Writer:	Stephen Kronish, Evan Katz
Director:	Kevin Hooks
Star:	Dennis Haysbert (David Palmer),  Elisha Cuthbert (Kimberly Bauer),  Reiko Aylesworth (Michelle Dessler),  Carlos Bernard (Tony Almeida),  Kiefer Sutherland (Jack Bauer),  James Badge Dale (Chase Edmunds)
Recurring Role:	Andrea Thompson (Nicole Duncan),  Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe O'Brian),  Zachary Quinto (Adam Kaufman),  Paul Schulze (Ryan Chappelle),  Greg Ellis (Michael Amador),  DB Woodside (Wayne Palmer),  Jesse Borrego (Gael Ortega),  Lothaire Bluteau (Marcus Alvers),  Paul Blackthorne (Stephen Saunders),  Penny Johnson Jerald (Sherry Palmer)
Guest Star:	Doug Savant (Craig Phillips),  Gavin Glennon (Saunders' Operative),  Sue Jin Song (Guest),  Bruce Nozick (Division Agent),  Scott Klace (Angry Guest),  Eamon Hunt (Saunders' Man),  JD Cullum (Bruce Margolis),  Paul Vincent O'Connor (Police Chief Hendrix)

This was the first of three episodes submitted for Emmy consideration. (edit)

Saunders: You are no longer in control of your country. And if you do not use the full power to execute my wishes, the virus will be released and it will be impossible to stop. (edit) Palmer: (to Sherry) I despise you for what you've done. And I despise my role in helping you get away with it. Get out of my sight. (edit)

When Gael is asking how to shut off the ventilation unit, Mr Phillips tells Gael that the control panel is on his left. Gael, however, turns to his right and the control panel is there. (edit) Violating the real-time formula, the hotel manager is in his office and his assistant tells him that there's people with guns outside. Then the next scene seconds later has the assistant in the basement trying to find a way out. (edit) Jack mentioned that the doors and windows in the hotel don't open so the contaminated air would stay inside the hotel. Michelle and Gael also made mention that the air in the hotel is contaminated, meaning that the virus is airborne, in which case when Danny (the angry guest) smashes the front glass to try and get out. Wouldn't the virus become airborne throughout the city and start infecting people that way? (edit)

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