Fang’s Bites Grade for 24, Season 8, Hour 5, 8 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Opening sequence: Farhad calls a General loyal to him in Kamistan – B.

Sergei Bazhaev cares for his younger son, while his other son Josef wants to take him to a doctor – B.

Sergei allows Josef to take him to a country house while they think about their next move – B.

Farhad tells Sergei that he’ll get the money for the nuclear rods in five hours – B.

Sergei gives Farhad two Russian women to play with – A. That’s definitely an A!

Renee is bandaging Ziya’s hand – A.

Jack wants to call off the operation – D.

Jack calls Renee unstable – C.

Renee glares at him – A.

Jack thinks Renee is still in a dark place but Renee disagrees – A.

Jack decides not to call off the mission – A.

Jack agrees to continue – A.

Renee pouts – A. (she’s got a sexy pout).

Ziya screams in pain – C. He’s such a woman.

Renee tells him he’ll get $3 million and he stops whining for a second – B.

Loving this really, really dark Renee – A.

Chloe calls Jack and asks what happens, Jack tells her – B.

Chloe doesn’t understand how Ziya’s tracking braclet was taken off – B.

Ziya rides with Renee to go to Vladimir – A.

Dana Walsh is working on Jack’s timeline and gets a phone call from Kevin – F.

Kevin blackmails Dana and she leaves her post while getting Arlo to cover for her – F.

Not included in the grade: Michael Phlelps piss poor Subway ad – F all the way

Rob Weiss tells President Taylor that Farhad is trying to buy weapons-grade uranium from the Russians – B.

President Taylor is surprised that the uranium is in the US – D.

Ethan Kanin tells President Taylor that President Hassan is cracking down in Kamistan – C.

Renee gives Ziya some vodka for the pain – A.

Ziya tries to get into Renee’s head about Vladimir – B.

Ziya saying “Touchy, touchy” – A.

Jack wants to know what happened between Vladimir and Renee – A.

President Hassan comes in to speak to President Taylor (Weiss said it would take 10 minutes for him to reach the UN, so much for the real time aspect) – C.

President Taylor scolds President Hassan about his crackdown and human rights violations – D.

President Hassan says he has to do what he has to do – A.

President Taylor asks him to find some middle ground for peace sake – C.

President Hassan leaves – D minus

Josef is taking his brother to the country house, but then decides to take him to a medical clinic – B.

Josef losing his Russian accent – D.

Dalia and Kayla talk about President Hassan and Kayla whines – D.

Dalia wants to know if President Hassan loved Meredith Reed and he says he felt something for her – C.

President Hassan asks Dalia for help – D. (Thanks for the correction, Jinny!)

She refuses and leaves – F.

Renee and Ziya arrive at Vladimir’s place – B.

Ziya goes inside to talk to Vladimir and he gets beat up – A.

Ziya tells Vladi that Renee is with her – C.

Hugo doesn’t believe Renee – A.

Cole asks Arlo where’s Dana and he finds out she went home – F.

Kevin invites one of his friends to stay at Dana’s apartment – F.

Kevin hits Dana – F.

Kevin wants Dana to get money for him through CTU – F. This storyline has got to go. Please end it.

Ziya summons Renee to Vladi’s place – B

Chloe tells Jack that Vladimir beat her up in her previous mission and tried to rape her – C.

Renee gets patted down by Hugo – A.

Vladimir and Renee play chicken with each other – A.

Vladi ties up Renee and Ziya and puts them in a trunk and drives off. – A.

Jack tails them – A.

Jack says “DAMMIT!” – A.

Josef brings his brother to the clinic and points a gun at the doctor – B.

Jack continues to tail the Russians – A.

Hastings authorizes his CTU agents to engage the Russians when necessary – A.

Jack finds out he was following a decoy – A. 

Vladi has his men take Ziya and Renee to the water – A.

Ziya is shot dead – A.

Renee tells Vladi to pull the trigger – A.

Renee sheds a tear and tells Vladi to do the deal or pull the trigger – A.

Vladi wants to make about Renee – A.

Ziya is dumped in the river – A.

Jack tells CTU Vlaid bought Renee’s cover – A. Damn, that was intense.

Overall grade – 84, Solid B.

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