24: 1-2pm

Sorry for the late post here, but it's been a crazy last couple of days. Due to that fact, this will be a shorter recap than usual. There will still be some spoilers though, as is the nature of the beast, so viewer discretion is advised.

First notable event of the evening: Logan tries to convince President Taylor to stop the story that Jack has given to the reporter, but Taylor seems to be seeing the error of her ways. She definitely is not happy with Logan when they are discussing the matter. "I never should have let you do this!" she screams in frustration. This doesn't seem to stop her from following Logan's advice though. Maybe she has realized what she has been doing is wrong, but she is in too deep now and it is too late for her to stop. That must be her thought process anyway.

Meanwhile Reed (the reporter) calls the story that Jack gave her in to her publisher. And Jack gets ready to take Logan down. I expected lots of torture to be involved here but Logan was too scared of Jack for it to get that far. Still, it was great seeing Logan practically in tears being so scared of Jack when Bauer first captures him. At the same time, the image of Jack with the mask and own personal arsenal was quite frightening. If you didn't already know it, you would finally have realized how completely gone Jack is. I'm not saying he is wrong for going after these men, but you can tell the situation is justification for him to get revenge for Renee's death. Logan squeals like a little girl and gives Jack the name of the Russian who was behind all of the day's events. Jack surprisingly takes the info and runs without killing Logan. Signs of restraint or just didn't want to get caught? Either way it made me think that maybe he wasn't completely gone. That was until we saw the end result of his next move.

Jack's next move was for the Russian who's name I'm not even going to try to spell out here. He can just be known here as The Russian. When making his move, Jack gets stabbed by one of The Russian's men. It's only enough to complicate things without being instantly fatal though.

This week ended with Reed getting arrested by the FBI. This wasn't until after telling Hassan's daughter that she had important evidence to give to Mrs. Hassan. Hopefully the daughter does the right thing and tells her mother before it is too late.

And finally, we end on a shot that looks like a massacre happened. The Russian and all his men are dead. Apparently he didn't say anything, just came in shooting, but we only get a secondhand account. So much for Jack not being completely gone. If this was about bringing people to justice then he should have brought them in for questioning. I realize being a rogue agent this would be hard, but "shoot first, ask questions never" really wasn't the way to go here. Logan calls the Russian President to warn him, but Jack has bugged Logan's shirt collar and hears everything. Next week we'll probably see him use this information, but only if he doesn't bleed to death first. It looks like that wound is getting worse. Will time run out on Jack before he finishes his mission? Tune in next week to find out.