The Following Takes Place Between 12:00am and 1:00am

As this episode kicks off a new day in 24, there will be no reaction portion of this week's blog.

12:00am - 12:12am

• Sergei BAzhaev called his son for CTU so they can trace his location
• Farhad's men shoot Bazhaev down before he can escape the deal with the fuell rods.
• Farhad takes the van with the fuel rods.
• Hastings is deeply under pressure and is pressured to accuse Renee for losing their lead.

12:14am - 12:22am

• Cole has Arlow fetching information about Dana's whereabouts and Cole decides to go AWOL to figure her out.
• Kristen Smith from Justice Department arrives at CTU to investigate Renee Walker.
• The men who Farhad is working with suggest that they deploy the fuel rods in America to boost their power

12:27am - 12:34am

• The lady from Justice is questioning Renee about her "Self Defense" killing.
• Its JAck Time! Jack tries to break Renee out, but gets taesered before he can get away.
• Farhad escapes from the people who want to attack US soil

12:39am - 12:45am

• Hassan called CTU telling them of the possibke attack on New York. Cole is gone so Owen has to run point.
• Cole finds Dana about to go kill Kevin and his friend. Cole tells Dana she better start talkin. She starts with "My name is not Dana Walsh, its Jenny Scott"

12:49am - 1:00am

• Cole draws gun on Kevin and bud and tells them to simply get lost or go to prison.
• Kevin's bro stabs him in the gut and goes after Jenny and Cole.
• Kevin warns Jenny at the last minute and Cole is able to shoot the guy before they get shot.
• Meanwhile, Jenny runs over Kevin and holds him while he bleeds otu in her arms

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Rating: 4 Stars - Nothing Spectacular. Not much happened, yet didnt seem like a set up episode. Many loose ends to be covered up in the next episode, but not really any major long term plots established that I noticed. Just a good episode of 24. Nothing more.

Jack Bauer Kill Count

12:00am - 1:00am: 0 Kills - Goose Egg for Bauer this time.

Season 8: 9 Kills

The Following Takes Place Between 11:00pm and 12:00am

This Episode will take us into a new date!!! Kayla Hassan

11:00pm - 11:12pm

• "Yeah, thats not gonna happen" - Kevin Wade. Like we all didnt see this happening.
• Arlo threatens to tell Cole about Kevin Wade
• Bazhaev wants to know who Jack works for but Jack refuses.
• Bazhaev's men begin to torture Jack to find out who we really is.

11:15pm - 11:24pm

• Farhad is mad that the Uranium delivered has been put on halt and he is asked to leave Bazhaev's place
• Renee gets brought back to CTU and she is very concerned about finding Jack
• JACK DOES IT AGAIN!!! Put the torture on the torturer!

11:29pm - 11:37pm

• Kayla Hassan admits to her father about her relationship with his assistant.
• Jack got himself down and cracked dudes neck. KILL!
• Barefoot Jack on the move. Jack cut out the lights.
• Jack hopped down from the cieling getting another! KILL #2!
• JAck shoots 2 more thru the glass. KILL! KILL! #3,4
• Jack romps Bazhaev with a table, keeping him alive to be questioned.

11:41pm -11:50pm

• Bazhaev wants full immunity in return for the location of the fuel rods.
• "Make the deal Jaaaack" - Prez Taylor
• Arlo shows Cole about Dana and Kevin. Implies that she is steppin out on him

11:54 - 12:00am HOME STRETCH!!!

• Cole and boys lower in on what they think is the truck with rods
• they find dead men inside with big empty box. Rods are gone.
• They find the cross meaning that Bazhaev's son Joseph has been there.
• Joseph took the Rods, he's ready to deliver them to Farhad.

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Joseph means business! Bazhaev's son has taken over and is ready to sell them to Farhad. As soon as CTU thought they had won, they are back at square one. Could he perhaps be doing this so his brother didnt die in vain?

Jack gettin four kills tonight! Wow. Thats a rarity. He came out of nowhere on that guy in front of the fuse box. I assume he was hanging from the ceiling, but you never know when it comes to Jack. And then he got two more thru a six inch wide door window. He's nasty. This all coming after snapping some guys neck with his legs. How did Bazhaev think Jack was under the wrong table. He standing there firing shotgun rounds into a table while Jack is sitting somewhere smiling inside.

Kayla Hassan's situation with her relationship is going to play a bigger role later on in this season. This is mainly coming from the fact that her name was featured in the opening credits. She find someway of affect one of Hassan's decisions.

Kevin Wade and his boy livin it up! They have definitley taken advantage of Dana and it appears now that they will continue to. But according to scenes, it appears as though Dana will not let that happen as she appears with a gun in her hand.

Renee seems to have a special concern for Jack's safety. As whacked out as she currently is, she definitely knows one thing: she cares about Jack. And its pretty evident that Jack cares about her. To what extent this caring is, we dont know, but it will probably play a part in their decisions.

RATINGS AND STATISTICS

Rating 4.5 out of 5 Stars - Solid 24 episode! Didnt have the epic ending to put it over the top, but definitely had the memorable scene and all the necessary elements of a good 24. 2 Spectacular episodes in a row. Why stop now? Looks like we are entering a great stretch of 24!

Stats: Jack Bauer Kill Count

This Episode: 4 Kills. YES! Jack doin' work! 2 kills w/ the gun, 1 w/ legs, and 1 via stabbing.

Season 8: 9 Kills. One more for double digits!!

The Following Takes Place Between 10:00pm and 11:00pm

This is feeling like a good episode to me! In my mind, we need one! (Bazhaev)

10:00pm - 10:12pm

• Jack talks to Renee about pulling her out of the mission
• Dana is ready to tell Kevin how to get into the bank.
• Kevin and his pal make their way into the bank and thru all the door and gates until they find the money.

10:16pm -10:22pm

• Bazhaev orders the preist to bury his son outback. This guy is whacked.
• Vladimir calls Bazhaev to work the deal for the Uranium. Bazhaev denies knowledge.
• Bazhaev calls some guy and a truck and tells him that he needs to stop.
• 24 better pick it up from here on out.

10:29pm -10:36pm

• Hassan still claims to hold to treaty talks and policies. He orders his brother's wife and daughter to be areested to make him talk.
• WATER GUN!!! haha. i'll admit. He got me too.
• Kevin and his boy caught by a patrol cop. The friend knocks him out and the run out the door. Dana is in some trouble now.

10:40pm - 10:46pm

• Renee pressures Vladimir to keep calling. Vlad gets angry and clobbers Renee twice.
• Renne grabs a knife and stabs Vladimir seven or eight times killing him.
• Jack runs in mid stabbing and Renee turns around and stabs Jack once in the stomach.
• Jack rips knife out of stomach and hurls it across the room stabbing Vladimir's man square in the neck.
• Jack then grab Vlads gun and shoots another man thru the walls!!
• Jack then goes and hugs Renee. It is now looking like Renee has finally realized that she has lost it.
• YEAH 24!!!! THATS WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT!!

10:50pm - 11:00pm

• Jack doesn't tell Hastings everything that happened...
• Jack prepares for CTU arrive, but its the Russians with the nuclear weapon.
• Jack lets himself be taken thinking that we will be tracked by CTU and Renee stays behind
• Jack and the Russians end up taking an underground route out of the building.
• The clock ticks...

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Vintage 24. Ultimately Unpredicatable. Nobody saw that coming. Renee stabbed Jack!! After mauling Vladimir. That scene was spectacular. And after the you thought the scene was already good enough, Jack Bauer lives up to his legend by ripping the steak knife out of his stomach and zips it through the air, lodging it in the mans throat. BUT, we dont stop there! Then, Jack gets up, grabs a gun and proceeds to shoot at another man through a wall hitting him two or three times blasting him up against a car as he falls to his death. What a highlight!

Well right now, Jack is lost. He doesn't know where he is and neither does CTU. He's in the dark. For once, I think Jack might actually be scared. Not only if he at the mercy of Russian radicals, but also, he has nobody coming for him because no one knows where he is. Jack made a decision to let himself be captured not realizing that the Russian men found their way into the buliding via an underground passageway and that CTU had no way of tracking him. Lets see how he escapes this one. Judging be the "scenes from the next episode", this wont be an easy one for J.B.

Dana Walsh has become totally encompassed in her situation with Kevin Wade. Kevin and his partner in crime got a little greedy while in the warehouse and took too long. The patrol officer came in and saw the mess and Kevin's bud clobbered him as he was calling it in. The scamper away, but this isn't gonna end well for Dana. Or Jenny. But how funny was it when the guy pulled the water gun on Kevin. I seriously thought the gun was real and that Kevin was about to die.

So Renee has officially lost it. And judging be her reaction after stabbing everybody, she has realized her insanity. But to Jack, she cant admit this yet. For some reason known only to Jack, things must continue as before with Renee.

RATINGS AND STATS!

Rating: 4.5 out 5 stars! One of the greatest and most memorable scenes in 24 history. But the fact that at one point in the episode I was saying to myself that they need to pick it up, keeps it from being a perfect 5. Whenever the thought that maybe this episode isn't going to bring it comes about, it just cant be a 5. But in this episode, not only was Jack killin, but he also was injured by one of his own. Very unsual.

Jack Bauer Kill Count

10:00 pm - 11:00pm: 2 Kills!!! 1 via steak knife to neck. 1 via bullets through walls. There we go.

Season 8: 5 Kills! Movin' on up!

The Following Takes Place Between 9:00pm and 10:00pm

We are LIVE! As the the clocks should match up tonight! 9 oclock at 9oclock! (East Coast anyway)

9:00pm - 9:11pm

• Jack suggests that Renee be puleld out but Hastings wont budge. Jack says he will go under cover. Hastings agrees.
• Dana comes up with a plant to steal 120,000$ for Kevin Wade.
• Renee set up a meeting with Vladimir to meet Meir.

9:15pm - 9:23pm

• Doctor said that in order to cure the infected brother, he needs a bone marrow transplant.
• Vladimir plans to take the money and kill the buyer.

9:28pm - 9:37pm

• Dana gets the key card for Kevin and his boy and gives him a COM unit
• Chloe is the best.
• Renee is deathly afraid of this Vladimir because of their past, but insists on staying undercover. She just flushed away her COM unit. "I'm going dark."

9:41pm - 9:48pm

• Hassan's man goes to grab the suspected UN officer to question him.
• All the doctors and nurses shot and killed, the brothers are captured and are being brought back to their father.
• Meir!? You're kidding me? Jack knows German!?
• Jack on drugs for the job again. Back to season 1.
• Jack is about to transfer the 5 million, then the clock ticks.

9:53pm - 10:00pm HOME STRETCH!!!

• Jack looks like a clown
• As soon as Vladimir's men were ready to kill Jack, Cole snipes them out from an adjacent roof and Jack grabs a gun. Vladimir, stunned, decides to reconsider the deal and go further with it.
• The father just shot his infected son square in the chest and killed him.

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Great Ending! When Jack had no other way out, someon else saves him this time. Looks like Cole and Jack could make a stellar tag team. Just like that, its Jack and the boys of CTU that have the upper hand. The man with the weapons grade uranium just killed his own son. There is no stopping this guy now. Usually the only thing that can keep these villans honest is their family. Not this guy.

Whoever is the genius behind the character of Chloe, please stand up! She must be one of the greates charcters on all of tv. Sometimes, behind all fo her knowledge and computer savy personality, we forget how blunt and up-front she is. When she wants to say something, she says it, no matter how rude. Great Character.

Tough glasses Jack! Ersnt Meir? I guess that works. His accent doesn't fit it at all though, but I guess he cleared that up when he was speaking GERMAN!? Since when does Jack know German? That sounded pretty fluent to me. Nice work Jack.

Renee seems to at least have some sort of pride left, because she wont just let Vladimir take advantage of her. She told Jack thats its hard enough just being in the same room with him, so it seems as though she doesn't have a death wish.

I don't care how evil this Kevin Wade guy is, but you I gotta give him some props. Dude's smart. He's got all the dirt and connections for him and his bro to get them some mad money. But as hinted by the "scenes" it's not gonna be that easy. Dana has to and has been making this her top priority, because if this doesn't go well, then she is as good as done!

RATINGS AND STATS

Rating: 4 Stars: This was one of those episode where 50 min in, im thinking to myself "This episode has been kind of slow", but then has that unexpected twist that seemingly makes up for the slowness. And this episode in my mind had two of the twist. So kind of a disguised slow episode. They combined very intense instances and very slow instances in the same episode to create a good balance. So 4 stars. Not spectacular, not poor either. I give it a 4 over a 3.5 because of the 2 end twists as opposed to 1.

Jack Bauer Kill Count

9:00pm - 10:00pm: 0 Kills - He got close, was involved in a scene in which kills occured, but none were his doings.

Season 8: 3 Kills