08.10 | '24' in 24 sentences
Previously on '24'...
A whole load of everything has already happened in the past 23 episodes. For anyone who hasn't been paying attention, here is where I attempt to round-up the entire series by using only one sentence per hour:
There's a bomb in Los Angeles. Jack Bauer cuts a man's head off with a hacksaw. Kim Bauer hides a small child behind some boxes. George Mason gets infected with some deadly green gas. The CTU office gets blown up by Jack. A helicopter carrying the ambassador of 'a middle eastern country' crashes. Jack interogates Nina Myers, the woman who killed his wife. A policeman finds the body of the small child's mother in the back of Kim Bauer's stolen car. Jack and Nina's plane crashes. Obvious stereotype Reza Naiyeer sells out Bob Warner as the baddie, who then turns out to be a secret CIA agent. Bob's daughter Marie turns out to be the real baddie and kills Reza. President Palmer tortures a member of his own staff. Jack Bauer tortures a man who he thinks knows where the bomb is. Kim Bauer gets trapped in a fall-out shelter with a scary survivalist dude. George Mason faints, coughs a bit and leaves the CTU office. Jack Bauer puts the nuclear bomb on a plane to fly it into the desert - George gets on board and takes over at the last minute.
Syed Ali, the guy Jack tortured, gets assassinated and the shooter asks Jack to bring him Kate Warner, Bob's other daughter and Marie's sister. Jack gets trailed to the meeting point - but by a goodie, phew - and he, Kate Warner and the assassin - Johnathan Wallace - come under fire. Jack finds the important microchip with the evidence on it. Jack is tortured to the brink of death. Some rednecks steal the microchip and Jack chases them to Kate Warner's house. President Palmer loses a vote of confidence and Vice President Prescott takes over. Jack finds the programmer who engineered the evidence on Wallace's microchip - only Palmer's evil ex-wife has got to the guy first. The programmer dies, and Jack and the President's ex-wife race off to get the bad guys...
I pity any new viewers tuning in tonight and trying to keep up with the plot.
UPDATE: The Sun has also published it's own round-up of the entire second series.
