Bauer Power Hour--Premiere Show!

Hello and welcome again to this special Double Length edition of Bauer Power Hour featuring 2 hours of 24. Tonight was the amazing premiere of the show. Again, I want to reiterate that if you haven’t seen the episode shown on January 14 and don’t want it to be spoiled, please do not listen—I do not want to ruin it for you! We’ve got a lot to cover so let’s jump right in!!!

[Show Re-cap] Hour 1:

There have been numerous terrorist attacks in the last 11 weeks in 10 different cities. People are scared and paranoid. Just after an Arab man is refused a seat on a bus, it is blown up by another man inside.
At the White House, President Wayne Palmer and his advisors are trying to come up with a plan to deal with all of the attacks, let by a man named Asad. One of his advisors, Tom Lennox, says that they should set up detention centers, similar to what Roosevelt did with the Japanese in World War Two. Nobody seems to like this idea but it seems like one of their only options.
At CTU, Chloe is trying to follow up on a protocol, while Nadia, the new head of CTU informs her that they have a lead on Asad from Jack Bauer, whose release had been negotiated by the President two days ago.
At a landing pad, Curtis and Bill wait for Jack to land. He comes out of the back looking extremely haggard and a little disoriented. The Chinese consul wanted Bill to tell the President that Jack didn’t say one word for two years. They hand Jack over to Bill, who informs Jack of what has been going on. He tells him a man named Abu Fayed is willing to give up the man behind the attacks, Asad, for a price—he wants Jack dead and they will know if CTU tries to monitor them, so he would be sacrificing himself. Jack understands this and cleans himself up, revealing scars all over his body.
Bill calls the White House and informs Karen, his wife, that they have Jack.
Back at CTU, Chloe obviously wants to know what’s going on with Jack and pries Nadia for information, but Nadia says she can’t discuss it. Chloe then blackmails her into telling and she says that Fayed wants retribution for his brother. His brother led a bombing of an embassy in Lebanon and died while Jack was interrogating him. This really freaks Chloe out and she tries to find another way, but this is the only way.
President Palmer calls Jack and wants him to know that his sacrifice will not be in vain. Jack says he knows what is expected of him. After he hangs up, Wayne has doubts about his decision about Jack, but Tom reiterates to the President that this is the only way. Tom leaves the room and Karen informs him that the National Guard has gotten orders to start setting up detention centers which was against the President’s orders. Tom says that he was just anticipating the President’s later decision.
Bill and Jack come to a deserted place where Fayed is monitoring them. He instructs Bill to handcuff Jack to a grate.
We are then introduced to a family who are watching news of another bombing. Their son Scott is friends with a young boy named Ahmed whose father has just been arrested. After his father is taken, angry neighbors try to break into his house, but the father of the family, Ray, stops them in time and tells Ahmed to come to their house so they can protect him.
The military is getting ready to get Asad after they get his location from Fayed. Morris goes over to Chloe’s station and says that he has a way to get a visual on Jack. He gets access to a private satellite that’s off the CTU grid.
Unfortunately, one of Fayed’s team picks up on the satellite and Fayed calls Nadia telling them that they have 30 seconds to redirect the satellite or he will not tell them where Asad is. Obviously Nadia has no idea what’s going on and she and Milo (who is back) manage to find out where the signal is coming from in time to stop Chloe and Morris and redirect the satellite. Fayed tells them that because of their deception he will have to think about whether or not he will give them the location.
Karen calls to say that President Palmer worried because they should have heard from Fayed by now. Bill tells her about what happened with Chloe. Karen tells Bill that they cannot mess up this mission because the country would never recover from the things that some of the advisors are willing to do.
Meanwhile, back at Fayed’s hideout, they take Jack and handcuff him to a chair, hook him up to a heart monitor, and start to torture him exactly like Jack tortured Fayed’s brother. Jack tells him that he must call CTU and tell them the location. Fayed then says that Asad has been trying to negotiate a cease fire with the West and wants to stop this whole thing. So the person who is really behind the attacks is Fayed. Fayed calls CTU and gives them the address of the place where Asad is and says there is a transponder there. He then resumes torturing Jack but gets a phone call from Ahmed, saying there was a complication because his father was arrested. Fayed says as long as Ahmed delivers the package, everything will be alright.
While Fayed is on his phone call, Jack manages to slip off the heart monitor and play dead. One of Fayed’s men goes over to check him and while he’s leaning over, Jack bites him in the neck, tearing open his jugular vein and kill him. He grabs the key from the guard and escapes.

[My Thoughts]

Wooooooooooow. I am in shock. I had so much adrenaline pulsing through me especially at the end. I thought it was kind of awkward to see some Chloe gropeage…

Most of what I thought about was how Jack looked sooooo worn down and looked almost timid and that’s just really unnerving.

Also, I’m trying to figure out if I like Wayne as President. Basically for 24 it’s a What Would David Do kind of thing so I try to think about what David would do in a situation, and if they don’t do that then they suck. I think Wayne’s really trying to ask himself the same thing though, which is good.

I kind of felt like they were trying to reassure not only all the characters in the show, but also all of the viewers that sacrificing Jack was the only way to stop these attacks and that it had to be done. They said it about six different times.

I couldn’t help thinking that Chloe might have thrown up after Bill told her that because of what she and Morris did that they might have sacrificed Jack for nothing. Which is like a punch in the stomach for Chloe.

I couldn’t help but feeling so drained of energy from everything that was going on and my heart aching for poor Jack so it was nice to get to scream ‘YEAHHH BOIIII’ at the end. WOW.

{Best Line} “Do you understand the difference between dying for something and dying for nothing? The only reason I fought so hard to stay alive in China was because I didn’t want to die for nothing. Today, I can die for something. My way, my choice.”—Jack
{Worst Line} “Because of your deception I have to think about giving you Asad’s location”—Fayed
{Kill Count} Because of the many bombings, the casualty count is huge. From what I was able to gather, there were about 1,423 from the bombings, and of course, Jack’s awesomely amazing kill, 1. So all together we have 1,424.
{Curse Count} There were 3 instances of either of Jack’s favorite curses, but none of them were from Jack. We had two Damn Its from Bill and Karen, and One SOB from Bill. Had to count them.
{Did You SEE That?} Obviously and most AWESOMELY HAS to be Jack’s astounding escape from Fayed. Seriously. I freaked out for about 15 minutes afterward.
{Who I’d Most Like To Punch In The Face} Well it was between Fayed (obviously) for being a poo-head, and Morris for trying to be all suave and cool and almost ruining everything, but Fayed wins for making me watch Jack get tortured and pulling that “Oh I fooled you ALL!” crap. Jerk.

[Show Re-cap] Hour 2:
Fayed is enraged that Jack escaped, so he goes looking for him, but they don’t have enough time because they have a mission to carry out.
Jack gets a hold of a phone and calls CTU and tells them that Asad is not the man responsible, that it’s Fayed. They patch him through to the President and repeats what he found out. The President and his advisors are skeptical about it, and they decide to go on with the airstrike anyway.
Jack knows he’s right (obviously) so he goes for Asad by himself.
Meanwhile, back at the house of the family we met earlier, Ray tries to find out where the police took Ahmed’s father. Ahmed gets a call from Fayed asking him if he has the package yet. Ahmed says not yet, but he will soon. He tells Scott, the son that his uncle is at his house and he’s going to go back.
Jack gets to Asad’s house and gets inside. He tells Asad about Fayed and the airstrike. Asad and his men are wary of him so he puts down his gun. He tells them about the transponder and they say they’ve searched the house. Jack looks around and tells him it’s on one of his men. They find the man with the transponder and Asad, the man, and Jack all leave the house just in time for the airstrike.
At the Islamic-American Association, the FBI are trying to get access to their personnel database. A feisty woman who is the lawyer of the company comes out and says they need a warrant. After they leave, she calls her brother, Wayne.
After their conversation, Bill calls to tell Wayne that Asad was not in the house when it was struck. They figured someone rescued him.
Fayed and his men arrive at a warehouse, where a man is getting a bomb strapped to him, getting ready for another attack.
Jack and Asad go into an abandoned house and interrogate the traitor about Fayed’s whereabouts. Jack tries to get it out of him by force, but at the sight of the man begging for mercy, he recoils and looks stunned. Asad picks up where Jack left off and gets the man to say where Fayed is, then kills him.
Meanwhile, back at the IAA, the FBI is back with a warrant. They now have no choice but to give them access to the files. Sandra Palmer (feisty woman) thinks they are invading privacy, and hurriedly deletes all the personnel files before the FBI can get to them. She is then arrested.
Back at Ahmed’s house, he gets the package and then is ambushed by his angry neighbor again. They get in a huge fight before Ahmed pulls a gun out of his backpack and shoots his attacker. Scott (his friend) comes in to see if he’s okay, and says they have to go to the hospital. Ahmed pulls the gun on Scott and says no, they don’t.
Asad and Jack go to the location the man gave them which is the subway. There are two men, one, the bomber, the other, the handler. Jack goes for the bomber while Asad tracks the handler. Jack gets on the subway train, but doesn’t have a ticket. The ticket taker comes and Jack tells him that there is a terrorist with a bomb on the train, so he needs to act normally and walk away. There can’t be any commotion or he will detonate the bomb. Jack makes his way over to the bomber, but the ticket taker keeps staring and starts to tell someone. The bomber is about to detonate the bomb when Jack grabs his hand and they fight for a while, but Jack is able to kick him out of the car before the bomb exploded.
Jack and Asad are still on the trail of the handler, who they think will lead them to Fayed.

[My Thoughts]

I loved the way that Wayne smiled when he found out that Jack had escaped from Fayed. That is exactly the reaction I would have had.

I don’t know why these people are so skeptical of what Jack said. I mean seriously, everything he’s ever said before has been valid, and just because he’s been in prison for two years doesn’t suddenly make him a nut job. It would with anyone else, but not with Jack.

I knew I didn’t like Ahmed from the start. Sometimes when was talking to Scott, he looked a little militant-y and that whole thing about Scott needing good luck was extremely suspicious. Geez.

When Scott said that he and Ahmed were friends and Ahmed was like, “You don’t even know how to pronounce my name… it’s not Amed, it’s AH-Med.” I was reminded of every time someone pronounces my name wrong but just because they call me Ariel doesn’t mean they’re not my friend. For the most part.

You have to wonder what suicide bombers think about in the minutes leading up to martyring themselves. That guy on the train looked kind of afraid.

{Best Line} “This is going to get much worse”—Wayne Palmer. Well said.

{Worst Line} “That would mean Jack bought the farm for nothing!”—Milo. How tactless was that?!?!?!

{Kill Count} 4 for Asad’s men, 1 that Ahmed killed, 1 for the traitor man, 200 for some more bombings, 1 for suicide bomber, and 47 for another bombing which equals 254 added to the previous 1,424 for a total of 1,678 casualties. Jack count is still at 1.

{Curse Count} Only one instance and it still wasn’t Jack. Hmph.

{Did You SEE That?!} Definitely Jack’s awesome last minute ejection of a suicide bomber from the subway train. He’s awesome.

{Who I’d most Like to Punch in the Face} I don’t like Tom Lennox. Every time he opens his mouth I just want him to shut up. Seriously.


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