24 waited for tonight's Hour 18 to reveal the most astonishing surprise of the Season (7) ....
So astonishing, in fact, that I don't know if I believe it. But I'm not sure...
First, Hodges and his plan to launch missiles with bio weapons against American cities seems foiled. Tony blew up the Starkwood facility.
Jack's getting sicker. Kim comes to see him - and I thought that was a powerful scene. Say what you will about Kim Bauer and her role in the previous seasons of 24 - and I've said that I've been no great fan of that - but her relationship to her father is one of the bedrocks of the story of 24, and Kim and Jack played it just right tonight.
But that's not the astonishing surprise.
If you haven't seen this episode, don't read any further.
If you have - can it be that Tony is bad?
He apparently kills Larry Moss, who was trying to stop a bad guy with a canister of the weaponized prion.
Since I can't believe that Tony is bad, after all of this, I see only two possibilities:
1. Larry is not really dead. Tony just pretended to suffocate Larry - the way Jack did Renee, earlier this year. He needed to do that to get in the bad guy's good graces, so Tony could find any other bio-weapons. (The bad guy already knew Tony from his earlier work.)
2. Tony really did kill Larry, for the reason indicated above.
But I have to admit I'm not too sure about any of this. I would certainly prefer #1 rather than #2, but #2 is certainly better than #3 - Tony really is bad. Hodges did tell the President that she had no idea what greater evil she and the country would be facing ... Can Tony be a part of it?
Nah, I don't believe it...
But I can't to see in the weeks ahead.
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For whatever reason. TBD.
I'm sorry to say I got a little tired of Jack playing the martyr with his daughter. "No, no, I'd rather just die than cause you physical discomfort so you can donate stem cells." It was annoyingly "Big He Man." I think Keifer is developing an unfortunate tendency to chew up the scenery, a la William Shatner. It is a risk inherent in keeping that role going for so long, but it would be nice to see him give the character a little more emotional range about now. (He has more than enough emotion.)
Looking forward to the next one...
PS I've been wondering why Kim made so quick an exit after Jack told her he wanted off the series. My best guess is that she needs to get back to her pet mountain lion before it tears apart her room at the Mayflower.
Sorry, but Larry is very dead. Unlike Renee, Larry was late to the CTU class and didn't have enough sense to play like he was, actually, dead.
But you can take solace from the fact that Tony hasn't gone "bad" but is in fact playing the ball, or the bio-weapon in this case, in an attempt to continue ferreting out the nefarious Starkwood co-conspirators.
24 is unpredictable, but not that unpredictable!
(of course I reserve the right to eat crow at a later date)
http://open.salon.com/blog/kanuk/2009/03/31/jack_bauer_continues_to_save_the_day_one_day_at_a_time
Second, Hodges hinted that there was something far worse and bigger than the President even knew coming soon... that made me think about Tony and the rogue Starkwood guy and the revelation that they were working together... if this was a full-out Starkwood operation, the other henchmen wouldn't have let Tony blow up the bombs. This other leg of the conspiracy must go deeper and higher.
No one knows that Tony has (apparently) gone bad yet, which means having his hands on one bioweapon can be awfully dangerous.