News from the 24 set,the crew has been told that 24 has come to an end. There will b no season 9. Its been a great run, thanx all 4 watching.

I think it’s time myself. I have loved this show for years but even I can tell its time has come. It was fun to be a teeny little part of it.

I think, in these days of real-time tweets, DVRs and all of those wonderful things, the day of the Recap is over. When I started doing this, I don’t think Tivo was prevalent and the ability to just catch the show online somewhere was hard to do if you missed it. I want to thank everyone who came by here over the years to read what some silly chick in Nebby thought about 24. The site’s not going away and I’ll still post interesting news or commentary about the show. But I’m just not going to recap anymore.

And in the interest of building up the excitement for the premiere Sunday, check out this TV guide article:

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“This has been one of the greatest gifts of my life, the ability to do 24,” [Kiefer] said. “For me, yeah, it’s something that absolutely is open. I’ve always said that as long as people want us to make it… I would be interested.”

This season on ‘24′ Sackhoff will play a computer analyst named Dana Walsh. Walsh is engaged to Cole Ortiz, a fellow agent played by Prinze. Oh, and one more thing — she’ll be Chloe O’Brian’s new boss.

Complete with CTU typos!

@stephenfry: With Jack Bauer’s actual actual gun and actual actual Serengeti shades. As actually worn by actual Jack Bauer. http://twitpic.com/omn7d

24 favourite Carlos Bernard will be signing copies of 24 Season 7 on DVD and Blu-ray at HMV, 150 Oxford Street from 6pm on Monday 19th October. As well as getting to meet the legendary Tony Almeida, the first 50 people in line will also receive some exclusive 24 goodies!

Tony’s back from the dead with a bang in Season 7, leading one of the show’s most explosive ever storylines. This is your chance to meet the man who (with the exception of Jack Bauer) has appeared in more episodes than any other character.

Carlos will also be doing a webchat with Sun Online on Tuesday 20th so head to http://www.thesun.co.uk/bizarre now to submit your questions to him.

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