Okay havent updated in a while mostly because of shock, anger and sadness. I cant believe that not long after waking up from a coma, Tony is murdered. He tried to avenge Michelle's death but not being heartless, or selfish, he couldnt kill Henderson in cold blood. Sadly, Henderson wasn't that type of guy and stabbed Tony fatally with a needle. Tony died in Jack's arms; unwilling to hang on because Michelle was gone and as he said: "she was my life". It was one of the saddest episodes in 24's history, and its hard to believe that after being around for so long that he's really gone. Rest in peace Tony and Michelle. You will be missed. As for me I'm done with 24 and will not watch the next season. But I will support and follow both Carlos and Reiko in their new projects. I wish them both a long and successful career!

 

 

 

7:00 P.M.-8:00 P.M.
Tony learns that Henderson, the man who was responsible for killing Michelle, is now in the same room with him after the nerve gas lockdown. Tony grabs the guarding agent’s gun and threatens to kill Henderson. Jack talks him out of it over intercom. When Henderson lapses into a coma, Tony wants to inject him with a lethal dose of the medicine. Yet he can’t bring himself to do it. The alert Henderson takes Tony’s hand and forces him to stab himself. When Jack gets there, he finds that Henderson has escaped. Tony dies in Jack’s arms.

Tony approaches Michelle with the latest news about Richard. He and Michelle discuss telling Audrey about Jack wanting to interrogate her brother, and Tony mutters his empathy with Audrey, saying, "Audrey's not gonna want to let Jack near her brother." Michelle knows it's not up to Audrey, and goes on to ponder at how, ironically, every move Jack made "has been the right one" even though Jack's decisions have caused the woman he loves so much pain. Tony responds by saying "not if he wanted to be with her." He understands that either the mission or the love has to be betrayed -- there is no room for both -- acknowledging that his decision in Season 3 to save Michelle instead of capturing Saunders was based on his choice of love over duty. This gives Tony his moment. At last, he tells Michelle what she's been waiting to hear ever since she set foot back in CTU and saw Tony standing there: he wants for them to be together again. But he shocks her by asking her to leave the job with him. After all he's experienced, and all he's seen Jack and Audrey go through, the mission having destroyed their love, Tony believes the only way he and Michelle can be happy and have a real life together is for them to leave CTU and start over. Michelle is compelled, but lost. This job is the only thing she knows. She wonders what they will do without CTU. Tony says he doesn't care, all he wants is to be with Michelle. The sudden closeness is welcome. Michelle is given a choice she's been yearning to make, but is afraid to. Before she can respond, the phone rings and they have to get back to work.

Tony is leaving CTU to retrieve the suspects implicated by Richard Heller. Michelle is with him, briefing him on preparations. He is all business, and is about to head out the door, when suddenly Michelle cries out for him to wait. Tony stops and looks at her with expectant eyes. He silently encourages her. Suddenly it all spills out. She says she's ready to leave everything to be with him, and can't stand to spend another day apart. Tony sweeps her up impatiently in a grateful embrace, laying a desperate kiss on her. AT LAST. This kiss, this moment, the timing, is filled with the tension of threat, of uncertainty. We almost don't want this moment now, terrified that the risks Tony will undertake going into the field with Jack will tear them apart. As Tony breaks the kiss, he gives Michelle a long, lingering, tender gaze and turns to walk away without a word. Just as he is about to walk through the door, Michelle calls to him. He turns. "Be careful," she whispers. Tony's face breaks into that famous Almeida half-smile as he exits the building.

Tony is in the field with Jack, moving in on the suspects. Jack discovers the male suspect dead inside the apartment. He warns Tony and Lee Castle that the woman is still at large. The female suspect in question is none other than Mandy. She is suddenly upon Tony's partner Castle, and holds Castle at gunpoint, demanding that Tony drop his weapon and remove his two-way. To make her point, she shoots Castle in the leg with frightening coldness. Ever the altruist, Tony offers to take Castle's place as her hostage because he is injured. Once again, we see how selfless and devoted Tony is. Tony drops his weapon and falls to his knees, completely at Mandy's mercy. After ordering Castle to cuff Tony, she coldly shoots Castle dead, without pause. She hasn't broken a sweat. Tony has. We see here how Jack and Tony differ. Jack would have, without hesitation, sacrificed Castle in order to secure Mandy. He is as devoted to mission as Mandy. Tony, however, thought about Castle, his loyalty and sympathy overriding anything else. He has sacrificed himself. Mandy takes him at gunpoint and now has him hostage. Michelle is in the same horrifying position as Tony last season, charged with trying to save her love from capture and certain death. What will she sacrifice for him?

 

Next hour 5-6AM

Tony kneels - handcuffed, gagged and shirtless! - on the floor of the apartment where Mandy is holding him hostage. His body looks incredibly fit and incredibly strong, but all the physical strength in the world is useless against Mandy and her gun. Mandy is looking at files on her laptop. A quick shot of her screen tells us that she is reading up on how Tony was sent to prison for compromising national security to save Michelle's life. Mandy receives a call from Marwan. Tony listens intently, not wanting to miss a single shred of evidence that could help him escape or help CTU catch Marwan. When Mandy hangs up, she approaches Tony and lays out the facts for him: CTU is close to finding them. Two years ago, he helped a suspect escape and put Michelle's life ahead of national security. Mandy wonders aloud if Michelle will do the same for Tony. Tony simply stares back at Mandy, his gaze unflinching. Outwardly, he shows no emotion. Inwardly, he is immediately concerned that Mandy will find a way to compromise Michelle.
Mandy calls Michelle's cell phone and sends her a digital image with her camera phone to prove she is holding Tony hostage. Mandy orders Michelle to help her escape or Tony dies. As Tony listens to Mandy's side of the conversation, his face is flooded with anger at Mandy for putting Michelle in this position mixed with a strange relief that Michelle seems to be complying - in a way, he can't help but desire this confirmation that Michelle loves him.
After Mandy fakes her and Tony's deaths with the exploding car, she realizes that CTU was not fooled. She sees that agents are on their way back into the apartment complex, which means she and Tony have to leave. She forces Tony to put on her dead neighbour's clothes. As she leads him out of the room, Tony sees his chance - the only way he can lead Jack to his location. He grinds his foot hard into shards of broken glass on the carpet, only the slightest grimace on his face but he has to bei in excruciating pain. He leaves a trail of bloody footprints behind as he and Mandy exit the apartment, just waiting for Jack to find them.

As Mandy leads Tony through the parkade of the apartment complex, Tony sees an opportunity to bust out some Krav-Maga hand-to-hand combat action - without the use of his hands! Way to go Tony! He body slams Mandy into the side of an SUV, then kicks her gun out of her hand using his martial arts skillz. He continues to body slam and headbutt Mandy, and it almost looks as if he might succeed in escpaing from her, but his valiant efforts are just not quite enough. Without the use of his hands, Mandy has an unfair advantage. Mandy elbows Tony in the face and grabs the gun from the ground, sticking is right in his face. Tony looks defeated, having used every ounce of his strength to try and escape. Just then, Jack busts out from the other side of the parkade. Jack screams at Mandy to drop her gun. Mandy makes it clear that she will shoot Tony if Jack doesn't back off. Without an ounce of fear or regret, Tony tells Jack to "do what he has to do." As Jack and Mandy face off, Curtis sneaks around the corner. At the right moment, Jack yells for Tony to make his move. As Tony ducks away, Curtis punches Mandy from behind, knocking her unconscious. After ensuring Mandy has been secured, Jack rushes to Tony's side and pulls him off the floor. Jack takes Tony's face in his hands and asks him if he is OK. "Yeah," Tony responds, as a little half-smile of relief passes across Jack's face. Immediately, Tony asks if Michelle knows he's alive. It's obvious that his love is the only thing on his mind.

Michelle sits in her car in the rain, crying and destroyed, as she imagines the rest of her life without Tony. Suddenly the phone rings. Though she doesn't want to answer, she does. It's Bill Buchanan, who tells her that Tony is alive and is holding for her. When she hears Tony's voice, she really believes he is alive, and she is overcome with sobbing relief. Tony tenderly explains how Mandy tricked CTU into believing he was dead, but how Jack figured out what she was up to and saved his life. Michelle is overcome with emotion. Tony says he'll be back at CTU in a few minutes, and tells her he loves her. Michelle tells him she loves him in return, proving that their love is forever.

Hour 6-7AM
Tony walks into CTU in the aftermath of the whole Mandy debacle. Michelle immediately drops what she is doing to greet him. They embrace ferociously and kiss passionately. Michelle tells Tony that she didn't realize how much she loved him until she thought she'd lost him. Then, she hesitates. She worries how her decision not to go along with Mandy's terrorist demands in order to save Tony the way that Tony did for her with Stephen Saunders will affect their relationship. Tony takes her face tenderly in his hands and assures her that she did what she had to do, and now that it's over, they can be together. Tony knows that Michelle's decision could never mean her love for him was less than his for her, only that neither of them could live with the consequences of such a decision a second time. They embrace and kiss again. Happy ending at last.

 

 Tony and Jack are chilling out in the aftermath of the mission in the CTU locker room area where everyone changes clothes. Tony says he thinks it's crap that Jack has to take the fall for the extraction at the Chinese Consulate earlier in the night. Jst then, Jack receives a phonecall from Palmer. Palmer alerts Jack that the Secret Service agent sent to take him into custody has covert orders to kill him to prevent him from ever implicating the US in the attack on the Consulate. Tony listens curiously to Jack's side of the conversation. When Jack hangs up, he looks at Tony intensely. Jack knows he can trust his brother in arms to help him.
As this is going down" CTU alarm beeps mercilessly, Tony phones BIll Buchanan. He claims that Jack knocked him out trying to escape.

Tony spins a tale to Buchanan and the Secret Service agent sent to kill Jack about how Jack cold cocked him and escaped into the parkade. Secret Service dude plays right into Tony's hands, believing Tony completely. Secret Service dude rushes out to follow Jack. Tony demands to come along. Buchanan orders the SSD to be accompanied by Tony. As they race through the parkade, Jack begins shooting. Anyone who knows anything about anything knows that Jack would NEVER open fire on Tony if there weren't some angle. The SSD shoots back. Tony jumps on SSD, putting on the show of his life, demanding him to stop. SSD slams Tony against the wall by the throat. Tony tells him it's over and that he's going back to bring Jack out. He tells SSD if he wants to stop him, he can shoot him in the back. Tony approaches Jack, who is laying still on the pavement. He takes Jack's pulse.  Tony announces that Jack is dead. SSD checks Jack's pulse for himself, and doesn't find one. Tony then attacks SSD with such verocity that it's almost as if part of him believes Jack really IS dead. Bill Buchanan busts in with Michelle and Chloe, and orders SSD out of the room. As Buchanan follows SSD, Tony, Michelle and Chloe spring into action. Tony injects Jack with epinepherin and begins pumping Jack's chest. Jack is unresponsive. Tony, desperate now, screams at Jack to come back. Still, nothing. Michelle calls out his name in a wavering, frightened voice as Tony screams at Jack one last time to come back. At last, Jack coughs to life.

 Tony and Michelle speed away from CTU LA in a gold SUV. As soon as they clear surveillance, Jack springs out of the back seat. Tony knows that as soon as Jack gets out of the car, he would likely never see him again. He will have to do more than pretend Jack is dead ... he will have to believe it. Now Tony and Michelle are 2 of only 4 people who know that Jack Bauer is alive, and are charged with protecting the biggest secret of Jack Bauer's life. Tony gives Jack his fake passport and Michelle gives him a scrambled cell phone. Tony stops the car in a deserted trainyard. Jack thanks Tony and Michelle for helping save him, then exits the car. As he starts to walk away, Tony calls out to Jack. "Be careful," Tony warns him. "Yeah. You too," Jack replies heavily, and with a meaningful handshake, the brotherhood. As the sun slowly crests above the horizon, neither Jack nor Tony know if they will ever meet again.

 

What a season! It was so awesome!