Writer:	Michael Loceff, Joel Surnow
Director:	Milan Cheylov
Star:	DB Woodside (Wayne Palmer),  Eric Balfour (Milo Pressman),  Kiefer Sutherland (Jack Bauer),  Jayne Atkinson (Karen Hayes),  James Morrison (Bill Buchanan),  Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe O'Brian),  Marisol Nichols (Nadia Yassir),  Regina King (Sandra Palmer),  Carlo Rota (Morris O'Brian),  Peter MacNicol (Thomas Lennox)
Recurring Role:	Jamison Jones (Secret Service Agent),  Alexander Siddig (Hamri Al-Assad),  Evan Ellingson (Josh),  Rena Sofer (Marilyn Bauer),  Ryan Cutrona (Admiral),  Harry J. Lennix (Walid Al-Rezani),  Adoni Maropis (Abu Fayed)
Guest Star:	Adrian Neil (Liddy),  Peter Smith (Chuck),  Andrea Grano (Ellen Price),  Al Faris (Salim),  Haaz Sleiman (Heydar),  Mark Bramhall (Sam),  Missy Crider (Rita),  Matt Battaglia (Agent Jennings),  Paul McCrane (Graem Bauer),  Scott William Winters (Agent Samuels),  David Hunt (Darren McCarthy)

David Hunt replaced Eddie Izzard in the role of Darren McCarthy. (edit) When Jack is talking to Bill about his dad, he mentions that he hasn't talked to his dad in over 9 years. If you do the math on time between seasons, it adds up to over nine years. That means that Jack stopped talking to his dad after his wife died, probably, as with Graem, after her funeral. (edit)

(Jack interrogating Graem)
Jack: One more thing comes out of your mouth that I don't want to hear and this is going to start to hurt! (edit) Assad: Mr. Buchanan, I know you see me as your enemy. But today, I assure you I am not. (edit) Wayne: Tom I can't let the American public see how scared I am.
Lennox: No you cannot. But then we just got hit by a nuclear bomb. Bravado would be no more appropriate than fear. (edit) Graem: How did you get out?
Jack: Some sort of exchange.
Graem: For what?
Jack: I'm not really sure.
Graem: It must have been one hell of an exchange. (edit) Graem: My brother has a way of digging things up that need to stay buried. (edit)

In the first episode, Ray tells Scott that he should stay home from school, indicating that the season takes place on a weekday. In this episode, we see Graem's son at home. Shouldn't he be at school? (edit) On 3:55 - 4:00 we see a mistake by the camera and actor DB Woodside. It shows him walking to the bunker on a split screen. However, one split screen shows DB walking with no hands in his pockets, yet the left-hand split screen shows him walking with his right hand in his pocket. (edit) In the contacts list Morris compiled regarding Gredenko (in which Jack's father, Phillip, appears), all the other names are production crew members in 24, starting of-course with Jon Cassar as an obvious hint. (edit) President Palmer is seen delivering his speech in front of the camera near the end of the episode. However, if you watch the TV behind Jack and his brother the news is still showing coverage of the explosion instead of the speech. (edit) In two shots during the first scene, the scrolling news feed at the bottom of the president's television screen starts on the exact same word. (edit)

Admiral: I guarantee you that if each of these countries have sustained three major metropolitan nuclear strikes they'd no longer have the time or the resources to play in our sandbox any more. These people want to live in the Stone Age. I say let's put them there.
An echo of the famous quote by General Curtis LeMay during the Vietnam War: "Tell the Vietnamese they've got to draw in their horns or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age." (edit)