TV Recap: 24 Day Seven, Hours 1 and 2 - Welcome Back, Jack! - Page 2

Funniest moment of the hour. Yes, I know 24 is a thriller, not a comedy, but c’mon, I live for this sort of thing – which you all know if you’ve read my other posts on the show. FBI head Larry Moss (Jeffrey Nordling) is unsure about the whole Jack Bauer involvement. He sees Jack as a loose cannon, and is hesitant to involve him too much.

“Is this how it starts? You get in my face, tighten your jaw – and if I say something you don’t like – you slam me against the wall?” Okay, he forgot the “dammit” part, but Moss is spot on. Oh, and Agent Walker actually utters a “dammit” later, instead of Jack. I believe she also exclaims (paraphrasing), “There’s no time to explain that right now!”

Most gratifying guest star (after Kurtwood Smith) is the Homeland Security liaison Tim Woods played by Frank John Hughes. Hughes played SSgt. William “Wild Bill” Guarnere in HBO’s Band of Brothers. We’d been watching the mini-series off and on since Christmas (Santa was good), so we all got a chuckle from seeing “Gonorrhea” appear at the White House.

In our second hour, tensions build nicely as Tony and Co. have control of a working CIP module courtesy of hostage Latham. This device evidently can get inside government firewalls, and the FAA is the first to be penetrated. Local ATC folk begin to notice blips on their systems, and soon enough Tony has taken over the communications with one flight in particular, guiding the plane to land on the wrong runway. The pilots believe they are still speaking with ATC, but soon the ATC access a recording of Tony speaking to the pilots. They alert the FBI immediately who in turn contacts the White House.

President Taylor is suspicious of the timing of this new impending disaster, but still continues with plans to send troops to Africa. Henry, meanwhile, contacts Samantha, his son’s former fiancée, and asks her about the source of a great amount of money that was wired to her shortly after Roger’s death. Sam denies knowledge of anything shady, and a frustrated Henry has to leave it at that for the moment.

Jack and Renee Walker have gone to search out Schecter. The game plan is to let Jack be himself, but on a short leash. Of course, Schecter acknowledges Jack and the good old days, but he’s short on current intel. Before he can blink though, Jack has a gun he abruptly “borrowed” from the bodyguard pointed at Schecter. Renee tells Jack he can “do whatever it takes.” Jack scrambles for a ball point pen and holds it to Schecter’s throat. Now the dude wants to start singing. But his opening notes are torn from him as bullets suddenly riddle his body.

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