Season Seven Episode Twelve - 7:00pm-8:00pm
| Episode Name |
| 7:00pm-8:00pm |
| Episode Number |
| 156 |
| Production Code |
| 7AFF12 |
| Director |
| Brad Turner |
| Writer |
| Manny Coto & Brannon Braga |
| Synopsis |
Juma and his men take the White House by storm, killing most of the Secret Service and trapping Taylor and Jack in the saferoom. His efforts to extract her are thwarted until he is informed that the President's daughter is in the White House as well. Renee and Larry try to convince Vice President Hayworth to let them rescue the President, but Hayworth will not budge until the FBI can produce proof that she is not in imminent danger.
Series regulars Mary Lynn Rajskub, Colm Feore, Rhys Coiro, Janeane Garofalo, and Carlos Bernard do not appear in this episode. Rajskub's absence in this episode sees the beginning of her short maternity break from filming 24.
Jon Voight returns as Jonas Hodges, his first appearance since Redemption.
The word "siege" is incorrectly spelled as "seige" during news footage shown in this episode.
Jonas Hodges: Stress is the fertilizer of creativity. Now let's play some darts.
Senator Blaine Mayer: What do you think is going on?
(long pause) I asked you a question Mr. Buchanan. You think I made the wrong call with Bauer? You think that if I signed off on him torturing Ryan Burnett that all of this could've been avoided?
Bill Buchanan: You don't know what I'm thinking Senator.