In a new radio interview, Mary Lynn Rajskub revealed the final ten pages of the 24: Live Another Day finale script have been omitted and are being kept secret – even from the cast members.
Do they keep that pretty secret when it gets down to the finale?
“Yeah, it’s been driving me crazy. I still don’t know! I’ve been given the last two scripts because we’re very close to shooting it, but they’ve omitted putting the last ten pages in. And honestly, I think they’re still kind of changing their mind on what’s going to happen with the end there. That should make it very exciting for everyone involved.”
Do you like that goth look?
“I got together with the hair and makeup and wardrobe. There were different versions of this – she was platinum blonde, and then dreadlocks. We sort of settled in on this general gothy look and it seemed to be the right thing. It definitely changes my attitude once I put that costume and makeup and stuff. It does something to me, puts me in a place.”
Update: Chlojack has pointed out this tweet from Kim Raver on Tuesday:
Shooting last two episodes of LAD! Episode 12 arrived- bright red script and many scenes have yet to be revealed! Exciting!
— Kim Raver (@KimRaver) May 27, 2014
The bright red script is presumably to prevent photocopying and duplication and the missing pages indicate an even higher level of secrecy.
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Comments ClosedMary
May 29, 2014 at 3:21 pm24 Spoilers
May 29, 2014 at 4:34 pmI’m starting to think they might actually kill off Jack Bauer.
Kiki Vanderway
May 29, 2014 at 4:45 pmChlojack
May 29, 2014 at 5:00 pmHope the omitted pages is the surprise return of Kim and Tony and not the death of Jack Bauer. Hope nothing leaks though!
Chlojack
May 29, 2014 at 5:02 pm@KimRaver Shooting last two episodes of LAD! Episode 12 arrived- bright red script and many scenes have yet to be revealed! Exciting!
24fan24
May 29, 2014 at 5:18 pmI wonder if Kiefer and the main writers are the only ones that have the completed script.
Mary
May 29, 2014 at 5:21 pmSeba
May 30, 2014 at 11:56 amMary
May 30, 2014 at 12:13 pm24fan24
May 29, 2014 at 5:15 pmThe only person capable of killing Jack Bauer is Jack Bauer…
Seba
May 30, 2014 at 11:59 amMary
May 30, 2014 at 12:15 pmMary
May 29, 2014 at 5:20 pmTrevor
May 29, 2014 at 7:30 pm24 Spoilers
May 29, 2014 at 9:55 pmTrevor
May 29, 2014 at 11:35 pmDaniel Shaw
May 29, 2014 at 11:03 pmTrevor
May 29, 2014 at 11:34 pmCatherine
May 30, 2014 at 1:52 amHow can they kill Jack ? if a bad guy kills him that means bad guys win, if he sacrificies himself to save Audrey, Heller, Kate or anyone else…it will be so commonplace.
And I think killing Jack will infuriate most of the fans. Itsn’t the same thing as kiling Brody in Homeland, Brody was a traitor, he redeemed himself, but Jack is a hero !!
Mary
May 30, 2014 at 11:34 amDuncan
June 5, 2014 at 1:32 amJack
May 29, 2014 at 4:40 pmTrevor
May 29, 2014 at 7:28 pmJack
May 29, 2014 at 7:39 pmTrevor
May 29, 2014 at 7:40 pmTomW
May 29, 2014 at 5:42 pmkiki vanderway
May 29, 2014 at 6:27 pmMary
May 30, 2014 at 11:44 amBeyond that, what happens to Jack again? He gets pulled back into the game for the nine hundredth time? He imperils his daughter and her family again for the nine hundredth time? He might be alive to pop back in from time to time, help Morgan out (if their relationship ends that way, who knows where it’ll go) or he might even be the victim. Isn’t it Howard Gordon who says he thinks Jack dies shot by a sniper one day in the future picking a newspaper off his front porch? It’s kind of perfect, IMO. He finds peace with himself, he reconciles his past, he gets to go home and spend time with his family and then, one day, he gets taken out in karmic retribution in a way that he’s killed countless of other people. All very David Palmer. Kind of poetic, if they wind up keeping that. Imagine a season like Kate Morgan has to figure out who murdered Jack Bauer. I’d watch that.
24fanjackbauerrocks
May 29, 2014 at 6:35 pmSeba
May 30, 2014 at 11:59 amSandra
May 30, 2014 at 12:20 pmAkse
May 29, 2014 at 8:55 pmPresident Heller: Jack, because of your outstanding work today, the americans and the russians forgive you, and you can return to your family in Los Angeles.
Jack: Yheeey!
President Heller: But the planeticket will cost you 3928 dollars!
Jack: DAMMIT!
“Jack Bauer will return for Season 10″….
24Nathan
May 29, 2014 at 9:22 pmGarett
May 29, 2014 at 9:25 pmDave
May 29, 2014 at 9:29 pmgo back to LA. Then reformat the show as a sit-com with him and Chloie running a gun shop. Call it 24 Caliber
Mary
June 1, 2014 at 12:42 amSabrina
May 29, 2014 at 11:03 pmCatherine
May 30, 2014 at 2:14 amKiki Vanderway
May 30, 2014 at 8:43 amMary
May 30, 2014 at 11:53 amIt would seem like they’re considering whether or not they can work a Day 10 around Kate Morgan and revive the idea of 24 with new characters. Day 9 crosses Morgan into Jack’s world and passes the torch from him to her, giving Jack a sense that he can let go and the world will still be safe if he wants to go see Little Teri’s school play instead of taking out terrorists. That might be the reason for the mixed messages– Kiefer is done, this is it for Jack, but there might be more seasons of 24 itself, only they can’t say ‘starring Yvonne Strahovski’ yet because it spoils the show for everyone right now.
Mary
May 30, 2014 at 11:54 amtonyalmeda
May 30, 2014 at 5:44 amMary
May 30, 2014 at 11:56 amTony
May 30, 2014 at 12:56 pmIf anything, I’m sensing a major character death – not Audrey because I feel like that’s far too much like Renee – possibly heller or Chloe. something tragic to give you feels. not sure though, but keep your hopes up everyone!
Mary
May 30, 2014 at 1:28 pmI think you’re right that Heller and Chloe are strong possibilities for death, especially Heller. Nothing says a going-out-in-a-blaze-of-glory plot like his arc about already beginning to lose his mind. And it would be kind of circle-of-life-ish if Jack’s father figure died and then Jack himself met his grandson…
Why couldn’t it be Little Teri who becomes the agent? ;) Either way, it’s such an awesome, if massively depressing, thought because it means that Jack went through all of this so that his grandkid could just go through it all again. But, yeah, sorta irresistible in that epic sort of way, I agree…
re: bloodlines factoring in… let’s just say Kim’s husband reminds me of a certain character who’s been around since the first episode and I wouldn’t be surprised if Jack’s grandson becomes the first baby capable of growing a soul patch.
Clayton
May 30, 2014 at 1:04 pmAt the end of season 7, I was really hoping that the treatment only would have extended Jack’s life. Season 8 could’ve taken place maybe a month after day 7 and featured the hunt for the Red Dots. Jack would still be dying. I thought it was a huge cop-out that he was miraculously cured. Having Jack die with a new sense of humility by something that’s totally out of his hands would have been fitting.
I’ve also been a big fan of a possible Bauer suicide. It’s in his hands, and that’s the only way it should be. After nine days of bullshit and 20 years of fallout, Jack breaks. Imagine a season where the show is basically in a nuclear war scenario. A mushroom cloud erupts over Los Angeles at dusk in the final hour and Jack has reason to believe that Kim has died. He hangs himself in the darkness, only for a splitscreen to open showing Kim and her family safe on a train heading away from the chaos, looking out at the destruction. She tries to call Jack, but no answer as we see his silhouette writhe in the final moments of his life. The show’s last splitscreen is Jack going limp against Kim’s vague look of concern out the window of the train, with the reflection of the mushroom cloud in the glass of the window. The dual splitscreen goes directly to the final clock: 6:59:58, 6:59:59, 7:00:00. It is not silent.
I know so many people would hate that, but I think the imagery is fantastic, and if it doesn’t harken back to the gritty days of 24, I don’t know what does.
But I’m being fanciful.
Mary
May 30, 2014 at 1:33 pmIf Jack were to die at the end of Day 9, where’s the drama? He’s already isolated, miserable, and working with terrorists, even if he is trying to stop the threat. If he dies, it ultimately creates no final arc in the last season for Jack– he doesn’t go anywhere as a character. He starts out bleak and then he dies. That could have been done at any one of the last four seasons of the show so what was the point of it all again?
But if Jack achieves something first? If he saves the day, gets his mojo back, goes home to his family, and spends a couple of years thinking he’s somehow going to live to be ninety and be there for his grandkids like someone normal, until one day he’s out doing something domestic and boring and he’s murdered by someone, his past coming back to haunt him? Now, it’s doubly tragic and I think the more tragic you can get with Jack, the better, because he’s just completely doomed, any way you shake it. :)
Tran
May 30, 2014 at 4:48 pmHadi
May 30, 2014 at 6:44 pmsounds like you’re all bored
I have a feeling that chloe dies, but I’ll become so sad if so. I really love her because of the characteristics that she has.
Regarding Jack, I believe if Audrey wasn’t in London he wouldn’t give a fuck about the attack for some reason……
Clayton
June 1, 2014 at 12:47 pmpredictor32
June 2, 2014 at 3:15 pmkiki vanderway
June 2, 2014 at 7:15 pmAnd say he did chose– then what? He goes on under the weight of even more guilt? To what end?
Duncan
June 5, 2014 at 1:34 amPS: Re-posting this message since the original was put in the wrong place. Dammit! xD
lins
June 5, 2014 at 6:14 pmChase
June 8, 2014 at 9:00 pmDeborah Zawacki
June 11, 2014 at 1:19 pmAjay101
July 5, 2014 at 10:14 am