Previously on 24

OK. I won't be live blogging, but hopefully "M" will chime in.

Last week. First of all, did they get the old writers back? Dammits and perimeters abounded! And it was pretty tight. Stuff blew up. Someone we grew to kind of tolerate, if not love, died. (He predeceased his hairdo.) Hastings grew a pair. A CTU insider gave us a little echo of Nina. Sigh.

So, Mrs. President Hair Gel and her daughter are rustled off to NJ -- via whatever route, helo probably, they should have taken with the POTIR, as opposed to the spurious tunnel thing.

The POTIR is handed off to Tarin, and the bad guy government agent (played by one of the wonderful actors from The Unit, which I've got to get on DVD because of the great David Mamet dialogue in the first season) finds the car bomb with the rods.

Manhattan no go boom, though there is a silly scene where the gov't agent opens up the car with the dirty bomb in it with no backup, protection or anything.

There's a car chase where Jack loses POTIR -- Jack's following Tarin, who drives his car off the roof of a parking garage, having stashed POTIR in the backseat of a car that is allowed to drive through whatever perimeter had, I believe, been set. The bad guys still have POTIR, and Tarin is dead.

However, Jack learns that Bridezilla is the bad apple in CTU, and calls it in to Chloe.

Bridezilla almost escapes from CTU. But she doesn't. Her former Intended takes her down, and with as much emotion as he can muster...he looked about as angry as a Brady brother looked when one of the other brothers broke his guitar. Or something.

Jack alerts Mme. President to the coup attempt by the General and the Rahm Emmanuel wanna be. The President shows appropriate contempt, and rustles Ethan off to the hospital.

Jack makes an improbable immunity deal with Bridezilla to find out where the bad guys have taken POTIR.

It looked like Queens again. And they kill POTIR, who dies without renouncing peace. (Whew.) But not before the bad guys fake Jack and CTU into thinking they have time to rescue him, by asynchronously broadcasting a broadcast of what seemed to be the lead in to the execution...they arrive and find POTIR already dead.

Old school 24.

Good news is that the improbable immunity deal they made with Bridezilla will have to come to naught.

If the first 10 hours had been as good as this episode...we'd be giving another day of our lives for this darn show next year.

Whew.

Until tomorrow, when I view this via Hulu.

Unless there's an improbable convo between a President and me. The President of Time Warner Cable, that is. And I'd be giving them immunity -- their customer service is a crime against all that is good.

Take it, "M"