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So this episode bores the stuffing out of people everywhere. Things slow down a lot more than they did in "8am - 9am," giving all the characters some time to reel in.
For his actions during the Gaines arc, Jack is placed in CTU custody, confined to the Situation Room for pretty much the whole episode and going over what happened the last thirteen hours. With that going on, Teri and Kim are sent to a clinic. In some new character combination, Nina is sent to look after them.
By the end, Palmer finds out about Jack's involvement in Operation Nightfall and comes to a (wrong) conclusion about why he wants him dead. So what does he do? He marches right into CTU and demands a word with Jack! More new character combination!
We're aware all along that the threat isn't over; like the characters, the big plot is merely taking a break. Andre and his brother Alexis are in Los Angeles, wiping out the last traces of Gaines' Plan A and preparing to put their Plan B into play. What more ominous way to convey this than the presence of a suspicious "FBI agent" watching Teri and Kim at the clinic?
With this episode, the plot threads started in the pilot are no more, and new threads take their time to weave a great finale for the season.

Hourly Highlight:
Alexis Drazen killing Kevin.

The best part here is this new shooter that appeared and killed the rest of the gaines crew.



Jack Bauer is interrogated during the whole episode, because the writers need more time to think what to do with him, or what task should they givem him.



Tony's attitude during his conversation with Chapelle was nice. Chapelle seems that type of character that is there just to complicated Jack´s Life.



Kim and Teri continue in dangerous, but Nina notice something. It seem that someone in the Palmer administration can put him in danger.



The highlight of this episode was Palmer entering CTU asking to speak to Jack Bauer. It was unexpected and a brilliant way to end this not so good episode.

Oh, it looks like Jack's longest day is going to be very long and dangerous. It looked like the danger for Bauer family is over but no - they are taken to hospital and Nina goes there too and suspicious things start to happen. And that is not it. There are new assassins in play and one of them has busy hour. Also Palmer is not safe. I am not sure if it was shown before but now I realized that the right hand man of him is behind it all on that side. Wow.. and they have no idea. And it is not easy for Palmers with their son.



And the ending.. really cliffhanger...

1:02 P.M.-1:07 P.M.: The chopper brings Jack, Teri and Kimberly in to CTU. While Green and Nina are standing by to meet them, Green asks who is on board

and Nina says just Jack and his family, since the prisoners were picked up separately. After the chopper lands and they get out, Jack learns that Teri's

been having abdominal pain (from what she won't say). He tells her they've arranged for her and Kimberly to see a doctor. She wants to stay with him, but

he's got an appointment with Green. After some agents help the women into an ambulance, Green drops the bomb on Jack that she's placing him under house

arrest until he can be turned over to the FBI. While Jack is being escorted back inside, he asks Nina in secret if she could drop by the clinic they've

taken Teri and Kimberly to and check up on them. Nina says she needs Green's approval to do that. After Jack is placed in the holding room, Nina asks Green

for an hour off to go home and clean up. Green denies her request, because she knows Nina it's a lie. After Green tells her she'll give her an hour off

if she is truthful about where she's going, Nina admits Jack asked her to look after his family. Green rubs it in about how ironic it is that he asked

her to look after Teri, the woman the two of them hid their affair from, then gives her the hour off. Palmer asks one of his aides, Elizabeth, if they've

heard from the person who has projections on state polls, as he wants to know if the incident at the breakfast is hurting his votes.



1:07 P.M.-1:10 P.M.: In private, Sherry warns Palmer that he can't talk about Keith and he can't talk Ferragamo. Palmer says he's not going to talk about

either of them -- he's being blackmailed. In shock, Sherry asks who's blackmailing him and why. He says his financers, because they want to see him the

White House. Sherry is in disbelief that they could've planted evidence framing Keith for arson. Palmer tells her this is what happens when you cover things

up. Yet, that's exactly what he plans to do as far as Keith is concerned. At the clinic, Dr. Kent introduces herself to Teri and Kimberly. She says she's

been alerted to Teri's pain and would like to do an ultrasound. Teri continues to try to hide what happened, until Kimberly makes her have a change of

heart. After another doctor takes Kimberly into another room, Teri tells Dr. Kent that she was raped. Dr. Kent would like to draw blood and do some tests,

and strongly recommends Teri see a psychiatrist. Teri refuses the latter; with some hesitation, she admits she wants to keep this a secret from Jack.



1:15 P.M.-1:18 P.M.: Mike advises Palmer to hang out with some important senators to boost his profile in their states. Keith hears Mike mention Ferragamo's

name during the conversation and comes out to ask about him. Mike leaves, and Palmer admits to Keith that Ferragamo died in a fire. Keith figures out pretty

quick what occurred, and angrily tells his father to go to the police with the truth. Palmer reminds his son that he didn't go the police with the truth

in regards to Lyle Gibson. Keith breaks into tears, as Ferragamo was the only person who was there for him when he was having problems. After hinting that

he would have offed himself had Ferragamo not been there to help, Palmer consoles Keith that he plans to do what's best for him.



1:18 P.M.-1:24 P.M.: The Regional Director, Ryan Chappelle, and his boys enter CTU. He and Tony exchange greetings. Tony and Milo know Chappelle's presence

means Jack's in pretty big trouble. Green tells them what room they're holding Jack. One of the boys goes in first to set up a tape recorder. After he

leaves, Chappelle walks in and he and Jack exchange greetings of their own. Jack is a little taken back when Chappelle starts up the tape recorder for

the interrogation. Nina has arrived at the clinic, but instead of finding Teri and Kimberly in their room, she finds an FBI agent. The agent says he and

his team are there to interrogate the injured prisoners they're bringing into the clinic. Outside the room, Nina stops a doctor to ask where the Bauers

are. The doctor tells her the room they've been moved to. Nina goes there, says hi to Teri -- who is having the ultrasound and is more than a little surprised

to see her there -- and introduces herself to Kimberly. Nina says she's there to look out for them and will be in the waiting room if they need anything.

Teri inquires about Jack, and Nina tells her he's being questioned. Teri wants to go home, but Nina explains that they need to take every precaution first.

When Kimberly asks about Jack, Nina replies that because this was a terrorist plot they were caught in the middle of, Division, Secret Service and CTU

will want to question him first. Before Nina leaves, Teri thanks her for helping save them. After she goes back into the hall, Nina gets a funny feeling.

She returns to the other room she first went in, but the guy who said he was an FBI agent is gone. She spots him with his back turned to her in the hallway,

along with a woman who's wearing an FBI tag. Nina interrupts the woman's phone call to ask her if the other agent is FBI. When the woman replies that he

is, Nina says she'd like to talk to him again, as they met in the hospital room either. But as soon as the woman says that couldn't be since they both

just got there, the other agent turns around and Nina sees it's not the same guy. After the woman says they're the only two FBI agents at the hospital,

Nina rushes off in a panic to check on Teri and Kimberly.



1:29 P.M.-1:33 P.M.: Jack explains to Chappelle that he didn't call CTU earlier because he was worried things could get out of control. But even though

he did eventually call, Chappelle says he can't reinstate him simply because he broke protocol. In disbelief, Jack tells Chappelle that Palmer is still

in danger and he can help. When Chappelle doesn't change his mind, Jack goes off on him about how he never deviated from his original goal of protecting

Palmer. Chappelle knows that, and thinks that may be what will ultimately save his job, but he still doesn't care to hear excuses and plans to leave it

up to the justice system to decide. After Jack yells at him some more, Nina calls Chappelle. Chappelle hands Jack the phone and decides their meeting is

adjourned. Chappelle leaves and has one of his men keep Jack company during the call. Jack tells Nina that Chappelle didn't listen and he's been turned

over to the authorities. He thanks Nina for looking after his family. But Nina's mind is elsewhere; namely on the dirty agent Walsh told Jack about. Could

there have been more than one agent? Jack has already thought about that, and figures someone had to recruit Jamey. Whether or not they were in CTU or

District or Secret Service, they have to assume someone else is out there. A little paranoid from her incident with the FBI agent, Nina explains that she

just wants to be extra careful when it comes to Teri's and Kimberly's safety. Since they're being examined right now, Nina agrees to call back later so

they can talk to Jack. They hang up. Green comes to Tony to see if he's found out anything new in regards to the backup assassination plan. Tony says they've

uncovered three additional shooters, who all entered the country the past few days. But they can only find the names of two of them. Green needs Tony to

find out the third name pronto. Meanwhile, the mystery assassin is in the desert in the middle of nowhere, spying on passing cars with a set of binoculars

and his palm pilot.



1:33 P.M.-1:36 P.M.: A car and one of the red vans pull up in front of a shed in the desert. Kevin gets out of the car and orders the guys in the van to

put equipment in the shed before he comes in to brief them on the next strategy. He makes a phone call to Drazen while the assassin checks him out on the

palm pilot. Kevin tells Drazen they just arrived at the transfer point and Gaines is dead. He attempts to suck up by saying that he tried to tell Gaines

there were gaping holes in his plan. When Drazen asks him to get to the point, Kevin says he can fix everything -- why, he even managed to kill a witness

whom no one else could find. Drazen turns down the offer, because, as he puts it, "Plan B is already in effect." Kevin has no idea what that means, and

isn't about to find out from the source since Drazen hangs up on him. Looking around in hopes of figuring it out, Kevin spots Drazen's plan B spying on

him from behind a dune. Kevin slowly draws his gun just as the others bring the equipment in the shed as told, but it's too late. The assassin holds a

detonator in his hand, and blows the shed to pieces. Kevin was close enough to the explosion to get knocked down. Before he can get up, the assassin stands

and strides over to him, pulling out his gun on the way there. After kicking Kevin's pistol away from him, the man asks if there's anything left in the

van. When Kevin tells him to go to hell, the assassin shoots him point blank.



1:41 P.M.-1:42 P.M.: Tony and Green discuss what to do with Palmer. Tony says they have to get him out of L.A. and away from the backup shooters. Green

has him leave a case file with her to look over before she makes her judgement call. He's about to leave when she stops him to bluntly ask if he's satisfied

with his position at CTU. He says he is. Since she wants to play games, she coyly tells him that she's always thought he was too talented to be third banana.

He gets right to the point and asks her what she wants him to do. She does likewise and says that Chappelle will want to talk to him before making his

final evaluation of Jack, as he was the one called for a lockdown, and they all know Nina isn't impartial when it comes to Jack. Tony asks what he's supposed

to say. She wants him to tell Chappelle that even though Jack's family was in danger, there were better ways he could have handled it without breaking

protocol. She tries to sway Tony by saying that he never would have had to call Mason had Jack been upfront with him in the first place.

The Jack, Teri, Kim and CTU plot is very slow in this episode. Part one has now come to an end and this episode is a just a filler for the part two of the season.



The Palmer storyline is pretty good though. David can't tell Keith about his therapist's murder because he doesn't want to tell him that there's been evidence planted against Keith. That makes Keith think that David is covering up his own ass, when in fact he's just protecting Keith.



The first highlight of the episode, in my opinion, was when Tony defended Jack. xD The second highlight of the episode was when Palmer entered CTU asking to speak to Jack Bauer. It was unpredictable and unexpected and a brilliant way to end a not so good episode.



Quote of the hour! Tony Almeida: "Let me save you some time, Mr. Chappelle. I'm not the biggest fan of Jack Bauer. But since midnight last night you won't get me to disapprove of a single action he's taken."

After the exciting escape of Jack and his family, the storyline essentially reverts back to where it was at the pilot episode. CTU is still tasked with protecting the Senator. A shady assassin is preparing to kill him. There may be a mole inside CTU working with the bad guys. Teri and Kim are unaware that they are still in danger. All of these plot elements are revealed here. Of course, anyone who watched "Midnight to 1am" will already be well acquainted with all of these facts. It's my understanding that the writers only had 13 episodes prepared, and were forced to "wing it" for the rest of the season. This hour makes that very apparent.



That being said….this episode isn't all that bad. In fact, it does its job quite nicely. Its job, of course, is to provide some downtime for the characters after last hour's climax, while simultaneously moving the plot forward for future episodes. Palmer, unlike CTU and Jack, continues dealing with the Ferragamo situation, as well as closing in on he and Jack's connection, which will certainly catch any viewer's attention. And about Kevin Carroll…well, there is nothing to say about him. He tragically loses his life due to no longer being relevant to the plot.



The Best: David walks into CTU. This scene comes out of nowhere and is a perfect example of how to end an episode when there aren't any super-shockers to turn to.



The Worst: Hmm. Teri and Kim, or Alberta Green? Take your pick.

This episode was pretty filler quality, with the only real highlight of the hour coming near the end when Senator Palmer showed up to speak with Jack Bauer. The situation at CTU never really got off the ground. Jack spoke with Chapelle and Green, but we didnt really get to see much seeing how most of the conversations consisted of recaps of what we have all ready seen. The situation with the Drazens was a cool part of the episode. I did not see the new assassin killing all of the men were previously working for Drazen coming, I thought that was a cool twist. Finnaly the arguments within the Palmer family about the Faragomo situation is getting a little old, I hope they all move past that.

After a thrilling stretch of episodes, things start to slow down here, as the pacing becomes much slower. Howard Gordon, 24's showrunner, admits in an interview that they expected to be cancelled after "12:00 PM to 1:00 PM," so starting with this hour, they really had no idea where to head with the season and began making up story as they go. Despite the effects of some impromptu storytelling, this episode isn’t quite as bad as many people say it is.



Teri and Kim are forced to separate from Jack while he’s being debriefed at CTU, and we soon learn that their safety might still be in jeopardy. Nina, sensing a possible threat, decides to move them to the safehouse. From here on out, we start to see some confusion on part of the writers on where to head with Teri and Kim's story arc.



Back at CTU, the Director of Division, Ryan Chappelle, (another by-the-book bureaucrat from Division, surprise, surprise) arrives to debrief Jack. But here, Palmer and Jack’s storylines intertwine, as Palmer, reacting to the latest intel that his life may still be in danger, arrives at CTU to talk with Jack, while he still thinks Jack tried to kill him back at the power plant.



Meanwhile, in the words of conspiracy mastermind Andre Drazen, “Plan B” is already under way, as his brother, Alexis, kills Kevin Carroll and his remaining “Plan A” accomplices.



This episode didn’t get that far in terms of story, but it was still a solid episode and was a nice transition from the first plot arc of the season on towards the second arc, which involves the direct participation of the Drazens in their efforts to kill David Palmer on this day of the California Presidential Primary.



Overall score: 87/100 (B+)

Green places Jack Bauer under arrest while Kim and Teri are left at a hospital under federal protection. As Jack gets to CTU, Ryan Chappelle grills him with questions that are more about putting him behind bars than actually coming up with the truth. David Palmer comes to CTU and demands to speak with Jack personally. Teri and Kim are accompanied by Nina to the hospital for a medical exam. Nina finds out that some of the FBI agents are phony and takes Teri and Kim to a safe house. So much happens in this episode, it's really exciting, I had so much fun watching it.

...Nothing happened.



Jack at CTU all along, Palmer doing nothing, Teri and Kim also doing nothing.



No action scene at all, i repeat: at ALL. Nothing at the hospital either although I thought there\\\\\\\'ll be something after that agent fakeout. But no....nothing.



The last scene was awesome when Palmer went into CTU but other than that this episode is the worst episode of 24 to date.



Dialogues were cheesy, boring, repetative, whatsoever. The whole thing was just... crap.



It\\\\\\\'s funny because I believe the writers thought they\\\\\\\'ll get cancelled after episode 13, and they didnt have anything ready to continue so they threw a bunch of filler episodes in.

1:00pm to 2:00pm of Jack's first season is spend gearing up for round two of the fight. After Jack defeats Gaines, he is left to deal with "Plan B", as introduced by the arch-villain. The only problem with this scenario is that Jack is in CTU custody for violating protocol. And that's about all we learn from this episode.



I've noticed that season 1 of 24 follows a flawed version of what later becomes 24's formula. Whereas the later versions of 24 will keep multiple enemies/storylines running in tandem, with little miniature one episode battles, the first season keeps the battles lines up in a queue, and only allows Jack to deal with them one at a time. The result is more filler with his family and CTU politics, which is not to say that it's bad, but it's different.



In any account, this episode serves to introduce all the new villains that will take us through to the end of the season, so it's definitely worth watching so you know who everyone is.

This episode receives the award for Worst Episode of Season 1. After riding the high of the Gaines arc, the writers had to scramble to write the rest of the season when Fox picked up 24 for the...full 24 hours. While we got the payoff of the final 5 episodes of the season because of Fox's decision, we also had to sit through the tedious afternoon episodes as well.



Highlights

-Jack eating for the first and only time ever on the show

-Palmer coming to CTU



Minuses

-Um...not a lot really happened

-Nina's concern for Teri and Kim in this episode made the big twist at the end of 10pm-11pm seem very confusing in the process (while still amazing)

-The weak writing of this episode was responsible for some of the very unfair bashing Jon Cassar has received through the years from diehard 24 fans, it being his first episode that he directed. However, he can't control what the writers give him to work with.