Although 24’s last season disappointed me, next season is coming back soon enough and I just found out Tony Almeida will be on the show! And AS Tony Almeida. If you’re into 24 you know that he was killed by being stabbed by the dude that killed his wife. And the funny thing is that I just realized is that when a character dies on 24, they silence the countdown. But if you noticed in the episode where Tony is killed, the countdown isn’t silenced. So maybe that was tied with him actually not being killed after all.

According to a Fox press release (and found in wikipedia), Show-runner Howard Gordon explained that Tony’s “uncertain fate” left the door open for his return^[2] and cited the lack of a silent clock as a deliberate move to keep his death ambiguous.^[3] “We didn’t give him the silent clock because we always wanted to keep alive the possibility for some kind of (admittedly) miraculous resurrection … which we will explain,” and followed up with “He’s definitely NOT the Almeida we once knew.

Ok, NOW I’m actually excited for this upcoming season. Yay! Tony’s back!