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We catch you up on this week’s episodes of your favorite programs!
By Wade Gum |
Posted May 25, 2007 10:10 AM |
EDITOR’S NOTE: There’s a lot of good programming out there these days, and here at Wizard Universe, we want to make sure you don’t miss a moment of any of it. In the interest of keeping you up to speed with your favorite series, we’ve recruited our resident pop culture critic, Wade Gum, to run down the past week’s slate of programming and tell us what went down and, in some cases, what blew up in each episode of the hottest shows this week. Check back every Friday for a new installment of our TV roundup.—RM
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 Heroes—“How to Stop an Exploding Man”
It’s the season finale of “Heroes” as we wrap up Volume 1. When we left our heroes last week, Linderman had just received a fist-sized hole in his brain courtesy of D.L.’s phasing powers. Linderman’s security force is quick to try to enter the room, so Niki picks up her wounded husband and they phase their way to safety. Since D.L. is gut-shot and all, he’s kind of slowing down the Micah rescue effort. D.L. assures Niki he’ll be fine and tells her to go rescue their son.
When Niki arrives in the room where Micah was being held, she finds her son dead on the floor and Jessica laughing about it. Niki assumes that Jessica somehow broke free, but since we’re not stupid we know it’s Candice in disguise. Niki gets the crap beaten out of her by Fake Jessica, until a mirror gets shattered and the real Jessica appears, assuring Niki that she’s not the culprit. Jessica tells Niki she has the strength to save Micah by herself, which gives Niki the confidence to unleash her powers and beat the crap out of Candice. Niki uses her super-strength to rip apart the apartment and finds Micah.
Back at Isaac’s loft, a location of central importance in this episode, Sylar is continuing his silly paints. He creates a painting of himself facing off against Peter at Kirby Plaza, Linderman’s base of operations. Ando shows up at the loft with sword in tow, ready to kill Sylar because he fears Hiro gave up on the mission. Sylar has no trouble disarming Ando and torturing him for information. Luckily for everyone’s favorite sidekick, the newly awesome Hiro shows up and manages to use his teleporting powers before Sylar can even react.
Hiro takes Ando back to their office building in Japan and thanks his friend for showing him the real meaning of bravery. He tells Ando that he has to finish the quest alone, but gives him the fancy sword he received from his father Kaito as assurance he will return. Hiro takes Ando’s newly purchased sword with him as he teleports off for his final confrontation with Sylar. Before Hiro goes, Ando assures him that he looks like one bad mutha.
In scummy politician news, Nathan is still celebrating his congressional victory and plans to really start off his term with a bang by letting Peter explode and wipe out New York. His mother, Angela, assures him yet again that he’s making the right decision. Nathan has sent the rest of his family to Nantucket to be safe while he waits for the inevitable to occur.
Back inside Kirby Plaza, Mr. Bennet is still threatening to kill Molly Walker while Mohinder tries to stop him. Matt Parkman regains consciousness after Mohinder clocked him with a fire extinguisher, and he defuses the whole situation. After all, he is still Molly Walker’s hero after saving her from Sylar back in the day. While Matt takes care of Molly, Bennet and Mohinder stash Thompson’s body in a discreet location.
Claire, who’s still riding with Peter, calls her dad and lets him know that Sylar killed Ted Sprague. Bennet tells Peter that he’s the only one who can stop Sylar now. Molly is feeling sick at the moment, but once she’s better she can tell them all where Sylar is. Bennet tells Peter to wait for his phone call.
After helping Molly rest in a hospital bed, the gang is ready for her to work her magic. She tells a little story about a man who’s worse than Sylar and who can see her when she uses her pinpointing powers on him, but that’s just foreshadowing for next season. She uses her locating powers to track Sylar down to Isaac’s loft. Matt Parkman, ever the lone wolf, leaves to confront the boogeyman himself.
Peter decides to make a pit stop and get some brotherly encouragement from Nathan. Claire is aghast and feels betrayed, mainly because she’s the only one who realizes what a scumbag Nathan really is. While Peter chats up his brother, Claire tries to make a getaway but is ultimately caught by Angela. With the power of telepathy, Peter eventually learns that Nathan knows about the bomb and is as scummy as Claire said he was. Unfortunately for Peter, by the time he learns this, Claire is gone. He runs out into the street, distraught, which triggers his Ted Sprague exploding powers. He struggles to keep the power in check and eventually collapses into unconsciousness.
Angela takes Claire back to Nathan and makes arrangements to get her out of the city. Mr. Bennet calls his daughter and Angela begrudgingly gives him an opportunity to say goodbye. Bennet tells Claire to go with her evil family and get out of the city, but to get away from them as soon as she’s safe. After the phone call, Claire chastises her biological father for being so evil and letting the explosion occur. She tells Nathan that the future isn’t set in stone and then takes her adoptive father’s advice a little early, throwing herself out a high-rise window to escape the Petrellis.
When Peter wakes up, he’s back in time. He’s back to when he was taking care of Charles Deveaux and meeting Simone for the first time. In fact, he can even see himself talking to Simone, “Back to the Future”-style. No one seems to be aware of his presence. Charles is outside, having a conversation with Angela Petrelli. Since he’s like Patrick Swayze in “Ghost,” Peter decides to eavesdrop.
Charles tells Angela that Linderman has been wrong before and is betting on the wrong Petrelli brother to save the world. Charles says he sees hope in Peter’s eyes and that what’s needed to save the world is heart, which Peter has in spades. So did Ma-ti from “Captain Planet,” but no one ever charged him with saving the world. Angela says that Peter is weak and that Nathan will be the one to steer the world in the right direction.
When Angela leaves, Charles says hello to Peter. Somehow, he’s able to see that Peter is there and eavesdropping on the conversation. It isn’t explained fully if Peter is time traveling and invisible or just in some weird dream, mainly because that would take effort. Charles tells Peter that he’s there because he needed to learn the truth in order to save the world. Charles actually tells Peter that all he needs to save the world is love. Thanks, Charles. Who knew that the Beatles had the key to stopping Sylar?
When Matt Parkman arrives at Isaac’s loft, he doesn’t find Sylar but does see the painting that takes place at Kirby Plaza. He gives Mohinder a call and lets him know where Sylar’s going before heading there himself. Since Mohinder is already in Kirby Plaza, his main goal is to get the heck out of it with Molly intact. The two try to make their escape and ultimately run into the injured D.L. The elevators aren’t working, but Micah and Niki show up to change all that and all the heroes escape before security arrives.
Peter wakes up out of his crazy dream when Mr. Bennet shakes him back into consciousness. He tells Peter that he owes him one for saving Claire and intends to stick with him until the end. Besides, he’s pretty good with a gun too. Before the pair head off to Kirby Plaza for the final confrontation, Mr. Bennet tells Peter to call him Noah. Update the Wikipedia entry immediately!
Everyone finally arrives in front of Kirby Plaza and the showdown can begin. Sylar appears and easily dispatches Noah by telekinetically throwing him against a building. Matt Parkman tries to shoot Sylar, but the bad guy telekinetically throws the bullets right back into Matt’s chest. Jessica gets tired of all this incompetence and beats on Sylar with a parking meter until Peter intervenes. After all, he wants to get a few shots in on this chump too.
Peter beats Sylar down until all the emotional stress makes him start glowing again. Sylar laughs it up, pleased that his plan has worked. Peter is going to explode and be the villain while Sylar gets to be the hero. Speaking of heroes, Hiro teleports in and stabs Sylar in the chest while he’s busy gloating. Peter begs Hiro to stop him as well, but Sylar’s last act is to fling Hiro away telekinetically. Hiro is forced to teleport in order to save himself, leaving Peter to explode.
Peter tries his best to control the power, but it’s too much. Claire arrives and takes the gun from Noah so that she can put Peter down. She struggles with it, for a reason no one really knows. All she has to do is shoot him in the brain and then pull the bullet out later. What’s the big deal? Who should arrive to save Claire from sloppy writing than Nathan Petrelli. Did you ever have a doubt he would change his mind?
Nathan tells Peter that there’s another way for them to save New York. The future isn’t set in stone and he isn’t going to abandon his brother. Peter saved the cheerleader so the rest of them could save the world. The two exchange their brotherly “I love you” moments and then Nathan takes off into the sky with his brother in tow. The rest of the heroes look to the sky as Peter explodes in a glorious ball of light, supposedly killing Nathan in the process.
The ambulances arrive to take the wounded away for treatment. Molly Parker begs her hero Matt not to die as he’s loaded up into a stretcher. D.L. gets treated as well. Noah tells Claire to come home with him and spouts some stuff about home being where the heart is. Is this an episode of “7th Heaven”? In all the confusion, no one pays attention to THE INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS SUPERVILLAIN WHO HAS KILLED NUMEROUS PEOPLE, allowing Sylar to pull off a manhole cover and drag himself into the sewer. Either that or Master Splinter dragged him down there. Who cares? That’s the end of Volume 1 for you.
Volume 2, also known as “Generations,” begins with Hiro teleporting into the past, Connecticut Yankee-style. He’s back in 1671 in Kyoto, Japan. A group of vicious red samurai line up to take a shot at the time traveler, but the heroic blue samurai who is totally not Hiro’s father shows up and another eclipse occurs. Now you just have to wait a few months for the thrilling answers to all your questions/plot holes!
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 Lost—“Through the Looking Glass—Hour One”
It’s the two-hour event that three seasons have been building up to! You have to love marketing hyperbole! The episode begins with a flashback with Jack on a plane, fully bearded and trying to get blitzed on booze. He takes a look at the complimentary newspaper and rips an article out of it. Hey, now no one else can read it! Inconsiderate jerk!
Once he’s landed and picked up his car, he pulls over to the side of the road to read the article once again. He begins crying and crumples the article up. He pulls out his cell phone and gives someone a call, leaving a message for the other person talking about how he just read about whatever event the paper described. He gets out of his car and climbs up onto a bridge, ready to end it all. No angel shows up, but someone does crash their car on the bridge.
Time to flash forward and go back to the island. Jack and the rest of the 815ers are getting packed up and ready to move up to the radio tower. Sayid, Bernard and Jin will stay behind to try to blow the Others up once they arrive. Along the way, Naomi pulls Jack aside and gives him a lesson on how to work the satellite phone should something bad happen to her. Once Charlie deactivates that blocking signal, everything should go swimmingly.
As for Charlie, he’s in the Looking Glass station, tied to a chair and getting beaten on by two mysterious women. Charlie tells the girls that Juliet is working with the 815ers now and they decide to give Ben a little call. Nice one, Charlie. When the women go to make the call, Charlie sees the blinking yellow light and the switch that Desmond talked about in his little prophecy. Ben tells Mikhail to go see what the heck Charlie is doing in the Looking Glass. The other, uh, Others are upset to learn that Ben lied about the Looking Glass being flooded.
Meanwhile, the Others strike team moves into the 815 camp to apprehend the pregnant women, blissfully unaware of the trap that awaits them or that Juliet squealed on them. Everything doesn’t go as well as it should, though. More than a few Others get taken out by explosions, but all the shooters are eventually taken into custody.
Back to the flashback! Jack played hero on the bridge and rescued the woman in the car crash. Now he’s at the emergency room getting patched up. Jack’s ex-wife, Sarah, pays him a visit. She asks him if he’s drinking again, but he lies and says he isn’t. She won’t even give the brotha a ride home. Nice to know things are still good between them.
Back to the island! The 815ers are concerned that there were only two explosions back at camp, but Jack tells them they all need to keep moving forward. Down in the Looking Glass, Charlie even goes so far as to reveal that he’s there to turn off their jamming equipment. In turn, his captors reveal that you need a code in order to do that. Charlie figures he’ll just have to wait for the place to be flooded and drown.
Tom radios in to Ben and tells him about their captors. Seven Others were killed in the assault. Ben tells Tom to kill Jin in order to make the other captives talk. Bernard can’t sit back and let Jin die, so he spills the beans about the trek to the satellite phone and the radio tower. He even tells Tom about Carl and how he came to the camp, tipping Ben off to the fact that Alex Rousseau turned on him. Bernard’s ploy saves the lives of the captives, for now.
Ben maps out a course to the radio tower and tells Richard to take the rest of the Others to the temple as agreed. Richard is concerned as a great number of the Others are starting to doubt Ben’s actions as of late. Alex wants to go with her “dad,” and he even agrees to it, admitting that he knows Carl is there. It’s going to be 40 815ers against Ben! Richard says it’s suicide, but Ben says he’s going to talk them out of whatever they have planned.
Desmond, who Charlie clocked on the head with a paddle the other day, finally regains consciousness. It helps that Mikhail is shooting at him from the beach with full scuba gear on. Desmond has no choice but to dive into the water and enter the Looking Glass. Desmond hides in a locker to evade detection by the two tough Linda Hamilton rip-offs guarding the place.
You know where we’re going now—back to the past yet again. The bearded Jack is now wearing a lab coat and popping pills. He introduces himself to the new head of surgery at the hospital. Jack is looking over the woman who was involved in the automobile accident the night before. Jack wants to operate on the woman, but she’s not his patient and he doesn’t have that option. The head of surgery tells Jack that he’s done enough and should go home. Jack tells the head of surgery to call him after the surgery and let him know how it goes.
Back on the island, the 815ers continue their trek up the mountain to the radio tower. Sawyer tells Jack he’s heading back to the beach to see what happened to the shooters. Jack says it’s a suicide mission without guns, so Juliet pipes in and tells Jack she knows where a cache of weapons is hidden nearby. Sawyer and Juliet head back to pick up the weapons and save their captured comrades.
Down in the Looking Glass, Charlie tortures the woman with his awful singing. Mikhail arrives in his scuba gear and is surprised to see the two women there. Mikhail thought they were on a submarine back to America. Mikhail wants to know where Desmond is, but the two women are oblivious to his presence. Charlie creates some dissention in the ranks by telling Mikhail about the jamming of the signals and the lies about the Looking Glass.
Mikhail is pissed off and wants to know why Ben has been doing all this lying. Ben says the island is under assault and it had to be done for everyone’s security. He asks Mikhail to kill Charlie and help him clean up this little mess. Gretta and Bonnie, the two women in the facility, will also have to die so they don’t start squealing.
On the way back to the camp, Juliet and Sawyer share a little bonding time. Juliet lets Sawyer know that there really is no cache of guns for them to get into. Hurley catches up with them and wants to help, but he gets yet another fat joke for his efforts. That’s two straight weeks of having his help refused because of his weight. Hurley will have a part to play for sure now.
Remember John Locke? He’s not as dead as Ben would hope. He’s still wounded at the bottom of that burial pit, but he’s conscious now. He manages to crawl over and pick his revolver up again and contemplates pulling a “Deer Hunter” and offing himself. Suddenly, an older Walt shows up and tells him to put the gun down. Walt tells John to pull himself together and get out of the ditch because there’s work to be done.
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 Lost—“Through the Looking Glass—Hour 2”
Enter hour two of the finale! Jack comforts Kate and tells her that Sawyer didn’t mean all those bad things he said about her. He also confesses his love for her before resuming his trek up the mountain.
Bearded Jack makes his return in the next thrilling flashback, driving around while blasting rock music and checking out that mysterious newspaper clipping. He tries giving the mysterious person a call yet again, but he’s still getting no response. He pulls up to a funeral parlor and takes a stroll inside. There was no funeral for the dead person involved, only a viewing. Jack is the only one to even show up for that. Jack pops yet another pill, and then makes his exit without viewing the deceased.
Back on the island, Danielle Rousseau and Jack are the ones leading the 815ers up to the tower. Danielle will lead them to the tower, but she has no intention of being rescued. The island is her home now. The 815ers are shocked to walk directly into Ben and Alex Rousseau on their trek. Ben gives a friendly greeting and says it’s time for him and Jack to have a little chat.
Jack and his crew just killed seven of Ben’s people, so he thinks it’s perfectly reasonable to ask for a quick chat alone. In a heads-up move, Jack gets rid of Ben’s walkie-talkie before following him up the mountain.
Down in the Looking Glass, Mikhail gets suited up for battle by putting on his eye patch. He asks the women if anyone can turn the signal off without the code and whether or not flooding the station would matter. Yes and no. His curiosity sated, he shoots them both. The first dies, but before he can fire the killing blow on the second one, Desmond jumps out of the locker and shoots Mikhail with a spear gun. The dude survived a brain melting, so this should be no problem.
In the world of bearded Jack, he’s trying to get his prescription of Oxycontin filled, but he’s done it too many times already and the pharmacist won’t comply. An angry and drugged Jack stumbles out of the pharmacy. That’s the end of that flash. It’s pretty quick!
In the present, Ben warns Jack about Naomi. According to Ben, Naomi isn’t who she says she is. Naomi is a representative of people who have been trying to find this island. Dharma, perhaps? Ben says that every single living person on this island will be killed if Naomi’s boat is contacted. Ben tells Jack to give him the satellite phone and then they’ll both go back to their respective camps. Jack refuses.
Ben asks for his walkie back and contacts Tom, letting Jack know that his friends are being held at gunpoint. Jack refuses and in return he hears his friends get murdered, supposedly. Enraged, Jack naturally beats the crap out of Ben and leaves him bloodied. Jack picks up the walkie and tells Tom that he’s leading his people up to the radio tower to help his people get rescued. After that, he pledges to find Tom and kill him. Ooh, angry Jack! None of this would have happened in the first place if you hadn’t given Ben the walkie-talkie!
Jack drags the beaten Ben back to the Others and tells them to tie him up. They’re going to drag him with them to the radio tower. Danielle takes the opportunity to finally reunite with Alex. Even Ben has a heart and tells Alex to enjoy the moment. The two share a mother-daughter bonding moment by tying up Ben together. That’s sweet. Jack shares a private moment with Kate and tells her about the deaths of Sayid, Bernard and Jin.
It turns out the three musketeers aren’t really dead. Tom has a heart after all and just shot three bullets into the sand for show. Sawyer and Juliet observe the situation from afar. Hurley arrives to save the day in his VW van, running over one of the Others and creating a hell of a distraction. Sawyer seizes the opportunity and grabs the thug’s gun. Sayid trips his guard and breaks his neck with his feet like a true warrior. Juliet finishes the deal by stealing Tom’s gun. Sawyer refuses to accept Tom’s surrender, shooting him in the chest. That one was for taking Walt off the raft back in the day.
Back down in the Looking Glass, Charlie tries to get the code from Bonnie. Charlie uses logic and spells out the fact that Ben betrayed Bonnie and ordered Mikhail to kill her. Logic actually works in this case and she gives Charlie the code. You just have to play the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” on the console to deactivate the jammer. That should be easy enough for a musician like Charlie to do.
We haven’t checked in with surly, bearded Jack in a while. Now he’s using his doctor privilege to steal Oxycontin from the hospital he works in. The head of surgery wants a word with him. The woman Jack saved in the car is doing fine. She describes the events that led up to her crash, including the way she saw Jack about to commit suicide.
Jack asks the head of surgery if he has any idea what Jack has been through. Jack tells the head of surgery to get his father down here and they’ll see who’s drunker and more ill-suited for the job. Jack leaves the hospital after making a scene and yelling that no one can help him.
On the island, the 815ers have Ben tied up and are still going to the radio tower. Hurley checks in on the walkie-talkie and lets Jack know that everyone on the beach is still okay. The 815ers are overjoyed to hear the news and Ben is just plain exasperated. Claire phones in and asks Hurley if Charlie has come back yet, but that’s a big N-O.
In the Looking Glass, Desmond gets to work rustling up some diving equipment while Charlie works on playing some Beach Boys. He gets it done on the first try and the yellow light flicks off. An incoming transmission comes in on the monitor. It’s Penelope! Once Charlie realizes who it is, he calls for Desmond to come into the room. He asks Penelope about her boat offshore and Naomi, but Penelope doesn’t know anything about that.
Mikhail continues his immortal streak by slinking into the water with his diving gear. He gets his revenge on Charlie by using a grenade outside one of the windows in the computer room. Charlie decides to save himself and closes the hatch to the room before it detonates. Desmond tries in vain to save him, but it’s no use. Charlie scrawls one last message on his hand before the room fills with water, letting Desmond know that the boat offshore doesn’t belong to Penelope. Uh, who knows if that self-sacrifice was really necessary, but that sure was a tender moment.
Naomi lets Jack know that the jamming has stopped and the radio can work again. Rousseau’s message is still blocking the signal for now, but they can take care of that as they’re all at the radio tower. Rousseau turns off her message and Naomi goes outside to try to contact her boat. Ben makes one more plea to Jack to stop Naomi, but Jack writes him off once again. As Naomi makes contact with her people, Locke shows up out of nowhere and kills her with a throwing knife!
Locke holds Jack off at gunpoint and says he did what he had to. When Jack picks up the phone, Locke threatens to kill him if need be. Locke puts down the gun and tells Jack that he’s not supposed to do this. Someone on the other end of the phone picks up and Jack answers. Jack tells the person on the other end about Naomi as Locke slinks back into the jungle. The person on the other end gets a fix on their location and tells Jack to hold tight—they’ll be right there.
Flash back to bearded Jack! He’s living in a dirty apartment with maps strewn all about. He gives his phone one more try in an attempt to talk to the mystery person. She picks up this time and he pleads with her not to hang up. He says he just needs to see the person one more time. She’ll know where he’s at. Jack drives his crappy Jeep to the airport to meet the person at night. The mystery person pulls up in a car. Can you guess who it is? Why, it’s Kate Austin! It’s not a flashback, it’s a flash forward!
She’s looking much better than Jack. She’s impressed to have seen Jack on the news the other day. He’s still pulling people out of burning wreckage after all these years. He gives Kate the newspaper clipping about the funeral. Jack’s been using his free golden flight pass a lot lately, hoping to crash. He wants to get back to the island. Jack says he’s sick of lying and that they all made a mistake. Kate says she has to go because “he’s” going to be wondering where she is. Sawyer, perhaps? Jack says that they weren’t supposed to leave and that they have to go back, but Kate just leaves. Confused? Thrilled? Intrigued? Whatever you are, you’ll be waiting until 2008 to figure out what the heck is going on!
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 24—“4 a.m.–5 a.m.” and “5 a.m.–6 a.m.”
Last week, Phillip Bauer made a deal with acting president Noah Daniels. In exchange for the Russian circuit board, Bauer will receive his grandson Josh Bauer. Doyle is in charge of making the exchange but assures Josh that they’re going to rescue him after the exchange is made. An angry Jack Bauer calls Karen Hayes to try to talk some sense into the White House. Jack is smart enough to not underestimate his father and figures Phillip will find a way to take both Josh and the circuit board.
Karen calls the one man she can always turn to for help—her husband. Forget that she just fired him from CTU a few hours ago, she needs help! Bill is alarmed to learn that Phillip has the circuit board and is making a deal with the White House. Karen wants Bill to help Jack any way he can. Does that mean Bill is going rogue? This never happens on “24”! At least we’ll get a Jack/Bill team-up out of it.
The exchange doesn’t go too well for CTU since Phillip Bauer is a mastermind and is one step ahead of them at every turn. Philip forces CTU to stop monitoring his calls and take their helicopters away. Doyle isn’t authorized to get Josh back anymore after the exchange takes place.
Luckily for Josh, Karen is working to help save the day. She gets access to CTU’s satellite from Nadia and monitors Jack’s location. She relays the information to Bill, who runs Jack’s escort off the road and helps him escape from custody. Karen gets shut out of the system afterward and gives her love to Bill before her inevitable arrest.
Phillip sends two of his goons on a boat to go and take possession of Josh. When Doyle opens the component to verify its authenticity, it blows up in his face, turning him into Two-Face! Doyle’s eyeballs have gone rogue! Jack arrives just in time to see the goons speed away with Josh in their boat. Jack calls into CTU and updates Nadia on the situation.
Jack is smart enough to know that his father’s company owns a few offshore oil rigs in the area. It’s not unreasonable to assume that one of those rigs is where his father is basing his operations. Cheng is there too, just so all the gang will be there to party. Chloe helps out at CTU by searching for oil rigs in the area, but then collapses to the floor in front of Morris. Let’s hope she’s dead.
Evil grandpa Bauer welcomes Josh to Evil HQ, but CTU actually does something right for once and catches it on satellite. Now they know what platform Phillip is on. When the White House is informed of this new development, they naturally propose blowing up the platform with bombers in order to ensure the component’s destruction. Josh Bauer gets the short end of the stick once again.
When Jack learns of this, he has no choice but to go double-super-ultra-rogue. They commandeer a helicopter and go off to the platform to try to save Josh. Nadia does the right thing for once and agrees to assist the rogue pair. Cheng’s men catch sight of the helicopter approaching and take emergency measures to get to the boat before Jack can arrive. Jack blows up so many exploding barrels in taking out Cheng’s men that it looks like a game of Doom 2.
Bill doesn’t make any kills, but he does take Cheng back to the helicopter and into custody. Jack has less than 10 minutes to find Josh and take the component back from his dad! Josh proves that he’s a real Bauer at heart by beating up his grandfather and then shooting him in the chest. Maybe there’s hope for this kid after all. Jack arrives and talks Josh out of killing Phillip. This coming from the man who instructed his daughter to kill a man in Season 2.
With the air strike approaching, Jack doesn’t have time to pick up his wounded father and bring him to justice. Phillip Bauer gets off easy as Jack leaves him to die. Jack manages to grab onto the ladder hanging from the helicopter just before the rig blows up. The gang heads back to CTU when Cheng in custody. Once they reach the coast, Jack drops off the ladder and into the ocean. Bill leaves him so that Jack can go walk into the distance for his “Incredible Hulk” ending once again.
To complete his character arc from total slimeball into noble government employee, Tom urges Daniels to let Karen and Bill resign with their reputations intact. He also gives Daniels the tape-recorded conversation of him committing perjury from earlier in the day. Wrapping up the other lingering plotlines, Chloe is pregnant with Morris’ baby and they’re getting back together.
Jack Bauer shows up at James Heller’s house to settle things between them. Jack unloads all his feelings about the day on Heller at gunpoint in some sort of makeshift therapy session. He’s particularly upset about the fact that no one tried to rescue him in China. Heller relents and admits that it wasn’t fair to put Audrey’s condition on Jack’s shoulders. Jack wants to take Audrey away with him and live in seclusion, but Heller begs him not to since Jack always finds a way to get pulled back into the game.
Jack shares a tender bedside moment with a sleeping Audrey, but ultimately decides to let Audrey go. It’s for the best, really. Jack leaves Heller’s house and stares off into the distance, toward his uncertain future determined by writers uncertain of what the heck they’re doing.
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