24 has had its biggest season yet, with car crashes on the streets of Washington, D.C., a shootout in the White House itself and the death of a major regular. They've still got several hours left. How are they going to top that? Kiefer Sutherland says they don't have to.

"You know, it's really funny, the end of 24 this season, and the most I can tell you about it, is that it's not going to end because someone cuts two wires and the clock on a bomb stops," Sutherland said. "It is going to end because a few of the characters are going through a very difficult emotional dilemma and it is going to end on a much more dramatic level than it is going to be a physical or action-oriented sequence. I also, in saying that, believe that it's the most powerful important ending we've ever had."

Sutherland is full steam ahead on an eighth season, which starts shooting in May. He thinks the best is still to come.

"I think all of us believe and understand that our whole experience with 24 has just been this giant learning curve, because no one has really done a show in real time. We really do believe that the idea is so special. We also believe that we capable of making a perfect season, and I don't think that any of us have felt that we have done that. Every year we've learned something and go, 'Oh God, I wish I could go back and fix that or do that better.' Certainly, going into our eighth season, there were a couple of things, even from the second season, which we are immensely proud of, that we feel we can make better. So, we will continue to work until people say 'Stop!' or until we believe that we've made that perfect season."


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