I am – Hercules!!
“This year is going to feed very strongly into next year,” Kiefer Sutherland told Charlie Rose this week. “A much tighter connection. As opposed to a year and a bit off. We’re going to tighten that gap up a little bit. And so the writers are actually more ahead for next season than in any other stage in the making of this show. So we’re very excited about that.”
Huh! Whatever you do, don’t highlight the enormous spoilers for tonight’s episode cloaked in invisotext below.
* Naked Mandy phones Michelle and tells her to do everything she says or Michelle’s beloved Soul-Patch Tony dies.
* We get Naked Tony this week too as Mandy forces him to strip.
* That shot of Michelle screaming in the promo? She’s screaming at the image of Tony dying in a massive fireball.
* After four seasons and – what – eight years? Jack finally takes Naked Mandy into CTU custody and gets to “question” her.
* In San Diego, Chinese agents kidnap and interrogate Howard Bern, the CTU agent spotted on the Chinese embassy’s videotape. The Chinese agents threaten to sneak Bern out of the U.S. to rot inside a Chinese labor camp. As the 23rd hour ends, Bern confesses the man who led the embassy raid was Jack Bauer.
* In return for a presidential pardon, Mandy reveals Marwan’s location.
* Marwan puts a bullet into Curtis. Jack puts one into Marwan. That shot of somebody hanging on the outside of a parking garage, high above the street? That's Marwan, who is given the opportunity to prove he’d rather die than reveal the nuclear warhead’s destination.
* The Chinese contact the White House and demand Jack Bauer be turned over to them immediately, to be tried on Chinese soil under Chinese law. Over Palmer’s protests, President Logan agrees.
* Ughnnnn! Plop. Ughnnnn! Plop. Ughnnnn! Plop.
8 p.m. Monday. Fox.
