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When we left Jack Bauer at 8:00 AM, he had been handed over by the Chinese government to CTU and told he was being sacrificed in exchange for terror mastermind Hamri Al-Assad. After a quick shave, a water bowl bath, and some clean duds – Curtis and Bill took Jack to the drop off point. Obviously Jack survived the attempted sacrifice or the show would be called “2” and not “24”.

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

In the third hour of Jack’s return, he and Assad went after Abu Fayed by following The Handler who escorted The Bomber into the subway. As you know, The Bomber’s attempt to blow up the subway resulted in Jack kicking him out of the train and into the tunnel where he blew himself up along with dozens of disease carrying rats. Jack and Assad hooked back up at ground level and followed The Handler, thinking he would lead them to Fayed. Jack carjacked a Jeep Cherokee from a man and smashed it into The Handler’s car. Assad jumped out of his car and offered The Handler a ride after Jack drove off. This allowed CTU to track where they were going without The Handler noticing he was being followed. Somehow The Handler was not smart enough to recognize Assad, even though Assad had been a terrorist leader for many years. Rookie mistake, Mr. The Handler!

Assad found a PDA in the blown out unit that, by magic, CTU was able to get information from. Curtis was not happy about Jack working with Assad.

In the side plot, the neighbor kid, Ahmed Amar, gets himself bandaged up by his friend Scott’s mom. He made the dad, Ray, drop off a package (money) and pick one up (detonator) to be delivered to Fayed. The guy with the detonator wanted $50,000 more or he wouldn’t give it up. The dad beat him silly (dead) and took the package to save his family. Go Dad! (I think?)

REALITY BREAK (time to reload the koozie with another beer)

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

This is when it started to get crazy. Stay with me. It’s only the fourth hour.

During all of this, President Palmer authorized the release of 110 prisoners to satisfy the demands of Abu Fayed and stop the bombings of innocent Americans. The kicker is, only 109 actually made it on the plane. A rogue Army Sergeant helped the missing prisoner. The prisoner was the one and only Hasan Numair, apparently the only man who knew how to assemble a detonator for a suitcase nuke. And you thought he was just a good cook!

That’s right. A nuclear bomb in a suitcase is to be set off by Fayed in Los Angeles.

President Palmer called on Jack to lead the team to stop this crazy nuclear suitcase fiasco. The President assured Jack that he can, and needed to for the greater good of all humanity.

Okay, so that was a bit of an exaggeration. I’m practicing my campaign slogans for the Jack Bauer 2008 Presidential Election.

Back at the storage unit where The Handler exploded, Jack sensed Curtis had something personal against Assad. Jack, Assad, and Curtis were on their way to save Scott from Ahmed Amar when President Palmer gave Assad a full pardon for his cooperation and promise to renounce terrorism. Curtis didn’t like this one bit. Jack called Chloe to dig up info and she found out that two of Curtis’ men in the Army were beheaded by one of Assad’s soldiers. So that’s why Curtis winced every time he looked at Assad! He wants revenge and he will not let anyone stop him. Not even Jack Bauer.

Jack and Co. saved the neighbor kid, Scott, from Amar. At the house, Assad signed his pardon papers and was walking with the agents to take him back to CTU when Curtis grabbed him by the throat and slammed him against the SUV. Jack came out with his gun drawn and ordered Curtis to let him go.

“I can’t let this animal live”, said Curtis.

He was about to pull the trigger and leave most of Assad’s head on the driveway when Jack shot him in the chest. Curtis looked up in disbelief that his friend just shot him. Then he died.

REALITY BREAK (time to reload the koozie…damn! I only have one more beer!)

After he plugged Curtis and Assad drove off alive and free, Jack lost it. I mean he really lost it. He ran away from the house and into the woods to cry. He is human, you know! Jack talked to Bill at CTU and told him, “I can’t do this anymore.” Jack hung up and cried a little bit more. Over at the warehouse where the suitcase nuke was being assembled, CTU attempted to stop Hasan Numair from finishing the detonator. Gunfire was exchanged and Numair flipped the switch…

KA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Jack stopped sobbing for a second and looked up at the sky. The mushroom cloud from miles away reflected in his eyes.

Then CTU found out there are four more “visitors” in the country. There was no way Jack was going to give up now.

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