Fang's Bites Grade for 24, Season 8, Hour 12, 3 a.m. – 4 a.m.

Opening Sequence: Hastings informs CTU that Tarin Faroush is the threat – A.

Hastings wants protocols set up and Chloe tells him that Dana is the best at setting them up. Chloe? – C.

Kayla tries to find a window to get out and starts opening it – B.

Tarin suspects something is up – B.

Tarin gets a phone call from Samir telling him that Marcos may have gave him up and to get going … and bring Kayla with him – B.

Jack is on his way to the hotel – A.

Dana sends him the hotel schematics – B.

Jack coordinates the hotel perimeter with a Sgt. Amos of the NYPD – A.

Tarin tells Kayla to hurry, but she stalls him. Kayla is hot. – A.

Tarin looks outside and sees police coming towards the hotel – A.

He breaks the door of the bathroom and takes Kayla out – A.

Chloe sees the movement and tells Jack – A.

Sgt. Amos goes into the hotel against Jack’s orders – B.

Sgt. Amos and his men get shot – B.

Tarin takes a downed officer’s walkie-talkie and temporarily fools Jack – B.

But Jack figures it out and informs the police outside, but Tarin hears it – C.

Tarin gets out of the hotel, but Samir’s men shoot the police – B.

Tarin, Kayla and Samir’s man head into a tunnel with a stolen cab – A.

Jack and Cole are on pursuit – A.

Jack and Cole find the cab and order the driver to get out – A.

But the cab is empty – A.

Jack and Cole head to the United Nations to meet with Hassan – B.

Samir is informed that Tarin has Kayla – A.

Samir calls his scientist to inform that he’ll get the nuclear rods – A.

Chloe tells Hastings what’s up – B.

Dana sees Kevin’s parole officer, Bill Prady – F.

Prady tells Dana that he’s looking for Kevin and shows her him picture – F.

Dana tells Prady he met Kevin at a bar – F.

Prady then shows her a picture of the late Nick Coughlin and Dana says she never saw him – F.

Prady what asks happened – F.

But Dana tells Prady she had sex with Kevin and says she’s embarrassed over the escapade as she’s getting married – F. This storyline is dragging down what had been a great episode. End this MF’ing storyline!

Dana tries to put him off, but he insists on staying at CTU – F.

Jack and Cole tell President Hassan that Kayla is gone – A.

Dalia blames CTU for their missing daughter – D.

Jack and Cole tell them they’ll do everything to get her back – C.

Kayla is taken to a hideout where Samir tells her that her father is a traitor and is gagged – B. 

Dalia gets a call on her cell phone and Jack tells her to keep the man on the other end on as long as possible – B.

Samir is on the other end and talks to President Hassan – B.

Samir tells Hassan that he wants “File 33” – B.

Hassan says he doesn’t know what that is – B.

Samir transmit an IP address and they see Kayla on a website – A.

Samir makes his request again and then puts a plastic bag over Kayla’s head – A.

Hassan then says he’ll get it – A.

Hastings asks Hassan what “File 33” is – B.

Hassan has his head of security show them what “File 33” is – B.

Hassan looks at a laptop and shows them that is a confidential intelligence file on all US anti-nuclear defenses – A.

Hastings wants to know where Hassan got it – A.

Jack tells Hassan that he can’t give out that file – A.

Dalia yells at Jack – F.

Chloe tells Jack that Arlo may have located the signal from the “F” subway train stop near the Williamsburg Bridge – B (I need my NYC readers to let me know the authenticity of this stop)

Cole and Jack head to the location – A.

Jack tells Hassan to stall the terrorists and CTU will give Samir a fake file – B.

Tarin takes Kayla to another room and looks into her eyes – B.

She asks him why he betrayed her – A.

Tarin leaves her tied to a chair – A.

Tarin pleads with Samir not to kill Kayla – C.

Samir tells Tarin to stay strong – A.

Kayla looks angrily at Tarin – A. 

Chloe wants to know what’s up with the search – B.

Arlo sees that Bill Prady is walking around CTU – F.

Prady suspects that something is up with the robbery that Kevin conducted – F.

Prady continues to pump Dana for information – F.

Prady wants Dana to give him the surveillance on the robbery – F.

Cole gets a call from Dana – F.

She says Prady is on to her – F.

Dana says goodbye to Cole – F.

Jack tells Cole to get his head in the game – A.

Hassan says he has to do something to save Kayla, but can’t stall Samir – C.

Dalia says he can and will – B.

Tarin cuts the restraints off Kayla – A.

Kayla pleads with Tarin – A.

Kayla says she knows Tarin loves her – A.

Samir is ready as the deadline approaches – A.

Tarin escapes with Kayla – A.

Tarin takes out one of his men – A.

Tarin runs with Kayla to a car – A.

Tarin is almost ambushed, but takes out one man – A.

But Samir shoots Tarin dead – A.

Kayla drives the car away from a shooting Samir – A.

President and Dalia Hassan see the website and don’t see Kayla – B.

Hastings wonders what’s up – B.

Dana gets call from Kayla – A.

Kayla is patched through to Jack – A.

She describes where she was held – A.

Chloe tells Jack the hideout was at an abandoned bank – B.

Chloe instructs Kayla where to drive – A.

Jack and Cole reach the hideout – B.

Jack gets to the safe where Kayla was held and find it abandoned – B.

Cole and Jack continue to survey the area – A.

Jack finds a tunnel system in the bank – A.

Chloe tells Jack there are three exits – B.

Samir is seen escaping through a manhole – B.

Arlo spots them and says there are four hostiles – A.

Samir looks a lot like Jim Rome – A.

Hastings tells Dana good work, but Prady is still hovering around – F.

Jack and Cole follow Samir – A.

Chloe finds that Tarin is still alive – A.

Samir tells Tarin that Kayla will die for a good cause – A.

Chloe tells Jack that Tarin is alive – A.

Jack figures out that Kayla is driving car bomb towards CTU – A.

Kayla gets out of the car – A.

The bomb is in the back seat – A.

The bomb goes off shutting down CTU’s computers – A.

Jack says CTU is now shut down and they’ll have to go after the terrorists blindly – A

Overall grade – B, 85. Without this stupid Dana storyline, the grade could have been a solid A.

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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