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When Jack discoved that Nina was the mole, I thought that this episode would be great. However, this turns to be nothing for now. Even if the Nina is the mole, Jack is enable to discover this information for now.



The writers managed to buy some time with Kim plot. The ending was good, for Kim friend´s, other than that, the only thing good here is the revelation and now we know why this is happening.



Mandy plot is over, and even that managed to buy some time.



Teri continues looking for her daughter.



Palmer plot continues to grow slower, but now we know what is happening.

Jack learns the identity of the agent who may be working against him. He acquires Jamie's help to get evidence.

Palmer finally learns of the damning story about to hit the press, involving his son and a possible murder several years ago.

Kim and Janet manage to escape their captors. Kim is able to get a message to Teri, but an accident results in her recapture.

Tony calls for outside help when he decides that Jack should be relieved of his command.

This episode wasagain very exciting the scene were Kim is getting chased was great but the overal episode wasnt as good as the last episode

Oh.. I really think they are getting more and more intense.. this episode was very action packed but not in the way the previous one was - when last episode had shooting and that kind then this episode.. the Kim storyline.. she and her friend escaping, the cat-mouse came in that old house.. that weird man.. also the tension on CTU and Nina involved and then figuring out that she is not. I do not know - it was somehow too easy and now, I think, we all think it is Tony. I think the best part I liked this episode was that Kim's storyline started to work and that we started to get the idea what is behind all that. Not that I like the storyline, but it is less off the other story now.

A part of me thinks really good, another not so good. The episode is by no means bad but still isn't as good as others, as nothing very particular seems to happen, but then we have another 21 hours to fill yet there'd be no sense rushing things. Basically its a break down on posotive and negative, that in the end both weight out each other. The posotive is...it has some strong acting and on the whole characters develop. There are some good moments of suspence and action when the girls are running from there captives. These scenes are really well filmed and are effective but i'm still unsure why they have been kidnapped in the first place. Jack's partner turns out not to be the traitor we all thought but i have a fair idea who might. These are all strengths and the weaknesses lie on the slow development of the story line and some unexplained situations that don't make a lot of sense. Whether this is on purpose and we're to find out later on i'm not sure but it does kind of leave you slightly unsatisfied. No doubt there just mini cliffhangers that will be picked up and answered at a later date. The scenes where the girls are running are good but running into one bad guy after the next seems unlikley. It really must be a rough neighbour hood! It is also gritty in places and more violent but this isn't neccersarily a bad thing. The scenes with the president also seem a little pointless and the hitman and two 'lesbian girls' are not explained enough. Especially when one is shot your left wondering why? Again something i hope is explained in either the next or later episodes. Overall it is just about above average and thats being pretty generous at that.

Jack learns the identity of the agent who may be working against him. He acquires Jamie's help to get evidence.



Palmer finally learns of the damning story about to hit the press, involving his son and a possible murder several years ago.



Kim and Janet manage to escape their captors. Kim is able to get a message to Teri, but an accident results in her recapture.



Tony calls for outside help when he decides that Jack should be relieved of his command. 2:02 A.M.-2:05 A.M.: On the road, Jack calls data services to scan in the print from the assailant's thumb and get a match. Teri calls Jack to say she heard from Kimberly. He's furious that Teri couldn't find out where Kimberly is and that she isn't planning to wait for the girls to return at the furniture store, as Alan didn't think it was a good idea. Jack makes Teri put Alan on the phone, so he can give him a piece of his mind.



2:05 A.M.-2:08 A.M.: Gaines has a raging fit at Mandy for involving motorcyclist Bridgit, who has since talked her into wanting an extra million. Gaines claims there is no more money and demands Mandy talk Bridgit back down. Martin's lookalike, Jonathan, tells Gaines he needs to get out of here. Gaines says it'll just be a little longer. At Palmer headquarters, Sherry reminds Agent Pierce this is hardly the first death threat Palmer has gotten since he announced running. Keith wants to look for his father, but Pierce tells him to stay indoors as he could be in danger himself.

This episode started as something that was tense and exciting when Nina was revealed as the mole. However, it turns out to be nothing.



But the David Palmer plot gets better in this episode when we find out about a story involving his son which may ruin his chances of becoming President. The part where Palmer talks to the two boys is really funny too.



At the end when Tony calls someone and tells them to relieve Jack of his command instantly puts all the attention on him. It makes him look suspicious and that he could possibly be the mole. Damn him for being an annoying character in the first few episodes.



Quote of the hour! Jack Bauer: "Who are you working for? Wno are you working for!?!"

well here we are.Season 1, Episode 3: Jack Bauer has to deal with the discovery that his colleague, and ex-girlfriend, Nina Myers (Sarah Clarke) might be a mole, Kim and Janet realize they have been kidnapped, conspirator Ira Gaines (Michael Massee) is faced with the problem of a hired assassin asking for more money and David Palmer asks an acquaintance, Carl Webb (terrific character actor Zach Grenier), for advice on the subject of a newspaper article that, if published, will put his political career in jeopardy. Throw in further preparations for the hit on Palmer and another shockingly random killing, and it shouldn't be hard to understand why 24 is the most addictive program American TV has invented in recent years.



In a traditional series, the villains and their motives would have been fully exposed by now. In fact, the whole case would have been closed by the end of Episode 2. This, however, is a slow-burning thriller, a fact that is highlighted by the real-time device, and its strength lies in careful, intelligent storytelling and deliberate pacing, meaning all the answers will be given in due time (not as slowly as in Lost, but still): so far, what drives the assassins is unclear, there are some people whose allegiance needs to be verified and, aside from a few deaths, abductions, suspicions and an exploding plane, the situation is pretty much the same as it was in the beginning.



Also, a less confident show would have suspended the action for a while in order to show some character development; 24, on the other hand, has the stamina to expose its key players' contradictory sides right in the middle of a heated argument. In particular, the third hour of this season allows Jack and Palmer to emphasize and deepen the characteristics they displayed in the pilot: the former comes off as flawed and conflicted (kudos to Sutherland for unleashing Bauer's suppressed rage in the right quantity at the right time), uncertain whether to follow the rules (which would dictate that he arrest the traitor) or give in to his instinct, which tends to lead him in the correct direction; the latter proves to be the best fictitious US politician since The West Wing's Jed Bartlet, his untarnished honesty emerging without hesitation during his Deep Throat-style encounter with Webb.



To sum it up, the day continues just as it started: solid, exciting and flawless. If Michael Mann returned to the small screen, this is probably what it would look like.

Kim and Janet want to go home.They realize the guys they are with have kidnapped them.When Kim does not do what they want, they break Janets arm.Senator Palmers slips away from his hotel room, to talk to a repoter.He finds out the damaging information is about his son.Jack has Jamey a member of his team, decrypt the key card.The information Jamey finds points right at Nina.When he calls her to his ofiice and confronts her, she can't believe he do such a thing.She reminds him they were together that weekend.Kim and Janet get away from there kidnappers.They find a phone and Kim calles her mom.Kim and Janet start running from there kidnappers again, Janet is hit by a car.Tony thinks Jack needs to be relieved, and makes a call.

Ugh. This is, by far, my least favorite episode in Season 1. Everything that happens here, with the exception of Palmer’s storyline, is either completely filler, boring, or overextended, meaning that something which should take 5 minutes spans the whole episode. The previous hour ended with Nina’s name appearing as the apparent architect of the key card, making her a suspect as a mole in CTU. So Jack heads back to his office to confront Nina. But before Jack can approach Nina, Jamey must first use Nina’s computer to confirm that the key card was originated from her station. So Jack must distract Nina long enough for Jamey to use Nina’s computer and get the confirmation. What does Jack do? He distracts Nina by way of asking her whether she and Tony are seeing each other. This, of course, leads to some rather uninteresting tension between the characters. Eventually, Jamey tells Jack that the key card DEFIANTLY came from Nina’s computer, so Jack approaches Nina and interrogates her. By the end of the episode, we learn that the card couldn’t have been made by Nina, because she wasn’t at her workstation the day the card was programmed. She was on vacation with Jack. So basically we just spent the entire episode learning NOTHING! I have no problem with filler every now and then, but please, at least make it interesting to watch!



As all this “drama” at CTU is unfolding, Kim and Janet manage to temporarily escape from Dan and Rick. So basically Kim and Janet spend their hour getting chased through dark alleys by the two boys. Kim manages to acquire a cell phone and calls Teri, managing to tell her only where they are before Dan and Rick recapture her. Unfortunately, Janet is hit by a car and is left to die on the street. I will admit that Janet being left behind, and Kim’s call to her mother are important to the story in the future, but I cant help but feel that all of the above mentioned plot could have happened in half the time than it actually did. The writers even managed to throw a male-prostitute subplot in there! But I wouldn’t want to give away what happens there! Palmer is the only one who actually delivers this episode. His confrontation with the two thugs was hilarious to watch, and his meeting with Carl helped advance his plot nicely, which can’t be said for anyone else this hour. And don’t even get me started on how filler the Gaines and Mandy story is.



The Best: Palmer grabs the punk’s baseball bat. Awesome.



The Worst: The above mentioned prostitute. And most everything else.

This episode provides a twist on the formula that the pilot used, in that Jack's at CTU, but things are a lot more tense now that there might a traitor in their midst. In the end, it turns out to be nothing (or does it?), but the season remains steady in its third episode, and promises more action and intrigue to come later. And this hour gives us that line we all heard in the early promos: "WHO are you WORKING FOR?!" A true classic.

Other plot developments come into play here, including Kim and Janet's (ultimately futile) escape attempt from Dan and Rick, who are apparently working for the bad guys. This aspect of the hour doesn't entice me that much. Yeah, the alley scenes are kinda spooky, but it seems to me that anything involving Kim Bauer can't be too exciting. Don't really know how to explain that.

This is also the episode in which the David Palmer storyline actually starts, what with the introduction of Carl Webb and all. Turns out some demons from the Palmer family's past are about to come back and haunt them. Of course, it'll be a little while before this plot becomes more interesting, but we're getting there. It's still pretty early in the season.



Hourly Highlight:

Palmer confronting the two teenage delinquents.

But maybe if that lesbian makeout scene had been a bit longer…

Ok. After the thrill of a lifetime that shown through the pilot, the third episode seems rather dull and inactive. The endless chase of Kim and friends lasts longer than I really want to wait to see her recaptured. Besides their shananigans, we see Nina coniving her way out trouble once and again with fantastic results. She is quite the talker, if I do say so.



At some point the show has to dwindle down a little, but this was a little too soon. At this point, I've seen through Season 5, but at that point, no one knew what a hit the show was really going to be. It was a great risk slowing down that quickly, but it obviously paid off.

This episode does not match up to the intensity of the previous episodes, as seeing Kim and Janet flee through the streets of Los Angeles for about half of the episode did get repetitive at times. Still, their valiant efforts are dashed when Janet gets run over by a car. Rick and Dan, assuming that Janet is dead, leave her behind, but it turns out that Janet was indeed still breathing.



The most intriguing parts of this episode are at CTU, when Jack confronts Nina about her name showing up on the keycard. Eventually, Nina is cleared of the blame, but her trust in Jack is frayed. Meanwhile, Tony’s intentions continue to collide with Jack’s as he calls into Division asking for Jack to be relieved as director of CTU. At the time, it certainly seemed that Tony was the most suspicious CTU agent and probably was the most likely candidate for CTU mole.



Overall, this episode didn’t get very far, though there are some intrigue and tension at CTU that captivated my attention throughout the episode. However, the Kim and Janet storyline started getting a bit tedious, with a conclusion that wasn’t particularly satisfying either. Still, it was a decent episode that in no ways convinced me not to tune in the next week.



Overall score: 85/100 (B)

In the third episode of 24 Jack trys to get everyting he can on the traitor in CTU and has Jamie help him. Palmer learns the story of his son that the press want Kim ecsapes from Rick and Dan and get a message to her mother Teir.

Mean while Tony has problems with Jack and goes for help on CTU matters. I like this episode as i never have disliked a 24 episode but this is just a filler episode to get things done and nothing more I like the Plot lines of the Episode and when Jack finds out who is the mole is priceless.

THE END.

The show took a slow down for the third episode of there series, which seems to be a little earlier then one would expect. The scenes with Kim were kind of dull, repeating and boring with her running up and down god knows where with her friend trying to escape. In the end they just catch her again anyway, which made it all seem like they just needed something to happen in this episode.



Jack let Nina of the hook way to early to. He knew the files came from her computer and he just let her get away with it for the most part. They were talking in the office while they waited for Jamie to go though everything. Iono, I thought he should have pressed harder until Jamie finnaly told him the 1-14 date

I had a great time watching this episode, oh yeah, this is what tv should be. exciting and fun. jack bauer is coming to the rescue. in this third episode, we know the main characters more. it's sort of a detective drama in between. we're shown something that might mean something later. it may connect to future episodes. we're not yet sure if people working in ctu are good or bad. walsh told jack, don't trust anyone, not even your own people. that's really cool. this is really fun, tv is great once again with 24. each week is a roller coaster ride.

Although this is a filler episode, it is still good. Unfortunately, not enough is done to capitalize on the momentum from last week. Some things are taken care of, but reset to buy them some time before the culmination. However, it's good that we learned a little more about this conspiracy and Palmer's family secret.



So, Jack's impromptu amputation wasn't just ruthless brutality after all. Jack scans the thumb he cut off last episode to get the thumbprint. This thumbprint is quickly sent over to CTU to identify. Elsewhere, Teri calls Jack to tell him that Kim called. She's worried about the "I love you", but Jack believes she's trying to avoid a major punishment. Alan wants to drive around looking for them, but Jack would prefer that they stay at the store in case they do come back. Teri's afraid that Jack is going to start a fight with Alan, but instead remains calm.



At the compound, Gaines yells at Mandy for getting an amateur involved in the operation. There is no more money to spare and Brigit wants another million dollars. Brigit tries to speak for herself, but Mandy slaps her. Mandy tells Gaines that she'll teach her about the work they do. Later, Brigit uses their relationship to get her to side with her instead of Gaines. They passionately kiss, which ensures Mandy's status with the male audience for the rest of the series, regardless of how much of it she actually is in.



After a few episodes of hints, it is time we got to see some real character development from the Palmer storyline. It starts at the hotel with security attempting to locate him. Desperate to help, Keith takes his keys to look personally. However, Sherry manages to stop him from going. Although this could be easily forgotten, in retrospect this showed the viewer a glimpse of how Sherry can exert her will over people.



Because of the ID problem, Gaines calls Dan to tell him he's running late. We now know that Kim's kidnapping is connected to the Palmer hit, but not much else. Kim tries to console a seriously injured Janet while convincing Dan and Rick to help ease her friend's pain. This is where we finally learn how much of a doormat Rick is, going along with Dan's decision not to take her to a hospital. He does assert himself in a weird way. He gives Janet heroin to calm her down.



Palmer is in a seedier side of LA. The audience knows this from the abundance of graffiti and the flickering neon signs. As he parks his SUV, he sees two kids smashing other cars' windows and headlights for fun. When they approach him, he doesn't submit to their threats and stops one of them from hitting him with a baseball bat. They back away, but still smash Palmer's back window. He remains calm and commanding. Such characterization would've been welcome had it come earlier, especially in the pilot. However, this episode is where Palmer's story really starts.



Jack returns to CTU, but stays low to avoid getting Nina's attention. He calls her and sends her on a menial task that takes her away from her desk and allows him to find Jamey. He gives her the card. Jamey is worried when she finds out that Walsh died because of this card. Jack trusts her to find out if Nina burnt the card on her station. If she did, it would signify her guilt.



After talking to Jamey, Jack gets a call from the person assigned to find the fingerprint. Unfortunately, there is no record of the gunman on file. This revelation further deepens how sinister the conspiracy to kill Palmer really is. Those behind it have taken such care in their operation to have literal "nobodies" do the dirty work. One minor nit pick; the analyst says that Jack sent the fingerprint an hour before, when we know it wasn't even thirty minutes prior. Perhaps this revelation was meant to be the major twist revealed at the end, but considering many of the threads in this hour aren't resolved or are reset to what they were, such a twist wouldn't be good for a lasting impression.



Kim knows that she has to escape from these guys. She gets Janet to go with her since Rick and Dan are smoking weed away from the van. Though she had mixed feelings about her parents following their separation, she has learned a little from Jack. They run for it, using a plane's take off to help buy more time. Their run ends in a seedy alley in North Hollywood, where they stumble on a guy being serviced.



It turns out a male prostitute was servicing him. The customer storms back to his car. The gaunt prostitute, a young man, yells at Kim and Janet for costing him money. Although he's mad, he doesn't give up Kim and Janet. He may seem like a hooker with a heart of gold, but he actually misleads Rick and Dan so he can take some of their things to make up for his lost business. Rogow, the prostitute, is an anomaly of a character. While he's made at Kim and Janet, he still protects them from the boys and later helps them when a pimp tries to hurt them.



In the seedy parking lot, Palmer meets with Carl, his seedy aide. Palmer tells him the situation. A few years ago Palmer's daughter Nicole had been raped. The rapist was believed to have killed himself, but Kingsley claims to have evidence incriminating Palmer's son in the death. Palmer wants this quieted because he believes it's a lie, but doesn't want to resort to dirty politics. Before they can have a long talk, secret service arrive, and Carl ducks out, indicative of his character's questionable reputation.



Jamey confirms that the keycard was burnt on Nina's computer. As Nina gets some coffee, Jack confronts her about it. Although it took a long time for Jack to do this, it results in the now classic line "Who are you working for?" Later he gets Jamey to verify the ID card. Unfortunately, the card was made when Nina and Jack were on vacation. Nina storms out, furious over the accusation. After Walsh, Nina was Jack's most trusted ally at CTU. In retrospect, the two worst candidates at CTU know that Jack knows there's a leak.



Walsh's memorandum is sent out and Tony wants to know how and why it happened. Suddenly a senior member of CTU is dead on a night where Tony has been constantly suspicious of the motives and actions of his co-workers. After reviewing the file, he secretly calls a CTU superior requesting that Jack be replaced. This lone action provides plenty of potential for the rest of the day and how Jack's role in CTU changes because of this day's events. It can't be easily reset.



Gaines confirms the transfer of the extra million dollars, so Brigit agrees to give him the ID. The only condition is that only Gaines, Mandy and herself go find it. Of course, the big mistake she made was not considering the well-trained sniper working for Gaines, who picks her off easily. It rendered her precaution useless. Mandy, in the crosshairs, is asked again if she wants to work on Gaines' summer project. With a tear in her eye, she accepts. Then she disappears, to return unexpectedly later. It would be nice to know why she suddenly left, because having her lover gunned down so ruthlessly after killing an entire plane full of people could've been interesting to see play out. However, it would've been appropriate to include it after 9/11.



With the pimp's phone, Kim calls her mother again to confirm that she was forced to lie to her about her location and that she's in real danger. Teri calls 911, but Kim doesn't, an early example that many of Kim's critics latch onto for instances of her stupidity. Kim and Janet make it only a little bit further before a car hits Janet, the punching bag of the early morning episodes. The boys take a shaken Kim back, leaving Janet in the street. Unfortunately for them, she's still alive.



It's hard to believe now that they had a Kim subplot that was actually dramatic and suspenseful. Having it connected to the main threat helps. However, the rest of the episode feels like filler. All Teri and Alan do this episode is sit in the store waiting for a call. By the end, it feels like whatever complications that began the episode were negated by the end. Some of the character developments do help improve the episode, and the revelation of what's bothering Palmer is necessary.

Kim Bauer has always been a polarizing figure to 24 fans. Elisha Cuthbert is definitely a bombshell, but her character has sometimes been...less than stellar. She's been kidnapped so many times that 24 fans have a new term for it, a "kimnapping." However, there are those rare moments where Kim's story is actually exciting. This episode was one of those moments.



Highlights

-Kim and Janet's adventures in the alleys

-That strange little underling Rosgow the drug dealer/gay prostitute

-"WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR?!?!?!"

-Nina's slickness



Minuses

-Tony acting like a weasel at the end of the episode



Good episode with very suspenseful sequences. It's very odd when the best storyline of the hour is with Kim, but this was a fun episode.