24 Episode 7: 12:00p.m.–1:00p.m.
Last week’s episode was definitely leading up to this episode. We found out a lot of stuff this
time around.
President Wayne seems to not be as dumb as the Character Countdown makes him out to be. He knows that Tom Lennox had something to do with Karen’s resignation. That restored some of my faith in him. After he shot down Tom’s proposal a second time, I’m really starting to regain some respect for him, but he’s got a hill to climb still.
We were also introduced the Vice President this episode, played by Powers Boothe. I’m scared of him. Just looking at him, remembering him from Deadwood and Sin City, this guy always plays characters that are very dark, and very dangerous and this Vice President seems like he’s going to be carrying on the Powers Boothe namesake.
At CTU things are just starting to get interesting. It seems for the time being that Milo and Morris of stopped their bickering, which is a welcome change. But, now we find out that Morris is the engineer for the nuke. He’s not a mole, but he’s a person that can program the nuke if they are able to coerce him. This is going to be Fayed’s first big mistake I think. Morris may be a little arrogant, but a traitor he is not. There’s no way any amount of torture could make Morris program a nuke, I’m 100% sure of that.
The most revealing part of the episode was Jack torturing Graem. Wasn’t that weird? At one 
moment Jack’s about to rip Graem’s head off and then the next moment Jack’s holding him close like a loving brother would telling him to “breathe.� I thought that was a wonderful scene of showing that Jack, even though he knows his brother is bad, still actually has a soft side. Jack is losing his torture technique.
Finding out that Jack’s Dad is the real bad guy was actually surprising for me. When he went into see Graem in the last five minutes of the episode, I knew that something crazy was going to happen. Even then I didn’t expect him to kill his son, and I didn’t expect them to both be in on everything that was going on.
Jack did find out that Graem was behind the killings of President Palmer, Tony, and Michelle, for which I am glad. I’m glad we can put those storylines to rest now. Everyone knows who did it, it’s nice to be able to move on.
But, now Morris is kidnapped, Powers Boothe is creepy beyond all reason, and Jack’s Dad is the overlord in disguise. Couldn’t you just picture him saying, at the end “That’ll do Graem, that’ll do.�
24, Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland, Powers Booth, FOX, James Cromwell
February 5th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
I had a feeling Jack’s dad was going to kill Graem, I just couldn’t figure out how he was going to do it without making any noise. (I thought he might have had the gun from when he and Jack were about to be executed.)
Big points to the CTU torture guy for leaving that syringe just lying there.
February 5th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
When I heard that Graem was the one who ordered the assassination, my jaw dropped. Without doubt, one of the best single hours of 24 I’ve ever seen.
February 6th, 2007 at 7:24 am
As soon as Jack’s dad shot the second body guard, which was completely uncalled for, it was clear that he was bad.
To kill your own son? That must make him very evil indeed.
February 6th, 2007 at 7:34 am
I had a suspicion that Phillip was in on it, too when he shot the other guard. I wasn’t sure about it though cuz he really acted really sad about the whole thing, I guess he was just worried that Graem was going to expose him. I thought it was kind of cheesy when Graem spelled out the whole crazy bad guy plan to his father. That was a bit careless, someone could have been listening. Jack’s family is soo evil. It screwed him up to realize that Graem had a bad streak, its going to be even worse when he finds out about his dad.
February 6th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Well i have to say i was more than a little disappointed that jack didn’t kill his brother, but i have to say this episode took some very good twists. I honestly think that morris is going to become one of my favorite people this season. i love his smugness. i think it will be very interesting to see how he interacts with the terrorist. I really think he’ll be able to get under their skin.
February 7th, 2007 at 10:37 am
I think it’s worse than you all think. If Zephram Cochran wanted Graem dead, why didn’t he just let Jack do the job? I think he’s got something else planned FOR JACK. There’s some kinda master manipulation going on here. Next, on the Morris front, sure, Morris is a good guy, and I’d like to think he can resist the pressure to program the nukes, after what they got Tony Almeda to do by threatening Michelle, I’d say Morris doesn’t stand a chance.