Recap

Dammit = 3
Bathroom homicides =0
Hair Gel Moments = 1 (long haired bad guy)
Bauer "quality" kills = at least 3, maybe 4
Resurrections = 0
Eew = 2
World of Pain =3 (Tony, Renee, Madame President)
Dead Handsome Black Men =0
Predictions Correct =3
Incorrect Predictions =1 ("A" guessing that we had seen the end of Jack for the season)
Rogue --> unrogue --> rerogue = too many to count
First Local LEO proven competent =1 (per Craig, see comments below, thanks, Craig!)

So, ending the season. Kiefer has to stay out of jail for there to be a hope of Jack coming back. (Unless he can be on work release.) Tony is still in the picture. Kim could go either way. Baby Teri still in the picture. Janeane could be evil next season; "M" thinks that Chloe could too, but "A" says no...we still don't know what a Babu is. (Sock puppet made for Prescott by his aunt?)

People we want to see more of: Chloe, Morris, Eggar (come back), Nina...."M" says that Tony is the new Nina, like navy is the new black.

Where is Jack's Dad? Spawn of Bauer? His sexy and way younger sis-in-law Rena Sofer?

Who is Jack's mom? (And even after season 7, we could wind up with a prequel, maybe Kiefer's younger brother or a son (does he have one?) could play young Jack...) Will Will Patton be back next season?

And we still totally heart Aaron. He rocks. And he's nobody's patsy.

Anything else, "M"?

Thanks to Craig and MacKenzie, and Tai (who hasn't been visible for a while, but I suspect maybe lurking) and all other unseen friends.

And to our tv "friends" at 24, the actors really do yeoman's duty with this silly and crazy material.

Don't Let Us Lose Kim!

We need her next season, for sure.

Renee Re-Re Rogue-ing?

Renee now wants to finish the work Tony started?

Oilivia plot

That still has to be one of the lamest subplots EVER.

Don't worry, Madam Prez, Ethan has your back. He'll be your family now

The Price of A Career

Girlfriend!

You did the right thing, even at this cost.

Ethan will there to be your special friend, Madame President.

Did You See Tony in Split Screen?

Where is Kim?

Kim?

Don't worry, I predict she will end of saving the day AND telling Jack about lil Teri. He needs to know about his granddaughter BEFORE he buys it

Deathbed Conversion

Jack's going to convert to Islam?

Janis and Chloe

What, no hug?

Prediction...

Kim will end up donating what ever parts to save Jack

The First Man

That dude needs to get back in bed, he's looking a bit peckish.

Destroy the recording or what?!?!?

I don't think that is going to happen. I think that Oilivia needs to go down for this. Or she is going to be sent away to a nonextradiction country

Ah, Now We Get to the Heart of Things

Madame President, your job killed your son.

Yeah, this is what happens when women work outside of the home. Especially in "important" jobs. Dead sons, ineffective but sociopathic daughters...sigh.

M says .... great.... I hope that nothing happens to "J". Now I have that worry on my head hahhaha

REally???

Man, I"m a broken record! I knew that Daddy would take Oily side

Who Names Their Son Roger?

Oilivia, you're not even an effective bad guy.

The First Man, now he's going to be a better bad guy than his daughter?

Was That The Last We'll See of Jack?

I'll bet the rest of the show is all Renee...and we won't know Jack's fate until next season!

Renee, What A Difference A Day Makes

Yeah, you can make him talk...

Ah, the ethics discussion we've been waiting for all season.

Mentor me!!

Jack, tell me how to do a medical interrogation.... i know how to use a needle

Now, Cue The Chinese

Shouldn't the Chinese be coming in to kidnap Jack?

(Maybe the EMTs driving the ambulance will be bad guys?)

Tony

World of Pain alert

Who knew... Michelle was preggers?


HHAHAHAAHHA And now they call Tony "Stumpy!!"

Pretty Good Shot, Jack

For someone with a seizure disorder!

Renee

She's not wearing a vest, did you notice that?

Duct tape

1002 and two uses. Must be to keep Jack from saying ..... Dammit!

More Hot Bad Guys!

Gotta love a good looking bad guy, that's a 24 signature.

(Speaking of which, the Black law enforcement officer at the airport was allowed to live after being shot -- that's gotta be a 24 first.)

The muzzle flashes are another 24 first, I don't know that I ever remember seeing such effects. (Maybe because I'm usually looking at my screen.)

OK Wait

I thought Fox wasa all about going green!!!!!! Why are they driving a HUMMER!!!!!!!!! I guess they are evil terrorists but come on!

I don't get it

The Oilivia plot and who the heck is Alan Wilson? Is that Will Patton?

Yes, Will is Wilson.

Shut up

Wait, did Tony just wire Jack to blow up when Will Patton shows up?

Dammit, Tony!

Could "M" be right? The quadruple cross? Tony is re-un-re-un-rogue?

Rightity right!!!!

Don't make me tell your mother!

Oilivia, just wait until your mother finds out....


Jack with another Dammit, YES

Showdown!

Aaron, you go.

(And welcome, Craig! Good to have you watching live with us.)

Ethan, what are you going to do?

Kim, Why So Peevish?

I mean, you were on your way out of town...

...cue the heroic music!

Viewer Discretion Is...

...a bit of an oxymoron.

If the Prion Disease Doesn't Do Jack In

Killing and running after a spinal tap will!

Quality Kills

I knew once the doc said, "Move him closer" that is was all over for him. Hard to tell, but there was maybe 3 or 4 quality kills. However they weren't in a bathroom. If the bathtub has been full of ice WITH the quality kills, that would have made the season

This is (NOT) Spinal Tap

Jack, you're an animal!

M says he goes to 11

Will Patton

We love his lisp. "Shounds premature to me..."

I think that Will is going to take care of Tony and the evil chick.

Another prediction!

Jack is going to walk into a crematorium!! He was totally fake sleeping and listening to every work they said.


One more... I'm betting the Tony is going for, what is it now, the quadruple cross?!?

Everyone's in IT

Ethan is pretty handy with the technology.

(Not to mention Kim with the backtracing.)

Please

You've got to be freaking kidding me.

Kim, Drop and roll!!!

Kim hasn't lost her stupidity

Bring the gun dummy

and stop drop and roll!!!!!! Jeez

Hello, Perimeter?

Where the heck is the perimeter?

Tony, Still Flexing His Strategic Muscles

Tony is a bit like Robocop. Or Arnold in the version of the Terminator where he came back as a good guy.

He looks like Tony, but bears little resemblance to the original character.

And uh, WTH? They have a medical lab?

Ethan still has the card...

He's not stupid. And she is.

Ethan is too smart ...

Ethan had a chip double.. wanna bet??



M shoots she sccooooooorrrres

Ethan/Oilivia Throwdown

We'll see who winds up winning on this one.

(But I'm in no mood for an Ethan strip search. That would be another "eew".)

You go Girl

So Kim is going after creepy long hair dude (who looks suspiciaous to start with) and armed only with a ball point pen. The pen was mighter than the sword that *she* couldn't get thru TSA. How did creepy guy and the other operative get weapons through security. Oooo, maybe he took the agent gun?

We are proud of Kim's first dammit that we can remember!!!!

Dammit!

and Kim's CTU training kicks in. Since the perimeter wasn't.

Next Season...

Aaron goes rogue?

I hope not! He and Chloe have one thing in common: integrity.

Uh, is this a good time for a perimeter at the airport?

Yay Aaron isn't a stooge

I'm relieved!!!!!

Eew!

Organ harvest! a new low...

Really???

I know I keep repeating, but Really?!?!? They are going to harvest the pathogen from Jack? I just keep shaking my head. And now the scary cisco commercial????

Getting Set Up!

We'll be commenting as live as possibly, given "M"'s son not being adjusted to Mommy trying to sign on an hour early and "A" not being adjusted to finishing dinner so early.

(Must eat! to have the energy to watch stuff blow up and absorb the full range of female stupidity in the 24-verse.)

Previously on 24: 4am - 5am

I'm not going to overdo the review (if that's possible for me to say in all honesty)..let's just say that Jack's back is to the wall once again.

He's dying of a rapidly progressing seizure inducing disease that is turning his brain into the neural equivalent of swiss cheese. His terminally stupid daughter has turned up in the magical last hours of the season not to save his life, but to turn out to need saving...

...while his remaining efforts and energy would be better spent on saving the world.

The President's daughter (who I swing back and forth on -- is she stupidly evil, or evilly stupid?) is creating other issues, thus diverting the president from the world saving work she should be doing.

Agent Walker is sure to screw something up in her desire to exact revenge on Tony.

Even in a season where we've hardly had any female characters of note, I have to now say, we've shown up -- and we're here to create problems. And to (apparently) not solve them. (Focus, Mme. President. Focus.) That's what Jack is here to do.

So the last two hours, perhaps of our lives, for Jack Bauer...I can only wish that we'll have some stuff blow up real good before the world is saved.

(And it would also be good to know what happened to his nephew/son, his Dad, and what a babu is. We have our list of characters we'd like to see resurrected...and I'm kind of hoping that Tony lives through the season to be a nefarious bad guy next year.)

And of course, we can hope that Kim will survive long enough to save Jack's life.

(Or maybe he'll be put into a cryogenic container -- let's call it a canister -- and the next season of 24 will take place in 2050, when diseases caused by prions are curable and Jack can be thawed, cured, and taught the new technology required to save the world in the future.)

Until later...

(And the top photo is at Noah's Ark in the Wisconsin Dells...it is what I came up with when googling for an image with the phrase "the point of no return." The bottom photo is a cryogenics tank from one Titan Industries. Kids, I am not making this up.)