This is a detailed synopsis, as well as a commentary and review of the TV series 24: Season 8 – Episode 22, which occurs in the time frame of 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM. This episode of 24 was directed by Milan Cheylov. 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 with a news broadcast in which President Allison Taylor’s (Cherry Jones) press secretary announces the involvement of Ex-President Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin) in the peace process. Logan watches happily. Jason Pillar (Reed Diamond) calls Logan and tells him Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) escaped – again – and that he found the butchered, badly torn apart body of Russian assassin Pavel Tokarev (Joel Bissonnette).
Jack is quickly walking with Meredith Reed (Jennifer Westfeldt). She stops and says she needs to know what is happening. Jim Ricker (Michael Madsen) tells Jack he needs to go back to his place to run a locate on the phone number Jack gave him – Logan’s cell phone. Jack tells Reed that the video recording he gave her is the only evidence against the Russians, but that the conspiracy includes Americans as well, and they must be flushed out.
Dalia Hassan (Necar Zadegan) is suspicious about how Logan got the Russians to agree to continuing the peace talks. She has her people start digging into it.
Logan meets with Taylor and tells her Jack got away – again. Logan tells Taylor she needs to call Reed’s publisher and lock down the story before it’s released. Taylor is appalled. Logan sweet talks her into it in his con-man style. Logan leaves to meet Russian President Yuri Suvarov (Nick Jameson).
Arlo Glass (John Boyd) picks up the feed of the NYPD at the building where Tokarev’s body is and shows Chloe O’Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub). Chloe has found out that Ricker is who is helping Jack. Arlo starts searching for where Ricker now lives.
Ricker calls Jack and tells him where Logan is, and then puts the locator/tracker feed onto Jack’s PDA. Jack throws his large bag of stuff into an SUV and steals it.
Taylor tells Head of Homeland Security, Tim Woods (Frank John Hughes) to have the FBI search Reed’s offices for the “purported” evidence. Woods says that’s censoring the press and very touchy stuff. Woods reluctantly agrees to follow orders.
Jack arrives at a building and enters with his bag. Reed calls her editor – they agree to meet in 15 minutes. Reed tells him not to tell anyone. Jack unpacks a bullet proof body suit, including a heavy steel helmet. Mikhail Novakovich (Graham McTavish) calls Logan and tells him he’s afraid. Logan tells him not to worry. Logan’s limo and two guard vehicles pull under an overpass. Jack steps out dressed in armor and begins shooting. He takes out the cars in front and behind Logan’s group and then starts towards Logan’s limo. Logan is screaming to his agents “that’s Jack Bauer.” The agents call for backup. Jack shoots anyone who gets out of Logan’s cars, but only wounding shots. Jack climbs onto the hood of Logan’s armored limo and uses a special rifle to start shooting the bullet proof glass. Once there’s a small crack in the glass he drops a gas grenade into the limo. Logan gets out of the gas-filled limo and Jack grabs him and takes him through a door into some passageways. (In my opinion, this is one of the very best scenes ever done by 24.)
CTU learns about Jack kidnapping Logan. Pillar arrives at the scene with his men. Pillar finds the door Jack went through and follows with his men. Chloe and Arlo have tapped into Pillar’s com – and hear him tell his men to kill Jack.
Jack has Logan alone in a small underground room and starts roughing him up asking him who else is involved. Logan tries to lie his way out, but Jack isn’t having any today. Logan, in terror, gives up Mikhail Novakovich. Jack hears Pillar and his men coming and puts Logan to sleep. Pillar finds Logan, unconscious.
Reed gets a call from her editor – the FBI is at his office and he can’t make it to the meeting. He tells her to protect the evidence. Reed flees the coffee shop – in case the call was monitored.
Chloe releases Cole Ortiz (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and tells him to go find Ricker and find out what he knows about Jack.
Jack gets to the building where Novakovich’s office is and takes out his driver in the basement, after finding out where Novakovich is in the building and how many guards he has. Jack walks towards the elevator, shooting 2 guards on the way. One of the guards stabs Jack in the side just before he gets into the elevator.
Reed calls Kayla Hassan (Nazneen Contractor) from a hotel pay phone and tells her she needs to speak to Dalia Hassan (Necar Zadegan). Kayla starts to hang up, but stops as Reed explains. Reed tells her the Russians were behind Omar Hassan’s assassination and she has proof, but then she has to hang up because of suspicious people around her. Reed walks away from the phone and is taken by the FBI. They arrest her and take a video chip from her purse.
Woods tells Taylor that Reed is in custody and they got a data card from her. Taylor says to bring the card to her – that ONLY she gets to see what’s on it. Logan is on a stretcher and wakes up. He tells Pillar to warn Novakovich that Jack is on his way to him. Pillar calls Novakovich’s office. We flash to Novakovich’s office, where blood and bodies are all over the floor. A badly wounded guard, and the only survivor of Jack’s attack, crawls to the phone and tells Pillar it was Jack – and everyone, including Novakovich is dead. He tells Pillar Jack was wounded and bleeding. Pillar updates Logan. Logan calls Russian President Yuri Suvarov (Nick Jameson) and tells him that Novakovich was murdered by Jack. It is made clear that Suvarov was telling Novakovich what to do – including killing President Hassan. As Logan and Suvarov review their whole plan, the camera moves in slowly to show that Logan has a miniature microphone attached to his collar, and Jack has been listening and recording the entire time. Logan says he’s headed to the UN as soon as possible and hangs up. Jack, bleeding badly, picks up his bag and starts moving again.
