Fang's Bites Grade for 24, Season 8, Hour 10, 1 a.m. – 2 a.m.

Opening sequence: Kayla goes to see Taryn – C.

Kayla says she told President Hassan about them – D.

Taryn tells Bashir will help him escape and get him to get political asylum – C.

Taryn wants Kayla to go with him – C.

Dana tells Cole to leave the scene – F.

Cole tells Dana that they’re going to clean the scene and get out of this – F.

Hastings tells President Taylor that they’re going to get Farhad – B.

Hastings informs the President and Chief of Staff Rob Weiss that Farhad’s men turned against him and are going to use the rods to construct a dirty bomb – B.

Hastings says he needs access to President Hassan’s intelligence files and President Taylor decides to go meet with him – A.

After she leaves, Hastings gets a backbone and tells Rob Weiss he’s dropping criminal charges against Renee and for him to get out of his way. FINALLY, HASTINGS!!! – A.

Weiss gets pissed – A.

Jack tells Owen and the team about what they’re going to do to get Farhad out – A.

An injured Farhad calls and tells Jack that he’s being pursued and to hurry – A.

President Taylor meets with President Hassan – A.

She informs him about Farhad and asks him for his intelligence files – A.

President Hassan says it’s a breach of his security – A.

President Taylor says if he doesn’t turn the files over, she will attack his country – A.

Hassan tells her that she’ll get the files – A.

Taryn is using a key given him to get loose – A.

Taryn points a gun at Nabil and gets out in NYC to escape – A

President Hassan calls one of the agents and Taryn instructs them to handcuff themselves – A.

Hassan tells one of his men to give CTU the intelligence files – A.

Kayla is leaving and Taryn calls – B.

He tells her to meet him at a hotel – C.

Hastings calls Farhad and tells him to stay put – A.

But Farhad is stupid, runs and is shot – F.

Jack arrives at the warehouse – A.

Jack gets the intelligence files downloaded to a computer – A.

The guy who shot Farhad tries to get out of the area – A.

Jack orders Farhad stabilized – A.

Jack asks a dying Farhad to identify pictures – A.

Farhad is dying – C.

President Taylor meets with her security team and finds out what the dirty bomb would do to NYC – C.

President Taylor is informed that the UN may be a target the building should be evacuated – A.

One of agents has found Nabil who informs President Hassan that Taryn escaped and called Kayla – B.

President Hassan calls Kayla who ignores his call – B.

Kayla finds Taryn – C.

Taryn tells Kayla that he’s gotten a lawyer who will help them defect – B.

Jack is told Farhad is dead – B.

Jack tells Hastings and Hastings says, “DAMMIT” – A.

Jack then tells Hastings to use Farhad as dead bait to lure the terrorists to a hospital so CTU can nab them – A.

Chloe says they can use the intelligence files to help them identify the men in case they come – A. 

Cole and Dana clean up the crime scene – F.

They dump Kevin into a nearby swamp – F.

Dana looks at him lovingly – F.

Dana asks Cole about them – F.

They dump Nick into the swamp – F.

Samir sees that Farhad is alive – A.

Ali the shooter comes in and doesn’t understand – B.

Ali says he’ll go back and get the job done – A.

Samir says to send one of their American accomplices, Marcus – A.

In the back of a truck at a hideout, Marcus then calls his mom (Mare Winningham!) and tells her to leave New York and go to Aunt Shelly’s – C.

Samir tells Marcus it’s time – B.

Jack says they need to keep the ruse up for Farhad and make him look alive – A.

Hastings says the report has been released – A.

Jack assures young Agent Owen that he’ll be ok. That means Owen will die – A. 56  4720 84

President Taylor is informed that the delegates will be evacuated – A.

President Hassan enters the room and requests that Farhan’s remains be sent back home for proper burial – A.

He tells President Taylor that he’ll remain at the UN as Kayla is missing and ran off with Taryn – B.

She understands – B.

The ambulance carrying the dead Farhad turns into the hospital – A.

Facial recognition is being used to scan the hospital – B.

Marcus arrives in the parking lot – B.

He’s ready to detonate a suicide bomb – C.

Renee calls Jack and says she’s been released – A.

Jack tells her that he did what he had to do because Renee did nothing wrong – A.

Jack tells Renee that he wants to be with her – A.

Jack is told that facial recognition picked up Marcos – A.

Jack asks Chloe to scramble a detonator – A.

Jack contacts Owen and tells him to stall Marcos, but he’s nervous – A.

Owen confronts Marcos and gives up his weapon and brings him inside the hospital – C.

President Hassan calls Dalia and tells her about Kayla – B.

He asks Dalia to call Kayla – B.

Owen takes Marcos inside and they walk through the halls of the hospital – B.

Chloe tells Jack she cannot disarm the detonator unless she sees it – A.

Jack instructs Owen to get Marcos to show the weapon through the surveillance – B.

Owen gets Marcos to show it – A.

Chloe is scanning to get the frequency and gets it – A.

They enter the room and Marcos tries to detonate the bomb, but it won’t go off – A.

Marcos shoots a dead Farhad – A.

As Jack enters the room, Marcos jumps out a window – A.

Marcos then escapes and locks himself into a pressure chamber – B.

Marcos calls Samir and tells him it was a trap – A.

Samir calls and tells him to set off the bomb manually – A.

Jack tries to talk to Marcos, but he knocks out the communication in the chamber – A.

Much better. This gets an 86, solid B.

About Ken Fang

Ken has been covering the sports media in earnest at his own site, Fang's Bites since May 2007 and at Awful Announcing since March 2013. He provides a unique perspective having been an award-winning radio news reporter in Providence and having worked in local television. Fang celebrates the three Boston Red Sox World Championships in the 21st Century, but continues to be a long-suffering Cleveland Browns fan.

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