It either tied the demo on the night and almost always led in total viewers each airing for a summer show, and especially a Fox summer show, that isn't bad.

The final bit after the 12 hour skip was pretty amazing all the way through. Jack got a silent clock so that's closure (a heroic sacrifice for his friend) if the show doesn't get renewed. If it does get renewed, they can make "24" S10 as "Die Hard 5" in Russia but have it not suck this time.

"24" has a comic-con panel next week, which is a good sign, do many cancelled shows have a comic con panel a week after they get axed? Also Fox didn't advertise it as a "series finale" which is another good sign. And the ratings went up from last week! And it had the most total viewers in each hour from June…

speaking of cell phones, does anyone think in S9 it's slightly less cool when Jack is yelling into a iphone/ smartphone? (they even added a weird antenna attachment in a few shots to make it look sleeker, I guess) It looked cooler when it was a flipphone or smaller ones. The smaller flip-phones were made for the spy…

I literally clicked on this story due to the photo and the episode title "Alison Brie wears a black mesh top and a mini-skirt" That is fantastic advertising.

Jack's "He's a counter-intelligence operative, YOU IDIOT!" is a top 3 S9 Bauerism, up there with "The only death on my conscience tonight is yours" window throw and, the winnar so far with "So Wake. The Bitch. Up."

Anybody notice the random product placement? Heller calls Jack, full on view of Sprint phone system. *excessive jabbering in background* "Mr. President, I'm sorry for the noise, can you hear me?" "I CAN HEAR YOU LOUD AND CLEAR, JACK!" (Shot of phone) *noise in background immediately dies as Jack relates plot…

There's no such thing as a "bad" season of "24" because even when it's bad it's goddamn fantastic.

I've always maintained that Season 7 is way underrated. Probably in my top 4 "24" seasons, and that's saying something. Evil Tony! Raid on the White House! Freakin' Jon Voight! Freakin' Tony Todd (again, playing General Dumma but way better than his S3 role)

Sean Calley's music is freakin amazing. Always has been. Huge part of the show. Give that man Emmys. As in, all of them.

Continuity nerd alert: Last time we saw Cheng was when there was a big explosion on an oil tanker with Bad Dad Bauer and Cheng was dragged into custody with half of his face bloodied and Cheng has scars all over the side of his face in his reveal in this ep.

All connected by MAGNETS!

Personally, I think Goldeye is a straight-up great Bond flick, and several parsecs better than any of Bronsan's other efforts.

Clearly he's not dead! Heller dodged out of the way at the last second! Guy's spry!

The centre of the pitch at Wembly stadium is just a charred hole full of bits of POTUS. Gonna make the start of the soccer season really awkward.

The 24 crew were behind the Nikita TV series (the 90s one, not the CW one) I'm considering checking it out just for that

stealing the homeless guy's brick is definitely kinda harsh but the fact he had to wave a gun in the the hobo's face is what makes it genius

Jack's Dammit ratio I think hit 4 this episode, possibly a new record!

Heller is going to bite it and then time will skip forward for the swearing in of Vice President Tony Almeida. Or Jawless Charles Logan. Maybe Naked Mandy.

In "Rise of the Machines" Skynet isn't a centralized system but instead it's lurking in your cell phones and websites and Disquis comments sections. So, yeah, it's from everywhere on the Internets. The chatbot is only one part of Skynet.