This week in 24 - Season 7, Episode 14

Mon, Mar 16th, 2009 | 9:44pm | TV - 24

This week's episode was hot and cold. Almost the entire first half was awful because it combined the worst over-actors in their worst over-acting. Renee, Larry, and Janis tried their hardest to make you groan. If that wasn't enough, the Ethan-Olivia nonsense was even more over-the-top. Thankfully, the episodes are a full hour and the second half made up for all the nonsense. Jack had taken Senator Mayer "hostage" though it seemed like he was unclear on what he was going to do. In fact, he supposedly didn't know anything about Starkwood until Renee filled him in, so why was he so confident Mayer had the information on them and a connection to Juma?

At any rate, Jack and Mayer had a back-and-forth on justice and what is acceptable, and ultimately led to Jack acknowledging Mayer's position by agreeing to trust him to handle the police (they're going after Jack and they don't send FBI/SWAT?!?). But in a complete surprise (seriously, I thought Mayer would be able to deal with cops, and Jack would learn he didn't always have to be extreme, so I was caught off-guard), Mayer opened the door to find Quinn, who promptly gunned him down. I liked Jack's "Nooooooo!" before he started running. And of course, Black Ops-trained Quinn couldn't hit Jack even though he ran in a straight line through the patio door. This led to a crazy chase through the dark, and eventually Quinn entered a mobile home expecting to find Jack, but Jack used a bulldozer to tip the whole thing over. Umm, wouldn't Quinn have heard the bulldozer running? They're not exactly silent, particularly in the dead of night. Quinn escaped through the top and Jack lunged at him, and they had a fairly short battle without any weapons. But then Jack launched some sharp object that got Quinn in the heart. As Quinn died Jack managed to get one last piece of information...the bio-weapon he thought was being shipped was already here. Then, in some more stupidity, it turned out Quinn had the exact location in plain text, not encrypted or anything, on his cell phone. Really?? Seriously? You're planning a highly illegal and massive attack and you have the details sitting right on your phone and readable by anybody? That was pretty ridiculous.

Jonas Hodges (Jon Voight) plotting doom and gloom

So Jack calls up Tony, who has been sitting on the sidelines listening to the FBI band and hearing everything going on because that's apparently what he does in his free time. Jack says he needs his help and to meet him at the port where the weapons are. And now Hodges and his lackey are worried that since Jack has escaped he may connect them with Juma and stop everything. We still don't really know why they're planning to do the attacks, only that they are serious about doing them.

Next week's preview primarily focused on Jack and Tony at the port, but they also showed quick shots of all the other characters in this week's episode, so they'll likely continue some of the stupid drama from this week.

This was a review of Season 7, Episode 14. Here's my previous 24 reviews. And here's the character countdown.

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