[24H] Day 7: 2:00pm - 3:00pm

TV Programme: 24
Season: 7
Episode: 7
Date I watched this episode: 15/02/2009
Time since I last watched this programme: 4 days.

This episode got into gear quite quickly, with a tense infiltration by Bill's crew into the Dubaku headquarters. While this dragged out for quite a while, the plan revealed itself slowly, which kept me interested. It was good to see Jack and Renee out on an operation again, and the resulting gun battle was very satisfying.

While this was an exciting episode in general, it did tend to repeat a situation which has occurred before. Usually in 24, the terrorists are successful with their first attack, then fail on their second attack. I didn't even feel that Brunner's death was as emotional as I've come to expect from 24, although it clearly had a profound effect on Janis. In general this season has not been as brutal as previous ones so far, although the complexities of the storyline keep it interesting. Another repeated storyline which is very likely to emerge is that "Samuel"'s (Ike's) girlfriend will be used as a mole against him by the FBI at some point.

The resistance to the invasion of Sangala is just getting ridiculous. It's the same words repeated over and over in every single episode. Ethan is just getting boring. I'm still not sure where his loyalties lie though; he is now the only person apart from Allison who knows about Matobo's impending visit, so he may well be a leaker (we also still haven't discovered who the FBI mole is, this seems to have been somewhat ignored recently). Incidentally this is going to get very interesting, especially if Bill's crew is now officially recognised by the President, and what is Larry going to say when he finds out Renee is alive but working for Jack Bauer??

It's not very believable that Dubaku can just wander about undetected when his face is probably on TV a lot. But he just walked out of that Ritter building and is his own agent now. Hopefully we will still get to discover how Nicholls (now dead) managed to get involved and become a traitor to his own country in such a high-risk operation.

This was a good episode though, it was enjoyable to watch. Let's hope that there is an unexpected and brutal twist soon though to set this season apart from the rest.