Previously on 24.

Finally, a one-hour episode! The back-to-back eps are rough on me. Whine, whine, whine.

That one dude, the guy in charge at the FBI, is sending out a team to get Tony and Jack. That other dude, the one in charge of Tony’s group, is kicking a guy, trying to convince him to open the safe room. Winning friends and influencing people? Not that guy’s cup of tea.

Tanner’s lawyer is filing a complaint against the FBI. Mayes calls Renee to ask how she got the info about Motobo’s (sp?) place. He asks what she was thinking torturing the guy, and she gives a very Bauer answer. “I got the information I needed.” He tells her she can’t go to Motobo’s house, and she says she needs to make it right. He orders her back to the office, and she hangs up on him.

Sean’s wife is asking how she got a priority clearance to land, and he’s like, you got lucky, I have to work late.

BTW, Sarah Clarke was in the Twilight movie. Thought you’d want to know.

Motobo and his wife are in the safe room. His wife wants to know what they want, and he says they want names of his allies in Sengala. She realizes they want to use her to get him to give them the information. Emerson starts talking on the camera and tells them they have one minute before he kills his assistant. He has a gun to the assistant’s head. The assistant says he’s ready to die, and Motobo says he’s eternally grateful. Time runs out, and he’s about to shoot him when a phone rings. It’s the FBI calling the assistant. Emerson realizes the FBI knows they’re there. Jack convinces him that the feds will be at least fifteen minutes awa and that they can use common household products to gas Motobo out of the safe room. Sean is the one trying to call.

12:15 p.m.
Jack gets the gas into the safe room, and the Motobos start choking. The lawyers have arrived and try to question Janice about what happened in the hospital. She’s like, “That’s not my suspect. I don’t know what happened.” She’s very Bambi-in-headlights. Mayes needs her on com, so she gets a reprieve. Mayes orders Sean to keep trying to get Renee on the phone.

Renee arrives at the Motobo house. Some guy is telling Jack to put more gas in the room, and he says no, it will kill them instantly. The Motobos are still choking. Motobo tells his wife to just close her eyes and die. She’s like, whatevs, dude! I’m gonna live! And she opens the door. Stupid wives, always saving their husbands’ lives. Jack has Motobo and takes him and his wife outside to a van. Renee sees them getting into the car and calles Mayes to ask where the tac teams are. One of Emerson’s henchmen finds her, puts a gun to her head, and smashes her phone. She’s like, “Hey! That phone was brand new! I’m learning to text and everything!” The guy drags her to Emerson, and she calls Jack an SOB, and it feels like 24! Jack tells Emerson she’s FBI, and Emerson is about to shoot her in the head, but Jack stops him and says they need to know what all Tanner told her, and Tony agrees.

Jack searches Renee, and she gets all mad, and he tells her to shut up or he will shut her up. They all leave together in the van. Emerson calls some guy we’ve never seen and tells him to check with his source at the FBI to see what Renee knows. Renee is very mad at Jack and calls him a lying SOB. She’s like Jack in a skirt.

Back at the Mall across from the Jefferson Memorial, the First Fella is talking to Ryan. I don’t know what about, because I’m bored. Ryan’s supposedly helping him or something. The FF feels vindicated that he’s not crazy. Ryan asks if he should tell the Prez, and the FF says no, not until he finds out everything.

The Prez tells the Chief of Staff that she wants his support on the Sengala thing. She plans to go ahead with it. Sec State comes in and tells her about Motobo’s kidnapping, Jack Bauer being behind the kidnapping. Chief tells her that with Motobo kidnapped, there’s no one who can lead Sengala after the invasion. Sec State tells her to consider caving to whoever’s demands. She says hey, let’s be Americans and not give in. They need to find Motobo.

At the FBI, we learn that Sean and the blond chick that he was rude to earlier are doing IT. So I’m guessing she’s the mole. Janice interrupts their little patty cake party and pulls Sean away for something else. Janice tells Mayes that the feds are on the phone. He talks to the lead guy there. Mayes tells Janice that finding Renee is everyone’s top priority, on account of he’s doing IT with her.

Renee tells Motobo she’s sorry she couldn’t protect him. She tells Jack she hopes he’s happy. Emerson’s boss calls and says that Tanner only told Renee about the kidnapping and nothing else, so she’s extraneous. Emerson directs his driver to drive to an abandoned construction site so they can dump her there. Jack and Tony casually ask if they should try to find out directly from her what she knows. Jack is all grief-stricken.

12:40 p.m.
Sean says Mayes’s head is gonna explode. Janice says, well, duh, it’s obvious that he has feelings for her.

Emerson’s boss thinks that the Prez will change her mind after she finds out that they have Motobo. That will be within the hour. He says that if the Prez doesn’t comply, they can use the CIP device to hurt people.

FF and Ryan are at Ryan’s friend’s house. The friend is supposed to help them get info off the drive. They get inside the apartment, and FF sees pictures of Samantha & Roger. Ryan says it’s Samantha’s apartment, and he’s wearing surgical gloves. The FF drops to the floor and drops his coffee. He’s been poisoned. Ryan says that Roger was looking into things he shouldn’t. So maybe he’s framing Samantha. Ryan had given him a neuromuscular paralytic. Ryan tells him that Roger died quickly and he’ll make sure the FF does too. Ryan goes to the kitchen for a knife and calls some guy who is watching Samantha. The plan is to kill them both and make it look like the FF killed Samantha and then killed himself. I kinda like this Ryan character, but only because he might end the subplot soon. The guy watching Samantha tells her he’s placing her in protective custody and would be happy to take her to her house and kill her.

Janice tells Sean what happened at the hospital. She also admits that she stalled the lawyers for him. Sean looks happy about the fact that Janice is an accessory. I want Chloe. Please.

The lawyer says he heard Renee is missing. Mayes is like, yeah, she’s been kidnapped. He won’t let Janice work with the lawyer because of the whole, you know, international crisis thing. The NSA has forwarded a call referencing Renee to the FBI. They play the clip that says Renee is extraneous. I don’t know what they look so forlorn for. She’s Jack in a skirt, it’s not like they can kill her.

The van stops, and Emerson gives Jack a gun and points him toward a ditch. Jack takes Tony with him, and they get Renee out of the van so Jack can pretend to kill her. She tells Jack she’s not gonna beg for her life. Renee calls Jack a traitor and a murderer. He turns her around and says that she has to trust him to get her out of this alive. He shoots her in the side of the neck then kicks her into a ditch and throws a plastic sheet over her. Then Emerson tells Jack and Tony to bury Renee. They start to bury her, and she opens her eyes and starts looking around. Tony gives Jack a look that says he wasn’t sure if Jack had killed her or not. Renee’s eyes are flying all around as Jack and Tony bury her. My money’s on her surviving.