24 may be based in a heightened reality world (how else do you explain Jack being able to 75% of each season's terrorists), but theres one constant: if youre dead, youre staying dead. Theres no coming back...unless youre Tony Almeida, that is. After being injected with hyoscine pentothal, Tony appeared to die in Jacks arms, leading to one of the shows most tragic moments. However, our first hint that all was not what it seemed was when Tony didnt get a silent clock. If anyone deserved a silent clock, its Tony! Though the show-runners confirmed that Tony had died, this decision was reversed at the start of season 7. We soon learned Henderson, who made sure that the injection wasnt lethal, sent his men to smuggle Tony out of CTU. Clinically dead for 10 minutes, Tony was revived and became a member of Emersons crew, fighting the government for over four years. To be fair, hyoscine pentothal is a fictional compound, so the writers could make up whatever rules for how it worked. While that didnt make it any less weird to see Tony reappear in season 7, we mostly let it go since we were glad to see him back in the game...although with how his storyline turned out by the end of that season, maybe he should have stayed dead.
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