Back on schedule this week! This week's episode was pretty good. And that was mostly all due to the last 15 minutes, and also due to the president's daughter totally slamming Ethan in what was going to be a stupid conversation, where either Allison would be so happy Ethan gave her the job in the administration, or would not accept the job and would leave. Instead, she tore Ethan a new one, saying she thought he had full responsibility for all the corruption in the administration and that she would get to the bottom of it. Ethan always seemed shady and kind of evil from the first hour, but he came around and it seemed like the worst he'd ever do was constantly disagree with the president. It'll be interesting to find out if he's actually more involved or not in the day's events.

I'm saving the best for last of course, so on to the other things...the president reconciling with her daughter was intentionally cheesy, as was Allison's interaction with Aaron though Aaron is so cool it's fun to watch anyways. Larry and Renee's bickering is getting annoying (actually, it was always annoying). It was sad to see Bill die, though I like how he was in the narrow doorway of a giant explosion that threw people in the next room to the ground, and yet he is not only intact, but somehow ended up back in the room where the explosion happened! Jack stares at him for such a long time that Renee comes back to talk to him. Didn't anyone tell her Jack Bauer has no feelings? Those aren't tears for Bill, he got shrapnel in his eyes! Now lay off, Jack's got work to do! But Larry detains him because he's so effective without Jack's help. Renee goes over his head and gets Ethan to order Larry to have Jack interrogate Ryan Burnett because they believe that someone else was pulling the strings and there will be another attack on the president.

Bill hangs out with the other hostages

In the meantime, Jon Voight (I think his name is Hodges) is having some guy sent to kill Ryan, and he's going to take care of Jack too! He takes care of Jack by paralyzing him and killing Ryan, and framing Jack. Jack comes to before Larry and Co. can bust in, and he escapes. He calls Larry to explain his innocence and what happened, maybe hoping Larry will understand the situation.

Next week's preview looks crazy, with Jack chasing down Quinn (the guy that killed Burnett), Renee getting busted by Larry, Morris (yay!) getting blackmailed, and Jack having a showdown with Senator Mayer.

This was a review of Season 7, Episode 13. Here's my previous 24 reviews. And here's the character countdown.