This is a detailed synopsis, as well as a commentary and review of the TV series 24: Season 8 – Episode 20, which occurs in the time frame of 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM. This episode of 24 was directed by Michael Klick. For a complete list of all the stars and directors from all 195 episodes of 24, please click here.
This will be the last year that 24 will be televised. This episode of 24 begins at the UN where Dalia Hassan (Necar Zadegan) is delivering her speech to the world – vowing to continue her assassinated husband’s work. Jason Pillar (Reed Diamond) tells Ex-President Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin) that Mark Bledsoe (D.B. Sweeney) called and said that Dana Walsh (Katee Sackhoff) is harder to break than he’d thought she would be.
Bledsoe is waterboarding Dana and asking her where the evidence is. Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) has arrived at the building where Dana is being tortured with Cole Ortiz (Freddie Prinze Jr.). They start the process of entering the building, taking out guards as they go. Cole unties Dana while Jack shoots guards. They all exit the building.
Arlo Glass (John Boyd) tells Chloe O’Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub) that one of Cole’s men broke free and called in and said Jack took Cole hostage. Chloe pulls satellite coverage of the building Dana was just taken from.
Jack asks Dana for the evidence – and he’ll let her go. She doesn’t believe him so he pulls over and threatens to shoot her. She tells him the evidence is in a safety deposit box at First Unity Savings. Dana is the only one who can access the box.
Head of Homeland Security, Tim Woods (Frank John Hughes) tells President Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones) that Jack has Dana and that Logan insists on talking to her right away. Logan tells Taylor she needs to install Pillar at CTU to head the manhunt for Jack. Taylor agrees. Pillar heads to CTU.
Mikhail Novakovich (Graham McTavish) goes into Logan’s office with Pavel Tokarev (Joel Bissonnette), the man who killed Renee, and others. Logan tells Novakovich that Jack has Dana, who has evidence that will implicate the Russians in the earlier nuclear threat and murder of President Hassan. Logan gives Novakovich a special untraceable phone. Pillar will feed Novakovich’s people real time intel on where Jack is – Novakovich will have him killed. Tokarev puts the phone in his pocket and they leave Logan.
Jack, Cole and Dana get to the bank. Cole is to take Dana in while Jack covers the exits. Dana keeps trying to get her former fiancé, Cole, to turn on Jack.
Pillar and his assistant arrive at CTU and he shows Chloe the order putting him in charge of the hunt for Jack. Chloe is not happy at all.
Dana’s box is brought to the room where she and Cole are. Cole opens the box and pulls a silenced pistol out and comments that Dana never gives up. Then a flash device detonates blinding Cole. Dana knocks him to the floor and takes the pistol. The banker runs in to see if they are okay, and Dana shoots him. Dana removes the rest of the things from the box and then calls 911 and reports seeing Jack in the bank. CTU gets the call also and taps into the bank’s cameras. Pillar confirms that it’s Jack and calls Tokarev. Two officers confront Jack as he watches Dana leaving the bank through a side exit. Jack overpowers the cops and takes off after Dana. On the street, Dana sees Jack and starts running. CTU watches on traffic cameras. Jack follows Dana into a building under construction. She keeps trying to ambush Jack and runs out of ammo. Jack catches up to her. Jack makes her put the video card down on the ground and then walks up to her and shoots her in the chest. And then he shoots her once more. Jack takes the chip and leaves.
