24 Review:
"3:00 a.m. - 4:00 a.m." (Episode 7.20)

CTU is back! Or, CTU Lite, as Janis calls it. We don't know about you, but when "Counter Terrorism Unit" flashed on the FBI computers, we got a little warm and fuzzy thinking about the good old days back in L.A. when Bill was still alive and Tony was a good guy.

After Larry and Janis collaboratively thwarted Chloe's rogue tactics earlier this season, it looked like she may have packed up and called it a day. But here she is again, on call from Jack, about to get her hands dirty. When she's saying goodbye to Morris and her kid, you almost get that foreshadowing feeling like something is going to happen to her. It's like that scene in Return of the Jedi where Han looks at the Millenium Falcon and says to Leia, "I've just got a funny feeling...like I'm never gonna see her again." Just something to think about in these forthcoming final four hours this season.

Overall, the hour was a plot builder, or as a colleague of mine called it, "plot accelerator." Jack has his meds, so he's cool for now, though he's still showing signs of deterioration. In his most recent blunder, he referenced the wrong president as he was letting Janis have it. It was great, but then he just ended up looking silly. Maybe since Chloe is back in the picture, she can talk some sense into both Jack and his daughter, Kim.

As for Tony, he and the intermediary woman he's romantically involved with have successfully convinced "the group," apparently a bunch of private military contractor CEO-types, via conference call, that it should move forward with a terrorist attack today instead of holding out. Jonas' loose-cannon ways have given them an opportunity they just can't pass up. The government and the FBI is frantically spread thin, plugging through a long day.

Meanwhile, Jonas is still alive, and Jack pays him a visit. Unfortunately, he's just following orders from the president, so he offers him a plea deal for information, which isn't much. To Olivia Taylor, this is unacceptable. Jonas was responsible for her brother's death, and now her mother, the president, is going to let him walk? Not on her watch, apparently. (Do you get the idea after the day's over that President Taylor is going to highly regret bringing her daughter on board? We sure do.) She calls some dude in the middle of the night, blackmails him, and we're forced to wait until at least next week to see what happens to Jonas.