An admission from yours truly: I wrote about a different episode of 24 last week. That preview should've been for tonight's episode. No wonder I was looking for the Taylor-Hassan meet-up--that happens tonight, not last week. So, the sudden turn of events will happen tonight.

Although you can say there was a sudden turn of events last week, too, albeit in a different front altogether. Yes, Dana is so screwed. Or maybe I should say Jenny is so screwed. Cole has found out about her, and he's squished the potentially messy situation between his fiancé, the logical Kevin and his more stupid companion. Only it doesn't feel so tied up to me. Think about this: they're missing in action! Just when the CTU needed more men to follow up Josef being killed, and Sergei being arrested, and Farhad being betrayed!

That leads me to my second question: welcome back, Jack? There's some sense in Hastings' "back with both feet" line, but a few weeks back I already had the impression that Jack was back in it with both feet, with the way he got himself undercover, making Chloe's (ineffective) back story and kicking some Russian ass before realizing it isn't all over yet. But it helps, of course, to hear that Jack is in it for the long run... or, at least, for the next fourteen hours.

Which brings us to tonight's episode, which features that Taylor-Hassan meet-up, and the sudden turn of events. The turmoil within the Hassan family--separated couples, in a nutshell--will affect everything. You've got a paranoid president trampling on everyone to survive, and you've got an ally who's willing to do everything, even if it's nefarious, for the greater good. With the peace process crumbling, well, this is going to get pretty nasty. 24 returns tonight from 9pm on Fox.


(Image courtesy of Fox)