TV Recap: 24 Day Seven, Hours 1 and 2 - Welcome Back, Jack! - Page 3

Naturally.

Jack and Renee duck and cover, and send word to Moss to seal off the building across the street. And a second later, Tony calls and tells Jack to not get involved any longer. Now Jack all kinds of suspicious – wondering how Tony knew so soon that Jack was there on the scene. His main concern is that there’s a mole inside the FBI, which as we find out shortly, yes indeedy, there is. An agent approaches the sniper and provides him with a disguise and a way out. It almost works until Jack and Renee see a pseudo-agent wearing construction boots instead of the FBI issue shiny black shoes. They tail the pseudo-agent-sniper, but don’t tell Moss where they are headed.

Naturally.

In other purposeful miscommunications, Tony and Friends are now in contact with two planes, and giving them direction to land on intersecting runways at JFK. A horrible crash is imminent. At the last moment, Tony commands one of the planes to pull up, and the collision is averted. He contacts the FAA and informs them that this was a warning, a demonstration of the full capabilities of The Bad Guys. Although the tension was good, it’s a bit too familiar as the plot of 2007’s Live Free or Die Hard. But typically, 24 has more than one layer, especially in the beginning.

A secondary layer is the fact that Tony is answering to a man named Emerson, who takes the working module with him, and refusing to give Tony more information about the big picture, the master plan. But then we see Emerson meeting with a Colonel Dubaku and giving him the module. Since Dubaku reports to the Evil Juma in Sangala, this is quite a significant layer.

Renee and Jack are able to apprehend Tony at his boat headquarters without too much fuss, and Boss Moss (who had Janis Gold (more shades of Chloe) triangulate Renee’s location from her Walkie-Talkie) shows up in a chopper a moment later. Jack asks Tony “What the hell happened to you?”

We’ll find out more tonight and in the subsequent weeks as more layers are peeled away, and the clock ticks down.

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