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Oh wow. If only the Huskies had matched this episode of 24 in excitement then maybe they would've won at the Beanpot. But that's for some other blog in some other life.

So many revelations, so much intensity. Our adventure begins with Jack and Poppa Bauer in the back of a van, chatting it up, heading towards their impending death. Phillip explains to Jack that after he left, the only person he was left with was Graem. Am I the only one who doesn't know where Jack actually went, or is that still to be explained? I hope so. Jack and Poppa Bauer are taken to an abandoned oil rig or something, which seem to be plentiful in California, and are about to be executed. They rather easily take these men out, and Jack calls CTU. A team is sent to Graem's house, and Jack and Phillip meet the team over there. They storm in and Jack begins to torture Graem.

During this scene we are shown a lot about Jack Bauer. His brother just tried to have him and his father killed, and he's still tormented with the fact that he has to torture him. Jack begs Graem to give him the information he needs so that he can stop hurting him. After all the terrible things Jack has done on the show, it still hasn't gotten any easier for him to make the tough decisions. Graem blurts out that he was the one who ordered David Palmer, Michelle Dessler and Tony Almeida killed. This makes Jack angry. He flips out and has a gun pointed at Graem's head, about to kill him, when he sees his father in the doorway and calms down. Phillip and Jack talk, and Poppa Bauer tells Jack that he deserved a better family.

Back at CTU, Morris is told that his brother was admitted to the hospital with radiation poisoning. He is about to go to the hospital, but Chloe convinces him to stay. He helps her debug a picture of the man that the terrorists need to assemble the suitcase nukes. Morris is on his way to the hospital when the picture finally finishes uploading and they discover the picture is of him. Morris is taken by McArthur at gunpoint so he can help Fayed assemble the bombs. This is bad news.

Meanwhile, President Palmer calls a cabinet meeting to discuss Tom Lennox's proposal. Tom believes the cabinet meeting will be endorsing his plan, but then everyone gets new respect for Wayne. President Palmer explains that the Constitution is not only applicable during peacetime and that if they ostracizing the Muslim community by taking away their rights, they are losing their greatest ally. He says that the country will rule by law and not "the politics of fear." In this great moment, we finally realize that Wayne is indeed David Palmer's brother.

Then, wait for it, oh my god! Poppa Bauer asks to be alone with Graem before they take him back to CTU. Graem asks him if he's been convincing so far, and Phillip tells him he's been doing fine. Graem explains that they have fooled Jack into believing that Phillip has nothing to do with what Graem has been orchestrating. He's pleased to discover that he's just as tough as Jack, which might be the biggest exaggeration I've ever heard. As tough as Jack? Not even Jesus died twice to save us all. Anyway. Phillip explains that he has now asked too much of Graem and that he must deviate from their plan. He injects Graem with torture juice and suffocates him. May I repeat: oh my god.

I cannot believe that Graem is dead already, and that Jack didn't get to kill him. How can Jack be so different from his father and brother? Are they really all that different at all? They all strongly believe that what they are doing is right, we just love Jack because we know he's the "good guy." Maybe Graem wasn't wrong when he yells to Jack that they are exactly the same. All of them are willing to sacrifice everything for "the good of the country," except that 2/3 of the Bauer's believe that killing innocent people is something that has to be done sometimes.

Two episodes next week. This season is flying by.