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Extended preview with scenes from tonight’s gripping episode of 24:

 

2:00 – 2:13 a.m.

-Jonas Hodges’ attorney prepares to leave her house to meet with the Starkwood facilitator. When she opens the door to head out, a masked man sprays her in the face with a substance that makes her fall to the ground. He injects her with what I believe is a paralytic substance and scans her fingerprint.

-Tech nerd Janis Gold, Agent Renee Walker, and the rest of the folk at FBI headquarters have no idea Larry Moss is dead.

-Over at Starkwood, Tony shoots himself in the hip and calls Robert Galvez, the Starkwood soldier whom he’s hired to help him. Over their phone conversation, it’s revealed that Tony is working for somebody else. Duh. We knew that. But who?

FBI backup arrives, asking Tony what happened. “He ambushed us; I don’t know where Galvez is,” he lies.

-At the FBI HQ, Kim Bauer approaches Renee, saying she’s heading home to LA because her father has made up his mind about not wanting her stem cell assistance. She understands that Jack has accepted his impending death. Kim thanks Renee for calling her and leaves.

As Kim walks off, Agent Larry Moss’ requested FBI backup calls Renee, informing her of Larry’s death. Renee struggles maintains her composure vocally, but is visibly shaken and saddened. “Someone should notify Larry’s ex-wife. It probably shouldn’t be me,” she tells Janis.

“I’ll take care of it,” Nerd Girl replies.

-Meanwhile, Jack is debriefing an agent with all the information about the day. Jack confirms that Tony Almeida had named Vincent Carter as his source of the impending attack.

The bio-weapon’s side effects are taking over Jack, and he’s stammering over his words and repeating things he’d said moments ago. “Are you sure you don’t want to take a break, Mr. Bauer?” the agent asks him. Jack leaves momentarily.

-Renee straps on a bullet-proof vest, preparing to lead a team of FBI agents out to the field to search the Starkwood perimeter for Galvez. Jack asks her what’s going on. Agent Walker monotonously tells Jack that Larry was killed and hurries away to head out. 

-On site at Starkwood, laying on the ground from his self-imposed bullet wound, Tony calls Galvez and tells him how to escape since the FBI are closing in. Tony instructs Galvez to blow up as many FBI agents as possible when they approach the perimeter and enter the building.

-Even though his condition is becoming worse, Jack boards the helicopter with Renee as the FBI heads to the Starkwood facilities.

 

2:16 – 2:28

-Hodges’ “attorney” checks into the White House. She seems shady when giving her fingerprint scan and being ID’d by security. We don’t know how she recovered from the attack.

Down the hall, weenie President Taylor is notified by Olivabitch that Larry Moss is dead. Thank God this was basically the only appearance by that yawn of a woman.

-Hodges’ “attorney” speaks to him as he’s behind bars. She knows about his bioweapon development, reprimanding him that it was not for public use. “There’s no reason for your family to pay for your mistakes,” she warns.

“Are you threatening me?” Jonas shoots back.

“No. I came to guarantee your family’s safety if you do the right thing,” she says, handing him a little red pill. “This’ll induce cardiac arrest with no trace of the drug in your system.” She says it’s impossible to defend him, so he may as well die a swift death.

Olivabitch storms in, saying it’s time for the FBI to interrogate Hodges.

The “attorney” calls a mystery man, who asks how Almeida’s doing on the field. She assures the mystery man that Tony has everything under control.

SHE’S the one Tony’s been working with! 

-Back at Starkwood, Tony and Galvez exchange another phone call; Galvez has spotted an abandoned apartment building; Tony wants him to “Get to it,” meaning both the apartment building and the blowing up of FBI agents.

I notice that Tony seems to be walking/running all right for someone who’s just been shot in the hip. Stay in character, Carlos Bernard!

-In the helicopter, Jack tells Renee how he lost two partnersi n a row, early on. “I guess that’s why over he last ten yers i’ve worked alone,” he consoles her. “It’s all right for you to be feeling what you feel, and if you can’t do this, it’s okay. You don’t have to try to pretend you’re not feeling anything.”

“Please, Jack. Don’t tell me what to feel, don’t tell me how to feel it,” Renee snaps back.

Ba-ZING!

The FBI arrives on the scene, meeting up with Tony. Who is still walking all right for someone who was just shot. [I'm not debating his gunshot wound; I'm just saying he probably should have been limping a little more.]

Renee and Jack view Larry’s dead body (killed by TONY!); and she falls apart.

Tony apologizes to Renee for what happened to Larry. Scumbag.

“How the hell did this happen?” She yells.

Tony tries to recall the incident: ”I don’t remember a lot but I definitely heard auto-fire. Agent Moss came over to help me after I went down and that’s probably when he was hit.”

 

Always thinking, Jack questions Tony’s gunshot wound. “Are you sure it wasn’t from a 9mm?”

Tony defends himself, saying it all happened pretty fast, but he has the shady eyes. Jack probably knows. I bet he knows.

 

2:32 – 2:38

Kim calls her boyfriend while she’s in a cab leaving the FBI headquarters. Crying, she tells him her father was exposed to the bio-weapon and is dying. “My presence, with what he’s going through right now, will only make things worse,”  she sadly explained.

“Did you tell him about his granddaughter?” Kim’s boyfriend (probably husband) asks.

KIM HAS A BABY NAMED TERI AFTER HER MAMA! And boy, is she cute.

**

On the field, Jack’s symptoms become aggravated and he gives himself an injection of anesthesia medicine to stop the seizure.

“Why don’t you go back to FBI medical and let them treat you?” Tony says. 

“There is no cure,” Jack says.

The two share a slightly tender moment, which I dont know how to handle because Tony is a liar.

-Jack and Renee are conferring via radio with whom they think is FBI Agent Stoller–but Galvez has actually killed Stoller and stolen his walkie-talkie; he talks to the FBI while disguising his voice.

As Renee prepares to depart for Starkwood, Jack tells her to be careful, because he’s staying behind.

The scene ends with more of Tony’s shifty-eyes. Is it weird that I kind of hope his plan works out? I want to know his motives!

 

2:42 – 2:48

So my Twitter friends lead me to believe this attorney is clearly an imposter. Instead of defending Hodges, this false one wants to kill him…or at least doesn’t want him to talk.

Hodges is being driven to FBI headquarters. He fingers the pill while in the backseat, and after some deliberation, swallows it. As his body goes into cardiac arrest, the sargeants pull over and decide to reroute to a hospital.

Yay! I hope he dies.

 

-On site at Starkwood, Agent Walker radios back and forth with hostile Galvez, whom she still thinks is Agent Stoller. She preps the other agents to move in the building.

Jack receives a call from the guy he was debriefing with about the day’s events. “Tony Almeida’s source on the attack was Vincent Carter?” the agent asks, uncertainly. “Did you misremember the name? Are you sure?” 

“Yeah, I’m sure. I’ll have to call you back,” he says, hanging up. He’s noticed something strange about the location of one of the FBI agents on the computer screen.

Jack realizes “Agent Stoller,” the man with whom Renee had been coordinating (who was really Galvez in disguise) is not even in the building. He quickly radios Renee and tells everyone to get out because it’s a trap. Galvez, hearing this, instantly blows up the building.

 

2:53 – 3:00 a.m.

Galvez runs off, blending in with the hordes of bloody and wounded FBI officials. Jack and Tony arrive at the burning building. Tony runs ahead into the building and meets Galvez, taking the canister. Galvez smears a deceased agent’s blood all over his face to look injured.

Renee is okay.

Jack calls back the debriefing guy at the FBI.

“It can’t be him,” debriefing guy says. “Vincent Carter was detained up over an hour ago at customs; he was trying to cross the border.” Apparently, Carter had no signs of abuse, torture, or any injuries.  

Instantly realizing what was up, Jack hangs up without a word and runs the fuck after Tony, who is helping a fake-injured Galvez get into an ambulance.

“TONY!” he yells. “We need to talk.”

“Sure. What’s going on?”

Jack points a gun at Tony’s face. “VINCENT CARTER. YOU SAID HE WAS KILLED. HE’S IN CUSTODY…SHOWING NO SIGNS OF PHYSICAL ABUSE.”

Tony stammers for a minute, starting to defend himself, then falsely concedes with “I’m sorry, I cut a deal with him so he could give the information and escape. I thought it was a meaningless lie.”

“You and I have been involved long enough to know that there is no such thing as a meaningless lie. WHAT IS YOUR INVOLVEMENT?”

“Why don’t you put the gun down?” Tony says. ”The toxins are starting to impair your judgment.” Jack starts experiencing a seizure. Convulsing, he drops to his knees, frantically searching for his meds.

“I never wanted to hurt you, Jack. I told you to stay out of it,” Tony says, all sinister about it as though he’s about to kill Jack. “Is this what you’re looking for?” He shows Jack a black case with the medication Jack needs to stop the seizures.

TAUNTING JACK? Not a good idea…

Jack’s lying on the ground, Tony standing over him. The tension rises as we think Tony isn’t above offing Bauer right there, but at that moment, two paramedics walk up. Jack can’t say anything due to his seizure, and Tony slickly puts the black case of meds in his back pocket.

**

The split screen shows a number of scenes: Kim’s still in the cab. The liar lawyer is driving somewhere and takes off her blonde wig. Jonas Hodges’ white body is rolled out onto a stretcher.

Galvez kills the medic who was tending to him with a box cutter, and hijacks the ambulance, just as the clock proceeds to 3:00 a.m.