Jack Bauer Gets Sidelined, Tony Almeida Gets Played

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The Starkwood secrets out! Jack is infected by a biological weapon! Tony’s been captured by the Starkwood mercs! Beware, the rest of this season could be incredibly awesome!

So once the dudes in the plastic suits arrive to check Jack out, Jack is forced to strip down to his bare ass in the middle of the highway. Talk about embarrassing. They draw some blood and get Jack to FBI where he is placed in quarantine. Low and behold, the results come back positive! Fortunately though, he can leave quarantine because they have determined that the disease is not contagious, but regardless, this is still a pretty ugly situation for Bauer. How long does our diseased hero have to sit on the sidelines with these new handicap of his?

Meanwhile, Tony is also incapacitated when he is brought to Starkwood and confronts Hodges face to face. Hodges sees that Tony won’t talk and sends one of his guys to beat the crap out of him, in hopes that Tony will divulge some sort of information regarding what the FBI knows. Hodges right hand man, Seaton, suggests that because the operation no longer appears to be secret, maybe they should destroy the weapon. Hodges says screw that. Seaton takes matters into his own hands…he busts Tony out and they sneak up to Seaton’s office. Seaton insists that Tony ensures his immunity if he cooperates in helping the FBI find the weapon…great idea, cut deals with the fugitive of the state to avoid prison time. Sarcasm aside, it worked. Tony contacted Moss and managed to get Seaton a presidential pardon. How about that?

And now the action…Seaton reveals the whereabouts of the weapon, a warehouse complex. Seaton takes Tony there, and Tony is therefore Moss’s on the scene contact. Moss leads a team there…and despite Jack’s best efforts, Moss refuses to let him join…not because of their differences, but because they don’t know what could happen to Jack in the field now that he has the disease. Unfortunately, at the complex, Hodges has somehow caught wind of the fact that the feds are on the way. With seven hours left in this day, something had to go wrong.

Once Moss and the team arrive, they hook up with Tony and Seaton and enter the warehouse…empty. Seaton tells Moss that Tony had threatened his life, but Tony fires back that Seaton totally played him. On the other side of the complex, Hodges sees a videofeed and points out that Seaton bought them time because the FBI was on the wrong side of the complex. Sure enough, when the feds step outside, there is a small army of mercenaries surrounding them. One of the head mercs, Stokes, tells Moss that this is a private facility and if they do not leave they will be fired upon. Stand off. Nice. 11:59:57 11:59:58 11:59:59 12:00:00.

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