24 Season 8 – 3:00-4:00am After last week’s reveal of Tarin’s true nature, we all knew that President’s Hassan’s daughter was just so much terrorist ransom material, and thanks to a stubborn NYPD SWAT sergeant, Tarin is alerted to the presence of the approaching authorities, and proceeds to kidnap his ‘beloved’. The NYPD, wearing amazingly ineffective Kevlar vests, possibly from a discount superstore, are quickly dispatched with one or two pistol shots, and Tarin escapes with the President’s daughter in tow. If only they’d listened to Jack. Really, they just won’t learn, will they? He grills Dana on her relationship with Kevin, which she passes off as one night stand, and although in the middle of an anti-terrorist facility, with Dana’s warnings of national security and major incidents, he simply keeps on going, and insists he stay around. I don’t know about you, but if I heard even a fraction of the goings on in that building, I’d be on the first plane out of NY, but then, I’m not a nominee for the most jobsworth probation officer 2010, so what do I know? Later in the episode, Prady reveals that, thanks to his contacts in the police, he knows about the NYPD warehouse break-in, and that Kevin’s buddy, an ex-con, was involved. He wants the raw footage from the CTU records, clearly well aware that someone from CTU could have helped Kevin out. Dana, backed into a corner, has little chance but cave in, and makes the decision to give him the footage he needs, implicating herself in the process. Luckily for Dana, though, she may never get a chance to fulfil her vow… It’s also revealed that Tarin was in on the plot to kill President Hassan after all, as the head bad guy (hey, he’s got a thin goatee, he’s got to be evil, right?) confirms Tarin was willing to give his life in the limo for the cause. Jack’s plot to feed the terrorists a fake file while they track them down isn’t needed in the end, however, as Tarin, after a little persuading from Kayla, decides to pack in his plans and elope with her, and the two try to escape, and although Kayla gets away in a car, Tarin is shot dead. Now, at this point you may be forgiven for thinking season eight has collected the most ineffective and incompetent bad guys ever seen on film. First, scary hitman, Davros is killed with ease by Jack, then Russian crime boss, Bashaev caves in to the pressure, quickly followed by his son, Josef. Vlad is killed by Renee, and then Farhad is shot dead after wimping out on the big plan. And now, Tarin is stepping down, adding to the list of quickly dispatched villains of the season – or is he? Yep, Tarin isn’t one to give in so easily, faking his death. The escape of the President’s daughter is all a ruse and a cover up of the real plan – to take out CTU itself. Driving into the CTU tunnel, Kayla Hassan unwittingly delivers a massive EMP bomb (although, how she didn’t see the chunky cables on the back seat is a mystery), then… BOOM! CTU goes dark, and Jack, uncharacteristically abstaining from what would be a rather fitting ‘dammit!’, is left out of the loop. Dana’s also going to be safe, of course, and the EMP will undoubtedly have wiped the data the probation officer needs, so her critics will, no doubt, be gritting their teeth for a while to come. It was a good episode this week, and one packed full of big events. Tarin has been placed high on the villain list now, as a solidified IRK nationalist, and the other terrorists are also a little more interesting and believable as a threat. Read our review of episode 11 here.
title: “24 Season 8 Episode 12 Review” ShowToc: true date: “2025-07-01” author: “Michael Hunt”
24 Season 8 – 3:00-4:00am After last week’s reveal of Tarin’s true nature, we all knew that President’s Hassan’s daughter was just so much terrorist ransom material, and thanks to a stubborn NYPD SWAT sergeant, Tarin is alerted to the presence of the approaching authorities, and proceeds to kidnap his ‘beloved’. The NYPD, wearing amazingly ineffective Kevlar vests, possibly from a discount superstore, are quickly dispatched with one or two pistol shots, and Tarin escapes with the President’s daughter in tow. If only they’d listened to Jack. Really, they just won’t learn, will they? He grills Dana on her relationship with Kevin, which she passes off as one night stand, and although in the middle of an anti-terrorist facility, with Dana’s warnings of national security and major incidents, he simply keeps on going, and insists he stay around. I don’t know about you, but if I heard even a fraction of the goings on in that building, I’d be on the first plane out of NY, but then, I’m not a nominee for the most jobsworth probation officer 2010, so what do I know? Later in the episode, Prady reveals that, thanks to his contacts in the police, he knows about the NYPD warehouse break-in, and that Kevin’s buddy, an ex-con, was involved. He wants the raw footage from the CTU records, clearly well aware that someone from CTU could have helped Kevin out. Dana, backed into a corner, has little chance but cave in, and makes the decision to give him the footage he needs, implicating herself in the process. Luckily for Dana, though, she may never get a chance to fulfil her vow… It’s also revealed that Tarin was in on the plot to kill President Hassan after all, as the head bad guy (hey, he’s got a thin goatee, he’s got to be evil, right?) confirms Tarin was willing to give his life in the limo for the cause. Jack’s plot to feed the terrorists a fake file while they track them down isn’t needed in the end, however, as Tarin, after a little persuading from Kayla, decides to pack in his plans and elope with her, and the two try to escape, and although Kayla gets away in a car, Tarin is shot dead. Now, at this point you may be forgiven for thinking season eight has collected the most ineffective and incompetent bad guys ever seen on film. First, scary hitman, Davros is killed with ease by Jack, then Russian crime boss, Bashaev caves in to the pressure, quickly followed by his son, Josef. Vlad is killed by Renee, and then Farhad is shot dead after wimping out on the big plan. And now, Tarin is stepping down, adding to the list of quickly dispatched villains of the season – or is he? Yep, Tarin isn’t one to give in so easily, faking his death. The escape of the President’s daughter is all a ruse and a cover up of the real plan – to take out CTU itself. Driving into the CTU tunnel, Kayla Hassan unwittingly delivers a massive EMP bomb (although, how she didn’t see the chunky cables on the back seat is a mystery), then… BOOM! CTU goes dark, and Jack, uncharacteristically abstaining from what would be a rather fitting ‘dammit!’, is left out of the loop. Dana’s also going to be safe, of course, and the EMP will undoubtedly have wiped the data the probation officer needs, so her critics will, no doubt, be gritting their teeth for a while to come. It was a good episode this week, and one packed full of big events. Tarin has been placed high on the villain list now, as a solidified IRK nationalist, and the other terrorists are also a little more interesting and believable as a threat. Read our review of episode 11 here.
