24: Legacy Recap: Meet the New Heroes (and Villains)
Legacy made its highly-anticipated debut Sunday after the Super Bowl, and in typical 24 fashion, the episode was chock full of tension, torture, and jaw-dropping twists -- not to mention a body count that's undoubtedly only going to rise as the season goes on.
Terrorists are targeting former members of a military squad and their families, looking for some data that one of the soldiers took during a raid.
With a new home and new identities, Eric and his wife Nicole (Anna Diop) are trying to settle back into a routine six months after he's returned home from overseas, where he led a top-secret mission to kill terrorist leader Ibrahim Bin-Khalid.
In between the award ceremony and a big fundraising event for John, Rebecca has to run back to CTU and finish debriefing Mullins, but she promises her husband she won't be late for the fundraiser.
Doubting whether she can trust Mullins, Rebecca asks Andy to quietly track Ben Grimes' whereabouts and calls John to tell him that she'll have to miss the fundraiser.
After killing Ben's mother and sister, the terrorists track him to the bus depot, as does Eric, thanks to Andy's tracking system.
Though Ben thinks it only contains jewelry and some cash, Eric quickly finds a hidden thumb drive, which he plugs into his phone and pulls up a list of names and activation codes, likely for sleeper cells around the country.
Ben calls Eric and warns him to stay away, indicating that he's going to use the drive as a bargaining chip to extort money out of the government and/or the terrorists.
The outlier plot (for now) involves a high school student named Amira (Kathryn Prescott), who recently moved to America from Chechnya with her brother and whose friend Drew (Zayne Emory) suspects is planning an attack at the school.
Eric's hoping to start a family, but Nicole is back on birth control because she's concerned about the toll the war has taken on him, as evidenced by the fact that he s