It was a bit surreal seeing Jack and Chloe in New York, I must admit, after so many seasons in Los Angeles and then a brief detour to Washington, D.C., last year.
D.C. wasn’t so odd, considering the president always played a major role and, you know, the president spends more time in D.C. than in Los Angeles in the real world. Not that the real world has ever held much sway over the events on 24.
For a while, it seemed CTU had managed to do the impossible: Find a director who outshone Erin Driscoll and Ryan Chappelle in his utter hard-headedness and inability to listen to Jack or Chloe.
By the end of hour four, however, Hastings proved he might turn out to be a CTU director more in the Bill Buchanan (R.I.P.) mold: Once he was proven wrong, he realized the error of his ways, apologized to Jack and Chloe and will be their best ally now.
But I get ahead of myself.
The story so far: The president of “The Islamic Republic” is being set up for an assassination attempt by his brother, via the Russian Mafia. Yes. His brother, who has the worst hair on TV since the 70s (nickname: Hairbib Schwartzmann, as he looks remarkably like Jason Schwartzmann, albeit with worse hair) makes Wayne Palmer seem like the best presidential brother in the world now.
When the brother hasn’t yet been found out, but is afraid he will be, he stabs a guy in the neck and runs away, his sister-in-law and niece shrieking in dismay.
Did I mention that the aforementioned Islamic Republic President is having an affair with Jessica Stein? Really. And he seems to love her. This affair led to red herring No. 1 for the season.
Red Herring No. 2 was when Jack got to the house where Davros, the Russian hit man in charge of killing the IR’s president, had killed a cop and his wife not long before and Herc from The Wire shows up and is REALLY pissed off. So he decides to tie up and beat the crap out of the one man on the planet you should never do that to: Jack Bauer. Read full story
