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In 40 minutes, there can be some key moments that make a episode worth watching, and this episode have it. After some slower episodes , the audience deserved.



The episode gets intense and more complicated for some characters like Palmer, Kim and Teri.



Palmer continues to be slower, but with the next episodes this can be interesting, since it seems that the writes have waiting to put the best part of this Palmer plot more later.



Kim and teri could have died in this episode, if wasn´t for rick help, now their situation is critical, but Jack now know where they are and this will be interesting.



A character makes its return as well.



BEst part, of course is Jack Scenes, where he interrogates a suspect Man, that seemed innocent. This man last words indicate that all this is about revenge. And then, a surprise, The imposter alan appear and Jack is using right now.

Time is running out for Jack but he is getting - this thing going on is personal and he even starts to figure out why they are after him - that has something to do with mission two years ago. But Jack is not the only one, running out of time - his wife and daugther are in more danger and it looks like Teri is feeling ill too. But in the end she finds strength to save Kim.



It was again not too intense and fast episode, but very exciting.. all the interrogation and trying to figure it out.. Nina and Tony in CTU..

10:02 A.M.-10:07 A.M.: Alberta Green announces how Secret Service think the photographer, Martin Belkin, may be in on the assassination attempt, as he hasn't

been seen since the breakfast. Nina tells her she hasn't heard from Jack. Kevin calls Cofell, because something important has come up and he needs to be

met at a parking garage. After getting off the phone with Kevin, Cofell tells Mark his change of plans, but Mark doesn't acknowledge them, and Cofell soon

figures out that he's not talking to Mark. When he voices his protests, Jack locks the doors automatically so Cofell can't escape. Cofell pleads for his

substitute chauffeur to stop the car. Jack doesn't comply until Cofell pulls his cell phone out of his pocket to dial for help. With the car in park, Jack

draws his gun, makes Cofell give him the phone, exits the vehicle, comes around the back, sits next to Cofell, and orders him to sit on his hands. Cofell

thinks Jack wants money, so after smacking him across the face, Jack sets the record straight. Cofell pretends that he doesn't know who Gaines is, nor

what Jack is talking about, as he's just a businessman. Jack doesn't believe him, since his limousine has a bulletproof divider; Cofell explains it's for

protection from people like him. Jack cocks his pistol, explaining to Cofell that it's his last chance to tell him where his family is, but Cofell continues

to declare his innocence. Jack backs off and has Cofell stay put while he calls Nina, who opens a secure line. After she fills him in on what's up there,

he says he's got (meaning kidnapped) Cofell. She thinks that was stupid of him, and doesn't know how much longer she can cover, since Green isn't buying

any of it anyway. Jack ignores it, and asks her to put together as best of a Cofell interrogation profile as she can in five minutes. He hangs up, and

drives Cofell to a new location.



10:07 A.M.-10:13 A.M.: Teri believes that Nina and crew were able to get the trace before the phone went dead, while Kimberly doesn't. Rick comes in, and

apologizes for what happened. Teri goes to thank him, but he stops her, claiming that since Eli sent him in to interrogate them it's better that they don't

say anything, as he can't tell Eli what he doesn't know. Kimberly asks Rick what Eli is going to do to them. Rick neglects to answer, and leaves. Kimberly

is able to spy on Eli and Rick from a slat in the wall, and sees Eli kick the crap out of Rick for claiming the women didn't tell him anything. Nina quickly

halts work on the profile when Green comes over. Green says she's been reviewing the report of the first-class passenger list of the 747, and they don't

add up. Nina explains they were altered to make it look like there was an empty seat, but CTU feels there wasn't one. Nina explains that Martin Belkin

was in that seat and died in the explosion, and a lookalike assassin took his place at the breakfast. What Nina can't yet explain is how the lookalike

got a legitimate ID. While the two are talking, Jack calls Nina. Nina says hi to Bill, then, just in case she needs his help, tells Tony it's Bill Warner

at the Bureau. She does need his help as Green wants to talk to Bill, so Tony walks over to distract Green with something else. With her out of the way,

Nina gives Jack what little she managed to come up with in the short time he gave her -- Cofell is the oldest of three children, father died when he was

a boy, went to college at 16, first in his class, vice president of his company three years later, got a heart condition, not generous with money. She

guesses he's passive aggressive. Her parting words that the threat of pain can be more effective than pain itself for the kind of person she perceives

Cofell to be give Jack his next plan.



10:17 A.M.-10:20 A.M.: Cofell continues to stalemate. He tells Jack he was meeting a businessman named Kevin Carroll, who sells machinery. Jack wonders

why he was meeting him in a parking garage, but Cofell doesn't know, as it was Kevin's choice. Jack calls Nina to run a background check on Kevin Carroll,

which is probably an alias. Then he pulls out a towel, drenches it in water, rolls it up, and enlightens Cofell on how the Soviets punished prisoners in

the Russian Gulags with makeshift torture devices. They'd shove wet, twisted towels down their throats, hold onto one end, wait until their stomachs started

digesting the towel, then pull them -- and their stomach linings -- out. Cofell fearfully questions what kind of man Jack is. Jack says he doesn't want

to hurt him, he just wants his family. Cofell hands Jack his wallet, so he can see a picture of Cofell's family. Cofell repeats that if he knew something,

so would Jack.



10:20 A.M.-10:25 A.M.: Gaines and Drazen meet in a deserted location. Gaines assures Drazen that they'll be ready for Jack this time, but Drazen thinks

he and his people made a mistake bringing the Americans into this, and pulls the plug on Gaines' involvement. Gaines doesn't understand how Drazen could

quit something that's been so important to him for over a year, but Drazen says he's not quitting; he has a contingency plan. Jack and Palmer will both

be dead by the end of day, and Gaines... well, it's no longer his concern. Gaines begs for just two more hours to find Jack. Drazen gives him thirty minutes.

If Gaines doesn't find Jack by then, he'll have to kill Teri and Kimberly, pull his people out, and Drazen will take over. Rick, who's standing nearby,

hears every word. Drazen calls someone, and talks to them in Serbian. After class, the principal of the school chats with Palmer, and offers him some suggestions

on his educational program. Mike interrupts to hand Palmer a phone. Carl's on the other line, none too happy about his former boss needing his help. Palmer

asks to see him in person, because he got a tip that George Ferragamo's life may be in danger. Carl thinks Frank Ames told him that, and brushes it off.

Palmer threatens to blackmail Carl if he doesn't come meet him at the school. Carl says he'll be there by hour's end. Jack calls Nina back to see what

she's learned. She's found six Kevin Carrolls, one of whom does sell machinery. Jack feels it has to be a cover, but Nina thinks he may have the wrong

Ted Cofell, especially since Nina's email was partially erased. More than that, she feels Jack's judgement is affected. After he ends the call and starts

the car, he tells Cofell they're going to see Kevin.



10:30 A.M.-10:34 A.M.: Teri's pain returns. Since Kimberly knows she's not fine, Teri admits her stomach's been hurting her. Kimberly wants to ask the kidnappers

for help, but Teri won't let her. Cofell carefully flips down a cushion in the backseat, revealing a secret compartment. He removes a knife and returns

the cushion to its upright position, with Jack none the wiser. After talking with the principal, Palmer pulls Sherry over to ask if she's spoken to Carl

since he was fired. She says she did; she asked him if he could find a way to stop Maureen Kingsley, and he replied that he'd take care of the evidence

against Keith. She says the reason she hid this was because she wasn't sure what Carl meant. Palmer thinks it's yet another secret in the grand scheme

of things that proves how disloyal she is. Palmer checks up with Mike, who tells him he scoped out Jack as requested, and found the usual gap-ridden agency

file. Mike is stunned when Palmer asks if one of those gaps coincides with the summer of two years ago. Palmer won't say how he knew that.



10:34 A.M.-10:37 A.M.: Jack orders Cofell to shift over to the opposite seat, so he can come on back and visit. Cofell decides to use the opportunity to

kill Jack, and readies his blade. Jack catches Cofell mid-lunge, twists the knife out of his hands, and breaks his wrist. The knife now in Jack's possession,

he angrily demands to know what kind of businessman keeps a Microtech HALO in his car. Cofell is so annoyed over his broken wrist that he slips up in the

accent department. He's a Serb -- or at least that's the language he's chosen to curse out Jack. Since Jack spent that time in Belgrade, he recognizes

what language Cofell has lapsed into, and attempts to get more out of him. Cofell bitterly taunts Jack about how he deserves what's happening to him, and

how he will pay. Jack lets his temper get the best of him, and rams Cofell in the chest with the back end of the knife. That heart ailment of Cofell's

that he and Nina both know about? Yeah, not the best thing for it. While Cofell suffers cardiac arrest, Jack holds his heart pills in his hand, claiming

he'll hand them over right after finding out where his family is. But Cofell would rather die. Realizing his key witness is about to croak, Jack waives

the testimonial and stuffs Cofell's medication in his mouth. Cofell spits them right out, then goes limp. Now in a panic, Jack loosens Cofell's shirt and

tie and attempts CPR, begging him to please be alive. Bully for Jack -- he killed him.



10:41 A.M.-10:44 A.M.: Nina consoles a teary Jack, who worries that he won't be able to find Teri and Kimberly now. Nina wonders if Kevin Carroll may know

something. Jack isn't sure he's even coming, since he's late. Jack knows the terrorists have a personal agenda against him, but doesn't know what for.

He wants Nina to dig as deep as she can into two things -- 1) Cofell's background, and 2) a two-year-old assignment he did in Belgrade and Kosovo called

"Operation Nightfall" -- and then crosscheck the files against each other. After hanging up and pulling himself together, he starts making Cofell look

presentable. Tony goes to Nina with a proposition: since Green already knows they're lying, they might as well come clean. Nina sternly refuses, because

Jack said no and because they can't be sure that Green -- or the thirty people Green is sure to call -- is any more on the level than Jamey was.

This episode is brilliant; after a couple of slow episodes this was a much needed one. It doesn't have any shockers but its very well written and Jack's interrogation of Ted Cofell is his best one so far. I was actually convinced he was innocent as he appeared to be really nervous and a normal business man. But then he threatened Jack and and started speaking in a foreign accent. It was really unexpected!



The plot gets deeper when Palmer realises there is a link between him a Jack. The reasons behind this are revealed in a few episodes.=]



The Teri and Kim plot also gets more interesting when Teri shoots one of the goons to save themselves from being killed.



The highlight of the episode is the return of Kevin Carroll a.k.a. Alan Yorke. He gets into the limo totally unaware of what he is getting into and the whole scene is really good.



Quote of the hour! Jack Bauer: "Hello, Alan. Or is it Kevin?"

This is one of THE best episodes of the first season, and it's on my list of the five greatest episodes of "24" ever aired. Let's see why that is, shall we?

Once again, awesome music: a moody, slow, somewhat melancholy tune that plays frequently throughout, making it the unofficial theme of this episode (the soundtrack lists it as "Jack in the Limo").

Great scenes with Jack questioning the seemingly innocent Cofell, including the infamous "towel" monologue. And of course, to bring the episode's quality even higher, Cofell must turn a big 180 in the second half and go all chilling on us.

Teri's "We're alive" speech to Kim is cheesy, but it's not even close to bringing down the quality of the rest of this episode. Besides, she subsequently makes her first and only kill, so all is forgiven.

More mystery surrounding Carl is revealed here, and he's definitely up to no good with George Ferragamo. And as an added bonus, we get some more details about the connection between the histories of Jack and Palmer: Operation Nightfall, the mission that led to Jack and Teri's separation. Nightfall is only briefly discussed here, but it will serve as the platform for the second half of the season. We're still in the first half, and this has gotta be my favorite episode within that first half.



Hourly Highlight:

Bulletproof divider + Kevin Carroll getting tossed around with a corpse + crazy Jack behind the wheel of a crazy limo = one scene I will NEVER get tired of watching.

Wow! This episode pops out of nowhere to become the best Season 1's first half has to offer. Unlike most other truly great episodes of 24, this one doesn't rely on a climactic event or shocker for its awesomeness. Instead, it's just a downright amazingly written and directed episode of 24 .



Palmer gets the least attention here. All he does is speak to Carl, who denies that he is attempting to hurt Ferragamo in any way. Oh yeah, and his connection with Jack is hinted at. Not much happens, but it's intriguing nonetheless. The best parts of this hour by far involve Jack. His interrogation of Ted is wonderfully written, and for a moment I actually wondered if he was going to far to push a man who may be innocent. What eventually happens to Ted is genuinely creepy and also serves to deepen the mystery. But then we get one of Jack's most badass moments ever, when Kevin gets in the limo and attempts to shoot Jack through the bulletproof glass. Even Teri and Kim's usually poor writing takes a break here, as their storyline finally gets moving again. Teri even gets her first and only kill at the end. I really can't say enough about this episode. It's just plain awesome.



The Best: Uhhhh. Jack Bauer. Can't really decide which part.



The Worst: I think I'll omit this section for this particular hour.

Awesome. Just awesome, from start to finish. One of the best episodes of 24 ever, and the best episode of the Gaines plot arc.



First of all, the music in this episode is the best Sean Callery has ever composed for this series. I listen to the tune, “Jack in the Limo,” on my 24 soundtrack several times a week, and I’ve never gotten tired of it. Just an incredible track, and it really set the mood well for this episode.



Then, we have Jack’s interrogation of Ted Cofell. We’ve seen Jack torture quite a few terrorists over the years, but no torture scene may have been as compelling as Jack threatening Cofell with a wet towel! One of the greatest and most memorable Jack Bauer moments ever.



We also learn some more about Jack’s previous military operations and its significance to this day, as a possible Serbian connection is introduced. We also meet Andre Drazen, one of the masterminds of the Palmer assassination plot.



Also, the acting is brilliant throughout the episode, especially from Kiefer Sutherland and Currie Graham---Jack’s reaction to Cofell’s death was considerably well acted, and Graham does a great job portraying the Ted “scared as s**t” Cofell in this episode as well.



Then, the episode’s final act is simply brilliant, as we find out that Cofell was probably involved in the conspiracy all along, and the associate he was scheduled to meet at the parking garage, named Kevin Carroll, was none other than…….fake Alan York!!!!! And then, in a just awesome scene, Jack takes Alan/Kevin for a ride of his life in Cofell’s limo.



Awesome. Just awesome.



Overall score: 100/100 (A+)

One of the better episodes of Season 1 I thought. I thought all of the scene with Jack Bauer trying to get information out of Ted and Kevin AKA "Alan" were great scenes. There was a little more of the Jack and his family storyline in this episode and a little less CTU drama and President Palmer drama, which I thought was a good change of pace and should set the tone for the remaining half of the season.



Things are bound to speed up in the next episode with Teri killing the man who was sent to kill her and Jack on the way to try and find his family. I thought this episode really brought me back into what I thought was a dying storyline. Great episode.

Jack goes undercover in a limo, he pretends to be a driver, the limo undercover scenes looked so cool. It's a slow suspenseful moments for the episode, when Jack interrogates the accountant who can help him find Teri and Kim is perhaps the best scenes of the episode. The episode is so much about Teri and Kim as well, while they wait for Jack to come to their rescue, they do whatever they can to survive their ordeal inside the terrorist camp. The bad guys are coming up with way to cause chaos, but Jack is always getting a few steps ahead of them. This episode is awesome.

After desperately rushing to get to Ted Coffel's office last episode, the episode begins with Jack being chaffeur, and Ted in the back of the limo. Coffel gets a call from "Kevin", and asks his driver to change destinations, all along not knowing who's really driving. Things soon change though, and it's not long before Cofell knows that it isnt the same driver he usually has.



Currie Graham is fantastic throughout the whole episode, and does a brilliant job of playing the nervous and anxious Ted Cofell. Ted frequently insists that he's nothing more than a businessman who's innocent, and is good at lying about to both Jack and the audience. Midway through the episode after being counter-attacked it's soon revealed however that he's not all he seems, and infact, is Serbian.



Despite being in only one-and-a-bit episodes, I thought the storyline of Cofell was superb. The way his personality changed in seconds was incredibly thrilling to watch, and totally stood everything on it's head. It also gave us a chance to see the more emotional side of Jack, as, after Cofell's death, we see Mr Bauer pleading to know where is family is, and almost in tears. Thankfully, he soons gets himself together again, and proceeds to meet "Kevin".



Elsewhere on the baddie front, Andre Drazen finally arrives at Gaine's headquarters. They have a little bit of a tiff over the whereabouts of Jack, with Gaines pleading for more time before the Drazen takes over. He's given half an hour, and by the end of the episode, Gaine's time is up. He's out. Having an even bigger baddie in the show like Andre Drazen came as something of a surprise. All along we'd been led to believe that Gaines was the main baddie, but having someone come in and take over really turned things on it's head, and seeing that Gaines was done, did seem a little sad. Despite him being the bad guy.



With Drazen in full power over the operation and now with a contingency plan, Gaines orders the Bauer females to be killed, purely because they're not a part of Andre's plan. At the end of the episode, Ira's goon Eli comes to kill for a second time this season, but after much struggling and rolling about on the floor with Elisha Cuthbert (lucky guy), is killed by Teri.



Elsewhere, the "other" family storyline continued, with yet another mini fallout between David and Sherry. After Sherry going behind David's back in a previous episode, the big man finally finds out, and loses even more respect for his devious and cunning wife.



This episode is truly one of my all time favourites, and three years after first watching it, it still manages to keep you on the edge of your seat and wrapped in suspense. The soundtrack is brilliant, the renegade actions of Jack are once again good fun to watch, and the directing, as always, is fantastic. The only minor downfall of this episode is the CTU storyline. Nothing truly interesting happens there this episode, with all the action happening outside of the office, making for a refreshing change.



Yet another classic episode, I love it.

Wow, the Gaines arc of Season 1 was f'ing brilliant wasn't it? This episode is almost funny in how great it is in some parts. It even saw the return of our dear friend Alan York. Mwahahaha!



Highlights

-Jack and the Russian gulag

-Cofell's convincing lies

-Cofell spewing out Serbian

-Jack and Nina working together

-Kevin Carroll shows up. How great was that?

-...and then the subsequent "Hello....Alan."

-...followed by Jack not moving one muscle when he's fired at through the bulletproof glass

-...capped off with Jack slamming on the brakes, knocking out Carroll. Perfect scene, one of the best in the show's history to this day.



Looking back on Season 1, it really is impressive all of the cool stuff they did with the Alan York/Kevin Carroll character. I think he saw more twists in a short amount of time than any other character to date. What a great episode with such fantastic moments.