Jon Voight gives a great performance in '24'

Jon Voight, who hasn't played in a TV series since the lates 1960s, delivered a great performance in last weeks episode of 24. He was lying in bed, recovering from a suicide attempt, when Jack Bauer arrives to question him.
Voights character, Jonas Hodges, was thought to be the guy behind the attacks on the U.S., but it seems like he was just one piece of the puzzle. The conpiracy is much larger than this.

"It's really about broadening the conspiracy," says executive producer Howard Gordon, "by delivering on the details of the threat (Jonas) made to (President) Taylor, when he said he's just a cog in a larger machine." Hodges also explains his motives.

But the confrontation didn't come soon enough for Kiefer Sutherland. "One of the great fears of mine is that in many cases in 24, characters don't meet, and Jon and I took until the very bitter end," he says. As he received script after script with no scenes between Bauer and Hodges, "I finally had to go up to Howard and said, 'If you don't let me work with him, I'll kill you.' "

Voight is happy to be a part of the 24 team, and have some thoughts to share:

“People are telling me they don’t want this character to have his demise, and I don’t know what to say to them,” said the soft-spoken Voight.

“I had seen a couple of episodes in its first season, and I was very impressed with it - and with Kiefer’s work in it.

“I had occasion to meet him then at a charity event. I didn’t know him real well, but I went up to him and said, ‘This is going to be a wonderful thing for you, and I wish you the best with it.’ Then, when they asked if I would do this, I thought, ‘That’s interesting. That almost brings it full circle.’ The first day I started work on it, Kiefer showed up at my camper to welcome me, even though he wasn’t working that day. It was such a nice thing.”

“Nice” does not apply to Voight’s “24” alter ego, since Hodges masterminded a temporary takeover of the White House, steered biological weapons into the United States and turned murderous.

“You can’t figure out who this guy is, and even as I was doing it, I didn’t know the whole story,” he said.

Read more about the confrontation here