to break the story in case he fails. He tosses her cell phone and tells her to contact someone she trusts.
• Logan morphs into the devil on Taylor’s shoulder one more time to convince her to squash Meredith Reed’s story. He leaves her to go meet the incoming President Suvarov.
• Arlo shows Chloe what Jack did in the abandoned building. She still thinks she can talk Jack down. Chloe also found Jim Ricker who died 7 years ago.
• Ricker calls Jack and yells at him for hiding the fact that the number he is tracking is for Charles Logan. Jack lets him yell and then asks him for a location and Ricker gives it up. When Ricker continues to warn, Jack tells him he never planned on coming back from this path. He tells Ricker to erase everything and disappear. Jack steals another car … he is a goddamned menace.
• Taylor meets with Woods and tells him to stop Meredith Reed. He balks since she doesn’t give him a good reason but eventually agrees.
• Jack parks his stolen car, grabs his big bag of toys, and casually walks into some building.
• Meredith calls Gary and tells him about the evidence she has and they agree to meet in 15 minutes.
• Jack is gearing up by pulling out some body armor and an armored mask …freaking sweet!
• While on the road, Logan is on the phone with Novakovich who is flipping out. Logan tells him that he has nothing to worry about since Jack will never learn his name.
• Logan’s limo enters a 1-lane tunnel and Jack pops out and shoots outs the tires of all the cars in front of the limo. He starts walking towards the limo and Logan literally shits a brick. “THAT’S JACK BAUER!” Jack disables and knocks out 2 of Logan’s security. He then gets on the hood and shotguns a hole into the windshield. He drops a gas grenade inside to smoke Logan out. When Logan exits, Jack grabs him and leads him underground. Words cannot do justice to how phenomenal Army of One Jack was in this scene. It was perfectly over-the-top.
• Arlo locates Ricker, while Chloe finds out that Jack kidnapped Charles Logan.
• Eden is updating Pillar as he arrives at the kidnapping site. All 3 Secret Service have no idea where Jack went but Pillar finds the door Jack dragged Logan through. He leads a team in and tells them to kill Jack Bauer on sight.
• Jack is politely questioning Logan. Logan pees his pants and talks a mile a minute. He admits to most but not everything that has happened today. In the end he pisses Jack off and Jack puts a gun to his neck and gives him to the count of 5. Logan says Novakovich on 4. He tells Jack to confirm it on Tokarev’s phone. When Jack hears Pillar coming he drags Logan to another area and puts him on his knees. Logan thinks he is going to be killed, but Jack says he would already be dead and chokes him out. Jack escapes and Pillar finds Logan.
• Chloe ignores Eden’s complaints as she has Cole released to help her with the security at the UN.
• Meredith is waiting for Gary at a dinner but he calls and tells he the government is at the office shutting them down. He tells her to hide and protect the evidence.
• Cole is pacing in his cell when Chloe releases him. She tells him that he will join her at the UN after he takes a side trip to Jim Ricker.
• Novakovich takes a call telling him that Suvarov has landed in NYC. His driver is notified but Jack jumps him and gets Novakovich’s location and security detail breakdown. Jack knocks him out and moves on to the elevators. He shoots the 2 guards and gets himself a keycard. One of them survived and sneaks up behind Jack and stabs him in the side. Jack reacts and takes control of the knife and guts him. Jack is bleeding badly as the elevator starts going up.
• Cole gears up and warns Chloe that Jack is gonna have to be taken down.
• Meredith calls Kayla and tells her about the Russian involvement with her father’s death. After the call, Meredith is arrests and the evidence is confiscated. Taylor tells Woods that no one looks at the evidence.
• Logan is revived and he tells Pillar that Jack knows about Novakovich. Pillar calls but we pan across a horror scene of dead Russians with a dying guard crawling to the ringing phone. A fireplace poker impaled Novakovich. The guard tells Pillar that Novakovich didn’t even have a chance to talk. Logan calls Suvarov and tells him about Novakovich. He tells Suvarov that he was protecting him when he gave Jack Novakovich’s name. It was President Suvarov who gave the order to kill Renee Walker. Cut to Jack listening in on the conversation since he bugged Logan during their encounter. He is bleeding profusely as the hour ends.

Ridiculousness:

• This doesn’t really matter but it is hinted that Jack helped Ricker disappear and that is the favor he is calling in. But if Ricker disappeared 7 years ago, that would put it somewhere during the Logan administration. My math being, Taylor has been in office at most 2 years, the Wayne Palmer/Noah Daniels administration was 4 years, and then the remaining time to reach 7 years will be under Logan or Gardner’s watch. The problem with that is that while Logan was in office, Jack faked his death and was off the grid and when Gardner was in office Jack was on his Chinese vacation. Jack would not have been able to help Ricker during any of these times. It’s like they make this shit up as they go along.
• The Novakovich aftermath is such a copout. I know the show was cancelled after these episodes where filmed but to cheat us on seeing Jack annihilate an entire floor of Russians sucks. We’ve seen him shoot small armies but this would have been Jack using all of his Special Forces skills to murder a floor of dirty damn Russians. What a loss.

Running Totals:

Jack loves America not Americans: 3 (45)

• If you are the Secret Service detail for Charles Logan you deserve it.

Jack’s Million-Dollar Dream: 1 (12)

• Logan finally gets put to sleep.

Jack’s body count: 7 (262)

• Russians have no chance against Jack Bauer.