The last hour is here… Oooo no Previouslys… Thanks goodness.

Walker, on the scene with Kim who’s being treated for her burn, is talking to Chloe who’s working on the laptop Kim recovered. They’re not having any luck decrypting some kind of node. I don’t know. I’m geeky but I’m not THAT geeky.

Meanwhile, Jack makes his way into some kind of garage housing a couple of cabs. As he tries to break into one, Tony discovers him and starts shooting. Jack manages to shut the garage door all the way (it had been open a crack) but Tony returns with a forklift and use it to slide the heavy door up. Suring Tony’s shooting, he sprang a leak in one of the cabs. Jack grabs a nearby roadflare and tries to blow the place up, but Tony gets in there in time, and knocks Jack out.

And now we come back to Olivia. Again. This time Kanin is back. And Olivia is busted and betrayed. Woot. Aaron growled at her too, it  was awesome. Kanin is left alone with her, and though she knows she’s defeated, she still tries to weasel her way out of it. But all Kanin wants her to do is tell her mother what she did. He’s not after his job, he’s not after revenge, he just wants Olivia to come clean to the one person he knows will hurt her most.

Jack, in the meantime, is cuffed to a fence, and pleading with Tony to let him die in peace. He begs Tony not to let him be used to kill innocent people.

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And Tony faces him, and tells him he had no such intention. That everything he’s done, every move he’s made, has been to get this bigger cog, this ‘Alan Wilson’ guy to meet him face to face. Apparently, he of the innocuous name, Alan Wilson, is THE COG behind pretty much everything. Palmer’s assassination, Logan, Jack’s wacky brother, but most of all, he is the one behind the death of Michelle, Tony’s beloved wife. Then it basically becomes a pissing match between Jack and Tony as to who was the day’s bigger hero, with Tony sounding like the little brother who isn’t getting his way.

Jack tells Tony that if he kills Alan Wilson, no one will ever know about the conspiracy. Tony says he’s not going to kill him – Jack is. He then wraps a belt full of explosives around Jack.

“You aren’t honouring her death. You’re revelling in her death and she would despise you for it.” Jack spits out at Tony.

Tony switches the explosives on, and duct tapes him. Cara walks in, and tells Tony Wilson will arrive soon.

As Wilson arrives, Tony and Cara go to meet him. They’re frisked as a squad of beefy security types fan out and clear the area. Wilson gets out of his limo and Cara is the only one allowed to approach him. Tony tells him he’s been looking forward to this and that he can bring a lot more to the table. Wilson asks to see Bauer’s patholgy report as two security guys drag Jack out. Tony fiddles with his cell phone/detonator as Jack comes in proximity of Wilson, but before he can set it off, Walker and the FBI arrive in a chopper and begin shooting. Wilson and Cara head for cover, as does Jack and Tony. Walker has the chopper set down, things get explodey, Walker makes her way to Jack and disarms the explosives as he explains why tony’s doing what he’s doing. He tells her that to stop this, she needs to stop Tony from killing Wilson.

Inside the building Wilson, Tony and Cara escaped into, Cara is leading Wilson along when they meet Tony. She runs to him and tells him they need to find a safe extraction point. Tony, however has other plans. He draws his weapon, and kills her, stunned disbelief on her face she she sinks to the floor. Then, crazed, Tony runs at Wilson, and holds his gun to Wilson’s head. In a chilling little diatribe where Tony lays the blame for Michelle’s death at Wilson’s feet, we also learn that Michelle, at the time of her death, was pregnant with Tony’s son. And for the first time in a long while, Tony speaks above a growly whisper and screams at Wilson for killing his son. As he’s about to pull the trigger, Walker runs in and shoots him in the shoulder. As Tony crawls toward his dropped weapon, maniacal determination on his pained face, Jack shouts at him to stop moving, but he refuses. Steeling himself, Jack takes aim, and shoots Tony in the hand.

As the agents lead Tony away, he yells at Jack for running away, for being a coward, for not doing something about the men responsible for all the deaths they’ve endured. “How would Terri feel about that?!” he screams as Jack flinches and collapses against the nearest wall.

Jack is taken to the nearest medic and Walker has a little showdown with Wilson who is all cool and collected. She threatens him with treason, he smiles and says he’s innocent and to take it up with his lawyers. This pisses her off and she’s about to rough him up a little when she’s interrupted with news that Jack’s about to be taken to the hospital. She goes to Jack and they have a moment together where she asks him for help on what to do next.

But Jack can’t help her anymore. He tells her he used to think that if he saved people, he saved himself. That he knows that laws must be upheld, but when faced with saving 15 people on a bus or upholding the law, he could only do what he could live with. And that was his advice to Walker: Try to make choices you can live with.

And then he’s wheeled away.

And now it’s time for Olivia to face the music. She calls her parents to a room and tells them what she did. And then Daddy’s little girl might get a reprieve after Henry practically orders the President to cover up what she did to save their family. He’s cruel about it, saying her job as President cost their son his life. They are interrupted before she can say which way she’ll come down, and she has to go hear the good news about what’s happening with Tony.

At FBI, Janice and Chloe say their awkward, but kind of touching goodbyes and well, I like Janice. But she’s no Chloe.

And at the hospital, Dr. Macer is telling Jack that because the pathogen was weaponized, the disease is at an advanced stage. She tells him she can administer morphine but it will induce a coma. Jack is not ready for that. A nurse comes in to tell him he has a visitor… It is the Imam from Jibraan’s mosque. Apparently Jack asked for him. Jack feels a need to unburden, and the lovely Imam patiently tells Jack that he can forgive himself for all the wrongs. That he is a man with flaws and stuff. I thought there would be a sort of deathbed confession here, but I think Jack just needed to hear someone forgive him. He thanks the Imam, and says, “It’s time.”

Time for what, we don’t know yet, because we’re back with feckin’ Olivia. The President returns, hugs them both and tells them she never imagined the job would be so hard on them. And then she apologises for that, and brings Aaron in to remand her daughter into custody. She does the horrible, awful, but right thing. And it will cost her.

But one thing she will retain is her loyal friend, Ethan Kanin. I’m glad the old Warden from Shawshank turned out to be a good guy in this. The President gathers her strength, and enlists his help with Alan Wilson.

Wilson is led into an interrogation room at FBI. Walker watches icily as he’s seated. Janice enters to be a witness to Wilson’s transfer, but Walker has other ideas. She orders Janice out, but she refuses to go. So she forces Janice, at gunpoint, to cuff herself to something. Janice pleads with her to not do what she’s about to do – torture Wilson – but Walker must have decided that torturing him is something she could live with.

At the hospital, the Imam watches Jack through a window as Kim arrives to see him. Jack is in an induced coma and although Jack has accepted death, Kim has not and she tells Macer she wants to go ahead with the stem cell procedure..

“I’m sorry daddy. But I’m not ready to let you go.”

And so ends another day in the life of Jack Bauer. What a day it was. I’d love to hear what you thought in the comments