Thank to everyone who listened to me join Mike and Tony on 2 guys Talking 24. I had much fun! But now it’s time for another exciting hour of 24! Only two more hours left in this day and I’m anxious to find out what miracle cure they concoct to save Jack. Since Kim features in the Previouslys, I’m guessing she fixes him.

When we left Jack, he was trying to save the baddie left behind to watch Jibraan’s little bro who had stabbed him with a shard from a mirror. Tony and his FakeLawyer (argh what’s her name? This late in the season, I should know names by now) are retro fitting the Prion stuff for maximum dispersal at a DC subway location. Between 8-10,000 commuters will be exposed to the stuff.

Meanwhile, Jibraan questions what Tony is doing but Tony is not forthcoming and instead practices his bad guy banter by threatening Jibraan’s little brother some more. Tony puts Jibraan on the metro and tells him to get off at Washington Center (which is ground zero.)

Speaking of little brother, Jack calmly removes the kid’s cuffs and apologises for what went down. he then asks the Imam to talk to the kid while Jack goes to question the baddie. After a bit of torture, Jack learns the baddie doesn’t know much but has a contact number he’s only to use if something goes wrong. Jack has Walker patch the number to Chloe for a trace. He tells the baddie to start thinking of a reason to contact Tony while Janice and Chloe have a mini geek fight and Chloe makes Janice look like an idiot. Awesome. When they’re ready with a trace, Tony gets a call. The baddie gets him on the phone and says something about a failed bank transfer, but is unable to keep him on the phone long enough for Chloe to get much more than a general location.

Meanwhile, Jibraan makes an attempt at contacting the police by removing the earpiece/tag Tony made him wear and going to a subway authority. But he is thwarted when a security guard takes him aside and put the earpiece back in. Shocked, Jibraan complies, and Tony comes on comms and tells him he understands that Jibraan had to make a try for it. He’s very understanding for a bad guy. Jibraan is sufficiently frightened enough to agree to continue on with his instructions.

Olivia is having a mini freakout when she learns from Aaron that the Jusitce department is investigating the Hodges explosion. She had slipped out of Secret Service protection to meet DodgyMartin. He proceeded to talk to her like she was a naughty girl who needed a time out. This woman is in charge of advising the president. Joy. Dodgy Martin convinces her to pull her shit together and do exactly what he says. She agrees. It also turns out that DodgyMartin told the guy from Hitmen ‘R’ Us to go ahead with the murder because olivia will pay up. So, he tells her, she better pay up.

We move to an airport when Kim has arrived for her flight home. She calls her husband to let him know her flight has been delayed. After she nags up with him she catches sight of someone who was waching her. Suspicious, she takes a seat in the waiting area.

On the subway, FakeLawyer, who has disguised herself, activates the timer on the Prion bomb so that it will go off when the train gets to Washington Center. She exits the Subway, but not before Jibraan catches sight of and sort of recognizes her. Ahhhh. So the bomb will go off and Jibraan won’t realize what has happened until he’s been exposed.

Chloe has decrypted Tony’s location and Jack learns tony is only 3 blocks away. The catch up to him and slam into Tony’s van and capture him fairly quickly actually. Kind of anticlimactic. As Jack captured Tony, he dropped his handheld and not even Chloe can get it up and running…. but Janice can hehehe time for some sweet revenge.

Jack walks over to Tony, sends Tony’s guards away… and then slams his fist into Tony’s head many times. At first he asks Tony to tell him where the Prion is, but it isn’t long before he’s almost sobbing, asking why Tony betrayed him. He pulls his gun and tells Tony he has nothing left to lose, to which Tony smirkingly replies, “You think I’ve got anything left to lose?”

Janice, in the meantime, has restored Tony’s device and they figure out the target. Walker goes to get Jack who is silently staring at Tony with suck betrayal and shock in his eyes.

As Walker and Jack, head for Washington Center, janice is able to patch Jack into the comms Tiony was using to communicate with Jibraan. As the train pulls into the station, Jack asks Jibraan to wait until everyone um, de-trains, and has him look for a bag left behind. Jibraan finds it but becomes suspicious at being asked to open the bag. But he does and finds the Prion bomb (totally sounds like a band. “What are you listening to?” “Prion Bomb.” “Cool.”) with only a little over a minute left on it until it goes off.

Jack tells Jibraan to take it and get it outside. As he does so, in a panic, knocking people aside in his frenzy, he’s halted by security guards who won’t let him pass. Jibraan, thinking quickly (Good man!) pulls out the bomb, sends everyone into a panic by shouting he has a bomb, and then makes a break for it in the chaos. He gets outside, Jack meets him, grabs the bomb and chucks it into a waiting CDC van where the Prion Bomb detonates harmlessly. Phew!

Jack comes back outside the CDC van and thanks Jibraan, and tells him they are bringing his brother to him. As Jibraan is led away to be debriefed, Jack shares a small smile with Walker, convulses a little and Walker holds him as he has a minor fit from effects of the gas.

After it passes, we check in on Kim who’s feeling paranoid about the shady guy who was watching her earlier. She goes to sit with some friendly folk and asks them to look at the guy to see if he’s staring. The shady guy gets up, talking on his cell and moves away from the area. We learn that the person he is talking to is Jack, who is having Kim watched to make sure she really leaves. Aww.

After jack hangs up with Kim’s shadow, Walker approaches and tells him about Hodges. Jack assumes who ever is behind all this will go for Tony. And he’s right. FakeLawyer calls the Bigger-The-Hodges bad guy and while he says kill Tony because he knows too much, FakeLawyer says they have another play and Tony won’t be in custody for long.

At the airport, Kim decides she needs to the loo and heads off. Her shadow follows and heads to the Mens room once he sees Kim has gone to the Ladies’. After he does his thing, the bloke who was with the nice woman Kim met comes out and strangles him to death. I KNEW they were bad. I recognize the actress playing the fellow passenger Kim befriended. A recognizable actress doesn’t do bit parts. The husband/new bad guy leaves Kim’s Shadow in a stall and rejoins his wife and Kim.

At the White House, Olivia has a little showdown with Aaron who is really pissed she broke protocol and left Secret Service protection. She’s a good liar. She pulls the ‘I’m so traumatized, I just needed some ME time’ act and Aaron falls for it like the chivalrous man he is. Or did he… After Olivia leaves him, Aaron places a call to the president’s former Chief of Staff, Ethan Kanin. He asks him if he ever disconnected the recording equipment used in his office to record conversations etc. Kanin says no but the only way to access those recordings is with his own thumbprint. He agrees to come down to the White House and help Aaron, if Aaron fills him in on what’s happening. I knew Aaron wouldn’t let me down.

Janice is getting pissy with Chloe! I love it Chloe won’t 1. admit she was wrong and 2. pat Janice on the back and it is driving Janice up the wall. *smirk*

Jack has Jibraan looking at mugshots trying to find the woman and he identifies her froma  screengrab made while she was in FakeLawyer mode. The mugshot extravaganza is cut short when Jibraan’s little bro arrives, and Jack is able to look on their reunion with a smile.

At the airport, the husband rejoins his wife and Kim in the waiting area, gives a bit of a code to his wife and sits down next to his laptop, which has a webcam focused on Kim. FakeLawyer then calls Jack and has him open the link on his phone. He’s shocked when he sees his little girl on cam. Fake Lawyer tells Jack that he will help Tony escape or the operatives will murder Kim. She makes him put the call on comms so she can hear everything he says.

Jack gets in the van with Walker, Tony, and heavy guard. FakeLawyer tells Jack that he will do as he’s told, even if it means killing those in the van with him…

Tick. Boom.

Yikes. Will Jack be able to save Kim? Will Kim figure out she’s even in danger? Will Janice scratch Chloes eyes out? Next week, 24 begins an hour earlier because it’s the season finale kids! two hours of 24 goodness, and then that is it for a long, long time. *sniffle*