Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Day 8: 5:00 AM - 6:00 AM

Characters Introduced:

  • General Brucker (Michael Gaston): Another in a long line of military men who seem to be very very violent and not trusting of the President.
  • Adrion Bishop (Michael Irby): The man leading the team Brucker sends to grab Hassan away from Jack. That’s 3 members of The Unit popping up on 24.

Returning Characters:

None

Key Moments:

  • Jack ignores the medic’s warnings about his ribs. Jack has no ribs left after all these seasons. Renee tells him that the rods are back in Manhattan but they are close behind them.
  • Cole is at the point where the rods were offloaded from the boat. Chloe tracks through the satellite footage and finds Samir entering a taxicab. Cole heads out. Dana calls Samir from the middle of the CTU floor … really? She starts directing him away from CTU’s pursuit. She shuts down the satellites for 30 seconds and tells Samir to blend into cab traffic. When the satellites come back online, Samir is gone and Hastings is pissed.
  • Hastings calls Taylor, Rob, and Ethan with the update and says he can’t guarantee the safety of Manhattan.
  • Jack and Cole discuss the shadiness of losing the satellites at that point in time but Jack has to end the call to speak with the President. She wants Jack to secure Hassan for evacuation from the UN. He agrees because the order comes from the President. Renee tags along over Jack’s objections.
  • Samir and Tarin arrive at Ahman’s place. He gets to work on the rods and Samir says Tarin will be the driver of the bomb.
  • Jack and Renee arrive at the UN and speak with Secret Service. Hassan and Jack chat and Jack says they will be ready in 10 minutes.
  • Taylor is speaking with the roundtable of blowing shit up. Woods tells her Samir is calling so she puts it on speaker for the entire room … really? He says he doesn’t want to kill Americans; he wants Omar Hassan. He gives Taylor 1 hour to exchange Hassan for the bomb. He hangs up and Taylor starts to get everyone into motion. Rob pushes to give up Hassan while Ethan strenuously objects. General Brucker makes a speech about how giving up Hassan is the right play. Taylor reads everyone the riot act for suggesting that as an option.
  • Brucker speaks with Rob after the meeting and suggests covertly giving Hassan to the terrorists to protect Taylor. He pushes Rob to do this without Taylor’s knowledge.
  • While Hastings updates CTU on Samir’s demands, Dana sends the roadblock positions so Tarin can drive the van where it needs to go.
  • Of course Rob and Brucker need Hassan’s route from Ethan’s computer. Rob at least has the sense to say that Jack Bauer is involved and very capable of ruining everything. Brucker thinks his wetworks team will handle anything. Ethan walks in and sees through their lies. He tries to call Jack but … he has a heart attack.
  • The Hassans are being moved underground.
  • Brucker calls Bishop with the details so they can snatch Hassan.
  • Jack tells Renee that Ethan tried to call but now he can’t get in touch with him.
  • Ethan is nearly unconscious on the couch so Rob is lying to keep people out of his office. Jack calls looking for Ethan but Rob picks up. Jack yells at him so Rob hangs up. Jack stops the evac and starts bringing the Hassans back to the UN. Bishop tells his men to attack. Jack sends Renee with the Hassans down a different tunnel. The lead Secret Service agent tells Jack to go to while they hold their position. Jack catches up with the Hassans while the Secret Service are wiped out.
  • The soldiers are gaining on them so Jack tells Renee and the Hassans to take cover. He throws a smoke grenade while Renee draws fire. Jack kills 2 soldiers who walk into the smoke then another who turns to shoot at Renee. Jack throws another smoke grenade, Jack kills 1 with Hassan shooting the last. Jack finishes off his ambush by shooting Bishop in the leg. Jack questions him and Bishop tells him about the ransom demand. Bishop gives Jack shit but Jack awesomely says, “I only take orders from the President of the United States.” Well only for the next few hours.
  • Samir calls Tarin and tells him to starts the countdown. The bomb is set to go boom in 15 minutes.

Ridiculousness:

  • It had been 5 seasons since Sherry withheld someone’s heart medication. That was such a great storyline that they needed to bring that back a second time.

Running Totals:

Jack’s body count: 4 (242)

  • Jack annihilates an American wetworks team. Since they were rogue, I’m not counting this as attacking Americans.

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