Summary

Josef manages to get a safe distance with the rods, but is contacted by CTU and his father. Just as they’re on the verge of working out an immunity deal with him, a sniper takes Josef out and Farhad and his people retake the uranium. Farhad becomes uneasy, however, when he learns that his associates are planning on attacking New York instead of their own country.

At CTU, Weiss calls Hastings and tells him that they’re going to need a scapegoat for all of the mistakes that have transpired in the past few hours, and suggests Renee Walker. He sends a woman over to CTU to try and coax Renee into admitting she killed Vladimir not in self defense, but because of the fact that he was an awful awful human being. Renee is sticking with her “self defense” story at the behest of Jack, but seems to find herself cracking. (more …)

I’m back! Thanks, Kasia, for filling in for me on 8×06. It’s been a busy couple of weeks and while I’m still on a BSG high, I haven’t completely abandoned my other shows – does fandom crossover get better than discussing 24 with President Roslin herself? Anyway, on with the recap…

Summary

Dana calls Kevin, who’s celebrating at a strip club. He asks her to join them, but she says all she wants is for him to leave her alone, like they agreed. “Yeah, that’s not gonna happen,” he tells her, and for some reason she’s shocked by this news. Arlo walks in and asks who she was talking to; he thinks she’s cheating on Cole, and threatens to tell him if she doesn’t do it first. (more …)

Editor’s Note – Sorry for the delay on the last couple of episodes.  Everyone here has had a lot on their plates this month.  We should be back on track now.

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Summary

Rob Weiss tells President Taylor she has almost unanimous support for the treaty. Jack is being taken to meet with Vladimir and tells Cole not to come in as backup. Arlo pulls up a traffic cam image of Jack in the car and notices he has control of the situation. Dana receives a call from Kevin, who has arrived at the warehouse to steal the money. Chloe tells Dana that Cole just checked in and that Hastings wants to see her in his office. Jack arrives at Vladimir’s location, holds Oleg at gunpoint and enters the room. Jack gets pissed at Vladimir for trying to take him out. Jack requests to speak to Renee alone. Lugo says they should take Jack out now but Vladimir says they need the deal. Jack tells Renee he’s going to pull her out but Renee assures Jack she is fine and that it will be worth securing the materials. Dana calls Kevin back and tells him he is good to go. She gives him instructions over the phone on how to infiltrate the facility and grab the money. Kevin gains access to the room and gets the money but his partner wants to stay a little longer and grab more stuff. (more …)

Greetings, all.  Normally this would be Avery’s week to do the OESR, but she’s across the pond gallivanting around Spain with Mary McDonnell, Edward James Olmos, and a bunch of other Battlestar Galactica fans, so we decided to swap writing weeks.  Avery will return for Episode 8 and then we will be back on our regular posting schedule again after that.

Summary

Jack advises Hastings to pull Renee out of the operation as soon as possible because he thinks she is unstable and no longer values her own life.  He suggests CTU can take Vlad into custody and coerce his cooperation another way.  Hastings still thinks Renee is their best shot at finding the nuclear rods and orders Jack to stick with the plan.  Vlad takes Renee back to his base of operations and demands details about the deal.  Renee gives him the cover information on Jack, fills him in on the uranium rods, and suggests he can use his contacts to find out who has them so they can make a counter-offer.  Vlad agrees to mine his contacts on two conditions — his men meet with the buyer first and the buyer provides a $5M “good faith” payment. (more …)

Summary

It’s 8:00, and Ziya’s thumb bleeds. Jack reprimands Renee, who responds that she’s still their only shot of getting to the uranium. Jack sneaks back to his car as Ziya wakes up. He’s understandably upset, but Renee coerces him into helping her get to Vladimir in exchange for a big payday. He brings her to the hideout, and Jack tries to establish cover with her, meeting resistance when he asks Renee about her past with Vladimir. So like any man in love, he gets a mutual friend (Chloe) to google details about her life online.

Elsewhere, everyone connected to Farhad Hassan is being rounded up. Farhad himself is currently being kept busy by a couple of prostitutes, and Josef convinces his father to let him seek radiation treatment for his dying brother. The two wind up at a doctor’s office, where Josef convinces the doctor to help them… at gunpoint. (more …)

Summary

In the wake of the explosion, Hastings explains to President Taylor and Rob Weiss that the bomb threat inside the UN was a hoax designed to draw Hassan out of the building and into the assassin’s real line of fire.  Weiss is pissed at CTU’s clusterfuck.  Cole rolls out of his burning vehicle to safety and moves Hassan to another car and away from Davros, who is approaching with a gun, in the nick of time.  Cole calls Dana, who is relieved that he is OK.  As he explains that the assassin was posing as a member of the security team and that Hassan was evacuated successfully, he spots Davros across the street.  Davros bolts into a nearby building and Cole gives chase, instructing Dana to put it out on the wire.

Jack, en route to the UN with Phil the Benevolent Cop, receives Dana’s transmission that Cole is in pursuit of the assassin, and the address of the building.  He pursues, intending to back up Cole.  Farhad calls Davros and inquires about his brother’s status.  Davros informs him that Hassan is still alive, and instructs him to flee before the authorities figure out he was involved in the attempt on his brother’s life. He immediately bolts from his limo, stabs a CTU Agent who gets in his way in the neck with a pen, and runs off into the night.  Yep, he’s smooth, that Farhad. (more …)

Summary

Mr. Weiss follows up with Brian Hastings on the status of the interrogation. Hastings informs Weiss they are making progress on decrypting a file from Meredith’s laptop. Cole Ortiz suggests to Dana Walsh that Jack might be right and that maybe the file was planted on the laptop by someone else. Jack shows up at the location to follow up on his lead, but the taxi has disappeared. Davros (Mikey Farmer) continues to threaten Jim and his wife Maggie. Jim calls Captain Rivello, telling him he is sick and Mike Farmer is willing take his shift. Captain Rivello agrees and tells Jim to get better. Jim tells Davros to do what he’s got to do and leave them alone, and that “they wouldn’t make any trouble for him.” Jack stumbles into the middle of a street basketball game, and is confronted by a street thug and his “crew”. Jack offers $100 to any of the thugs who has seen the suspect he is looking for. One of the thugs says he saw him go in a nearby house. The kid takes the $100 and gloats at his friends. Jack kicks the door to the house open and discovers Jim and Maggie have been killed. A policeman named Phil shows up at the door. Jack confronts him and tells him to lower his weapon, pulling his usual “CTU federal agent!” routine. Jack is tazered from behind by another cop named John. The cops think Jack killed Jim and Maggie. (more …)

Summary

Following the attack, Jack informs CTU that someone close to Hassan may be working against him. Dana and Hastings are shocked, because they’re new to the 24 world. Jack doesn’t want to go back to CTU, but finally agrees to return for the debrief.

Hastings tries to convince Weiss to isolate Hassan until the threat is neutralized, but Weiss insists that the treaty takes priority. Dana approaches Hastings with a potential lead on the insider – someone has accessed the UN database without authorization and downloaded information about Hassan and the security protocols. With Chloe’s help, she traces the source to Meredith Reed’s computer. Reed herself has made plans to meet with Hassan before his next meeting. As she makes her way towards his office, CTU frantically collaborates with the UN security detail and locates her using facial recognition software. Hassan watches in confusion as she’s arrested and taken away. (more …)

Summary

Time has passed since Season 7. Jack Bauer’s stem cell treatment at the hands of Kim Bauer has been successful, and he’s living in New York fully recovered. Kim Bauer, her husband, and their daughter Teri have come out to visit from Los Angeles, and Jack makes a decision to move back home with them. In global news, President Allison Taylor and President Omar Hassan of the Islamic Republic of Kamistan (which I suspect is a fictional country) are thiiis close to signing a historic peace treaty. (more …)

Indeed, the first 2 hours of Season 8 aired last night.  So what is the official AIG response to the premiere?  Honestly, there isn’t one yet.  I fell asleep, so I’m going to have to watch the first two hours again sometime this evening between the time I get home from work and the time the second 2 hours begins.

Now, don’t get me wrong.  I’m not trying to intone that the premiere was so boring that I slept through it.  I honestly don’t know if the premiere would still have been snoozy for a person who wasn’t hung over, running on 5 hours of sleep after partying the night before and then a day of helping her aunt shop for a new laptop and setting up said new laptop.  Especially without any “OMG TONY” adrenaline coursing through my veins to offset the fatigue. (more …)