Last week's 24 was, should I say, a little weird, and only because the big crisis--the imminent biological attack at a train station in the nation's capital--was ended there.  That was all there is to it: the one last canister that was supposed to kill thousands of people in the first two hours ended up exploding inside a hazmat van.  Halfway through, the questions start pouring in: what exactly do they intend to do in tonight's two-hour finale?

And then they get answered: another chance for Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) to address Tony's (Carlos Bernard) betrayal, with Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) being in trouble in the background.


It's been miles from how we began this season: with CTU shuttered and Jack in trial, with Tony being confusing and with the folks at Sangala wrecking havoc, with the siege at the White House and the conspiracy Hodges (Jon Voight) was cooking up, to this, the biological attack that just wasn't, and pretty much everything else.  It's good that we get all this, in a season that proved to be as exciting as the first ones--yep, season 6 and all that it meant.

But this finale's going to be interesting, because it'll be about something totally different.  That, I think we've elaborated on for quite a while--a more emotional, personal finish than the past seasons.  Sure, there'll be the explosions along the way, since Jack has to break Tony out himself, after all.  And, if you've seen the photos, there's its fair share of flames, too.  The slightly sucky thing is, I can somehow predict what'll happen in the end, that Jack'll recover from his exposure to the pathogen when Kim gets the stem cell operation finally going--I'm guessing there'll be this I-have-to-watch-over-her rationalization--but if it becomes any different, then I won't be surprised either.  It's 24, after all.

It'll be an emotional breaking point for Jack in tonight's 24, and all two hours of it.  The finale hits tonight from 8pm on Fox.





-Henrik Batallones, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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