If you were like me and watched 24:Redemption and then realized wait, what happened on last season’s finale? Well hopefully this will refresh your memory.

I always said wikis are sometimes more resourceful than original sources.  I sifted through IMDB, Youtube, Hulu, Video Google, 24 Wiki just to find out exactly what happened on 24 and was hoping a video would pop up somewhere without having to download it off of Torrent. Wikipedia was the only quick source that had enough details that I could jog my memory.  A great big Thank You to the author on Wikipedia who added it.

For all those who forgot, here it is:

24 Season 6, Episode 23-24: Jack finds out about the deal and, knowing Phillip would never give up the circuit board, he calls Karen Hayes and asks for her help. Since she is unable to convince the Vice President to call off the exchange, she goes rogue and asks her husband, Bill Buchanan, to help Jack. Bill agrees and helps Jack escape. As Karen is detained, Bill and Jack drive to where Doyle is waiting to make the exchange of Josh for the circuit board, but they are too late - a decoy circuit board has exploded, seriously injuring Doyle and Josh being taken away by Phillip’s men on a boat. Using the information Jack provides about his father’s business holdings, Chloe and Morris are able to deduce where Phillip is - an offshore oil rig. Daniels decides to launch an air strike against the oil rig to destroy the circuit board believed to be in Phillip’s possession, and everyone on the oil rig, hoping that the Russians would be satisfied and prevent a war. Determined to save Josh from both the air strike and Phillip, Jack and Bill proceed to the oil rig via helicopter with only minutes remaining before the strike. They arrive in time to kill Phillip’s men and capture Cheng alive. Phillip tells Josh they are going to rendezvous with a Chinese submarine, to go to China. Josh hits Phillip over the head and manages to grab his gun and shoots him, but does not kill him. Jack arrives and stops Josh from killing his grandfather, not wanting him to live with that for the rest of his life. He sends Josh to the helicopter and leaves Phillip to die. Jack barely makes it back to the helicopter as the missiles hit. During the flight, Jack jumps into the water, Josh wants to go back to get him, but Bill says Jack isn’t ready to return to CTU yet. Bill takes Josh back to CTU where he and his mother are reunited. Bill and Karen are freed from custody and resign. Jack confronts Audrey’s father, former Secretary of Defense Heller, at his home, and verbally lashes out at Heller and the men like him for abandoning Jack despite his sacrifices for his country. Heller agrees that it isn’t right but that it is Jack’s personality to devote himself to violence and that Jack will not be able to take care of Audrey in the way she needs. Jack realizes he is right and tells a sleeping Audrey that even though he loves her, he must let her go for her own sake. He walks outside to a cliff and mournfully stares off into the ocean as the season ends with a fade to black followed by a silent clock.

After remembering what happened last season I now understand the time jump on 24: Redemption.  Kind of a bummer though I have to wait til January 11, 2009 for the season to continue.

Source: Wikipedia

NIECEE’s TAKE AWAYS:

• Watching Repeats is a Good Thing.  Some people can watch a movie or a TV show dozens of times and not get sick of it.  Some people can’t stand to watch repeats of something.  I however, think when it comes to sequels or series you have to at least watch what happened last time if you’ve forgotten.  I know I struggled for 2 hours tonight trying to remember what happened last season!