24 Season 8 Ep 11

Dana and Cole head back to CTU where they are confronted by Hastings. Since they are the best in their respective fields, they are allowed to work back. Dana gets demoted and now has Chloe as her superior. She then gets a call from Kevin's probation officer who insists on meeting up with her at that ungodly hour.

Meanwhile, Marcos manages to arm the bomb again and refuses to listen to Jack until his mother is threatened. He informs Jack that Tarin is involved before exploding into bits.

The episode was really a bit boring until I think the last 2 minutes of the show where Kayla finally answers the call from her mother while Tarin is in the shower. She is informed that she is in danger as Tarin is indeed a traitor. She manages to tell her of her whereabouts only to be informed by Tarin that they are leaving. She manages to keep her calm and locks herself in the bathroom under the pretense of cleaning up.

I am, however, very excited for next week:

24 Season 8 Ep 10

Cole and Dana disposes of Kevin's body in the swamp.

President Taylor talks to Hassan and asks for the roster of covert operatives so Farhad can identify the men behind the impending attack.

En route to the embassy, Tarin escapes. Kayla meets up with him at a hotel where they wait for an American attorney to arrive who will help him out. They then rekindle their passion until the end of the episode.

President Taylor then orders the UN be evacuated as a safety precaution. President Hassan refuses to do so since his daughter is nowhere to be found. He calls his wife who is already about to fly out of the country to try to get in touch with Kayla.

Before getting a chance to save him, Farhad is killed. Jack uses his body as dead bait to lure one of the Kamistan covert operatives to finish him off.  His plan works and they quickly identify Marcos. Chloe is able to disarm the body bomb but before Jack gets a chance to apprehend him, he escapes by jumping out the window. He then quickly traps himself inside what seems to be an oxygen chamber.

Apparently, the Kevin Wade story is not over:

24 Season 8 Ep 9

This episode has got to have the most betrayals ever.

Joseph agrees to hand over the rods to CTU for his immunity but is betrayed by Farhad and killed. Farhad later learns that his friends have a different plan and wants to attack New York. Farhad manages to escape, contacts CTU to tell them of the plan and asks them to help him out.

Meanwhile, Dana follows Kevin and his friend to a forest / swamp. With the help of Arlo, Cole gets there in time before Dana gets the chance to shoot them. She tells him of her past. Cole then confronts the two and tells them to leave Dana alone. Kevin agrees but his friend refuses to do so. He stabs Kevin and goes after Dana and Cole. He gets shot and dies.

Director of CTU, Hastings gets a call from the White House. Somebody needs to take the blame for the failure of the mission. Their obvious choice is Renee. The White House sends somebody from the Justice Department to get a confession from Renee. Jacks learns about this, throws a tantrum and tries to talk to Hastings about his lack of moral character. Hastings doesn't budge.

With Cole nowhere to be found to head the retrieval of Farhad and the rods, Jack offers to help in exchange for Renee's freedom. Hastings agrees on the condition that Jack helps him out till the entire thing is over.

Next ep's preview:

24 Season 8 Ep 8

Dana tries to tell Cole about her past but was not able to do so. She decides to take matters into her own hands and heads to the girlie bar where Kevin is with gun in tow.

Jack is tortured by Sergei's men, he manages to escape, contacts CTU and has Sergei arrested. In exchange for the information as to where the fuel rods are, immunity is granted to Sergei and his son, Joseph.

Joseph betrays his father, steals the rods and pushes through with the deal. Cole and his team arrives at the scene a bit too late.

Here's the trailer to next week's ep:

24 Season 8 Ep 7

We finally start to see some action. Most of the characters were pushed to the brink and we see what they are capable of doing.

Dana guides Kevin and his friend to steal money from an NYPD warehouse. The small time crooks get greedy and in spite of the small window given to them to escape, they still find the time to search for a plastic gun to entertain themselves.

President Taylor shares some top secret information to someone from the UN only because she was told that they share a long history of protecting each other (or something to that effect), really a bit ridiculous as you can expect this to bite her in the ass in the coming episodes.

President Hassan gets all the more paranoid and orders to have his aide taken into custody and tortured when the latter advises him to go easy on torturing people.

After coming up with nothing, Renee forces Vladimir to call his contacts again. Vladimir gets irritated and hits her. She finally hits the roof and stabs him to death. She then accidentally stabs Jack as well which as expected doesn't hurt him at all.

Sergei, after being contacted by Vladimir, sends his men to find out how much Vladimir knows about his operation. His men find Vlad dead and takes Jack with them for questioning.

Brian Hastings, the new CTU head, isn't a joy to watch. He's neither here nor there. There seems to be something lacking in the way he delivers. 


Here's what to expect next:

24 Season 8 Ep 6

Dana Walsh wasted no time. Barely 5 minutes into the episode and she already has a plan eyeing an FBI lock-up and providing Kevin with schematics and a key card on how to break in. I just wish she has a trick up her sleeve as I don't want to see her go down, the way she's been acting, she might as well have screamed "Look at me, I'm breaking the law."
Despite the talk with President Taylor, Hassan cracks up the ante and has someone close to his delegation arrested for being the cousin of someone who took part in the assassination attempt. 
The infected Russian gets a glimmer of hope as he is treated by a local doctor only to be killed by his own father. How ruthless. 
Vladimir tries to double cross Jack by ordering his men to kill him as soon as the money is wired over. He has no intention of providing the information that Jack needs. His plan backfires since Jack came prepared with Agent Cole Ortiz as his back up. (I bet tuwang tuwa si Jencarps) 

24 Season 8 Ep 5

After the exciting back-to-back episodes last week, last night's episode was still exciting even if it was not as action packed. Understandable since per previous seasons, the 5th ep is usually used to fill the gaps and set the stage for the adrenaline ride coming up. Check the recap above.

*The Dana Walsh storyline is a bit tired and I hate it. (Bawal ba magtrabaho sa CTU ang ex-con? or baka nagsinungaling siya s application nya kaya on the line na rin ang trabaho nya?)

*Renee is totally out of character. Are we forgetting that this is the same person who flinches everytime Jack tortures someone to get information integral to national security?