'24': Jack finally pops a cap in Dana
Once again on "24", the president makes a stupid move and once again, Jack takes the law into his own hands.Even those who like rooting for the underdog are finding it hard to pull for Chloe. After all the crap she's put up with over the years, this might sting the most: being relieved of partial command mere hours after receiving it. You see, Charles Logan is upset that his plan isn't going completely by design. So he's taking the next step and having one of his people installed at CTU. His name is Jason, and as aide to the former president, he's just as evil as his boss. Obviously, Chloe does not handle the news well, but she is still in charge of everything -- just not of the plan to recapture Jack.
Speaking of, he and Cole make it a whole 15 minutes before CTU realizes Jack played them all along. They make their way to the real safe house where they dispatch of the private security team guarding (and torturing) Dana. Not even D.B. Sweeney survives the carnage, as Jack uses plenty of weapons from the recently acquired arsenal (Grenade!) and escapes. Their new location is a bank where Dana stored all the relevant materials for safe keeping.
Once there, Jack stands watch as Cole and Dana play the happy couple in anticipation of the safe deposit box. What Cole doesn't realize is that hidden behind the gun, money and documents is a flash-bang that disorients him long enough for Dana to knock him out and pocket the all-important documents. She calls 911 on Jack, and then engineers her escape.
By this point, Jack has simply had enough. He shoots the arresting cops in the feet, and then proceeds to chase Dana over a stretch of many blocks, culminating in the final showdown in a building under construction. We have quite the wonderful romp through the building until Dana falls for the old "shooting at the tossed jacket" trick. Out of bullets and cornered, she produces the card with the documents, then whines for the 974th time to please NOT kill her ... except Jack puts on the big boy pants and takes her out with one point-blank shot to the chest.
Thanks to Charles Logan and the Russians (via President Taylor), that victory might be short-lived as Jason relays most of the info received at CTU to Pavel, the Russian lap dog. Don't miss the final four hours EVER as Jack finds another little piggy to torture.
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God you guys are UNBELIEVABLE with TV show SPOILERS. The show hasn't even finished airing on the West Coast!! I find it funny that this post is in your "it happened last night" article when it hasn't even happened yet TODAY in Los Angeles. It's not like I went searching for this. I was innocently reading a post in ZAP2IT's TV column about Sunday's episode of THE SIMPSONS and there it was, on the right side of the screen.
Your East Coast arrogance that once it airs on the East Coast, it's fair game to blog about - and ruin for us on the West Coast - is beyond stunning. Please, for the love of everything, put in a frickin' SPOILER ALERT in the post title. For a site that claims to love TV, ZAP2IT constantly constantly constantly ruins the fun of it for us on the West Coast. So, whoever wrote this blog post, fine, you can go to bed. Your work is done, you don't have to get up early tomorrow and write about "what happened on TV last night". Aren't you clever filing your story the night before...
I was kind of hoping he wouldnt do it. Takes some of the ultimate good guy gloss off Jack Bauer in my eyes.
One would think that after being burned so many times, the 'west coast' contingent would simply not view TV sites - specifically ones that review shows nad posts recaps - until after they watched said shows. There are many options for site that have TV listings that don't review shows if you need to look up times and dates for specific episodes. To continue to complain about it reinforces the fact ...just ....well. I don't want to go there.
BOTTOM LINE: Don't click onto a TV Reivew site until after you've watched your show and you'll be fine.
Tonight was the first ep that I realized the only happy way this can end for Jack is with his death, possibly by his own hand or "cop suicide."
The look in his eyes after he killed Dana seemed, IMO, to show he knew he'd lost what humanity he'd kept through everything he'd done over the years.
Don't get me wrong, Dana deserved it. She killed indiscriminately for the most part. But what it did to Jack was worse.
He'll never be happy so I think he'll take himself out of the equation for good. He's saved the country a gazillion times but when it comes down to it, he's just as expendable as anyone else if the leader decides the greater good, etc.
I'm so impressed that he capped her butt. It shows how real he is and not some dinky james bond character on an unrealistic high ground.
Also, I've said it before, suck on it West coast, EAST SIDE RULES!
I'm on the west coast and am smart enough to wait until I've watched the shows I want to watch that night before I get on this site. Good grief, get a clue! That being said, Dana deserved to die. She was directly responsible for the deaths of many, many people, whether she gave teh orders or not, including the poor innocent guy getting into a cab. She wasn't going to stop no matter what. My friends and I were shouting, Shoot her! Shoot her! at the screen and cheered when he finally did. Jack rules!
I don't believe that Jack killed Dana. Rewind and step through the sequence. Her blue blouse was clean when she hit the floor. The small amount of blood on her face likely came from a bullet nick on her shoulder. The second shot wasn't even pointed at her. Jack gave Dana his word in the SUV that he wouldn't kill her. In my mind, Dana is alive!
lol @ the west coast
The ending of 24, just for Robert:
Jack lives.
The president gets taken down.
Lots of people die.
The government is evil.
CTU is the law enforcement equivalent of a pre-school food fight.
Hope I didn't spoil anything for you, little boy. Now go away and cry to your momma.
This is not just a tv review site. It is an ENTERTAINMENT site, meaning that people come here for all kinds of news, not just show recaps.
I think all Robert is saying is DON'T PUT A SPOILER IN THE HEADLINE and then post it all over the freaking site!
You would think Zap2it would want to encourage people to visit their site, not shy away from it. EW.com, TVGuide, etc. don't put spoilers in their headlines. It's that simple.