The eleventh episode of 24: Legacy was written by Leigh Dana Jackson and directed by Nelson McCormick.
What did you think of 24: Legacy Episode 11? Vote in our poll and leave your thoughts on the episode in the comments below.
If you missed the episode, you’ll be able to watch it online and in the FOXNOW app tomorrow.
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Comments ClosedTrevor
April 10, 2017 at 8:55 pm24Nathan
April 10, 2017 at 9:02 pmBest part though was definitely Mullins taking down Lynn “how about I work from your office?” McGill, er…Pang. that was awesome.
Also didn’t like Tony killing that agent.
Asian Rebel
April 10, 2017 at 9:06 pmRemember the writers said the season will end like Hillary Clinton wrote it. So I guess its the part where they’re against taking Naseri’s daughter, even though remember how Jack threatened to kill Jane Saunders and how he had Syed Ali’s family arrested and also had Renee hold the baby hostage…..or Jack shooting Henderson’s wife. Looks like they ARE trying to send a more politically correct message here.
Trevor
April 10, 2017 at 9:13 pm“Politically correct BS”
Asian Rebel
April 10, 2017 at 10:52 pmBut yeah I guess when the writers said the season will end like Hillary Clinton wrote it it was a reference to when Trump said he would go after terrorists’ families. At least it wasn’t that the attacks were a right-wing plot to push for a travel ban or military action. I hope they don’t send the message that the U.S. provoked Bin Khalid and Naseri’s terrorism by kidnapping his daughter, when they were terrorists to begin with and would have launched the attacks anyway.
eman
April 10, 2017 at 9:06 pmXAM
April 10, 2017 at 10:06 pmBrad
April 10, 2017 at 10:10 pmTyler
April 10, 2017 at 10:12 pmXAM
April 10, 2017 at 10:12 pmTyler
April 10, 2017 at 10:20 pmXAM
April 10, 2017 at 10:27 pmAs for Cheng, if he’d died in 6 (or just fucked clean off after the deleted “Jack is no longer China’s enemy” line from the episode 1 handover), then LAD would’ve been slightly less terrible without him.
Darth Almeida
April 10, 2017 at 10:16 pmS6 is indeed the worst of the original series but it’s still a bit better than Legacy imho
XAM
April 10, 2017 at 10:34 pmeman
April 11, 2017 at 1:08 pmNone of this 24: Legacy travesty has been better than even the worst episode of Day 6, which imo is when Jack Bauer is torturing Paul McCrane in the house. The 10 minutes of that nonsense is still better than these last 11 eps of Legacy!
Also, you’re the only one that keeps pushing the false idea that LAD was a terrible season. It was solid and loads of fun to watch because it was like 24’s greatest hits. The 12 episodes worked for LAD because it was all killer, no filler. It’s as good as the first 5 seasons imo.
If Legacy ends with some lame attempt to make islam seem soft and fuzzy I will vomit on my TV.
Louise Engel
April 11, 2017 at 10:08 pmandy
April 10, 2017 at 9:08 pm24Nathan
April 10, 2017 at 9:12 pmDarth Almeida
April 10, 2017 at 9:12 pmOther than that the episode felt a bit disjuncted. Some good scenes but i don’t know….it’s just not on the same level as the original 24 and that even at the climax.
As a whole Legacy has been average.
24Nathan
April 10, 2017 at 9:15 pmDid anyone else not think that Mullins taking down Oang was the best scene of the night?
Fan.24
April 10, 2017 at 9:16 pmDarth Almeida
April 10, 2017 at 9:16 pmJadallah was fine but the Bin Khalid Sr character is almost cartoonish
FelipeJack
April 11, 2017 at 11:31 pmIncredible the writers were brave enough to call this fresh.
Chlojack
April 10, 2017 at 9:51 pmTyler
April 10, 2017 at 9:59 pmarguably the worst season of television I’ve ever seen.
XAM
April 10, 2017 at 10:32 pmI really hope the writers didn’t think Bin Khalid sr being alive was a twist. If your villain was supposedly killed by an airstrike, then you must think your audience is stupid to not conclude he survived.
FelipeJack
April 13, 2017 at 1:26 amif they’re continuing copycating season 1, someone will have to be revealed as the mole in the last episode. It doesn’t make sense right now, but if this season is trying to copycat season 1, it’s got to be Rebeca because she is the only who has a connection with Carter.
JD
April 10, 2017 at 10:37 pmUnless they made a drastic last minute rewrite it doesn’t jive with all that talk from Carlos Bernard and Gordon about Tony having “some sort of redemption”. I don’t see how they plan on wedging that redemption in there when the promos show Tony apparently trying to kill Carter. Seriously…WTF is going on?
Asian Rebel
April 10, 2017 at 10:49 pmThat’s something that Jack Bauer has known from the beginning. Remember how he had Renee threaten to kill the corrupt Secret Service agent’s baby and what he did to Jane Saunders and to Syed Ali’s son. I’m hoping 24 is NOT going soft. Remember in the good ol’ days when the interrogation drugs were stocked on site at CTU and they didn’t have to do it off the books like they did with Tony.
24legacyctu
April 10, 2017 at 11:03 pmCheck out my review.
Tonight’s 24: Legacy was a vast improvement!
https://24legacyblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/24-legacy-tony-almeida-vs-eric-carter/
Logic
April 10, 2017 at 11:23 pm-If Bin Kaled was supposedly killed by a bomb… why were they blaming rangers? They made it seem like they raided his hide out.
-why did the terrorist assume one of the rangers had the flash drive from the strong box and that it wasn’t turned over to the government.
-Why is Bin Kaled in the country? Clearly with his burnt up body, he would garner attention… and also just because terrorist leaders stay in their native harboring country… this is stupid that he would come to the USA.
-why would the government break Tony out of jail? If they wanted to have him as a dark ops agent, then why not fake his death in jail. That way no one would be looking for him. Plus, why would they trust him. He is a terrorist himself. Why not just create a special force that carries out his missions?
-plus, big mistake was having Rebecca tell Carter of her plan to turn herself over. She should have just done that on her own; now he looks completely incompetent.
-what could make the final episode make up for all the problems of this season is if they quickly kill off Nicole and Isaac… if every thing else about this was good, their story would have been enough to make this horrible.
XAM
April 10, 2017 at 11:37 pmBrad
April 11, 2017 at 12:02 amXAM
April 11, 2017 at 12:47 amThat’s the same level of insulting, weapons grade stupidity that the Bauer family conspiracy was, maybe even more so.
Brad
April 11, 2017 at 12:54 amThe show has done a lot worse. The Bauer family isn’t even in the same ballpark. I’m not sure why this was the example that broke the camel’s back.
Kevin
April 11, 2017 at 12:05 ameman
April 11, 2017 at 12:21 amXAM
April 11, 2017 at 12:55 amSeason 4 just edges out Legacy, but Seasons 1, 2, 3, 5 and 8 are so much better than Legacy, to compare them is as ridiculous as comparing The Beatles to The Dave Clark Five.
Brad
April 11, 2017 at 1:00 amXAM
April 11, 2017 at 10:28 amI’m confident that I never said such a thing about 6 and 7 (feel free to look back), but I did find hours 8 and 9 with Wembley stadium and taking down Margot Al Harazi genuinely brilliant. When he tossed Margot out of the window, that was one of the best moments of the entire series.
There are genuine flashes of brilliance in even the worst days of 24, but ultimately I have to consider how the entire day comes together, and for me 6 (possibly 7) and LAD come together the worst of all.
I always have a soft spot for seasons which come together so they feel like a believable day of events. Season 1 started and finished with the assassination threat against Palmer and Jacks family. Season 5 started and finished with the Palmer assassination conspiracy. Season 8 started and finished with the peace treaty. Legacy is another one of those focused days where the plot doesn’t meander into 20 different villains and threats in a single day, it started and finished with Bin Khalid’s people against Carter and Rebecca, and it looks like that’s how it’s finishing, which is yet another reason I prefer it to 6 and LAD.
Asian Rebel
April 12, 2017 at 12:30 amSeason 3 was a great season but the shift from the Salazar brothers to Saunders was very abrupt and didn’t seem linked that well. LAD depended on a lot of coincidences including Navarro being discovered the same day as the drone threat.
FelipeJack
April 13, 2017 at 1:29 amI think every element in LAD was better than Legacy.
JD
April 11, 2017 at 7:47 amXAM
April 11, 2017 at 10:18 amI think part of my reasoning for liking Legacy more than 6 and LAD all comes down to 1. my expectations being lowered considerably following the disappointment of LAD 2. I find all the rehashing in Legacy is actually far more bearable without Jack there.
I think we can all agree though that we deserve better 24 than this. 24 used to be the best damn show on television, but for 10 years there hasn’t been an honest attempt to make it the best again.
JD
April 11, 2017 at 11:21 amAsian Rebel
April 12, 2017 at 12:30 amBtownfritz
April 11, 2017 at 12:58 amIf they wanted to reboot 24, they have likely wasted their shot. The story is ok, but the characters haven’t clicked.
Richard Taylor
April 11, 2017 at 2:52 amJohnGormleyJG
April 11, 2017 at 3:49 amKurt Cobain
April 11, 2017 at 5:11 amTony’s redemption story? Any compassion that I had for Tony is gone after he shot the smoker laying down on the grass. My bets are on Tony getting killed in episode 12.
Trevor
April 11, 2017 at 9:58 amKurt Cobain
April 11, 2017 at 8:11 pmIt’s like a giant game of paper, sizzlers, rock. Krist and I used to play that game a lot.
Tom
April 11, 2017 at 5:36 amJohnGormleyJG
April 11, 2017 at 5:43 amBig Boss
April 11, 2017 at 5:46 amTom
April 11, 2017 at 5:59 amBig Boss
April 11, 2017 at 6:08 amYou know what, suddenly I don’t care as much about Jack rotting away in a gulag the rest of his life. If this is the caliber of writing we can expect from now on, I’d rather they leave him there.
Where's Tony
April 11, 2017 at 6:56 amIn regards to Tony, I feel like they have destroyed the character at this point. Even when he was bad in season 7 he was still operating from an emotional core. Now apparently he’s just doing it for the money. That is not Tony to me. I know I will be disappointed with the ending for his character this season, as there is too many stories to wrap up in 42 minutes to make room for this, something that these writers don’t seem to care about. You’d think that because veteran 24 producers/writers are involved that they’d care about maintaining the integrity of the character, but they haven’t so I’m really disappointed in them.
I’ve found the plot holes to be bigger than ever this season, which could actually be filled if the writers actually cared about a semblance of realism. For one thing, Tony cares a lot about Rebecca’s wellbeing, he knows that she’s been taken and that Rebecca has worked with Donald Simms. He also knows that Simms is wanting Naseri’s daughter gone AT THE SAME TIME Rebecca’s been captured, so should’ve he have put it together that Simms wants the daughter gone, sacrificing Rebecca in the process and covering his ass?
The only way they can make this make sense is if Donald Simms wasn’t lying, that Rebecca is actually in on the capture of Naseri’s daughter, and Tony is actually following what Rebecca wants by letting her kill herself in order to keep their operation under wraps. But even if this is the case, shouldn’t plans have changed now that everyone knows that Naseri is in the country with bin-Khalid and that Carter/CTU’s operation to get Naseri, bin-Khalid and Rebecca should take priority, for the good of the country? I feel like the courts would go easier on Simms and Rebecca if they just let CTU protect the country from terrorists.
JD
April 11, 2017 at 7:34 amYeah, Solitary was basically a waste of time. Tony was obviously taking Michelle’s name in vain and lying when he said: “I want to save even one life on the outside so that I may earn Michelle’s love again”. Yeah…way to go, Tony–you just murdered another innocent person. WTF? He was acting like the good old Tony again in his scenes this season. What happened to this “redemption”?
Big Boss
April 11, 2017 at 7:44 amOne more episode but as of now It’s just a complete mess. Absolutely no indication as to why or how Rebecca would get approval to break Tony out to run these missions in the first place, or why they couldn’t be done by anyone else. No indication how the DNI, a cabinet-level official, is not only okay with a mass murdering attempted terrorist being broken out of prison but is on a first-name basis with same. And there’s basically zero chance any of it will be cleared up with one episode to go.
JD
April 11, 2017 at 8:23 amXAM
April 11, 2017 at 11:18 amNot Justin cause he sucks
April 11, 2017 at 3:36 pmJD
April 11, 2017 at 7:43 amSo much for “earning Michelle’s love again”. So, were Howard Gordon and Carlos Bernard just lying about Tony’s “redemption”?
I found 24 LAD to be poorly-written and stupid–still do, in fact. However, Legacy makes LAD look like Season 2 with how stupid Legacy’s writing has been. Wow…how are these the same people that worked on the old seasons? Did they just sleepwalk through the writing process? This is HORRIBLE writing. It makes Season 6 look like a MASTERPIECE. I’d rather watch a collaboration of ALL of Kim’s misadventures from season 2 than ever watch Legacy again.
Asian Rebel
April 12, 2017 at 12:32 amWhere's Tony
April 11, 2017 at 7:57 amHere’s how I would’ve liked Henry Donovan’s interrogation with Tony to have gone…
Tony: “How did you pass along that information about leaking the rangers identities to the terrorists?!”
Henry: “I used an anonymous communication relay. The same one I used when you convinced my ex-boss to carry out a biological weapon attack against Washington Centre Station!”
Tony: “What are you talking about… how do you know about that?”
Henry: “Don’t act so surprised. I know who you are, Almeida. I know all about you.”
Tony gets increasingly agitated. He slams Henry against the wall. “How do you know?!”
Henry looks at him and says nothing. Tony orders Sidra to lock the door and put the chair up against it so John and Rebecca can’t get in. He slams him against the table and breaks his finger. Henry screams out in pain. Tony threatens to break another of Henry’s fingers. “OK, OK, I’ll talk, just don’t lay another hand on me!” Henry says. Tony smirks and backs away.
Henry: “Alan Wilson was my closest friend. He was my business partner. But I knew nothing about his influence on the government. I said nothing when you tried to kill him. When you sacrificed your own partner to kill him. That’s right, I dig some some digging. Thank god Jack Bauer was there to stop you. A true patriot. He stopped your attack and saved my friend. How dare you torture me you son of a bitch! Look at what you’ve done! Look what you’ve done!
Tony: “You know nothing about Jack Bauer. He let his partner inflict pain upon Alan Wilson to get the answers they needed. She uncovered all of his associates and made them pay, except for you. But you know what Henry. You’re right. I have made mistakes. But I’ve paid for them. I was in solitary confinement for what felt like a lifetime. I thought about how Emerson worked with Rebecca to help fake my death. That’s right Henry, your daughter in law covertly used CTU Washington to bring me back to life. They knew that even after my wife was killed by your people, I was still an asset. Do you know what that kind of isolation does to a person, Henry? You go over and over those events and those choices in your head. And you realise, your life is still valuable, if you can get out of there. So that’s exactly what Rebecca did. She got me out of there. She remade me. So I work for her now.
Henry: “Rebecca! Don’t get me started on Rebecca! The fact that she associated with the likes of you is sick! I can’t believe I let her get close to my son! She broke you out of prison to do this sort of madness! I got caught up in it, I never wanted anyone to get hurt. But you do. You and Rebecca do. Look at what you’re doing! John! John! Get me medical attention!
Tony orders Sidra to remove the chair and unlock the door. John comes in and tends to his father, looking at Tony in disgust. “You will pay for this, Tony” he says. Tony smirks and stares at Rebecca through the glass. Rebecca smiles back at him.
Big Boss
April 11, 2017 at 8:05 amThere was a right way to bring Tony back and continue his story in some way – the show did it wrong, but I can’t say yours is any better.
Where's Tony
April 11, 2017 at 8:16 amAlso, I’m not putting forward a different continuation of his story, just a background for the characters to make them more lived-in and help the timeline of 24 make sense. It also gives some purpose to having that interrogation take place at all while improving the character development for that plotline.
Frank
April 11, 2017 at 8:44 amJay
April 11, 2017 at 8:42 amMy guess is that Tony either survives this 4-on-1 stalemate with Eric and Tony tells the story himself, or Tony dies and the time jump is Tony’s eulogy/funeral, or 3 guys sitting around at a tavern talking about the breakout story. My guess is that Tony dies and the writers pack the story into 3-4 minute eulogy or something along those lines. That is the only way that they can make a concise reveal on what has happened.
JD
April 11, 2017 at 11:29 amAs for Tony dying–most of us are of the opinion that some sort of blaze of glory self-sacrifice is the only way he could be redeemed at this point. If he remains a merc all the way through and we end on that note, he is quite simply NOT redeemed at that point.
Jay
April 12, 2017 at 7:39 amOr (a stretch) the police reinforcements that were 20 minutes out finally arrive and the cops are given a bio/profile of who the 4 attackers are with an emphasis on Tony.
bastardjackyll
April 11, 2017 at 9:49 amDon
April 11, 2017 at 11:04 amDon
April 11, 2017 at 11:07 amDon
April 11, 2017 at 11:08 amRonnieC6
April 11, 2017 at 11:21 amChlojack
April 11, 2017 at 11:44 amandy
April 11, 2017 at 11:35 amBluetooth Group
April 11, 2017 at 11:40 amSebastian Monroe
April 11, 2017 at 12:32 pmIs it possible that Tony doesn’t know Rebecca is in danger? If so, then it’s possible his “redemption” comes in the form of Carter revealing Rebecca’s predicament to Tony, causing him to stand down and help Carter save Rebecca’s life. I don’t think foregoing a paid job to do the right thing is the kind of redemption we were hoping for, but I think it’s at least possible this is the direction they’re going in.
Bluetooth Group
April 11, 2017 at 1:09 pmJD
April 11, 2017 at 1:20 pmAlex
April 11, 2017 at 12:54 pmBluetooth Group
April 11, 2017 at 1:17 pmJD
April 11, 2017 at 1:23 pmBluetooth Group
April 11, 2017 at 1:37 pmAsian Rebel
April 15, 2017 at 12:42 amandy
April 11, 2017 at 3:35 pmBluetooth Group
April 11, 2017 at 5:04 pmandy
April 11, 2017 at 7:19 pmJD
April 12, 2017 at 7:33 amAsian Rebel
April 11, 2017 at 7:46 pmRealistically, Eric will have to threaten to torture Naseri’s daughter in order for Naseri to agree to a trade. Remember Jack was badass and threatened Syed Ali’s son and Jane Saunders. It will be when Eric does this that he learns what it takes, and maybe John Donovan will too. However I fear this show is getting soft. There has not been a proper interrogation so far compared to past seasons. It was awesome when Jack broke Joe Prado’s fingers one by one and when he shot Tomas Sherek in the leg in order to discover the plot against Heller.
I personally don’t agree with all this liberal moralizing in the past couple episodes. Now I see why the writers said in that article that the season begins like Trump wrote it and ends like Hillary Clinton wrote it. It is Hillary and Obama who draw moral parallels between the US/UK/Israel and the Islamic terrorists.
JD
April 12, 2017 at 7:32 amAs for the profit-driven mercenary thing…yeah, that’s how they’re depicting him this season which blows his whole speech in Solitary out of the water.
I’m not sure why they chose to go this route when Solitary had it perfectly set up for him to just run these missions to atone for his past sins–not this “merc for hire” BS. He sure doesn’t seem like a man wanting to “earn Michelle’s love again”.
Marlon
April 11, 2017 at 7:48 pmWill wait till next week but don’t know how it will resolved in 42 minutes.
As far as Legacy is concerned overall, it just feels too rushed. Jimmy Smits is not convincing enough for me either. This feels like a B grade version of the real 24
andy
April 12, 2017 at 5:49 amLily
April 12, 2017 at 8:41 amandy
April 12, 2017 at 3:31 pmJD
April 12, 2017 at 6:48 pmandy
April 13, 2017 at 6:56 amAcer4666
April 13, 2017 at 7:33 amandy
April 13, 2017 at 1:17 pm