With President Hassan dead, the peace treaty is in a bad place. Jack tells President Taylor that if the treaty isn't signed then the terrorists win, so President Taylor gets Mrs. Hassan to take Omar Hassan's place and will sign the treaty. The Russians are mad about this because they secretly set up Omar Hassan's assassination and want to destroy the peace treaty. President Taylor enlists the help of former 24 President, Charles Logan (season 4-5 President). He says he's pals with the Russians and will smooth things over. Great.
Director Hastings is removed from CTU for his failure to save Hassan, and Chloe is put in charge of CTU because she's been working there for about 16 hours now and has the most seniority or something.
Jack and his team managed to kill all the terrorists except Johan, who was wounded and will be brought back to CTU for questioning. A man disguised as a medic injects him with something to finish him off and as he leaves the scene Renee spots him, but doesn't think much of it.
Turns out that medic guy was a Russian mobster in the Red Square, and he recognizes Renee from when she was undercover. He decides to follow Jack and Renee as they head back to Jack's apartment. He breaks in to the building across the street and kills a random tenant, and then sets up his sniper and scope and watches Jack and Renee have sex for about 40 minutes. Jack gets out of bed and is covered in scars and bullet holes and stab wounds from years of saving America.
Chloe calls and tells Renee that Johan was killed, and Renee remembers that she saw the medic. Renee is about to tell Jack when - PTEW, PTEW - she's shot by the sniper. He tries to shoot Jack but Jack grabs Renee and runs outside to get a cab to bring her to the hospital. The cabbie is an impressive driver, and they get Renee to the hospital quickly. She gets wheeled into another room and Jack gets called from Chloe and learns about the Russian mobster. He got away. The hospital crew comes out and informs Jack that Renee is dead. Aaaannnnnd, here comes the rant:
I HATE YOU 24! I HATE YOU! This is the final season, AND YOU KILL CRAZY RENEE! What kind of crap is that? Jack saves America over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, and you kill his first wife and now you kill Crazy Renee? Thanks for saving America, Jack! Did you want a happy ending? TOO BAD! I honestly would've taken 7 hours of peace negotiations over this. And is Jack going to go all "rampage-y" and kill a bunch of people? NO! Because almost all the bad guys are dead anyway! Sure, they'll kill the Russian mobster and arrest the Russian politicians behind Omar Hassan's assassination, and Dana will be killed for treason, but that's no consolation. YOU HEAR ME 24! KILLING DANA IS NO CONSOLATION! I HATE YOU!
Sigh. Even the death tally isn't going to make me feel better about this episode.
Bad guys: 3 (Mobster poisoned Johan, stabbed Jack's neighbor, killed Crazy Renee).
50 kills now for the bad guys. Everyone else stands pat. Season projections are at 120 deaths. One of which will probably be Jack hanging himself to end the series. You suck, 24. End rant.
I discovered your blog last week and therefore had to check your take on the unfoldings of tonight's episode.
ReplyDeleteAaaargh!! Me too!!! This is the first season of 24 I've watched. People talk about how much this season sucks balls but I've loved it! And I'd grown attached enough to Renee that I figured they'd probably kill her off (I'd heard rumorings of poor Jack never being allowed to be happy). So anyway, thanks for the rant and I'll go cry myself to sleep.
I think the last 3 seasons or so of 24 have all simultaneously sucked/been awesome. There's fantastic kills and action, but also plenty of ridiculously stupid stuff too. That's what makes the show so good. If it was just "pure awesome", then I'd have less to write about. But killing Renee may have been the stupidest part to date.
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