24 – Day 7: 1am-2am

Previously on 24: At the FBI, Jack contacts a Starkwood member, Knowles, and convinces him to help Tony locate the bio-weapons. Jack has a cooties attack. He refuses to let his daughter Kim be brought in to help heal him. Hodges kills Knowles. Hodges tells the President that he will bomb three cities if she doesn’t call off her attack on Starkwood, and he demands a sit down with her.

And now…

The following takes place between 1am and 2am:

Poor Tony is still on Starkwood’s compound. He talks to Jack who tells him that the president’s strike has been called off. They have an exit plan for him. Tony realizes that Starkwood has surface-to-surface missiles and that’s probably why the president called off the strike.

At the White House, the joint chiefs question the president’s decision to call off the air strike on Starkwood. Jack calls the president and totally calls her on her shit.

"Don't lie to me! I'm Jack Bauer, bitch!"

The president admits that Hodges has missiles aimed at U.S. cities. Jack tells her that she cannot negotiate with Hodges. He wants to give Tony time to place C4 charges and blow up the missiles. The president does one of those, “I’m not telling you to go in, but like, if you went in without my knowing, there’s not much I can do to you since you’re dying…” and then hangs up. “What’s that supposed to mean?,” Walker wants to know. “That means do what I do, beyotch.”

Walker calls Moss and he’s down for whatever. Finally. He’s spent all day being a pain in the ass. Jack calls Tony and tells him that he can go in, but he can’t get caught. Tony rushes two of the guys pumping the rocket fuel into the underground bunker after one leaves for another perimeter check. He leaves one guy knocked out by the tanker while he forces another one to let him into the bunker. So much for being undetected!

Hodges meets with the president in the Oval Office. He denies working with Juma. He wants in on shaping military policy. The balls on this guy! The president accuses him of blackmail. He’s unapologetic.

Tony plants the C4 charges and makes his way up top, but he’s jumped by some Starkwood goon. He drops the detonator into a grate. One guy sounds an alarm and the launch is prepped. Tony manages to blow the charges just as the missiles were going to launch. Moss and his men move in.

Goooo TONY!

The president is looking over Hodges’ demands. He wants all kinds of perks. The president receives word that Starkwood has been taken out, she orders Hodges  arrested. He swears that this doesn’t end with him. That this is just the beginning. Ruh-roh.

The president calls Jack and tells him that they arrested Hodges. She expresses gratitude for all he has done. He starts to ask for clemency for Tony, but has a cooties attack. Then he forgets what he was going to say. The president says she will consider all that Tony has done. The president wants the CDC to give her real-time updates on Jack’s condition.

Moss tells Walker that they are not getting resistance at Starkwood. Most of the men there didn’t know what was going on. Walker has to go because Kim Bauer has shown up. Tony overhears Moss talking about Kim and wonders if Jack will be okay. Moss says he doesn’t think Tony should be arrested since he helped, but there’s nothing he can do. He orders the cuffs taken off of Tony, but still has to take him into custody.

Walker tells Jack that Kim is there to help him. He goes white boy crazy on her. She tells him that Kim has been trying to see him all day, that she’s not just there because Walker called.

Jack meets with Kim. They have a come to Jesus meeting. She apologizes, he apologizes, but he still doesn’t want her to help him. It’s really sad. The least she can do is insist on saving him since he saved her from all of her stupid ways. Mountain lion, anyone?

"I don't care who your Daddy is. You look tasty!"

The Starkwood agent that went to check the perimeter kills an FBI agent. Another FBI agent shows up and takes his gun and realizes he has a cannister of the bio-weapon. Before Moss can get help there, the Starkwood baddie kills the agent and leaves with his cannister… and the FBI’s car to add insult to injury.

Moss takes off in a copter with Tony to try and find the guy who got away. They find him, but have to chase him on foot and can’t wait for backup. Starkwood baddie kills the helicopter pilot. Moss takes a few shots to the vest and tries to warn Tony that the baddie is behind him. Tony doesn’t care ’cause he and the baddie are FRIENDS!! Tony apologizes and then kills Moss by smothering him.

What the frak?!

Tony was a good guy who got dead, who came back and went bad, but went good and now is bad again? Jack gonna get his ass dead again.

Tick tock tick tock…