I hope he gets a suitably epic death scene at the end.

We know Chloe is coming back (thx Ausiello), and First Lady as well. But to do what I don't know.

P.S. I, too, love Freckles Bauer.

The episodes after the attack on the White House (i.e the ones which involved Hodges) have been excellent!

What does iirc mean?

Rack Bauer

President's daughter

Chesty Freckles was looking particularly fetching last week.

That's three full terms, so far-- (1)David Palmer (2) John Keeler, Charles Logan, Hal Gardner (3) Wayne Palmer, Noah Daniels-- and now we're at the start of a fourth. We know it's the fourth, because it follows pretty close on the heels of "Redemption". Including the primaries of Day 1, therefore, we've had a maximum total of 13 years-- not 17.

Please God.

Jonas Hodges is trying out for A Few Good Men 2: A Few More Gooder Men.

But it's "Holy Shit" just for teh sake of saying "Holy Shit" I think.

Chloe's boobs on the otherhand, have a very maternal look to them now.

I will admit it's lazy writing and POOR story plotting to make him the endgame Big Bad, only because they blew the Jonas Wad too early.

So, I think this is awesome....didn't make sense to ME that Tony was playing all hero...made sense to me that he wanted a little payback. Not sure what his endgame is but he is the perfect foil....he knows all the procedure, he's in deep, he has Jack himself fooled and has Moss set up as taking the fall to give him the time he needs.

And let's not forget the ultimate end-all battle to the death between Jack and Tony we are gonna get....how can anyone NOT like that???

So, NOW we get our money's worth

And we learn that in the first few hours, if I recall.

But just as season 5 turned me into believing that the Pres could do it, these brilliant salesmen will once again work their magic and have me saying "why did I ever doubt them".

Just you watch!

Looks like I finally found my moment to give up on 24 after all these years.

ugh!

Of course, that doesn't explain why the Starkwood guy trusts him on sight and seems very familiar with him.

But I can't believe Tony is truly bad.

And whats this about Logan being the big bad? Are you forgetting he got butch'd up and became a good guy in S6?

Or the scene a few episodes later with Tony and Jack on steps where he breaks the news of another imminent attack.... followed by another lingering shot of him giving a menacing stare?

Tony being bad has been signposted ALL season and it has been the writer's End Game ever since the writer's strike gave them more time to flesh out the season.

And, as someone mentioned above, it also gave them more time to go back and re-shoot the last episodes as the producers didn't think they were up to scratch.

The writer's know what they're doing. And I'm hoping for an epic double episode finale with Jack and Tony going apeshit at each other like Stallone and Banderas in The Specialist.

It wasn't plausible that Tony could have planned to be on the scene like that, much less just him and Moss with the starkwood guy--if he is really even deeper undercover and trying to do some good, no reason to kill Moss.

This smells like some lame-ass shit to set up a confrontation between Jack and Tony.

Jack, btw, looked like he had an instant cure somehow in the previews for next week (i.e. One Hour Later). Kim's Stem Cells must be some fast-acting cure-alls.

Plot Device #57 "Gratuitous False Emotion Scene With No Story Value" from the 24 Writer's Manual, #57 directly attributed to Braga.

The first 56 items in the manual are all about Moles.

Or, his buddy inside Starkwood calls him on the cell, says, Hey Soulpatch dude, I just happen to be holdin a canister here that was not in the 'splosion--what should I do with it, you think?"

"Oh, coolness, man! You kill some FBI guys, take their easily tracked SUV and run with it. I will get myself arrested, de-handcuffed, and in the helicopter that I know will find you first--we'll have a firefight in which you for sure won't get shot cuz Moss can't shoot well, and you'll shoot his ass. Then, when we are sure he is dead, you will run off with the canister which was just sittin on the backseat of the SUV, on the fire-fight side, because no way are we worried about any bullets hitting it, exposing both of us, because that would never happen, no way--not to US, maybe to Jack, but not to us. How great is this plan, do you think, man?!?!"

"Whatever."

I was just starting to think the writer's had returned 24 back to goodness, if not greatness, even with all the moles and silly daughter-prez side stories.

And then they pull this stunt.

I honestly don't know what to make of what Tony did, and I'm not going to judge until an explanation comes. If the explanation sucks/is illogical, then I will criticize appropriately. If it works, though, it's not worth the energy to poo-pooh it now.

Bauer: "Dammit!!"

And obviously no one understands Tony's motives now. You aren't supposed to. They will explain, so wait a week. It may still be lame, but you don't know yet.

Some 80 year old lady in a car in front of him: "Dammit!!"