With the recent passing of Gregory Itzen (President Charles Logan), we decided to put together this special tribute in his honor.
24 Series Review - All 9 Seasons
Episode 122
Wednesday, June 2, 2021 • Duration 01:19:28
Brad and Joel discuss the entire series of 24 (minus the so-called 24: Legacy). They discuss:
The order of seasons from best to worst (comparing the ranking now vs. when they started this rewatch)
Some of their favorite (and least favorite) characters, quotes, episodes, cliffhangers, etc.
Feedback from a faithful listener
Jack Gets Revenge at Last [Season 9, Episodes 9-12]
Episode 121
Monday, May 10, 2021 • Duration 01:09:34
Key plot:
Jack takes down Margot
Ian sees through Chloe’s deception and realizes Heller is still alive, so Margot decides to attack Waterloo Station
Jack tracks down Margot and saves the station, then throws her out of a window
Steve the traitor
Jordan’s death becomes knowledge of the police and latterly the CIA
Jack has the hitman identified as a former covert ops assassin who once reported to Navarro
Navarro takes off and leaves the override device for Adrian Cross, who betrays him and Navarro is caught
To get the tracker code Kate and Jack perform a ruse where Kate threatens to kill Navarro, and it works
Cheng returns
Adrian decides he wants to use the override device to let every country expose holes in the defenses of every other country
Originally he designed the device for Cheng who returns and kills all of Open Cell’s members
Chloe reconfigures the device for him, he kills Adrian, and then gives a fake order to a US sub to sink a Chinese carrier ship
Jack’s Revenge at the Docks: Part 2
Cheng has a sniper on Audrey after she went to a contact who could push the US case that it wasn’t them who gave the order on the Chinese carrier
Kate goes to save Audrey and kills the sniper, but as they’re leaving a second shooter arrives and Audrey is shot and killed
Jack goes after Cheng at Southampton Docks and is strategic in his assault until Chloe loses her feed and communications and Kate tells him about Audrey
Jack goes on a rampage and kills all of Cheng’s men, capturing Cheng and then beheading him after providing CIA with the proof he’s alive
Ending (again)
Kate leaves the CIA, Mark is prepped for transport back to the US where he faces treason charges, Heller laments his fading memory as he boards a plane with Audrey’s body
Chloe was kidnapped by the Russians from the docks and Jack agrees to a trade: her return for his capture
Chloe is safe and Jack is taken away by helicopter to face punishment for his acts in season 8
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Jack is Reunited with Heller and Audrey [Season 9, Episodes 5-8]
Episode 120
Monday, May 3, 2021 • Duration 01:00:45
Key plot:
Jack reunites with Heller and Audrey
An arrested Jack is taken to Heller and asks to go back into the field to help stop Margot
While there Audrey goes to see him and they have a heart-to-heart
CIA follow a lead on Margot’s video demands which Naveed planted, but it’s a trap and the CIA team are ambushed by an explosive
Undercover with Rask
Heller agrees to let Jack go undercover and see Karl Rask, an arms dealer Jack has been working for to sabotage his operations, and he’s also a contact of Margot
The play: Jack killed Nils, another of Rask’s men, for being a CIA contact and has captured Kate, who was Nils’ contact. Jack needs Rask to complete a bank login so Chloe can access his system
Kate opts to inject herself with a drug to knock her out, shocking Jack
Prime Minister Davies tracks Jack’s operation after hearing of Heller’s condition and sends in MI5, who interrupt the mission
Jack manages to get Chloe access and Kate survives her torturee
Simone betrays Margot
Naveed is killed after trying to lead the CIA to their location, in front of Simone
Naveed’s sister has heard of plans to leave London and Simone is sent to find out what she and her daughter know, which is nothing, but is told to kill them anyway
She tries warning them but accidentally stabs Farah and while chasing Yasmin is hit by a bus
Jack questions her as Margot sends a drone to kill her, which they narrowly escape
Heller sacrifices himself
Heller offers Margot a trade: give himself up for the destruction of the drones
He reveals to Jack his Alzheimer’s diagnosis and enlists him and Mark to help make the exchange go through
Jack gets Heller to Wembley Stadium where he’s asked to go, and Margot fires a missile at him
But actually Chloe cloned the feed with Heller in the middle of the pitch and Jack saved Heller - she told him she didn’t know if it would work
Jack Gets Caught on Purpose [Season 9, Episodes 1-4]
Episode 119
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 • Duration 57:22
Key plot:
Jack returns to save Chloe
It’s four years after Day 8 and Jack has been on the run, but he’s found by a CIA station in London
This was actually a plan by Jack to get captured so he could break out Chloe, who’s been captured and is interrogated
She works for an organisation called Open Cell which is devoted to uncovering and publishing government secrets
Jack needed to get to Derrick Yates, who worked for Open Cell, as he was involved in someone trying to take control of the US drone programme
Yates managed this and took control of Chris Tanner’s drone, killing a squadron in Afghanistan
Kate’s return to the field
Kate Morgan is being transferred back to Langley from the CIA’s London station after her husband Adam was indicted for selling US state secrets to the Chinese, albeit she was cleared
She identifies Jack’s plays throughout - confusion over his escape route, is the one to work out why he’s at CIA, tracking him after Yates and to the US embassy
Jack takes over the embassy
Yates is killed by his ‘girlfriend’ who actually is Simone Al-Harazi, the daughter of Margot who Yates is selling the drone’s override device to
Jack decides Tanner’s flight key is the best lead for finding the person involved and breaks into the US embassy where he’s being held to take it
While doing so he has to lock himself in a communications room to transmit the data
President Heller sanctions him to be taken down but Kate intervenes, saves Jack and recovers the flight key
President James Heller
Heller is President and in London to get the UK parliament to extend the lease of a military base and support the use of drones
He is suffering with some (as yet unknown) illness which is affecting his mental functions
Season 8 Overall Review
Episode 118
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 • Duration 58:55
Wrapping up Season 8 and what seemed to be a wrap to the series...
Key plot pointsChloe’s rise through CTU
Chloe at CTU is often not ideal this season: setting it up that she works there only because she has no choice, the perception at the beginning of the season that Dana is really smart but it’s because Chloe is made to seem more incompetent
She’s often really great though: her debrief with Renee is so good, as is her threatening Frank Haynam
It’s insane that she goes from being the unwanted staff, to being de facto lead on the floor, to being interim director in the space of 17 hours
Chloe as director doesn’t work because so much of the reason we love her is her loyalty to Jack and her seeing beyond the bureaucracy to do what she knows is right
As director she loses a lot of that - see trying to capture Jack instead of helping him get to Dana - and while her shift back to exposing the Russians is good, it’s still a fairly meh version of Chloe
A satisfying end to the series?
I certainly remember feeling fairly content with the ending when it first aired
Really important that the final 8 episodes were as good as they were because if they had continued like the first two-thirds, it would’ve been a really low point on which to end
I’m still firmly in the camp that season 7 (also 4) would’ve been a better ending than this season, but I’m a fan of this one
Season 8 overall
Season 6 felt tired, as though there was a structure they tried following and there was a monotony to it, and like it needed to take a break to reset (which obviously it got from the writer’s strike)
Season 8 feels for so long like they’d run pretty much out of ideas and opted for a lot of repetition in a lot of places
Again, possibly a bit of the tired factor but also it suffers from an issue where it often feels like the show is trying too hard to surprise viewers
Despite the final run this is undoubtedly the second weakest season
Jack's Rampage of Revenge [Season 8, Episodes 19-24]
Episode 117
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 • Duration 58:06
Jack enlists Cole and kills Dana
Jack goes to old Special Forces friend Jim Ricker for surveillance equipment and an arsenal
Dana is moved to a black site by a private security firm to prevent Jack from getting to her, and to find the evidence she has against the Russians
Chloe sets up Jack for capture by Cole, luring him to a fake address where Dana is, but Jack sees through it and convinces Cole to help him expose the cover-up
They rescue Dana and go to a bank to get the evidence, but she explodes a device to subdue Cole and try to escape by calling the police on Jack
Jack catches up to her and kills her
Revenge for Renee
Jack contacts Meredith Reed so she can publish the story about the Russian involvement using Dana’s evidence
Pavel and his team use the meeting to trap Jack but he’s a step ahead and with Ricker capture Pavel
Jack realises Pavel was the one who killed Renee and tortures him, eventually slicing open his stomach to retrieve his SIM card
Doing this reveals to him that Logan is involved
Jack vs Logan and Suvarov
Jack traps Logan’s motorcade in a tunnel and takes down the Secret Service agents to kidnap Logan
Logan breaks easily and tells Jack that Mikhail Novakovich, the Russian Foreign Minister, is behind things
Jack goes to Novakovich’s hotel and kills him and his staff/security, although is wounded in the process
He planted a listening device on Logan (again) and overhears that Suvarov is involved too
Jack gets a sniper trained on Logan and ready to shoot Suvarov, but Chloe manages to talk him down before he assassinates Suvarov
Chloe tries to get the Logan/Suvarov audio uploaded to CTU to be sent to everyone in government and every media outlet but she’s stopped before she can
The President’s demise
Ethan resigns after Taylor walks back plans to pull out of the talks due to Dana’s evidence, after she has Dana taken by the private security firm
A Quest for Revenge [Season 8, Episodes 13-18]
Episode 116
Thursday, March 25, 2021 • Duration 58:27
Dana the double agent
Dana kills Bill Prady when he tries going to Hastings
Turns out Dana’s actually a plant and working with Samir
CTU discover this when she helps Tarin escape (he kills himself to distract CTU) and keep Hassan captive
Trade for Hassan
Samir offers Taylor a trade: give them Hassan and they won’t detonate the “radiological dispersal device” in Manhattan
Taylor’s against this but General Brucker convinces Rob Weiss to act, sending a covert team to kidnap Hassan
Ethan discovers their plot and has a heart attack, from which Rob and Brucker leave him without medical help until Hassan is in captivity
Jack fends off the team but Hassan learns of the trade and offers himself up
Samir reads a statement of Hassan’s crimes and then slits his throat
Renee’s death
A mysterious figure posing as a medic, Pavel Tokarev, injects Samir with a toxin that kills him, and Renee briefly notices him as he leaves as though she recognises him
Jack and Renee go back to his apartment and have sex
Pavel follows them, and shoots Renee to cover the tracks of the Russian involvement
Jack gets Renee to a hospital but she dies
Jack begins quest for revenge
To find out about the Russian involvement, Jack goes to the arraignment of Sergei Bazhaev
Bazhaev tells him that the Russian government were involved in everything that happened and that Dana was their agent at CTU
Jack questions Dana, who will talk for an immunity deal
Taylor goes to CTU to talk Jack out of this and has him locked down (he steals a helicopter and escapes) because she doesn’t want him derailing the peace agreement
The return of Charles Logan
Renee Going Undercover [Season 8, Episodes 7-12]
Episode 115
Monday, March 22, 2021 • Duration 44:03
The undercover operation progresses
Laitanan calls everyone he can including Sergei Bazhaev, who denies involvement
Renee and Laitanan fight, she kills him (stabs 15 times) and stabs Jack, who manages to kill Laitanan’s men
Bazhaev’s men kidnap Jack and torture him but he escapes and takes down Bazhaev
Josef steals the rods and tries to sell them to Farhad but is killed by them when about to go along with Jack’s immunity deal
Marcos and the Farhad ruse
Samir is no longer going to export to the IRK, but use the rods in New York
Farhad isn’t happy with this and escapes and calls CTU, only for him to get up from his hiding spot and be killed just before CTU arrive
He dies but Jack suggests using him as dead bait to lure the terrorists into making sure he’s dead
Marcos Al-Zacar is sent with a bomb and is cornered in an oxygen chamber
Jack uses his mother Elaine to talk him out of detonating the bomb but the fail safe is activated by Ali and Marcos is blown up...
Tarin is involved
But not before he says Tarin is involved
Tarin has escaped custody after being detained by Hassan and is with Kayla
Daliia warns Kayla of the nuclear threat and Tarin’s involvement and he kidnaps her
Samir demands file 33 from Hassan, which contains all info on taking down American defences including radiological detectors
Tarin fakes an escape with Kayla and is ‘shot’ in the process but it’s all a ruse to get her to CTU where an EMP goes off
The end of Kevin Wade
Dana guides Kevin and Nick through taking $120,000 from an evidence lockup but Nick tries taking everything else and a cop discovers the mess, and Nick attacks him
Kevin decides he’s not going to leave Dana’s life after this score
Dana goes to kill them both only for Cole to arrive first, she explains everything to him - he threatens them but Nick stabs Kevin and is about to kill Dana/Cole when Kevin saves them
They sink the bodies and pretend things are normal
Grandpa Jack Gets Back into CTU
Episode 114
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 • Duration 01:01:23
18 months after Day 7
Jack and Kim are in New York and Jack’s treatment is completed
Takes place about 14 years and 6 months after Day 1
Key plot:
Jack cannot get out
Jack is heading back to LA with Kim, Stephen and Teri
Victor Aruz, old contact, shows up with info on an Hassan hit but is killed when Jack tries delivering him to CTU
Kim convinces Jack to stay and help
Peace process
Islamic Republic of Kamistan President Omar Hassan is going to sign a global peace treaty with Allison Taylor
Hassan has been having an affair with reporter Meredith Reed, who’s suspected of working alongside the terrorists, but is framed
Hassan’s brother and chief of staff Farhad is actually in on it
Attempt on Hassan’s life
Russian assassin Davros has a cover as a cop and gets on the United Nations security detail
Planted a bomb under a manhole cover on Hassan’s exit route after triggering a bomb threat within the UN
After the attack and Farhad’s betrayal Hassan begins arresting people who are connected to the opposition, including Minister Jamot for having a cousin who was among the detainees
Renee’s back in the game
Davros had traces of weapons-grade uranium-235 on him
Linked to a Russian gang Renee was undercover with six years before
She was fired from FBI for torturing Alan Wilson and is clearly in a bad state of mind
Ziya Dakhilov (Jon Sklaroff) is her in to Vladimir Laitanan, who leads the gang and with whom she has been violated by
Dana’s past resurfaces
Dana Walsh is actually Jenny Scott from Rock Springs (Arkansas) and was an accessory to murder
Kevin Wade was her partner (more like controller) and wants something in return for keeping her secret - a big score
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Jordan uncovers the truth
Jordan finds that files related to Adam Morgan were deleted but Navarro tells him not to pursue it until after the crisis has passed
He doesn’t give in and so Navarro, who framed Adam, on the direction of Adrian Cross, has Jordan go to what he says is a dead-drop that will help lead to Margot
It’s actually a set-up for an assassination, which Jordan initially survives
He figures out Navarro sent the hitter but having gained the upper hand, is stabbed and dies
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Audrey is with him and married to Mark Boudreau, who vows that she will not hear Jack’s name when he discovers he has resurfaced
After Tanner’s drone incident Heller decides to address parliament directly, taking heat from Mark in a prep session when he forgets a name, but miraculously succeeding
Margot shows her commitment
Margot planted Simone undercover with Yates, much to the frustration of her husband Naveed
Naveed is going to pilot the drones in her attacks later that day but he has his own plan to try and escape
Margot learns of this plan from Simone and when he refuses to help her kill innocents, Margot has Simone’s finger removed to coerce him into agreeing
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Taylor cedes much of the managing of the situation with Jack to Logan, albeit still being the one to make decisions in many circumstances
She agrees to have Logan’s role in the process made public
When Dalia is contacted by Meredith, she confronts Taylor about the Russian involvement, and Taylor threatens Dalia with retaliation for the day’s attacks unless she signs the peace treaty
When Jack is arrested and the evidence seized, she watches the video Jack made for Kim
Taylor declines to sign the treaty after Suvarov and Dalia do and tries to save Jack, but she’s too late
Logan kills Jason Pillar and shoots himself
Ending
Logan’s team of mercenaries are about to kill Jack when Taylor calls and tells them to stand down
She tells Jack she’s withdrawn and apologies, and that they will both have to face consequences
Jack thanks Chloe for everything she’s done for him and she promises to protect Kim and give him time to escape
Logan leaves several messages at Ethan’s office after learning of the Russian intention to pull out of the agreement
He speaks with Mikhail Novakovich, the Russian foreign minister, to keep him at the table by blackmailing him with his knowledge of Moscow’s involvement in the day’s events
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Kevin’s parole officer Bill Prady calls Dana and then comes to CTU to get info on Kevin
He asks for the video archive for the lockup which will expose her and Dana is going to give it to him until the EMP
