24 - 12-1

This week's hour opens with Emerson (the mercenary in charge of the operation Jack/Tony are infiltrating) torturing Matobu's (the African President) aide, only to find out what we knew all along, that the sealed room that Matobu and his wife are hiding in can only be opened from the inside. Emerson promptly threatens to shoot the aide in the face if Matobu doesn't open the door, counting down from three in order to really accentuate the drama. As soon as he gets to three though, the phone rings, and they find out that the FBI is on their way and promptly forget to shoot the aide in the face.

Jack, ever the quick thinker, sprays windex into the room to smoke Matobu out. Apparently, windex makes a lot of poisonous smoke when Jack uses it, and the room is filled with the poison windex within minutes. Matobu is ready and willing to die, happy that he is able to at least be windex shiny with no stains or wet residue as he perishes. Matobu's wife can't talk windex torture, and she opens the door.

Walker, the female FBI agent turned into the female Jack Bauer, tries to save the day, but gets captured. Lesson, women aren't good at impersonating Jack Bauer. Emerson, realizing that he's falling behind in his shooting someone in the face quota, tries to shoot her in the face, but Jack talks him out of it. Moments later, Emerson discovers from his mole in the FBI that Walker doesn't know anything, so he tells Jack to kill her off. Jack tries to save her, naturally, by shooting her in the neck instead of the face. He ends up having to bury her alive, and Walker gets a silent clock as the dirt gets thrown onto her face.

In other events, the First Man sits by lake staring at USB device for a half an hour. Afterwards, he goes with his Secret Service detail of one 10th grader to an apartment, which turns out to be his daughter-in-law's. It turns out that the one Secret Service agent responsible for safe guarding the First Family was behind the first son's death.

The Office of the Attorney General is grilling the FBI about Walker torturing the guy in the hospital, insisting to talk to Janis Gold (played by Janeane Garofolo and her glasses) as she was a key witness. Moss, the head of the FBI division, is outraged that the OAG is insistant on conducting the investigation during a national crisis. The OAG is outraged right back because they only have a couple of hours to investigate before the 24 writing team completely forgets that storyline.

Billy Walsh's wife's plane has landed, providing the most shocking twist in the Day 7 thus far. It turns out she's perfectly fine if not decidely shrewish and naggy.

The President stays in the Oval Office to provide exposition by going over the confusing plot points in heated conversation with her Chief of Staff. She's like Cliff's Notes, if Cliff had a gigantic ego and the power to invade foreign countries.