Yay! After almost two years, Jack Bauer's finally back to chew bubble gum and kick ass -- and he's all out of bubble gum!

The following takes place between the hours of 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.:

Fox's popular hit 24 came back with a vengeance Sunday night with a 2-hour premiere, followed by 2-more hours last night! And vengeance was the name of the game -- the government wanted tried to extract their vengeance on Jack (Keifer Sutherland) by cross-examining his torturous motives from last season with a full Senate subcommittee hearing. In a you-can't-handle-the-truth kinda way, Jack set them straight about how far he is willing to go to stop terrorism!

Unfortunately for the Senate, the FBI interrupted because Jack was much needed for a matter of National Security!! Is there any other kind ... ooohh I feel another bad day coming on!

Within the first 20 minutes of the show, we find out that the reason Jack is sooo needed is because the person orchestrating this latest threat is none other than ... wait for it ...

TONY ALMEIDA!! Jack's formerly dead BFF and CTU partner who died two seasons ago -- Yes, DIED!!


Welcome Back Tony, we missed ya!

A clearly emotional Jack accepted the challenge and along with a sexy female FBI agent, went about the task of finding Tony. Tony appears to be in charge of a group that has acquired a suspicous CIP device (WTH?) with the capabilities of crashing airplanes all over the country, and demonstrates this ability by causing a near-miss (wouldn't that be a near-hit if the planes never actually touched?).

By the end of Sunday night's show, a clearly broken-hearted Jack captured his former BFF and Tony was taken into FBI custody, thereby setting up the tension for last night.

The following takes place between the hours of 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Jack offers to torture Tony so the FBI might have a chance to find the CIP device. Tony tells Jack, "Deep Sky," which obviously means something to him.

(Sorry, I'm not going to get into too much detail, because Fox provides awesome episode rundowns, much better than I ever could, but I'm just trying to give an overview).

Jack, recognizing this as a former CTU code, calls a phone number and gets thru to -- OH Yeah!! -- his former boss and head of CTU, Bill Buchanan. And Bill just happens to be with -- are you sitting down? --- Jack's former super IT-geek Chloe!


Nobody scouls like you, Chloe

Bill convinces Jack that Tony is not a terrorist, just working under deep cover to bring down the cell. Next, he asks Jack to break Tony out of custody -- which he does, of course. Bill picks them up and explains everything to Jack (refer to Fox episode guide for more info). Anyway, Tony is on the good side and the Jack/Tony Bromance is back on ...

The gang is all back together and seeking to disband the terrorists, but first, they must get Tony back in. Tony tells Jack he works for a man named David Emerson, who is putting everything in place for Colonel Dubaku in Sangala. OK, here's where watching 24: Redemption would come in handy.

Col. Dubaku is the one who gave Jack all that trouble in last fall's TV movie. Things are going to Hell in Sangala, and the US is trying not to get involved. However, innocent lives are again being threatened, the Prez's son didn't commit suicide, he was murdered, and somewhere in her administration and the FBI there's a leak .... and I'm as totally into it as ever!!!

Tony gets Jack in with Emerson's crew and everything's fallin' into place for another exciting season!

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Till next week ...

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