24 News and Notes - 7am-8am

No introduction needed…hour 2.

7:00 A.M.
Fayed and Sabir go looking for Jack in the tunnels under the river but they give up because they must focus on finishing their mission. They don’t see Jack, who is only a few yards away. Jack escapes.

COMMENT: Convenient but it works.

7:02 A.M.
When Morris cannot locate Assad on the satellite, Milo remarks that Jack might have died for nothing. This annoys Chloe.

COMMENT: Chloe needs to be careful. For the last 5 “days” she has been the Queen of the insensitive comment. Settle down Chloe. He’ll be fine.

7:03 A.M.
Jack breaks into a parked car that has a cell phone left inside. He calls CTU and explains that Assad is not responsible for the bombings. Buchanan cannot rescind a Presidential order to stop the attack on Assad. He puts Jack through to the White House.

COMMENT: Ohhh – good thing he found a car that had a cell phone in it (wink wink)….Say it with me – convenient but it works.

7:05 A.M.
As Wayne listens to Jack’s plea, neither Karen nor Lennox is convinced that Assad is innocent. Karen remarks that Jack’s ability to assess the situation is faulted by his current state. Jack insists to Wayne that they capture Assad to find out what he knows. Lennox encourages the President not to let his history with Jack affect his judgment. Wayne continues with plans to assassinate Assad.

COMMENT: Wow – Karen. Pretty quick to throw Jack under the bus. Of course Tommy is over there chirping in Wayne’s ear like a bird. I just don’t like him. Good job to the 24 writers making me not like a character in record time.

7:07 A.M.
Jack uses the cell phone’s GPS navigation to plug in the coordinates that he memorized Fayed saying. This is Assad’s location. Jack finds the car’s key in the visor and he drives off.

COMMENT: Not only did he find a car with a cell phone – but he found a cellphone with GPS tracking….screaming SPRINT product placement….oh well.

7:08 A.M.
Ray Wallace gets nowhere trying to locate Ahmed’s father in the police department. Fayed calls Ahmed’s cell, and he finds out Ahmed doesn’t have the package that he needs. Fayed orders him to go retrieve it. Ahmed makes up an excuse to the Wallaces and leaves.

7:09 A.M.
The CTU and White House teams watch the monitors as the Cobra helicopters are en route to target Assad. Buchanan confirms that Curtis has a squad who will be in place at the site.

COMMENT: The whole Cobra helicopter viewscreen thingy (like how technical I am??) was really cool. My thought – if Curtis has a squad in place at the site why can’t they do what Jack wanted and just raid the house and take Assad captive?? We wouldn’t get to see the cool Cobra helicopter viewscreen thingy – that’s why!! It’s the only logical explanation – other than the obvious - they just like blowing shit up.

7:10 A.M.
Jack arrives at Assad’s safe house and sneaks inside the property gate. He distracts a guard and knocks him out with some chopped firewood. He takes the man’s gun.

COMMENT: Chopped firewood in LA?? Where it never gets below 50 degrees?? Say it with me – convenient but it works.

7:11 A.M.
Jack enters the house. Assad recognizes him and raises his weapon. Jack explains that Fayed set him up and they are about to be hit. Jack says that there is a transponder in the house, but the guards say they already searched the premises. One of the men has it on him and is betraying Assad.

7:13 A.M.
Jack puts up his hands and Assad orders his men to empty their pockets. One named Omar does have the transponder. Jack surrenders the gun to prove he is telling the truth. Assad grabs Omar and runs out with Jack as the other two men try to secure the computer files.

7:15 A.M.
Jack, Assad and Omar barely clear the house when it is slammed by missiles. Buchanan reports to the President that the target has been destroyed.

COMMENT: See – blowing stuff up is cool.

7:19 A.M.
Attorney Sandra Palmer is alarmed when the FBI demands personnel records at her Washington office of the Islamic-American Alliance. Sandra adamantly refuses to turn over anything without a warrant. Frustrated, she calls her brother -- Wayne Palmer.

COMMENT: So David and Wayne have a sister….who’s an attorney….working for the Islamic-American Alliance?? WOW. Looks like she’s a little feisty like her Mom. That could mean trouble. COOL.

7:21 A.M.
Sandra tells Wayne that the search was unfounded. She suggests he check out his aide Lennox, who she is convinced has been slowly destroying civil protections. Wayne is quick to defend Lennox, but agrees to look into the matter later.

COMMENT: Has Lennox got something on Wayne??? Wayne seems like a pretty intelligent guy but he seems to be “deferring” to Tommy-Boy a bit too much. Let’s keep an eye on this shall we??

7:23 A.M.
Walid Al-Rezani, the head of the I.A.A., kisses Sandra tenderly and thanks her for keeping up the good fight.

COMMENT: ….and she is dating the head of the I.A.A??? Yahtzee!!

7:24 A.M.
Buchanan reports to the White House that Assad’s body has not been found. Assad is still alive.

7:25 A.M.
Fayed arrives at another warehouse. A man named Nasir is being fitted with a vest of C-4 explosives. He tells Fayed that he will not fail. Fayed promises that Nasir’s family will learn of his sacrifice.

7:31 A.M.
Jack breaks into an abandoned house. He and Assad carry the unconscious Omar into the empty premises and hide out. Assad tells Jack that he has gotten his people and the governments that support them to agree to a ceasefire with the West. Fayed is trying to sabotage that. Jack finds some clothes left in the house and changes.

7:32 A.M.
Chloe does an aerial frame enhancement of the satellite feed before Assad’s safe house exploded. She sees that Jack is the one helping Assad flee. She shows Buchanan the image, and he wants to keep it a secret. He knows that Jack must be right and is using Assad to find Fayed. Buchanan has Chloe look for new chatter on Fayed.

COMMENT: Please explain why Chloe is the only one to discover this “secret” image?? Wouldn’t the crack CTU staff be looking at any satellite coverage they had of the target to try and see if they could figure out why Assad wasn’t killed?? (sigh)

7:33 A.M.
Jack steals a car. He tells Assad that they need to use CTU’s resources. Assad is distrustful of CTU and is determined to find Fayed alone.

COMMENT: Makes sense since they have been trying to kill him for years and just shot a missile into the house where they believed he was. Good call Assad.

7:35 A.M.
Jack aggravates Omar’s open wound but Omar claims to be unaware where Fayed is. Suddenly, Jack stops. He is oddly reluctant to inflict any more pain on the man. This uncharacteristically disturbs him. He tells the puzzled Assad that he could see it in Omar’s eyes that he wasn’t going to talk.

COMMENT: Hmmmm – my thought was Jack saw himself in Omar after his time in China. He’s going to have to work on getting the ole Bauer mojo back. Find the man a decent lamp and an electrical outlet….

7:36 A.M.
Assad sticks his knife into Omar, who gives up that he knows where Fayed’s men are going to meet. After Omar gives him the address, Assad kills him. Assad goes to leave but Jack is frozen. “I don’t know how to do this anymore,” Jack whispers.

COMMENT: New rule – don’t mess with Assad. I particularly liked Assad’s response to Jack’s line…”You will.”

7:41 A.M.
The FBI returns to the Washington I.A.A. office with a warrant. As Walid takes the agents to uncover the files, Sandra grabs an employee’s computer and starts typing furiously. Sandra informs the FBI agents that she has erased all the employee files. Despite the fact that she is the President’s sister, Sandra and Walid are arrested for obstructing official business. The agents impound every computer in the office.

COMMENT: Huh? Erased all the employee files?? Wassup with that?? Not sure what the heck is going on with Baby Palmer. It’s going to take a bit to figure her out.

7:44 A.M.
Ahmed chops a hole in the drywall of his house and unearths a box that he sticks into his backpack. Stan, the angry neighbor, enters the house and beats Ahmed senseless. Ahmed pulls a gun from the backpack and shoots Stan twice, killing him.

COMMENT: Stan you got what you deserved you moron. Ahmed’s got himself a kill.

7:45 A.M.
Scott Wallace runs across the street to help his friend Ahmed. He arrives in the aftermath of the fight and tries to call emergency because Ahmed is injured. Ahmed pulls his gun on Scott and threatens him to follow his orders.

COMMENT: Ah young Scott. I admire where you are coming from little brother but you should have just stayed at your house. Was it just me or was Scott just a little too up in Ahmed’s business?? Giving him his good luck necklace?? Looks like he is going to need it.

7:50 A.M.
Jack and Assad pull up to the location that Omar supplied. Assad spots Nasir and another man named Masheer. He can tell that they are Fayed’s men. One is wearing an explosive vest. Jack realizes Fayed is setting up another bombing. Jack and Assad follow the two men into the subway station.

COMMENT: Jack and Assad seem to work well together….spotting terrorists and explosive vests from a distance…

7:51 A.M.
The bomber Nasir clutches the detonator in his right hand. The second man is only the handler, who will leave once Nasir is on the train. The handler Masheer will lead them to Fayed. As the train pulls up, Jack instructs Assad to follow the handler. He is going after the bomb.

COMMENT: I liked the nice story about the bomber and the handler…it’s like a little terrorist bedtime story.

7:52 A.M.
Jack boards the train with Nasir. Assad follows Masheer out of the station. Masheer calls Fayed to let him know that Nasir will martyr himself when the train arrives at Union Station. Masheer gets in his car and drives off.

7:53 A.M.
The train ticket agent approaches Jack, who tells him that he is a federal agent and that there is a suicide bomber on board. The agent moves away quietly.

COMMENT: I’ve gotta try the old “I’m a federal agent and there’s a suicide bomber on the train” routine when I don’t have a ticket. I wonder if that would work on a bus??

7:54 A.M.
Jack sees Nasir palm the detonator. He lunges for Nasir’s hand and wrenches it backwards. They struggle, and Nasir is knocked toward the back door of the car. Nasir grabs the detonator. Jack quickly kicks Nasir hard so that he crashes through the back window of the train as the bomb explodes. The flames shoot into the tunnel and the passengers are knocked back. No one is seriously hurt. Jack slams on the emergency brake and the train screeches to a stop. He runs out the back of the car.

COMMENT: That was a pretty cool way to have the guy explode and not hurt anyone. I’m just sayin….It was a little weird how Jack didn’t say anything to anyone – he just jumped out the back of the train and took off. 20 months in a Chinese prison apparently eroded his social skills a bit.

7:56 A.M.
Masheer calls Fayed from Union Station to report that there was no explosion and that he can see a cloud of black smoke blocks away. Fayed watches a news report of explosions in Baltimore and Chicago. He is confident that their other attacks are going off as planned.

COMMENT: More attacks. Wonderful…Anyone have ANY idea why the attacks are happening??

7:57 A.M.
Milo updates Buchanan that, besides the other two bombings that just occurred, there was also a suicide bomber in Los Angeles. Nadia gets word that a passenger identifying himself as Jack Bauer prevented the bomb from killing innocent people. Buchanan wants visual confirmation from security cameras that it was Jack.

7:58 A.M.
Karen notifies the President that CTU intercepted a cell call between Fayed and the men orchestrating the bombings. Wayne realizes that Jack was right.

COMMENT: See that Wayne?? Time to start listening to Jack and not so much to Tommy Boy. I assume Karen will be issuing an apology as well?? Well – we’re waiting….

7:59 A.M.
Jack emerges from the subway tunnel’s emergency exit and gets a call from Assad, who is following the handler. Jack orders him to keep tailing the handler so that they can find Fayed.


Not bad for the first couple of hours.

Fox has promised us a shocker at the end of hour 4.

My speculation?? They blow up the White House.

Who knows….for those of you on the East Coast (if there are any of you out there)…you already know.

I can’t wait to find out.

Chat soon.