So 24 will be back with us soon and I've got an idea.... k, maybe not for this season - but the next?

about 8 episodes in (so we've had time to establish the macguffin threat and the macguffin baddy and his proxies) Jack takes a bullet to the brain in an arbitrary proxy battle and freaking DIES. Then we get to see how Starbuck and that piece of shit useless Renee fall apart without him. Yeah. America doesn't just get nuked. It get's flattened.

Jack Dies. Bush Gets Elected. Nuclear War. Fadeout.

Then the final two hours could just be Chloe wandering around Post-Apocalyptic America haunted by the spirits of Edgar and Milo and the ever present danger of Kim (who fucking survives.......again). Last five minutes: the sky lights up.

Is it aliens, come to conquer the remains of D.C or wherever the fuck we are?
Is it another missile come to finish us off?

No.

Jack Bauer descends from the heavens, piercing the clouds with his holy light riding a golden chariot pulled by two muscular Chuck Norris..ses Norrisi? Norris' whatever.

And he does claim his country for the good of those who would slaughter him.

Beautiful.

HIRE ME YOU CUNTS