Speaking of sick daddy, he's still on the run from Evil Tony and Cara. He finds a taxi garage w/ a conveniently slightly-open door and wiggles his way in with much exertion and groaning. While rooting around in the garage and busting a window of a cab, he makes a giant racket and Tony pops his head under the door. Tony fires a few shots at Jack and the cabs before Jack manages to close the garage door. Jack, trapped, notices the cab leaking gas and decides to attempt a flaming suicide, lest the baddies get the germies in his body. Tony puts a stop to that little plan (after opening the garage door with a freakin' fork lift) by kicking the flare out of Jack's hand and knocking him out cold with the butt of his pistol.
At the White House, Ethan Kanin awesomely bursts into Olivia's office unannounced. He's followed by a scowling/brooding Aaron Pierce. Olivia freaks out and tells Aaron to get Ethan out of the White House, but Agent Pierce tells her he is NOT going to do that. While Olivia attempts to call security, Ethan presses play on his portable audio device and Olivia freaks out listening to herself order the hit on Hodges! Ethan tells her the disk she destroyed was a blank and Pierce had the real one all along. Olivia asks Aaron how long he's known what heinous little bitch she is, and he tells her he had been suspicious for a while, but was hoping he was wrong. He's clearly disgusted/disappointed with her, and leaves the office so the former and interim Chief of Staffs can have a little chat.
Olivia starts scrambling and bargaining right away. She tells Ethan she'll resign, he can have his job back, and everything will be just peachy. Ethan calmly explains that the issue isn't his old job, it's the "truth." Olivia makes a good point, that the truth could destroy her Mother's administration. A noble sentiment that she might have expressed BEFORE ordering a hit on a Federal witness maybe? Ethan tells her that's why it's gotta be the President's call whether to prosecute or cover-up Olivia's major f*ck up. The most important thing is that the President find out the truth about her daughter, and he thinks Olivia should personally deliver the news.
Back at Tony's Baddie warehouse, Jack is desperately begging his old buddy to please be a pal and not let his corpse be used to create bio-weapons. Tony drops a sorta expected bombshell when he tells Jack that he never intended to do that. It was all a play to get to Cara's boss Alan Wilson. Apparently, Alan was the man behind Charles Logan, the assassination of David Palmer, the death of Tony's wife, the sinking of the Titanic, the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, and he's also Octo-Mom's sperm donor! So Tony's not really a terrorist, he's just a semi-psychotic rogue vigilante out to avenge his wife's death! For those of you keeping score at home: Aleida was good, then dead, then bad, then good, then bad, then REALLY bad, and now sorta misguidedly good again. Got that?
Jack gets a WTF face and tries to tell Tony how crazy his actions have been. Almeida gets all sanctimonious and goes on a rant about how hard he worked to bring the REAL villains down, and how he's totally the good guy here. In Tony World, Jack's to blame for getting in the way and screwing everything up! Jack reminds him about the whole bio-weapon attack that Tony tried to carry out a little over an hour ago, and Tony brushes that off as something he had to do. Innocent people, be damned! Jack won't give up and pleads with Tony not to kill Alan Wilson...to let justice take it's course, and Tony is all: "Oh yeah, about that...I'm not gonna kill him Jack, I'm just going to turn you into a human bomb so you can do it for me. Cool?" While Jack protests some more, Tony notices Cara approaching on a monitor, and shuts Jack up with a little duct tape to the mouth.

Cara pops in and chit-chats with Tony about Alan being on his way and wanting to see Jack's medical report. Jack, all duct taped up, can only glare at the two of them, as we cut to break!
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Comments (7)
Great recap, Dogsnaxx! I can almost forgive you for being so late.
Your screencaps are the best.
Love ya.
1 of 7 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on June 6, 2009 1:33 PM
I've loved your recaps all season, Dogsnaxx. Brilliant job providing the snark for a mostly brilliant season of 24!!!
So many funny moments from the finale, you had me laughing the entire time. I hope you're back in January, when 24 takes Manhattan!!!!
2 of 7 | Posted by slumrville | Posted on June 7, 2009 9:21 AM
Dogsnaxx - Excellent recaps all season long! I thought this season was as good as the earlier ones.
I too am shocked that Kim Bauer can actually make a smart decision! Maybe some magical stuff happened after she named her baby Teri!
Bad Olivia is gone! (I saw the same actress as a rape victim on Law & Order: SVU and I felt no sympathy!! I guess that means she did a good acting job)
Prez Taylor does everything right! (as we all know a woman president would do!)
Looking forward to the next season.
3 of 7 | Posted by taxgirl | Posted on June 7, 2009 8:09 PM
Yay! The finale recap! Awesome job, DS! Love the screencaps too - you really have a talent for picking ones that are ripe for hilarity!
"who had to break into her luggage because she left her "electric toothbrush on." Is that what they're calling them these days?" - LOL! Couldn't believe Kim didn't bitch things up this time - go Kim! But stay away next season!
Glad to see Ho-livia get hers. Nasty, snide bitch. She was intolerable during the whole Kanin interrogation - I wanted to kick her in the hoo-ha.
Are you going to be doing recaps for other shows? Or is this it until January? I'll miss your wit if the latter is the case!
4 of 7 | Posted by jjnoza | Posted on June 7, 2009 9:27 PM
@ Everyone!
It's been an honor and a joy recapping the season for you all! It was a tremendous learning experience and a lot of fun when I was dealing with stupid tech issues and wanting to put my fist through the computer monitor!
I think I'm going to take a little break for the summer (19 weeks in a row of exposition heavy recaps are a lot!) But I hope to be back soon with another show (assuming Flipit hasn't disowned me because of my late finale! ;-) )
Hope you all have a great summer! It's been a lot of fun talking trash and enjoying the show with you guys!
5 of 7 | Posted by Dogsnaxx | Posted on June 8, 2009 7:31 AM
I meant when I WASN'T dealing with crazy tech issues!
6 of 7 | Posted by Dogsnaxx | Posted on June 8, 2009 7:33 AM
Awww! You'll be missed - but enjoy your break - you deserve it!
7 of 7 | Posted by jjnoza | Posted on June 8, 2009 8:55 AM