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.

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