24: Live Another Day Episode 12 (Finale) Press Release

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Phee~ In complete agreement with everything you just said.

I think Chloe does escape from Cheng because if they take off with the override device before Jack & Kate get away from the Russian hit squad (which they sort of have to if only to keep the plot moving), then Chloe is the only one who can tell anybody who has the device. Not to mention that if Kate and Jack walk into that room to find a slaughtered Open Cell and the override missing, it actually looks like Chloe somehow did it, which is absurd but all they’d have to go on at that point. Chloe has to find a way to tell everyone about Cheng. (I’m assuming Cheng found and turned off Navarro’s tracker because Cheng won’t have that big a head start if they didn’t and that would seem like a waste to bring him back only to get caught in a matter of minutes.)

I’d love for it to be Chloe who took out Cheng, particularly if they’re going to kill her off. Give her some kind of big moment. I agree that killing off Chloe seems like the one thing they can’t do and if this were any other season, I’d agree that it’s absurd. They do need characters to anchor a new series and it’s a pretty big jump to think they could kill Chloe but, then again, that’s also maybe the very reason why they just might. They’ve never written Chloe into this much of a corner before and Jack needs to pay an enormous price for Day 8. Chloe is the biggest and most meaningful cost because she was the one there through all of it. This is the first time in the series she’s ever been in this much jeopardy and her story is kind of reaching its end in a lot of ways. There’s also a need for balance. If Jack gets anything remotely close to a positive ending (and the time jump/family suggestions says he probably will) then someone else needs a tragic ending. For it to be Chloe, as a result of Jack’s actions, is the best kind of 24 story and they’ve really not shied away from delivering on the best story in the past. It would also be ironic as hell– no one would see it coming because there was Chloe a few hours ago, faking Heller’s death, but the big twist was Chloe’s death. I’d be shocked if they did kill her off but it also wouldn’t be totally out of left field.

Heller right now is screaming going to die anyway, I agree. The only twist I could see happening there is if what we’re sensing as foreshadowing of Heller’s death is actually foreshadowing of Audrey’s death. Day 4 had Audrey and Heller almost gassing themselves because they were caught up in a terrible situation they didn’t think they’d survive and they didn’t want to be seen as humiliating the country. Heller’s tried to kill himself three times for the greater good in the course of the series and was saved. Suicide hangs over this guy in the worst way. Audrey is mentally unstable, had more suicide on her day during Day 5 as well, given that the White House Chief of Staff she was sleeping with at the time hung himself. (Apparently.) Suicide is also a thing now on Day 9 not just with Heller and with the Al-Harazis (who were willing to sacrifice themselves for their cause by staying until it was done) but with Adam Morgan. All the suicide attempts have a precursor of loss. Heller, who had lost two wives, a son-in-law, and has an estranged relationship with his son, saw his ability to hang onto Diego Garcia fail, lost his legacy, and tried to repair it by sacrificing himself (while literally losing himself to Alzheimer’s.) The Al-Harazis were doin’ it all for Mahmoud. Adam killed himself when he had lost Kate. I’m not so sure that if something were to happen to Heller or if the Mark-Jack thing goes south in some way or something that Audrey might not just decide to Ophelia it the hell out of this story and everything with Heller was really a precursor to Audrey’s death.

Obviously, it can’t be a total bloodbath. They all can’t die. But how it balances out is kind of hard to pin down, I think, because most of the main characters seem on the bubble at the moment.