The Hours: 24 Season 7 Finale ' Part 2!

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The Hours: 24 Season 7 Finale ' Part 2!

POSTED: Friday, May 29, 2009, 2:00 PM

Filed Under: TV 24

7 a.m.'8 a.m.

The real question is: what don't you know about Tony?

Featuring: A lot of shooting but not enough closure.

It's light out all at the airport all of a sudden. Kim and Renee are freaking out about finding Jack.

Speaking of Jack, he is currently squeezing his way under a partially closed garage door so he can hide from Tony. Aw, remember when Tony was sliding under a garage door to SAVE Jack in season 4? This Tony simply shoots at Jack, but Jack manages to close the door. Jack sees some road flares and some spilled gasoline, and he desperately tries to pull a Bill Buchanan (weep). Tony gets in and stops him, though, knocking him out.

Aaron and Ethan go to Livs' office and play her the damning recording. She is all googly-eyed about Aaron knowing her secret. Livs cries and tries to bribe everyone, but Ethan says the president has to decide what to do now.

Tony cuffs Jack to a fence in the warehouse, and Jack tries to talk Tony out of his terroristic ways. Most of all, though, Jack wants to die in peace instead of being used as a big exploding pathogen. Tony says that he has no intention of launching the Jack Attack. And here we finally get Tony's (somewhat predictable) endgame: it's not about terrorism; it's about Michelle. Turns out Alan Wilson was the guy who ordered David Palmer's assassination and then gave death orders for Michelle. Tony argues that he was doing fine, using Bill and Chloe to get to Wilson, but Jack screwed everything up. Jack tells Tony to eff off, and reminds him that he killed tons of innocent people in this screwed up revenge fantasy. Tony informs Jack of his real plan: Jack will meet Alan whilst strapped up with C4. Tony will detonate Jack, and Alan Wilson will die. Jack is not thrilled with this plan. He ignores his impending explosion long enough to give an awesomely gravely delivery of the line: 'you're not honoring Michelle's life. You're reveling in her death, and she would despise you for it.' You speak the truth, Jack Bauer.

Tony leaves Jack all C4'ed up and goes to talk to Cara. Cara informs him that Alan Wilson doesn't know about Cara being Tony's special lady friend, and that they should keep it that way. Oh, Cara, the real question is: what don't you know about Tony?

Alan Wilson rolls up with tons of cars and guards. The guards search Tony and Cara, but let Tony keep his cell phone, which he clings to so eagerly that they probably should have realized it is a detonator. Cara is allowed to approach Wilson, and she kisses him on the cheek in a way that makes one wonder if she is his girlfriend or his kid sister. The guards bring out Jack, and Tony gets ready to text 'detonate' from his phone. Right at the last minute, though, we hear a helicopter and the FBI, led by Renee, comes blazing in yelling, 'you're surrounded, drop your weapons!' The head security guard responds to this demand by telling his men to 'fire at will.' Oops. It's like the airport all over again. There's shooting, fighting, and Tony sets off a big explosion, though not the one that includes Jack and his infected organs. Gagged Jack starts seizing and runs off into a corner. Renee goes super badass and hangs off of a car shooting, then does a nice roll off of the moving vehicle. Nice, Renee! She finds Jack and immediately disarms his bomb. She is earning her paycheck today, people. Jack tells her they have to keep Tony from killing Alan and ruining any chance of finding out about the rest of the conspirators.

Inside the warehouse, Alan and Cara run into Tony. Cara lovingly expresses her happiness that Tony is ok, and Tony responds by shooting her point blank in the chest. Clearly you were no Michelle, Cara. Tony holds Alan at gunpoint and indulges in his own Inigo Montoya moment: 'Hello, my name is Tony Almeida. You killed my wife and unborn son. Prepare to die.' There's a lot of crying and spitting. Let's give Carlos Bernard an Emmy! Just as Tony goes to shoot Alan, Renee appears and shoots him. Tony keeps trying to get to Alan, so Jack shoots him in the hand. Ouch. Tony is dragged off by officers, while he screams at Jack for siding with a government that, arguably, has been less than nice to him. He even insinuates that Jack failed Teri's memory. Yikes. Jack collapses. Alan is arrested.

Renee goes up to Alan and tells him that a lot of people died today because of him. She tries to convince him that the only way to avoid the death penalty is to spill about the conspiracy, but Alan very coolly tells her there is no conspiracy and no evidence against him. Renee gets her turn to say, 'son of a bitch.'

Jack is prepped to go to the hospital (finally). Renee goes to him and complains that Alan won't talk, and that she knows she can make him talk, but she doesn't know if that's the right thing to do. Oy, more torture talk. Jack wisely suggests that he is not the best example of how one should make ethical decisions, and he reminds Renee that she took an oath as an FBI officer. 'These laws were written by much smarter men than me,' he says. The two share some longing looks and Renee cries.

At the White House, Livs gets Skelehubby out of bed and calls for her mother. The leader of the free world is reduced to tears and a cry of, 'oh, Livvie' as the first daughter tells her parents about the whole murder-for-hire problem. Henry tells the president not to yell at Livs. The whole thing has a weird 'Mom, Dad, I wrecked the car' vibe not at all suited to a discussion about homicide. Skelehubby wants to protect Livs and cover up the murder, and Madame President isn't so sure that's a good idea. Skelehubby snits that the president's job already cost them their son. Tim Woods comes running in with 'good news' from the FBI about Wilson, but everyone is crying and it's very uncomfortable. As the president prepares to leave, Skelehubby warns her that she needs to destroy the recording to save their family.

Janis and Chloe wrap up their time together at the FBI and have a moment of awkward understanding, and Chloe even compliments Janis for not being a total idiot. It's sort of beautiful.

The president weeps over a picture of her family in the Oval Office.

At the hospital, Dr. Macer tells Jack that the disease is now at an advanced stage, and that all she can do is administer morphine. She tells Jack he has a visitor. We all expect Kim and her crispy arm to come in, but no, it's Jibraan's imam! Apparently Jack called him for a deathbed confessional. 'You don't know what I've done,' Jack tells him. 'We live in complex times, Mr. Bauer. Nothing is black and white,' the imam replies. He and Jack hold hands and pray. It's unbelievably out of character and yet ridiculously moving. 'Thank you, it's time,' Jack says and closes his eyes.

Henry and Livs are waiting for the president's decision. She comes in and takes Livs' hand and kisses everybody a bunch of times. She apologizes for hurting the family, but she says she has to arrest Livs. Yay! Skelehubby is mad and won't speak to the president. Livs just looks sad and still crazy. The president goes out into the hall to have a good cry, and Ethan walks by. He consoles her, telling her that Skelehubby will come around. 'I've lost everyone,' she cries. 'Not everyone,' he says, agreeing to take his job back. You can cut their sexual tension with a knife. It's gross.

Alan Wilson is waiting in an interrogation room at the FBI. Janis comes in to get Renee to sign his transfer papers, and Renee goes batshit. She handcuffs Janis to a pole and puts her badge down, symbolically getting out of that pesky 'oath' that Jack reminded her she took. Janis tries to stop her, telling her that Larry would not have wanted this. Renee stands in the doorway, looking at Alan, and then goes in to his room and closes the door.

Kim runs into the hospital looking for her daddy. The imam tells her that Jack has accepted his death. Kim says, 'I haven't' and calls Dr. Macer to insist on the stem cell treatment. Next season will be full of hilarious mishaps as Kim's dumbass stem cells wreak havoc on Jack's system. Jack is in a medically-induced coma and Kim goes to sit with him, telling him, 'I'm sorry, Daddy, but I'm not ready to let you go.'

Death Watch:

Lots of security guards and some FBI agents in the warehouse fight
Livs' career/relationship with her mother

So, it's over, again, this time with more cliffhangers than usual. Will Renee disembowel Alan Wilson with her bare hands? Will Jack survive the experimental treatment? (Duh.) Will Kim run out of potential dangers and just kidnap herself? What's gonna happen to Tony? Guess we'll have to watch again next year. Sigh.

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