DAY 10

Day 10 of this season of 24 started out pretty slow. It definitely wasn't an intense beginning. Hasan's daughter meets with her lover and he tells her that he has a plan to escape. Right after that it cuts to Dana and Cole dealing with the two dead bodies. She wants him to leave so that he won't get caught. But he refuses and says they are cleaning it up and not going to jail. The president finally receives the news that there is a nuclear threat against NYC. Once the president leaves the conference call, Hastings has a conversation with the White House Assistant that forced a federal investigation upon Renee Walker and CTU. Hastings tells him that he is refusing to press charges against Renee. The assistant is not happy at all with this news. I still think there is a hidden motive for the white house aide wanting the prosecution of Renee so badly. He wouldn't be that angry if there wasn't.



The president meets with Hasan and she tells him about the situation with Farad. He is shocked that his brother is willing to turn himself in. The president asks him for covert files to help with finding the nuclear materials. At first he refuses to do so because it will breach his security but when she tells him that if there is an attack on her country she will have no choice but to retailate, he has no other option but to give her the files.

Then the lover of President Hasan's daugther escapes from the guys that are transporting him. After he escapes from the car he calls Hassan's daughter and tells her to meet him at a hotel. This was a really significant part because I have a feeling something huge is going to develop out of this situation. There are previews of the 2 in the "Scenes for Next Week" so I'm excited to see how big of a role they take on in the remainder of the season.

CTU's head honcho Hastings then makes a call to Farad and tells him not to move until they locate the shooter near him. But does he listen? The show would not be interesting if he did; so he moves. And of course the second that he moves he gets blasted in the stomach with 2 shots. Right after he gets shot Jack arrives on scene with a bunch of tact teams but they get there too late. Jack has the EMT guys do everything they can to save him....we'll get back to that in a second. :)

The President then holds a significant teleconference with her chiefs that reveal just how strong this nuke would be. It is revealed that it would cover 1 square mile. And if it were to go off in densely populated area casualties could be up into the 10,000s. The deaths would result from radiation poisoning, as well as the bomb, and it would leave the area uninhabitable for up to 40 years. Since NYC is such a densely populated area it would be unfeasible to evacuate the city so they decide to evacuate the U.N. building.

Now back to the Farad situation. He ended up losing too much blood and does not make it. But it isn't necessarily the end for him. Jack comes up with a plan to bait Farad's "boys" in. They plan to release a statement to the press telling them that they have Farad in custody and he is in critical condition. Upon arrival to the hospital he will be questioned by authorities. This is when things really start to get interesting. Farad's body arrives at the hospital and is transported to the room. As soon as he got to the hospital Chloe has Facial Recognition Software up and running to cross-check it with their database for questionable people. At this point we welcome a new player to the game, Marcos. And he has a bomb strapped to him.

Sidenote, Jack and Renee have a convo and he is having a CTU driver bring her to his apartment.

Back to the hospital. Facial Recognition recognizes Marcos and Chloe recognizes that he has a detonator and tries to disable it but is unable to unless she sees it. Marcos meets a young CTU agent, Owen, at the door and makes Owen give him his weapon and take him to Farad. They get up to the 3rd floor where Farad is and Owen makes a bold move and turns around and tells him to prove that he has a bomb. They banter back and forth and eventually Marcos shows Owen the bomb. Chloe recognizes it (of course) and sends the type to Arlo who disables it just in time as Marcos enters Farads room. Jack begins to move in and Marcos tries to set off the bomb. When it doesn't go off he shoots Farad multiple times. After shooting him he realizes that Farad was already dead and starts to get a little nervous. Owen tries to step up and stop Marcos but gets smacked down almost instantly. Jack gets into the room and tries to calm Marcos down but he isn't having any of it. So he does the next best thing, jump out the window and land on his back. Jack being the smart one jumps after the car to chase after him. Marcos runs back into the hospital and locks himself in a pressure chamber (weird).

Then Marcos calls his boys and tells him Farad was already dead when they brought him to the hospital. And the main boss tells him he is going to have to set off the bomb manually telling him, "You can't let them take you alive". Then Marcos makes the creepiest/scariest face into the camera and smacks the video off ending the episode.

NEXT WEEK:


It is going to be a really good episode next week. They bring in Marco's mom to use her to persuade him to not blow off the bomb and the way the previews went it looks like its going to come down to the last second. And Hassan's daugther and her lover are going to take on a more significant role. I would like to add as a side note that I miss Chloe and Jack being the go-to team when anything needed to be done. There are too many other people trying to do Chloe's job. They are reducing her role to too little so hopefully they increase it soon.



JACK BAUER QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

"Let's get something straight, kid. The only reason you're still conscious is because I don't want to carry you. Now get in the van." --Jack Bauer, Day 5, 8:00 am-9:00 am