24: Day 7 10pm-11pm

Previously on 24: Ethan Kanin is confronted with his role in Jack’s interrogation of Burnett. Agent Walker is detained after helping Jack get to Senator Mayer. Jonas Hodges doesn’t worry about loose ends for the moment. Jack convinces Senator Mayer that there’s another threat out there, but Mayer is killed before he can help Jack. Jack kills the man who killed Burnett and Mayer.

And now…

The following takes place between 10pm and 11pm:

Agent Moss calls Kanin and tells him that Senator Mayer is dead. Poor Kanin looks like he’s about to have a heart attack. Moss reminds Kanin that it’s all his fault. Seriously, Kanin may stroke out before midnight.

Jack fills Tony in on the Starkwood/Sangala/there are weapons on U.S. soil connection. Tony is down for whatever and they agree to meet.

President Taylor talks to First Hubby who’s still in the hospital. She tells him everything is okay and that Olivia is back home. I predict this is the last we’ll see of First Hubby. Kanin arrives and gives the president the bad news. He then offers to resign as the Chief of Staff. She offers to control the damage, but he has already made up his mind. This is really sad. And you knoooow Olivia is going to eat this up.

Well, that conversation lasted long enough for Jack and Tony to meet up at the storage place Jack found on the Quinn’s phone.

A security guard there is on the phone with his pregnant wife… pregnant with twins… (That means his death will be really tragic) when he hears a noise.  Jack grips him up.

Hodges speaks with his main henchman, Stokes. Quinn hasn’t checked in and Hodges ponders the possibility that Jack got to him and now knows the plan. He tells Stokes to wait five minutes and then go in. Hodges gives a pep talk to his Starkwood peeps. He doesn’t want them to cooperate with the government. Ignore the subpeonas. One board member, Doug, speaks up that he doesn’t think that’s the way to go. They talk privately and Doug doesn’t think Senator Mayer will let up. Hodges tells him Mayer won’t be a problem to nobody no’ mo’. Doug wonders if Hodges was involved in Mayer’s death… out loud. Stupid. Keep your suspicions to yourself before you end up dead too!

Jack and Tony have the guard tied up and try to get into the manifest info on the computer. Jack hits a security roadblock on the computer. He explains to the guard, Carl, that they’re trying to stop terrorists and Carl doesn’t need to be convinced. He agreed to help the terrorists; open the gate for them, turn off the cameras, make sure there weren’t any other police – he thought he was helping some electronics smugglers.

Jack can’t reach the FBI because communications are jammed. When Stokes calls Carl on his walkie-talkie, Jack instructs Carl to answer. Then he tells Carl to play along like everything is okay. They’ll follow the terrorists to the container with the weapons and once past the jamming frequency, they’ll call for help. Carl doesn’t know if he can do it and Jack ain’t tryna hear it. Too late to bitch out now, Carl. Jack gives him the whisper pep-talk that Jack does so well. Carl wants to be sure that all he has to do is open the gate and that Jack and Tony will have his back. He makes Jack pinky-promise.

Carl isn’t long for this world.

Carl starts yammering about how expensive getting pregnant was and his insurance being crappy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell your story walking… to the gate.

Carl goes to the gate reeking of, “Please, God! Don’t kill me.” He gives Stokes directions to the container, but he insists that Carl ride with them. Poor Carl. Never go to the second location!!!

Kanin packs up his stuff, and Olivia comes to gloat… but she covers it with sympathy. I don’t trust her! Go home, Kanin. You don’t want to be in that poorly secured White House no way. Olivia calls the reporter that approached Kanin and leaks the story that Jack is suspected of killing Senator Mayer.

Beyotch.

Moss is, thankfully, smart enough to realize that if the Senator was killed in the foyer, there shouldn’t be additional slugs from where Quinn chased Jack.

Moss calls Agent Walker and she tells him about Quinn and Starkwood, but he won’t let her help.

OK, back to the shipping containers. Why are they playing this military-like, soaring music? Was that necessary? The bad guys get the container they need, but are waiting for a flatbed to move it. Um, why didn’t they have that ready?

Tony wants to leave, but Jack realizes that the bad guys are gonna kill Carl… and he pinky-promised. Tony is all, “You’re gonna turn a surveillance job into a fire-fight. It will be 2 against 10.”

“2 against 9,” Jack growls.

Awesome.

The bad guy is about to shoot Carl when Jack takes him out long-range using a silencer. Carl says thank you, bows a few times, and gets on the hot foot. The other bad guys are ready to go, but the shooter isn’t responding. ‘Cause he’s dead. When the bad guys realize what has happened, Tony and Jack open up a can of hurt. In all the chaos, the truck is loaded with the container and starts to leave. Jack goes after it while Tony covers him.

Jack jumps on top of the truck and bitch-punches the driver. Tony gets caught. And Jack leaves him! Aw, Jack say it ain’t so.

"Yeah, Jack made the bitch move."

Jack calls Moss from the truck and tells him what’s going on. He needs a  CDC team to meet him with the truck full of bio-weapons. He also confesses that Tony made need some help too since he left his ass. The stuff in the back of the truck starts beeping!

"That can't be good."

He pulls over and discovers that the truck took some damage and one of the tanks inside is leaking. Run, Jack, run! Jack goes into the back of the truck and turns off a valve or something. I don’t know. I’m just tryna figure out why he’s moving so slow. You know they’re gonna catch up with him!

Sure enough, as he’s leaving the truck a helicopter shows up and starts shooting at him. Well, guys in the helicopter, not the helicopter. An SUV shows up and Jack really does run. From the side of the road he sees the bad guys unloading the weapons.

Stokes calls in to Hodges and tells him they have the weapons. They’ll be in place in ten minutes. They also have Tony gripped up in the backseat.

Jack calls into Moss. The CDC will come to him for proof there’s a bio-weapon so that the FBI has cause to raid the private Starkwood compound they believe the weapon is headed to. Jack admits that he was exposed.

Yup, Jack Bauer has cooties.

Tick… tock… tick… tock.