This week in 24 - Season 7, Episode 10

Mon, Feb 23rd, 2009 | 10:40pm | TV - 24

This week's episode was sweet! Tons of action, not a lot of White House scenes, a car chase, explosions, etc. Good stuff. And even better, it looks like it isn't going to ease up any next week, unless the preview was for the next few episodes (and given how much they showed, that's possible). The car chase and the crash were cool, and it was even better when the paramedics are trying to save Dubaku...he's already in critical condition and Jack's getting them (at gunpoint) to administer adrenaline, cut him open, etc. just so he can get the list of compromised government officials. The list, and more specifically the media it was stored on, was ridiculous. Jack claimed to have never seen anything like it, Chloe identified it and said it could only be read once and it would be erased (how convenient!), and it looked a lot like a standard SD card. So Chloe was hacking away trying to get the list downloaded. Let's take a moment and recall her system already got hacked once while helping Jack just 1 episode ago, and yet here she goes, happily transferring the contents of a one-time-read-only card to this insecure machine so she can then decrypt it. What could possibly go wrong?

Well, Sean (owner of the access-anything digital key in the previous episode) also has a untraceable wire tap that Chloe and Larry aren't aware of, so he knows they're about to get the list. So he gets Erica (that she was involved was actually a surprise I thought was well done, with her seemingly busting Sean on the car warrant, and then his dialogue making it clear that she knows what's going on) to take down the whole system and then shoots her. His plan didn't make any sense though...he had plenty of time to make it look like Erica had shot herself after initiating the system crash, so why involve himself at all? Instead he made it look like she shot him in the arm and he ended up killing her. Suddenly Chloe remembers that she shouldn't be panicking because she's so smart and has mirrored all activity somewhere external, which makes her an idiot for panicking in the first place. Sean, hearing this, obviously has to make a quick exit. But, oh look!, Janis, who was suspiciously absent the entire first half of the episode instead of prying into what Sean is up to like she usually does, now wants to pry into what Sean is doing becuase he's trying to leave. Of course one might wonder if, with so much at stake, Sean might have been OK with not going to grab his jacket, because maybe it would be worth dealing with a bit of cold weather to make a faster exit and avoid stupid Janis. So of course he got caught in about 2 minutes because Chloe told Larry he was on the list and he got cornered.

Scene from last week's episode...the guy on the left is the writer of the show, David Fury!

There was some stuff with the prez and her daughter, and the prez and Bill, but nothing interesting enough to comment on, except that Bill convinced her to "think about" talking to Senator Mayer about letting Jack be done with the Senate hearings. She'll "think about it"??!? He saved her husband and has been the only reliable person to do anything useful with everything going on...ridiculous. Anybody else get the feeling that Senator Mayer's corrupt assistant is going to end up killing him since he's travelling with him?

And finally, everything about the scene with Jack and Tony at the end of the episode was hilarious. They both kept glancing in all different directions every few seconds while talking, they both kept whispering even though there's nobody around, and Tony got all kinds of intel (though it was quite vague), but he can't do anything without Jack's help. If eveerything they showed in next week's preview really is in the next episode, it's going to be bananas!

This was a review of Season 7, Episode 10. Here's my previous 24 reviews. And here's the character countdown.

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