24: Season 8
Episode 8.06: 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Airs: February 1, 2010
Promo Pictures

Arlo (John Boyd, L) and Dana (Katee Sackhoff, R) monitor Jack and Renee when they go undercover

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24: Season 8
Episode 8.06
Airs: February 1
Recap

Thanks to David G. for his recap:

In this next action filled hour of adventure, Renee continues to stay under cover, even when the whole ordeal became harsh quick.  Jack maintains his cover as the buyer, and Dana Walsh succumbs to her stalker’s demands? We’ll see about that.

The clock ticks nine at night, and Jack has just arrived to the scene where Renee was being held captive by Vladimir.  He took her with him when he began to trust her.  Jack is worried about her safety and wants to pull her out but Director Hastings says they cannot risk the operation, they just have to have faith in Renee.

It appears Dana Walsh is actually doing what her stalker ex was demanding.  She brought up some info on stolen money from a drug bust, telling him that she could get him in and out, no questions asked. She found out the codes, and printed a card off for him that would grant him access.  She was able to get it to him, but not before her not-so-secret admirer co-worker spotted her deal over the security cameras.  I’m betting in the end she’ll set him up.

The last time we saw Josef, he was sneaking his brother into a hospital and having a doctor take a look at him without questions.  Throughout the episode we realize that indeed the brother is in serious condition and needs a bone marrow transplant.  Seeing how Josef can’t risk it, he asked if there was anything else the good doctor could do for him.  It appears that maybe there is something they could do, but there are no promises.  He gave him some medication that would begin to show signs of improvement in a week, well seeing we don’t have a week, I’m already thinking somewhere along this season, this guy is going to die.

Well it doesn’t take long for Vladimir to go after Renee. She gave Jack a call to let him know the deal is on, and he would be there soon.  Vladimir took this as an opportunity to get friendly with Renee, ignoring her constant rejections.  When Jack told her over her earpiece (that she has no problem wearing in the shower) that she doesn’t have to do this, they can find another way, she told him this was the only way, and then flushed the earpiece.

So Jack then went under his cover, rocking his creepy glasses look from “Phonebooth”.  They noticed almost right away that he had an American accent while speaking German. So they decided to have the rest of the conversation in English.  The deal went by pretty smoothly. He wired the five million dollars into their account, to which they tried to kill him, under Vladimir’s orders, of course. Jack wasn’t stupid though, he’s done this before.  Agent Cole Ortiz was acting as the sniper, and took everyone down, all except the man who Jack was dealing with personally.  After a conversation with a frustrated Vladimir,  Jack and the man were off to do some actual business.  By actual, I mean Jack is probably going to kick some major tail when he finds Vladimir.

Back at the hospital, Josef was found by his father’s men.  Obeying his orders, they took Josef and his brother back into custody.  You can bet their father was not very happy with this attempt to save his son’s life.  To punish Josef, he pulled out a gun, and shot his dying son in the chest, taking away his final breath. I guess I was right about him dying this season. I’m not sure exactly why the father doesn’t want his son to live.  Maybe it is so it removes any growing questions revolving the weaponized uranium.

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24: Season 8
Episode 8.05
Airs: January 25, 2010
Promo Pictures

A little late, but FOX has released the promo pictures for Episode 8.05!

Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) follows Renee when she goes undercover to infiltrate an organized crime sect.

©2009 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Kelsey McNeal/FOX

24: Season 8
Episode 8.05
Airs: January 25, 2010
Recap

Thanks to David G. for his recap (written in real time):

In this episode of 24, Renee continues to prove to everyone that she is unstable while undercover with the Russians, CTU analyst Dana Walsh meets with her mystery stalker to which we finally are givin some insight as to what’s going on, and finally David Ander’s character tries to save his brother’s life from the rapid effects of the weaponized uranium.

We start the hour off with Josef Bazhaev (Anders) worrying about the life of his brother, who is suffering from the effects of the uranium. Their father, on the other hand couldn’t care less if his son dies, and tells him to just let it happen.  This doesn’t pass off as acceptable, so Josef takes his brother to a doctor and tells him to operate under the table, seeing he has the effects of illegal weaponized uranium in his system. This was pretty much their storyline of the hour.

CTU Analyst Dana Walsh can’t seem to get this stalker off her back when he calls her again.  This time, he wants her to meet him face to face at her apartment so they can settle some things, needless to say, she agrees because had she said no, he would have called her boyfriend, Ortiz, and told him about her past.  Apparently she was an accessory to murder. He explained it as her name isn’t really Dana Walsh, its Jenny and she is an ex-con that had something to do with a murder. They way I see it, is she was caught in something bad, probably a getaway driver, when her boyfriend (the stalker) killed someone.  We learn more about that later.

Renee is still trying to keep her cover.  Jack thinks she is unstable, which she obviously is.  She convinces him to leave before the guy wakes up.  Apparently she didn’t cut the guy’s hand off, it was only his thumb, so my bad.  Well, Jack gives her another shot, and leaves.  When the man comes to, Renee tells him that he’s free and offers him a little money, and he seems to forget all about his missing thumb and takes her to the man, Vladimir Laitanan, to find out more about the uranium. He tests her on her loyalty asking her questions.  Thanks to Chloe’s googling powers, each question was answered correctly, but Vlad isn’t completely sure she is telling the truth, so he shoves her in a car trunk and drives off.  Jack then drives after the car.

When Dana meets her stalker, she offers him $1,000 to leave her alone once and for all, but as it turns out, he’s not after her money, he’s after her job.  He knows that she has access to some highly classified security files, like bank codes and files.  He wants her to hand over some info, so he can get his hands on six figures.  Supposedly, if she does this one job for him, he’ll leave her alone for good, but something tells me he won’t.

It turns out the car Jack was following was a decoy, and Renee was really on the other side of town.  Vlad pulled a gun on her asking her who she really is.  Jack listens on the other line as Renee tells him to pull the trigger, that she really has nothing to live for other than this job.  He takes the bate, and lets her live…phew.  

Jack has to feel guilty for what Renee has been going through.  Had last season not happened, Renee wouldn’t have tried to commit suicide.  Everybody around Jack tends to get hurt or dies, I just hope this season, Jack can do some right.  I wonder how Dana is going to deal with this, will she do the dirty work, or will she do the right thing? Only time will tell, and the clock is ticking…

24: Season 8
Episode 8.07
Airs: February 8th, 2010
Episode Description

Despite averting the assassination attempt on foreign peacekeeping leader Omar Hassan, Jack Bauer’s day intensifies when he is forced to go further undercover to secure the unsecured enriched nuclear materials. As international delegates reconvene at the United Nations, President Taylor’s goodwill comes into question and CTU races against time to assist with the mission.

Cast: Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer; Mary Lynn Rajskub as Chloe O’Brian; Cherry Jones as Allison Taylor; Annie Wersching as Renee Walker; Anil Kapoor as Omar Hassan; Mykelti Williamson as Brian Hastings; Chris Diamantopoulos as Rob Weiss; Katee Sackhoff as Dana Walsh; Freddie Prinze Jr. as Cole Ortiz; John Boyd as Arlo Glass

Source: FOX

©2009 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Brian Bowen Smith/FOX

24: Season 8
Episode 8.01 – 8.04
Airs: January 17 & 18, 2010
Recap

Thanks to David G. for his recap:

24 is back with another 2 day 4 hour premiere event! They decided to go old school again with an assasination attempt on the President of some fictional country. President Allison Taylor is back and making an arrangement with him to pull back troops in that country. Jack is living pretty happily with his granddaughter, Terri, watching cartoons. When kim came to pick Terri up, her current boyfriend, or husband, is Paul Wesley, from the Vapire Diaries, I knew I saw that guy before! Well they are heading back home in Los Angeles soon, and they want Jack to come with them, because this season they are in New York City! Well he finally agreed to leave with them he was greeted by a bleeding man at the door. 

Earlier we saw this man flee the scene of a crime when a body laid emotionless in a bathtub.  He learned of the assasination attempt on President Omar Hassan’s life, and just had to tell Jack Bauer so he could ruin his life once more. Jack Bauer litterally says, oh no…not again. Chill out, Jack…it’ll all be over by tomorrow, right? 
So Jack’s one mission the entire first episode is to get this man to CTU New York, which proves to be more difficult than one can imagine. 

When we finally get a look at CTU New York, I quietly ask myself if we’ve been sent to the future this season as their technology has been massively advanced.  We have doors that vertically open to a white space port looking room, everything is opened via hand scanners.  There’s apparently drones all over the world, whatever that means.  They are obviously cameras, but my theory is that they are really invisible robots in the sky watching our every move. There is a new director in control of everything, Brain Hastings, and my personal opinon is that he’s the worst director CTU has ever had.  Not only that, I don’t even think he’s a good actor.  He slouches every time he walks, and its a funny walk too.  Kind of like he owns the place, but doesn’t know what the heck he’s doing at the same time.

 Chloe is also in New York, I wasn’t sure why at first, but it has something to do with Morris.  She seems to be having a little trouble with CTU’s sci-fi technologies, and is actually asking for help.  Finally, we have two new characters to the show, CTU analysts Cole Ortiz and Dana Walsh.  Played by Freddie Prinze Jr. and Katee Sackoff.  Somethings screwy out her, but I’ll get to that later.

Read More – 24 – Episode 8.01 – 8.04 – Recap

24: Season 8
Episode 8.01 – 8.04
Airs: January 17 & 18, 2010
Promo Pictures

Fox released some more images from the four hour television event!

Set in New York, the clock starts ticking for another astonishing day when Season Eight of 24 premieres with a special 2-night, 4-hour television event Sunday, Jan. 17 (9:00-11:00 PM ET/PT) and Monday, Jan. 18 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

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24: Season 8
Episode 8.05
Airs: January 25, 2010
Promo & Sneak Peek

Four explosive hours after being unwillingly drawn back into action, Jack Bauer reteams with a risky Renee Walker to track some very dangerous leads. Meanwhile, back at CTU, a desperate Dana Walsh faces tense and untimely circumstances, and emotions escalate when President Taylor learns of a larger looming threat that jeopardizes the peace accord with President Hassan.

Sneak Peek after! Read More – 24 – Episode 8.05 – 8:00PM – 9:00PM – Promo & Sneak Peek

24: Season 8
Episode 8.03 & 8.04
Airs: January 18, 2010
Promo

Jack Bauer becomes further involved in preventing an assassination attempt on visiting president Omar Hassan. As the crisis continues to escalate, the crew at the newly upgraded CTU is challenged by some unexpected complicated circumstances. Meanwhile, tensions run high when an explosive event jeopardizes international security, and Jack is reunited with Agent Renee Walker in “Day 8: 6:00-8:00 PM,” the second part of the 24 Season Eight premiere event.

Kiefer Sutherland stopped by Jimmy Fallon this weekend as part of his promo circuit for the launch of 24 Season 7!

Kiefer talks to Jimmy about playing hockey at Fenway Park and teaches him how to say strip club in French.