24 Day 7: 6pm-8pm

Previously on 24: Dubaku tells Ryan Burnett, Senator Mayer’s chief of staff, that if he’s caught or killed, the U.S. co-conspirators are screwed. Jack convinces Marika to lead them to Dubaku. Agent Walker promises Marika’s sister she will keep her safe, but Marika dies. Jack discovers a chip with the list Dubaku was hiding as leverage. Bill asks the president to pardon Jack for his help. Tony tells Jack (in an inexplicable whisper) that there will be another attack on U.S. soil soon. He gives up Ryan Burnett as being involved.

The following takes place between 6pm and 7pm…

An orderly is cleared to see Dubaku who is unconscious. A nurse gets a call that distracts her long enough for the orderly to inject Dubaku. He goes into arrest.

At the White House, the president watches coverage of the U.S. troops invading Sangala. She and her aides wonder where General Juma is. (Uh, look behind you.)

Meanwhile, behind the White House, General Juma talks to one of his men, Dubaku’s son. He wants to know where his Daddy at, and Juma tells him not to worry. The orderly calls Juma and tells him that Dubaku is dead.

Agent Walker arrives just as Dubaku is pronounced dead. The doctors tell her it was probably a pre-existing condition.

At the FBI offices, Agent Moss is debriefing his peeps when Jack calls Chloe. He wants her to delete Ryan Burnett’s name from the list so he can’t lawyer up and keep the info to himself. She does as she’s told, but pouts that Chloe pout. Janis comes in and what follows is a bunch of geek talk I don’t understand. In the end, Janis is intimidated.

Her lips are moving, but all I can hear is, "Blah, blah, blah, I can't act."

Ryan wants desperately to get out of the White House before the shit hits the fan. Senator Mayer doesn’t want to hear about Jack’s good deeds. He wants Jack to pay. If he refuses to go along, the president reserves the right to invoke executive privilege which could mean a pardon for Jack.

Jack goes into the office that Bill is working out of in the White House and holds him at gun point. He wants to know where Ryan Burnett is. He tells him Ryan is a traitor. Bill says there has to be another way. Jack says there isn’t. He wants to go all rogue on Ryan’s ass. He grips Bill up into a sleeper hold. I really want to learn how to do that. For real. He grabs a taser (my favorite weapon ever!) and heads out.

Agent Walker calls Moss and tells him about Dubaku’s death. She says that something doesn’t seem right and she’s going to dig further. He accuses her of being influenced by Jack. She gets an attitude and says she’s going to look into Dubaku’s death. A security guard tells her that the orderly last seen going to Dubaku’s bed is a stranger to everyone that works there and they got surveillance footage of him leaving the hospital.

Janis goes to see Chloe again and after a bunch of geek-speak, it seems she realizes someone deleted a name from the list. When she leaves, Chloe calls Jack and tells him to get on with the get on because they’re on to her.

Senator Mayer tells Ryan they need to make it politically bad for the president to pardon Jack Bauer. They want to say she’s emotional because her husband has been shot. Yeah, the female president has to be labeled hysterical. Ryan talks to Juma and realizes he needs to get the hell out of dodge. Before he can, Jack jolts his ass. I love seeing people get tased!

Janis tells Moss what Chloe has been helping Jack and plays Chloe’s phone conversation with him. They call security on Chloe and scoop her ass up. Big mouth Janis looks quite pleased with herself. As Chloe is being carted off she gives Janis a look like, “Snitches get stitches, bitch.”

Chloe, you got some 'splainin' to do.

Senator Mayer meets with the president and says he doesn’t want Jack Bauer to get off the hook; he has tortured people and shouldn’t get away with it. The president isn’t tryna hear it. Agent Moss calls and interrupts their meeting. He snitches that Jack is most likely pushing bamboo shoots under Ryan’s nails as they speak.

Nope, he’s just uber-tasin’ his ass and it’s awesome. Ryan is a trooper though and pretends he doesn’t know what the hell Jack is talking about. He keeps juicing him. He threatens to zap him in the throat, possibly paralyzing him. The president calls just as Ryan is snitching on Juma’s plan. Before he can get anymore info out of him, the door is blown open and Jack is apprehended.

“You’re done, Bauer,” Senator Mayer sneers.

Jack tells them they need to find out what Ryan knows because Juma’s men are moving. Not like this, says the president. Jack is arrested and the president raises the threat level. She wants to talk to Ryan herself.

The president realizes they’ll have to offer Ryan a free pass as he’s the best source of information they have as to Juma’s next move. Ryan refuses to cooperate. They offer him a free pass and he still refuses. Seems those volts juiced up his balls.

Agent Walker’s lead on the orderly leads her to a warehouse where Juma is with his men.  She calls Moss with her location once she sees Juma’s men patrolling the building. Moss gathers a team and heads out. Agent Walker sees Juma talking to Dubaku’s son. He’s still lying about Dubaku’s whereabouts.  She calls Moss again, “I know this sounds crazy, I swear I just saw Juma. I think it was him.”

"I don't know! I mean, I THINK it's him! He's big and black, now get your ass over here!"

Juma and his men go upstairs via the elevator and Walker takes the stairs. They head towards a boat and she follows. Dumb de dumb dumb.

Bill talks to Tony who fills him in. Bill wishes they’d have brought him in sooner. Tony’s all, tough titty.

Moss tries to reach Agent Walker, but Janis informs him that either her cell was damaged or its battery died.

Turns out it’s just wet. She got aboard the boat. She peeks as they check out some maps on a table, then Juma and his men head out.  With scuba gear, they jump into the water while Agent Walker gets a look at the plans they left behind. She sees maps of the White House. Dubaku’s son catches her and she jumps overboard. He shoots into the water and misses. She swims for her life and he follows by boat.  She makes it to land as Juma and his men swim towards the White House. Dubaku’s boy is right behind her.

Juma and his men swim… are they under the White House? WTF? Um, so like, no one thought to secure the water leading to the White House?!

Tick…tock….tick… tock…

The following takes place between 7pm and 8pm:

Juma and his men drill their way out of the water and into some tunnels.

President Taylor’s daughter wants to leave to see her father, but Aaron tells her she can’t. Its best if she stays put.  Olivia pouts. Nathan (what is his job title?) comes in and tells her that there’s another terrorist attack on the horizon and she might want to start acting like a big girl so as not to add more stress to her Mama.

Moss calls the president from the warehouse Juma was operating out of. He tells her Juma is in town. How the hell did he get into the United States? It seems like it would be the equivalent of Bin Laden strolling through Crenshaw. Anyway…

Agent Walker flags down a trooper and tells him to call Moss. As he begins to, Dubaku’s son shoots him and Walker runs off. Dumbass. They could have gotten into the car and driven off in all that time.

Bill visits Jack in his holding cell. The White House has holding cells? He fills him in on what’s going on. Ryan is being transferred and has lawyered up. Jack is all about breaking rules to catch the bad guys and Bill isn’t. Jack is a bully.

Juma and his men begin using a blowtorch on a gate after emerging from the water. Juma calls a contact inside the White House who kills a co-worker before letting them in. Lord, they’re never gonna let black folk in the White House after watching this.

Juma. Messing it up for brothas everywhere!

Juma and his men take out secret service agents like it ain’t no thang. It’s tougher to break into my house.

Dubaku’s son catches up with Agent Walker and she quickly drops a dollar worth of dimes in telling him that Juma had his father killed. He pauses, but eventually doesn’t believe her. She beats his ass with a shovel before he gets the upper hand and starts choking her. Agent Moss lights him up just in time.

Jack is being transferred when Bill gets a call from Moss that the target is the White House. They scramble to get the president to lockdown. Bill takes the president’s lo-jack and starts running around all willy nilly to throw off Juma and his men. They catch up with him and realize that they’ve lost the element of surprise. They decide to take Bill as a hostage.

There’s lots of shooting in the halls. The president and Jack make it to the lockdown and are able to seal themselves in just as Juma gets there. Aaron is going to try and find a way out of the building with Olivia, the president’s daughter.

The secret service are closing in on Juma outside the lockdown, but since they don’t know that the president has made it into the lockdown, Juma is able to lie to them and say he has her. The jackasses believe him and fall back in order to save the president’s life.

This secret service sucks! I hope Obama’s watching.

Aaron and Olivia are hiding. He tells her that they have to get word out that Juma is bluffing so the secret service will retake the building.

Juma has all the hostages gathered outside of the lockdown room. One of his men use a doohickey that will eventually get the code inside the lockdown room. Hell, the White House would have been better off with ADT.

Agent Walker realizes that Jack is inside and Moss is all, “Um, concentrate on the president, not Jack Bauer.”

The president and Jack are watching what’s going on outside the room via monitors. They realize Juma is willing to die. When they also realize that Juma has a man working on breaking the access code, Jack goes all MacGyver using a lamp, a sock, and some bubble gum to stop him.

When Juma realizes, he calls John Voight. I don’t know who John Voight is, but apparently he’s evil and a traitor. Juma threatens to destroy some shipment if J.V. doesn’t help him get access into the lockdown room.

J.V. asks who is with the president and he tells him only one man. J.V. consults a computer and tells Juma that the president’s daughter is still somewhere in the White House. Juma looks over the hostages and realizes Olivia isn’t there. He orders his men to go find her.

Amongst the hostages Senator Mayer asks Bill if he thinks this is all his fault. If he had signed off Jack torturing Ryan, they’d have known the White House was the target earlier. Bill is too polite to say, “True dat.”

"I don't want to say it's TOTALLY your fault, but it kinda is."

Outside, a secret service agent presents Moss with a thermal scan of the building. They can’t see individual hostages, but a cluster. He says it would be better, but the White House is one of the most heavily guarded buildings in the world….

… and it was just breached by 12 Africans!

Moss gets on a videoconference with the V.P. He tells him that by the location of the hostages, they believe the president made it into the lockdown. He wants to go in. The V.P. says without proof he can’t sign off on that.

The V.P.’s aide is all, “Good call, sir. You don’t want to sign off on anything that would result in her death and your promotion. Wouldn’t look good politically.”

The V.P. is all, “Um, don’t say stuff like that out loud.”

Aaron and Olivia encounter one of Juma’s men and Aaron is shot before taking him out. He tells Olivia to go into the next office and find a first aid kit that has a flashlight in it. He writes down a “code green” morse code on her hand and tells her to use the flashlight to signal that it’s okay to move in.

Her dumb ass goes to do it, but doesn’t close the door behind her or anything so she gets gripped up before she can send the message. Now, I’m sure Aaron wouldn’t have told she was in the office. She should have gone in, closed the door, and maybe had a little more time to send the signal.

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the new Kim Bauer. Not as cute, but just as stupid.

Juma realizes that the president can see what’s going on in the hall. He sits her daughter down in front of the camera and threatens to cut out Olivia’s eyes if she doesn’t open the door.

Again, because she’s a female president she demands that Jack open the door. Jack is all, “Damnit! Madame President, will you calm the f*ck down and let me do my job?!” She pulls rank though and he eventually opens the door.

Senator Mayer is suck a prick. “Bauer, what have you done?!”

Juma slaps the president and tells her she no longer gives the orders. He tells him men to get the camera ready for her statement.

“What statement?,” she asks.

“The last statement you’ll ever give.”

Tick… tock… tick… tock….