24: Mole: FAIL

A house illness forced us to postpone our 24 viewing until tonight. And after Heroes pissed me off so badly (and may have been responsible for this illness), I was quite looking forward to it.

Sean's girlfriend is in on the whole Dubaku plan, so we really have two FBI moles. Well, I suppose that's different then, right? Maybe next season we can have identical-twin moles.

Jack and Renee are eventually released by the DC police and resume trying to track Dubaku's girlfriend. Excellent car chase, but Dubaku's driver pwns Jack... until the girlfriend interferes and crashes the car. Women drivers. Jack and Renee pull Dubaku and his GF from the wreckage, but the GF doesn't make it. Great, now Renee's gonna be filled with some raging guilt. Let's hope she hangs herself over it in a few hours.

Of course Jack isn't going to let Dubaku get the proper medical care unless he tells him what he needs to know. With the addition of a threat against Dubaku's son, Dubaku tells him he has a list of the government conspirators working with him. The paramedics detect a metal plate in Dubaku's ribcage, which Jack forces them to cut into, digging out a data drive. Bad guys always like to implant information into their bodies.

Jack has the bloody data drive sent to the FBI. Sean overhears all of this and poops his pants a little. But really he kind of has his S together, because he plans to crash the system with his GF and all will be OK. When did Sean because all smooth and seductive? It's gross.

It's a battle of Chloe v. Sean to see if Sean and his GF can crash the system before Chloe gets the data from the drive. Sean and his GF win, only the GF doesn't win -- because Sean shoots and kills her. I saw that coming. Oh well, death has to be better than banging Sean, right? Sean stages the scene like he's the one who came in and caught the GF, shooting himself in the arm and everything. Psycho.

Chloe pwns. Always. She is able to recover the data after all. When Sean gets wind of this, he tries to flee. And fails. Ahahahaha You're gonna get tortured!!

If you heard a scream of, "OH SHUT UP!" that was me when Renee started in on Jack with her sanctimonious bull. Jack should never be questioned. Never. And he definitely shouldn't be slapped. Renee needs to MAN UP. Collateral damage, Renee, that's all that chick was. Get over it. There's no room for emotions here.

Bill, who now apparently controls the President's every move, asks her to talk to the Senator to get the charges dropped against Jack and cancel that pesky little hearing.

So everything's resolved, right? Jack's sitting peacefully looking at the DC sunset. Then Tony sits down next to him. Missed you, baby. And he tells him that a source told him that Juma - the big bad warlord in Sengala - is planning a major high-value target attack at 7 PM (it's 6 now). And the anti-Jack Senator's Chief of Staff is involved (it's the guy who has been talking to Dubaku and Sean). Tony's already got a tail on him. Tony's all, "Are you in for some mayhem and torture, my man?" OF COURSE JACK IS IN!!!

TWO HOURS NEXT WEEK! I'M IN TOO!!!!