24: Live Another Day Finale Deleted Scene

Can’t tie this up that neatly.

Audrey’s return was a sentimental hook without any purpose other than to confirm that Jack is the saddest most put upon tragic figure in the universe and to underscore and shove it again in the faces of the audience we will make the Heller Family story ever bit as awful as we can– Pile it on! More is More!

Let’s give Jack’s pseudo dad Alzheimer’s, lets underscore Audrey’s piss poor luck with men by making her latest squeeze/hubby a smarmy weasle, let’s reenforce the idea that all presidental insiders are moles and have Mark betray Heller, Lets make sure Heller and Jack don’t ever reconcile their past, Let’s make sure Audrey and Jack never reconcile their past either. Let’s give Jack and Audrey a final chance to saysomething meaningful and important to one another but (tee hee hee) let’s make sure they are taking about two completely different things so the connection hits only false notes.

Then in the end, let’s ensure a massive amount of social, political and world wide disconnect by isolating every member of Heller’s grim little group by ensuring Audrey dies alone on a park bench with Jack’s future Bauer-Boo holding her had and saying sorry; Mark in solitary with no access to current information but all alone fearing the worst header to Guantanamo or equally remote, and Heller– who cares he will forget the whole thing soon enough…. making the entire Heller existance on the show and on this earth pointless.

Jack already made the decision to stop running when he came out of the cold to save Heller– as he says to Mark– I’m the last thing you should be worrying about by the end of the day I’ll be dead or in prision.” He also would have stopped running to save Chloe as he did with the exchage regardless of what happened in the end to Audrey.

Kate is not reflecting on Day 1 — unless she and Audrey were lovers with a fractured relationship and a child– its not the same loss at all– Kate and Jack share other points of commonality but not that one.

Mark is not a reflection of Jack on Day 4– if anything he is Walt Cummings and more like Day 5.

How is it representative of finding the will to live signing up for a suicide mission? Jack is ALWAYS volunterring to go down nothing new here and by S10 we have him surviving….