24 – Day 7: 2am-4am

Previously on 24: Jack learns there’s a possible treatment for his cooties, but it involves Kim. He doesn’t want her involved, but Agent Walker calls her anyway. Jack sends Kim away. Tony blows up the missiles Starkwood were going to use and Jonas Hodges is arrested. A Starkwood op gets away with a canister of the bioweapon. When Moss and Tony catch up to him, Tony kills Moss.

And now….

The following takes place between 2am and 3am…

Hodges’  attorney is preparing to leave for the White House when she’s attacked at her front door. While a man injects her with a needle, a woman that resembles her takes her I.D. Using a doohickey, they get thumb print and put it on the impostor’s thumb.

At the FBI offices Walker gives Janis the identify of the Starkwood op that got away. Galvez. Moss isn’t answering his phone.

Tony shoots himself in the side and then takes a call from Galvez. He tells Galvez to stay holed up where he is.

Kim says goodbye to Agent Walker. She’s going to honor her father’s wishes and leave. Walker gets a call from the scene and finds out that Moss is dead. She tells Janis someone needs to notify Moss’ ex-wife and it probably shouldn’t be her… see, ’cause they were bonin’.

R.I.P.

Jack is being debriefed on earlier events. The guy doing the questioning wants to know if he verified Tony’s sources. Jack didn’t. Jack starts repeating himself cause his cooties are flaring up. Jack notices a bunch of activity in the hall and he finds out that Moss is dead. Walker is all business as she leaves to avenge her man’s death. Jack calls shotgun on the helicopter leaving for the scene.

Hodges’ fake attorney makes it into the White House.

Worst.Security.EVER.

Olivia informs the president of Moss’ death and Galvez’s escape. The president realizes that she may have to make a deal with Hodges if he’s behind the latest events.

Hodges’ fake attorney arrives at his cell. She tells him that he jeopardized the plan. He would have been protected if he had just slowed his roll! “The others” are concerned that they will be exposed. She threatens his family and offers him a red pill for him to take that will induce a heart attack. Starkwood can’t be brought down without his testimony and “the others” will be protected and not have to kill his family. He accepts the pill. Olivia comes to transfer Hodges for FBI questioning.

Fake lawyer calls in. She tells the man on the phone that Tony has been the only bright spot in a otherwise frakked up day. Damn you, Tony!! Galvez calls Tony and tells him that he’s holed up in an abandoned apartment building. He has 20 minutes to do whatever it is he has to do.

Jack has the nerve to try and counsel Walker on how to feel about Moss’ death. The man who doesn’t feel shit. She pretty much tells him to shut the hell up. They arrive at the scene. Walker wants to see Moss’ body. While Tony offers up his condolences to Walker, Jack is playing snoopy mcsnooperstein. They listen to Tony’s version of what happened, but something with the shell casings doesn’t add up. There must have been a second shooter.

Kim calls her husband… yes, her husband, and tells him what is happening with Jack. She admits that she didn’t tell Jack about his granddaughter, Teri (obviously named after Jack’s dead wife.) In the crib, is a little blonde baby that looks like a mini-Jack Bauer.

Out in the field, Jack has to give himself a shot of whatever the CDC doc gave him. Tony apologizes for what Jack is going through.

Galvez calls in as an FBI agent he has killed and leads the FBI to the abandoned building. Jack stays behind as does Tony.

Hodges is loaded into a transport van when he notices one of the soldiers shackling him fought alongside some of his Starkwood peeps. The soldier tells him that the Starkwood men were fine soldiers. That’s all Hodges needed to hear. En route, he pops the red pill. When his heart attack begins, the soldiers call it in and rush him to the hospital.

Galvez continues to communicate with the FBI like he’s one of them and instructs them to enter the building. He watches from another location as the building is wired to blow. The agent debriefing Jack earlier calls him and asks if he possibly got the name of Tony’s source wrong. Jack doesn’t think so, but disconnects after seeing a screen with the radio codes of the agents involved in the current operation.

Walker and the other agents sweep through the abandoned building. Jack realizes that the radio the agent used to call it in isn’t even in the building. He calls in to Walker that it’s a trap and to get out. Galvez sets off the explosives. Jack tells the agents to maintain the perimeter so Galvez doesn’t get away.

In the confusion, and dressed as FBI, Galvez rushes in the building with the other agents. Jack and Tony arrive and Tony rushes in. He meets up with Galvez and takes the canister. Galvez covers himself with a dead agent’s blood. All Jack cares about is Walker. She’s fine. She tells Jack it’s like Galvez knew their pattern and that the abandoned building would be checked last.

Tony helps Galvez, who is pretending to be hurt, out of the building. Jack calls the agent back who had called earlier and finds out that the source Tony said was dead, is actually alive. Jack sees Tony helping Galvez to an ambulance. He calls out for him. The ambulance leaves with Galvez and the canister. Jack tells Tony they need to talk and pulls a gun on him. He tells him that the guy Tony said died during his interrogation is alive. Tony comes up with some excuse and as Jack ain’t buying it, he starts to have a cooties flare-up. Nooo! Not now!

As Jack has a seizure on the ground, Tony witholds his medicine Tracy Quarermaine-style.

In the ambulance, Galvez kills the medic tending to him and pulls a gun on the driver.

Tick… tock… tick… tock…

3am – 4am

The following takes place between 3am and 4am…

As the CDC doc tends to Jack he tells Walker that Tony is the second shooter.  They put out an APB, but Tony kills two agents and escapes. Jack blames himself for vouching for Tony.

Tony meets up with Galvez at a motel room. Galvez confirms a money transfer via phone before giving Tony a bag with the canister. When Tony opens the bag, it’s the yellow pages. Oh, snap! He gave him a phone book, son!

Galvez pulls a gun on Tony and wants to know who the buyer is. Tony tosses the bag and knocks the gun back. They struggle and fight. Tony starts to smother Galvez with the shower curtain and wants to know where the canister is.

The president learns that Hodges will survive his suicide attempt. She also finds out that his real attorney is dead, and the imposter is the one that slipped Hodges the pill. Walker and Bauer call the president. They tell her that Galvez got away. Jack admits that Tony Almeida screwed them. She tells them about Hodges’ threat before being taken into custody and his suicide attempt. Jack says they need to question Hodges, but the president won’t sanction torture. Jack says they wont need to. He will talk if they offer to let everyone think he’s dead.

The fake lawyer shows up at Tony’s motel room. Galvez is dead. She wants to make the delivery and Tony doesn’t. He wants to use the one canister to finish the job and launch another attack. Kick your enemy when he’s down and all that. She says she’ll run it by the group.

At the white house, the president tells Olivia that they’re going to put Hodges in the witness protection program. Olivia is not happy. She reminds the president that Hodges killed her son. She continues to hit below the belt, but the president stands firm. She wants Olivia to contact the attorney general and have the protection agreement drafted.

Fake lawyer calls in to “the group” and explains that they’ll be launching another attack during rush hour traffic. They’ll blame the attack on a terrorist leaving his body at the scene. The guy isn’t even a terrorist – but they’ll make him look like one. Everyone on the call is voice protected. As the group ponders striking now vs. waiting six months, fake lawyer IMs a group member to weigh in on her side since Almeida came through for them. He does and then everyone votes. They agree to strike now. Tony kisses fake lawyer. Ewwww.

Jack arrives to question Hodges. Hodges is ranting that by saving him, they’ve killed his family. Jack tells him that they will let the group think he’s dead if he tells who they are. If he refuses they will leak to the press that he’s alive and then his family will be harmed. Hodges says the president doesn’t have the balls to do that and Jack is all, “Have you seen my balls? Those are the ones you need to be worried about.”

Hodges tells Jack that there are other groups with like-minded ideas – attack the country and prove that the government can’t protect them. He says he watched Jack’s senate hearing and was disgusted because Jack should be treated like a hero. So, he watched the hearings, but didn’t know who Jack was when he walked in the room. Hodges claimed he doesn’t know any names. Jack pretends to call a press contact and Hodges gives up that his only contact with the group is the woman that pretended to be his lawyer. The biometric monitors says that he’s being honest.

Jack tells the president that it is likely that they will launch another attack today. The president agrees to unseal the CTU servers so that Jack can do his thing. Jack calls Chloe and confirms that Bill is dead. *sniff* He tells her that he needs her help. She looks at her sleeping son and tells Jack to send the car for her. She tells Morris to get their son, Prescott, out of the city so she can go and save the world.

During the briefing, Jack confirms to the FBI agents that they only have two suspects (Tony and fake lawyer) and that the only lead they have is that the group will try to pass off the attack on an innocent. They need to track down the trail using CTU servers. Janis has some kind of hissy fit and Walker shuts her up.

Chloe arrives and Jack tells her that Tony betrayed them. She doesn’t want to believe it, but Jack tells her she needs to be with him and is prepared to take Tony down. Chloe is down for whatever.

That's how she rolls.

Tony and fake lawyer stake-out their  patsy – an illegal whose student visa expired, is Muslim, and has reason to be angry with the U.S. He has one younger brother.

Inside, the patsy is preparing breakfast for his brother. He tells him to be careful – today isn’t a good day to be a Muslim in the U.S. His bro tells him to relax. Most people think he’s Puerto Rican. Muslim, Puerto Rican, whatever – he’s cute!

Another car arrives and the occupants, plus Tony and fake lawyer start towards patsy’s house.

Olivia is going over Hodges’ witness protection order and tells Aaron what it is when he comes to get the document for the A.G. Olivia whines and whines. Aaron offers condolences. When he asks if there’s anything else he can do for her, she says other than killing Hodges… no. And for like five whole seconds it looks like he considered it! Maybe I’m confusing his consideration face with his, “Bitch, is you crazy” face. She apologizes and Aaron leaves. Olivia makes a phone call to some guy named Martin. They agree to meet at the white house.

The white house is like Grand freaking Central Station.

Janis is all pouty. She doesn’t like the CTU servers. She doesn’t like that they can spy on people. She doesn’t like Chloe. She doesn’t like anything. Jack pretty much tells her to shut the frak up and leave if she can’t get with the program. She looks like she wants to cry. It’s the best part of the season so far. I have to rewind it and watch it three times.

Jack got in dat ass, Bauer-style!

The lights go out in the patsy’s apartment. Tony, fake lawyer, and the other goons grab his brother and put a gun to patsy’s head.

Poor patsy.

Tick… tock… tick… tock.