Bauer Power Hour--Premiere Show Part Two!!

{Hour One}
Hello and welcome once more to this special Double Length edition of Bauer Power Hour featuring another 2 hours of 24. This is Arielle and tonight was the second part of the two day four hour amazing premiere of the show. ONE MORE TIME, I want to reiterate that if you haven’t seen the episode shown on January 15 and don’t want it to be spoiled, please DO NOT READ—I do not want to ruin it for you! Let’s get started!

[Show Re-cap]

Assad and Jack are still h0t on the trail of the bomb handler.
There are more bombings and Fayed calls Wayne to offer a cease fire. He says there are 110 military combatants at a facility called Palmdale Military Institution. The President is to put these "freedom fighters"on a plane at free them by the end of the hour.
Wayne thinks about it, but Tom doesn't think it's a good idea. Wayne thinks agreeing will buy more time to find Fayed and if they don't by the end of the hour, they'll have to do it.
Following the handler, Jack is worried because they are getting to a road with no traffic soon. He thinks they should contact CTU but Assad doesn't want to involve them because who's to say they won't arrest him. Jack convinces him saying that they can give them satellite coverage of the handler.
Jack calls Bill to get satellite support and Bill informs Jack about the prisoners. Chloe can't get satellite for ten minutes which is too long. Jack calls for a tactical team to help him out. Curtis gets called and is told that Jack is working with Assad and he is confused and doesn't like it at all.
In order to keep with the handler, Jack steals a car and in his normal nutso driver way, catches up with the handler and barrels out of an alleyway and rams into his car. Assad is right behind. Jack gets out of his car and yells at the handler and yells screw you and drives away. Assad says he saw that whole thing and offers the hander a ride. When they're on their way, Assad calls Jack and leaves the line open, letting Jack listen to what they're saying and where they're going.
Fayed is in a warehouse and talking to his men about the component that Ahmed is bringing them and that the prisoner plane was just a cover for something else.
Ahmed, gun still in Scott's back, pushes him into his house, holds the family at gunpoint and makes the mom, Julia who is a nurse care for his wounds. He had extensive deep tissue damage so he would be unavle to deliver the package. Instead, he makes Ray deliver it, or he will kill his family.
Karen tells the President about Fayed and the handler and Wayne decides to go forward with getting the prisoners ready just in case the handler didn't lead Jack and Assad to Fayed.
Assad manages to get the address of where they're going. Jack meets up with Curtis and they are able to get satellite coverage.Curtis questions Jack about Assad and doesn’t like the idea of working with him at all.
Back at the house, Ahmed is in a ton of pain so he makes Scott go get him some prescription meds. While in the kitchen, Scott gets a knife. As Ahmed takes the pills, Scott thinks about stabbing him, but he can’t bring himself to do it.
At Palmdale Military Facility, the prisoners are getting prepped to get on the plane, as the President watches on a live feed. Tom comes in and tells Wayne about Sandra’s arrest and he demands to speak to her.
At the Anacosta Detention center, Sandra and Walid are taken inside. Once they are inside, Sandra gets a call from her brother and says that she is released. Sandra is mad because it was her actions that should be punished, and that Walid had nothing to do with it.
Walid is in line being processed when a guard mistreats another inmate. Walid stands up for him and is also beaten and taken into interrogation.
Back with Assad, he is ready to drop the handler off at his destination, and Chloe gets him on satellite. Curtis is still having his beef with Assad and wants to pull him out of the mission because of all the crimes he’s committed in the past.
The handler goes into a warehouse full of ammo and as the tact team surveys him, one man makes a noise and the handler hears him. A shootout ensues and the handler is hit and he dives behind the boxes of ammunition. He crawls back out, grenade in hand, and blows up the warehouse.
They are able to find a partial hard drive intact and they use that information to help them find Fayed.
Wayne is informed of what happened and tells Tom to start loading the prisoners on the plane.
Fayed is informed that the President has given into their demands and the camera pans to a suitcase.
Ray takes the package which turns out to be money to the place Ahmed instructed him. A man comes out and says that there isn’t enough money there—the component cost more than he thought and that he should come back when he gets more money. Ray calls Ahmed to tell him this and Ahmed tells him to get it by any means. Ray, in fear the lives of his wife and family, kills the man and takes the component.
The contents of the briefcase reveal a wiring schematic, and Assad says that they are for a nuclear device called a suitcase nuke. The Russians supposedly destroyed all of them but they gave one to a nuclear scientist who turned out to have several terrorist ties. His name was Hassan Numer, who is one of the prisoners at Palmdale.
Back at Palmdale, the guards receive Numer’s picture and search for him but he is nowhere to be found.
We then see a bus with a dead driver and a sergeant going inside. He opens the bathroom door at the back and Numer is hiding inside. The guard tells Numer to hurry up because Fayed is waiting for him.

[My Thoughts]

Negotiating with terrorists was very un-David like of Wayne

Every time I see Jack’s hand I want to cry.

If I were Scott and I had to go get Ahmed some pills and water, I would have poured some sort of drano or liquid that you’re not supposed to drink so he would have a seizure and die.


{Best Line} “I don’t know, it’s your personality flaw, not mine”
{Worst Line} “Load them on the plane”
{Kill Count} Okay so there were 112 in another bombing, 200 in yet another bombing, and four more, 2 for the handler bombing, the man with the component and the bus driver so added to previous count that equals 1,994 dead. Jack still at one.
{Curse Count} We finally get at Jack SOB! So his Curse Count goes up to ONE!
{Who I want to punch in the face} Now it’s time for who I’d like to punch in the face, or instead, in Jack’s case, who I’d most like to bite in the jugular! Ahmed pretty much was horrible. He just struck me as a really bad hostage holder and not really sure of what he was doing and he was overall a poo.
{Did you SEE that?!} I LOVED the accident that Jack caused with his crazy driving skills that are legendary… it was an awesome diversion and I love Jack hurrying away yelling SCREW YOU! That’s entertainment at its greatest.

{Hour Two}
[Show Re-cap]

At CTU, it is discovered that Numer was a nuke engineer in Germany and is able to prepare a nuclear device easily.
At the White House, Karen does a disaster projection, estimating that if the suitcase nuke were go to off, many thousands would die in the blast and hundreds of thousands would die in the long run. Wayne calls Jack and gives him command of the search for Fayed and Numer. Jack isn’t sure but Wayne says that he needs him and Jack said he would do his best. Curtis is STILL mad about Assad and Jack picks up that there might be a connection between the two of them and calls Chloe to check it out.
Numer gets to the warehouse where Fayed is and goes to work on the nuke but say he needs the component. Fayed tells him that it’s coming.
Ray calls Ahmed and makes him release one of his family because now he has the component as leverage. Ahmed tells him to choose and he chooses his son so Ahmed lets his wife go instead. His wife calls him when she’s out and Ray tells her not to call the police and that they have to handle it themselves. Ahmed tells Ray the location, 351 Old Mill Road, Valencia, and he gets on his way. Julia, the wife, calls the police anyway.
Milo and Morris have been fighting with each other like two high school girls who called each other fat the whole time and it’s finally revealed why: THEY LOVE CHLOE!!!
CTU gets the call from Julia and they take a team to go get Ahmed and save Scott.
An Islamic Ambassador comes to talk to the President. Wayne asks him if Assad really will negotiate a cease fire and the Ambassador says he strongly believes he will and because of his reputation, many terrorist groups would follow his lead. Wayne thanks him and then contacts Assad and offers him a pardon and protection in return for his cease fire.
At the Detention Center, Walid talks to the man he stood up for earlier. Another man comes over to talk to him and the two men start speaking in Arabic. Walid seems to catch onto something that they were saying.
Ray delivers the package and Numer says it will take 20 minutes to complete assembly. If Ray cooperates, they will let him leave. Fayed calls Ahmed and tells him to dispose of the hostage.
Wayne proceeds with the pardon and debates with his advisors whether to tell the public about Assad or not.
Jack and Curtis go to get Ahmed and just as he gets ready to kill Scott, they bust in, freaking Ahmed out and sending him running and shooting out of the house. Then some bonehead comes around the corner and shoots Ahmed. Jack says they need him conscious enough to tell them where he sent Ray, but Scott remembers the address and tells them. The team then preps to go get Fayed.
Sandra visits Walid at the facility and he tells her about the two men he heard talking and that they kept repeating something: Hamsah Zawah Ziodah. (I know that's spelled horribly wrong, but it lets me say it right) He didn’t know what it meant but he thought it could be of some use.
Jack brings in the pardon for Assad to sign and goes to explain to Curtis that the president had made the decision to pardon him and he will help them find Fayed. Curtis finally gives in saying if that’s the way it has to be, that’s the way it has to be. Assad gets ready to be taken back to CTU.
Chloe calls Jack and tells him about the connection between Curtis and Assad: Curtis was on a Special Forces team and they were ambushed by Assad and his men. They got two hostages and made them confess to crimes and then publicly beheaded them. After Jack hangs up with Chloe he looks for Curtis.
He had gone after Assad and was holding a gun to his head. Jack tries to reason with Curtis and get him to let Assad go, but he won’t do it. Jack had no choice but to shoot him.
This shook Jack so much that he staggered and threw up and collapsed onto the ground with tears in his eyes. Bill calls him and tells him he heard what happened and that Curtis left him no choice. Jack says he can’t do this anymore, and that he’s done.
The team gets to the warehouse to go get Fayed, Wayne watching on a feed. Numer is just about done prepping the nuke. He finishes and as the team goes in to get Fayed (who has left the warehouse by now) Numer detonates the bomb.
At CTU they get a call about some words that might be of some help: hamsah zawah ziodah. Nadia recognizes it to mean 5 visitors, a term that refers to the nuclear bombs. There are four more out there somewhere.

[My Thoughts]

No matter what Jack does it seems like he’s sacrificing himself anyway. I mean obviously actually expecting to die was one thing, but he’s constantly giving up parts of himself for everyone else. When Wayne asked him to take charge and he had to shoot Curtis, that totally killed him.

No matter what Karen and Tom are always on opposite sides of an issue. Sometimes I agree with Karen and I think I agreed with Tom like once, but they’re always opposite.

When Curtis was shot and slid down the car, his face just slayed me. It was so heartrending.

{Best Line} I got really into this episode so it was hard for me to remember exactly what people said. I guess I’ll give it to Scott for telling Jack the address to where Fayed was. Not exactly a YEAH BOI line but he saved the day. Almost.
{Worst Line} This one goes to Jack. When he told Bill “I’m done” it broke my heart. We need Jack!
{Kill Count} Jack’s kill count goes up to 2, RIP Curtis, 1 because Ahmed died en route to the hospital and I don’t know exactly how many died in the blast but going off of what Karen said earlier about many thousands dying in the blast I’m going to estimate probably around 8,000? So added to the last number the total casualty count is 9,996. Holy Cow.
{Curse Count} I actually didn’t catch any of Jack’s favorite words.
{Who I want to punch in the face} I’m going with Numer because he detonated the nuke giving him highest kill count so far and being the biggest pooper.
{Did you SEE that?!} Definitely the Curtis moment. I really hoped that he could keep a lid on his anger and detach himself from until the end but he just couldn’t. RIP Curtis Manning.

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