Episode 14: The Following Takes Place Between 9:00P.M. and 10:00P.M.

During the commercial breaks, I will discuss what happens to serve as a quick summary of the episode:

9:00PM - 9:11PM:

• Jack flees the hospital


• Morris wants to know where Chloe is


• Quinn is connected to Senator Mayer


• Jack contacts Renee and Agent Moss knows he can use her to locate Bauer

9:15PM - 9:25PM:

• President Taylor agrees to implement Olivia's suggestion into her speech


• Larry Moss asks Renee for Jack's location, but she wont give it up. Moss put her in holding.


• Jack breaks into Mayer's house in an attempt to access his files concerning Starkwood and its connection to Juma.

9:29PM - 9:36PM

• Ethan accuses Olivia of leaking info to the press about Ethan's authorization of the interrogation of Burnett.


• Janis can't encrypt the data that Renee sent Jack, but Morris can. Agent Moss agrees to grant Chloe immunity of her charges if he can decrypt the file. Janis says the file is encrypted with "Blowfish 148" (whatever that is), but Morris could do it anyway. The address of Senator Mayer comes up and Moss scrambles a team to that location.

9:40PM - 9:48PM

• Chloe is released from holding and is upset with Morris for releasing Jack's location.


• Jack and Senator Mayer talk about past regrets and intentions. Jack discovers that Starkwood was involved in Juma's development of a bio-weapon. As soon as Jack begins to uncover important info. There is a knock at the door claiming they are Metro PD. Mayer opens the door to find Quinn with a gun pointed right at him. Quinn kills Mayer then proceeds to chase Jack who barely escapes with the help of the approaching police cars.

9:53PM - 10:00PM

• Olivia is able to prove to Madame Prez that she was not the one who release the info and she manage to convince her source to bury the story


• Moss and his team arrive at Mayer's house to find Mayer murdered. Moss immediately jumps to the conclusion that this is the work of Jack Bauer, and orders his men to "shoot on sight".


• Quinn eventually finds Jack, but Jack manages to lure him into a little house where Jack is waiting to flip over the house with a tractor. From there, they engage in a classic all out brawl with out guns. Jack is able to get a hold of a screwdriver which he hurls at Quinn and lodges it in his chest before he smashes him over the head with a block of wood. With his dying breath, Quinn manages to tell Jack that the bio-weapon has already arrived in the US. Jack then calls up Tony Almeida and tell him to bring weapons and a surveillance kit and to meet him at a specific location.

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Episodes like this make me wonder how I survived that extra long period in between seasons 6 and 7. Wow. The return of Morris, the uncovering of a new terrorist plot, a cold blooded assassination, and a classic Jack Bauer moment.

As soon as we thought Jack Bauer had used every resource in the world, he uses a tractor. A tractor! He knocked over the over that Quinn was in, then proceeded to leap from the tractor onto him and to bash his face in. As with most of these "brawls" Jack struggles for a splits second, but ultimately prevails. This time, with a screwdriver and a block of wood. This, more than anything, reminded me of Jack's crazy execution of Fayed back in Season 6.

24 knows when to introduce and re-introduce characters. As soon as people began to wonder where Tony has been, they stick him right in there as a cliffhanger for next week.

Renee again placed more faith in Jack this hour in refusing to give up information that she has on Jack. I sense another Chloe type of character forming. Someone who trusts Jack no matter what and will do anything to help him. Renee is not at that status yet, but she is well on her way.

Agent Moss now has the FBI along with many other agencies in pursuit of Jack with orders to shoot on sight. This basically means Jack will do take extreme measures stay stealth and to intercept this bio-weapon because he knows that if he is seen by FBI, this attack will not be stopped.

From the "scenes from the next episode", we know that Ethan Kanin will ask for his resignation. We will find out what sparks this and how it goes down.

Rating and Statistics

Rating: 4.5 Stars out of 5 - The beginning of the episode was mediocre, but the ending was absolutely incredible. Just misses a perfect 5 out of 5.

Statistics: Jack Bauer Kill Count:

• 9:00P.M. to 10:00P.M. - 1 Kill
• Season Seven - 22 Kills
  
  

Characters Deceased this episode: Senator Blaine Mayer, John Quinn