Day 7: 2:00 AM - 3:00 AM

Characters Introduced:

• Cara Bowden (Amy Price-Francis): She seems to be the lead agent for the pinnacle of the shady cabal on 24.
• Alan Wilson (Will Patton): After all these years, this is the top of the pyramid of shady white men running the United States. Will Patton is a solid choice for the role.

Returning Characters:

None

Key Moments:

• Hodges’ lawyer is getting ready to head to the White House when Cara and a thug kill her. Cara duplicates her fingertips to finish her game of dress up.
• Janis tells Renee that she can’t get in touch with Larry.
• Tony is setting up the scene of Larry’s death. Of course, he shoots himself in the side. Galvez calls and Tony tells him to wait for his call. The FBI pulls up and Tony lies on the ground. The EMTs get to work.
• Kim tells Renee that she is leaving. Renee asks if she can change her father’s mind and Kim is amused by the thought. Janis calls Renee over and she finds out that Larry is dead. She is stunned but regains herself and says she is heading out to the scene to take over.
• Jack is losing his thoughts and repeating himself during his debrief. The agent tells him to take a break. Jack spots the FBI agents gearing up and he asks Renee what is going on. She tells him that Larry is dead.
• Tony has been treated and is spying on the FBI’s efforts to find Galvez. He calls Galvez and gives him the last location the FBI will search. He tells him to set a bunch of explosives in a building then lure the agents into the building and blow it up.
• Renee hops in a helicopter and is immediately followed by Jack. He says he is going and that’s that.
• Cara passes through White House security.
• Taylor wants Hodges sent to the FBI for interrogation on his claims. Olivia is not happy because he killed her brother.
• Cara is brought to Hodges and he recognizes her. She tells him that the cabal is angry. Hodges claims he is no threat because he doesn’t know anyone’s identities. She switches to pitching suicide as a way to protect his family. She slips him a pill.
• Cara calls Alan with the update on Hodges and Tony.
• Galvez calls Tony with the building where he is planting the explosives.
• Jack and Renee are in the air. He tries to talk to her and we find out that early on in his career he lost 2 partners in a row and that is why he began working alone. She treats him like shit as usual. Tony visibly sighs when he sees Jack hop out of the chopper. Jack and Tony greet each other and Renee goes straight to Larry’s body. Jack takes a look then covers it up. Tony gets questioned on what happened. He starts telling his story and Jack immediately pokes holes in it. He comes to the conclusion that Galvez had help. Tony is annoyed.
• Kim calls her husband and we find out that Jack has a granddaughter.
• Jack starts seizing again and walks away from the camp. Tony watches as he makes an injection and asks Jack why he is out here. Jack tells him that Renee lost her partner and Jack thought he could help. Galvez killed an agent and calls in a location. Renee and the team head out but Jack stays behind because he is too messed up.
• Hodges is lead out of the White House and loaded into his transport. He sees a tat on the soldier’s arm and asked if he served with any Starkwood men. They soldier says they were professional and well trained. With that moment of pride, Hodges takes the pill. The soldiers notice him keel over and switch their route to the hospital.
• Renee and her agents arrive at the building and Glavez says he is on the top floor. Jack takes a call saying that there was a discrepancy in his debriefing. He can’t talk about it because Renee is moving in.
• Jack realizes that the man calling in the location is nowhere near the building. He calls Renee and tells her that it is a trap. The building goes boom. He also tells the rest of the agents to maintain the perimeter.
• Glavez heads into the bombed out building with the rest of the FBI agents. Jack and Tony arrive and Tony races into the building. Galvez passes the canister to Tony and starts rubbing blood all over himself. Jack finds Renee, who is okay, and she tells him that they knew this building would be swept last.
• Tony brings Galvez out as if he is an injured agent.
• Jack calls back the agent about the debriefing and is told that Tony lied about his source for the White House attack being dead. Jack spots Tony bringing Galvez into an ambulance. Tony tells the ambulance to go before turning to talk to Jack. Jack pulls his gun on Tony and demands to know why he lied. Tony denies and tells Jack that he is paranoid. Jack starts seizing and falls to the ground. Tony shows that he stole Jack’s meds. He says he never wanted Jack to be involved in this. EMTs arrive to treat Jack and Tony walks off.
• Galvez kills the EMT working on him and pulls a gun on the ambulance driver.

Ridiculousness:

• I would like to know how Renee is spotless after being in the middle of building when a whole stash of C4 was detonated. My first thought is that she can't be killed but next season will take care of that.

Running Totals:

Cliche free