24

In this episode, Janet York is laying unconscious in the middle of a street after being hit by a car. Kim pleads with her captors to return and get Janet medical attention. Dan and Rick decide to kill her instead. Also, Jack slips away from CTU to check out an address stored on the key card he got from Walsh. When he gets to the building at the address, what follows is one of my favorite chases so far in the series. Jack and a LA police officer work together to try to catch the guy. Teri and Alan York encounter some trouble when looking for Kim and Janet. This made fore some added suspense as Dan and Rick are making their way back to kill Janet. A fine example of how this show uses many forms of adversity to build suspense. The Palmer story really starts to get interesting about now as well. It's so hard to consider the story of one episode of 24, since so many things go on at once, and it's all part of a bigger picture. It's best to watch a whole season uninterrupted.

Jack breaks out of a locked down CTU so he can follow a lead from the key card. George Mason puts pressure on Jamie and Nina to learn of Jack's whereabouts.

Palmer discovers who the source is that leaked the story about his son.

Rick and Dan argue about how to handle Janet, while Teri and Alan run into an obstacle as they try to help their daughters.

In this episode Jack runs around a lot, most of his scenes are of him chaseing some dude now this was good but I would have liked to see more development here. The episode was probable the worst one yet but its still a 9 the season is awesome.

Again, the writer managed to buy some time, with not much happening.



Now the formula is understable, one case/task at every episode for Jack. This was the case in this episode for Jack, when he is running, trying to find some evidence, when George Mason is looking for him, making too much pressure in Nina and Jamie.



This however turns to be good, even with that officer trying to help Jack catching this guy. This serves as a obstacle, since the Police is with the guy arrested for now.



The final Scene is good, with Jack now fully involvement, make you a little curious what Jack will do to discover where is his Daughter.

When I loved last episode what really nailed me to the screen, then this one was not so exciting. It had maybe too much playing cat and mouse with bad guys than developing the storyline.



The most intense was the beginning of the episode where we did not know if the other girl is going to make it - who is going to pick her up first - parents or those bad guys. And it was relief when it was shown that ambulance got there as the girl is onlyone who could help them to get to Kim.



All the thing with that man who Jack was chasing... and all the CTU thing.. not too appealing but still exciting.

This episode proves that "24" can be a good show even when it's working small-scale (unlike later seasons). In this case, Jack arrives at a creepy warehouse and chases down a man who's somehow involved in the Palmer assassination plot. He gets a cop to help him chase down the guy, and by the end, it's made very clear that Kim's kidnapping has something to do with the assassination scheme.

It's also notable that we have our very first CTU lockdown. The Mason interrogation scenes in the darkened Situation Room are well done.

The Palmer storyline doesn't advance much; he only finds out the source of this Lyle Gibson "rumor": George Ferragamo. His son's therapist? Hmm. Not much else to say here.

The cop pulling over Teri and Alan is blatant filler, which kinda brings this episode down. And Janet being picked up by an ambulance before Dan can kill her is just hilarious.

However, this episode belongs to Jack. And it's the first occasion where "24" gives us a real doozy of a cliffhanger. The previous three episodes don't really conclude with such nail-biters, but the final scene of this one will most likely have you drooling to see what happens next.



Hourly Highlight:

I didn't know you could say "a**hole" on broadcast TV.

3:02 A.M.-3:03 A.M.: Janet comes to temporarily, but is too weak to call for help. Then she passes out again. Dan and Rick escort Kimberly, kicking and screaming, back to the van. Despite Kimberly's pleas, Dan refuses to go back and get Janet.



3:03 A.M.-3:04 A.M.: At CTU, Jack tries to patch things up with Nina by telling her what happened to Walsh. He says they have to trust each other because they can't trust anyone else. 3:04 A.M.-3:09 A.M.: The agents drop Palmer off at his hotel room and let him know Pierce wants to talk to him. Palmer makes Pierce wait, and phones Carl to reiterate that he wants a source within an hour. Sherry sees Palmer is back and warns him of the assassination threat. He won't tell her where he went, though. Tony explains a discrepancy regarding the passenger list to Jack. The ticketing files said first class was booked full, yet the list shows an empty seat there. Plus, there was a waiting list, so it doesn't make sense for the plane to have departed with an available seat. Jamey manages to extract her first bit of info off the key card: a San Fernando Road address, which on the surface has nothing to do with Palmer. Since Jamey thinks it'll take hours to extract the next piece of the puzzle, Jack plans to go check out the address himself. Before he can make it out, access gets shut off as there's a lockdown in CTU. Mason has returned to say that's standard procedure until they get some answers in regards to the deaths of Walsh and Baylor. Jack tries to leave the building, but an agent won't let him out. So Jack punches him and escapes.



3:13 A.M.-3:17 A.M.: Mason announces what the agents can and can't do during lockdown. Tony tells Nina he thinks Jack was in some way responsible for the two deaths -- and maybe Nina was too. The agent Jack punched tells Mason Jack got out. Mason tries to coax Nina into telling him where Jack went, but she plays coy.



3:17 A.M.-3:19 A.M.: Pierce arrives to state the severity of this particular threat to Palmer. Pierce recommends changing his schedule -- particularly ditching the breakfast he's going to -- but Palmer is more concerned with winning than making himself scarce on primary day. Pierce leaves, and Keith has a talk with his father about what they're going through.

George Mason's character really starts to develop in this episode. He shows how funny and cool he is when he interrogates Nina. xD xD



And the action packed scenes with Jack and the female police officer are really great. When she gets killed Jack shows a lot of emotion which goes to show how much his character has developed from the early seasons to the later seasons in which he is a lot less emotional.



The ending is really great too, the best one so far... It will definitely leave you wanting more and will make you put the next episode on straight away!



Quote of the hour! George Mason: "You had a good reputation once, you know what your reputation is now? Jack's flunkie."

Again another great.Day 1, 3:00 a.m.-4:00 a.m. : Jack and Nina come across a new lead, only to be interrupted by George Mason, who shuts down CTU and leaves Bauer with no choice but to break out in order to locate a suspect. Meanwhile, the kidnappers deliver Kim to Gaines, who intimidates her with a recycled, yet still effective threat: "Be good and you'll be back at the mall in a day or two, be bad and you won't". Furthermore, David Palmer tells his wife about the incriminating article: according to the reporter, the Senator's son, Keith, killed a man who had raped his sister, whereas the autopsy indicated it had all been an accident.



Apparently, the show was picked for the entire 2001-2002 season after this episode, and it isn't hard to understand why: with characters and set-ups like these, plus the tension-raising time device, who could possibly switch off the TV before finding out how it ends? The conspiracy thickens, lives are constantly at risk and no one dares to even think of napping with so much going on.



Highlights are far too many to list, but my personal favorites include: Mason verbally abusing Nina (played by the actor's real-life wife), who he refers to as "Jack's lapdog"; Palmer having his first relevant conversation, series-wise that is, with his spouse Sherry (Penny Johnson, an invaluable presence), hinting at interesting events in the future; Jack exposing his rawer side to a policewoman while tracking down a hostile ("Cops have to play by the rules. I might have to break a few with this guy."); and a brief, chilling appearance by a pre-Deadwood John Hawkes, whose killer line (sorry, I can't spoil that one) metaphorically punches the protagonist in the stomach and makes the closing split-screen more harrowing than usual. Who would have thought one's day could get this bad?

After almost everyone’s storyline came to a screeching halt last hour, things finally start to move again as Jack is given a worthwhile lead, an address from the key card, to follow up on. But as Jack is leaving, Mason comes in and orders a lockdown of CTU at Tony’s recommendation. We quickly learn, however, that a lockdown is no deterrent for Jack, as he beats his way past one of the guards and escapes the building and heads off to the address. From here, Jack, with the help of a cop, basically spends the rest of the hour chasing after a suspect found at the location. Sure, it’s not exactly original, and it doesn’t really further the plot, but it is exciting. The run-down buildings provide a tense atmosphere and the chase defiantly got my blood pumping. And at the end of it all, Jack is thrown a big piece of information: the first connection between Kim’s disappearance and the Palmer investigation. Back at CTU, Mason interrogates Nina and Jamey for information on Jack. Any scene with George in it is fun to watch. Nuff said.



Meanwhile, Palmer’s story progresses at its usual slow rate, but it progresses just enough to hold your interest in what might happen next. As far as Kim and Teri, both are stuck in filler, but it’s not as bad as the last hour. Rick decides he needs to go back and finish off Janet, but since he doesn’t succeed anyway, it all seems kind of pointless. By the end of the episode, the three teens come face to face with Gaines, and there is some nice tension there. Teri and Alan are stuck with a cop, but we don’t need to talk about that.



The Best: The standoff between Jack and the yet-to be named gunman.



The Worst: Alan arguing with the cop.

Now this is the action I was waiting for after a little thrill hiatus during the last episode. While the action definitely slows down in Palmer's storyline, it doesn't stop the adventures at CTU.



At this point, I think everyone agrees that Tony Almeida is really just jealous that Nina likes Jack, and doesn't seem to hold it back. He's especially nosey and annoying, and that lockdown really pissed me off. The point is that Tony thinks he can simply "stop" Jack...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Think again fool.



I think that was the viewers' first witness to a Jack runaway, a highlight to almost every episode of "24". All I can say is the action is this episode was amazing and the show was definitely, "revealing."



...BAH! I know this review sucked....get over it.

This episode followed up a decent installment with an exciting, captivating hour of television, as Jack is forced to flee CTU. After Tony called in the lockdown, Mason returns to CTU, while Jack escapes to follow up a lead. But, as always, Jack has someone at CTU defying orders and bureaucracy to help him out, and that being Jamey and Nina. Meanwhile, Jamey and Nina’s efforts are hindered as Mason questions them about Jack’s whereabouts.



Palmer returns from his meeting with Carl and learns of the assassination threat, but he ignores Secret Service Agent Pierce’s recommendation to cut down on his public appearances.



The meat of this episode is in the extended action sequence with Jack and Officer Jesse Hampton, who are in pursuit of one of Gaines’ accomplices, named Greg Penticoff. This sequence kept me on the edge of my seat for most of the episode, culminating with the death of the officer (the first in a series of gratuitous deaths of random Jack accomplices on 24) and Jack realizing that the threat to Palmer was now a personal one. Overall, this episode was a continuation of a series of episodes that instantly attracted me to the show, but ultimately these arcs would all come together in a thrilling ending that would unfold beautifully in the next 3-4 episodes.



Overall score: 91/100 (A-)

Jack breaks out of lockdown so he can find something todo whith the keycard. Mason wants Nina and Jamie to tell him where Jack is but they want tell him Palmer also finds out who is behind the story about his family this is a good episode of 24 my favorite part is when Jack breaks out of CTU. The palmer story develops in this episdoe which is also a good part and it moves the plot along Rick and Dan are fighting about what to do next is anther part of this episode that is mostly it THE END.

This was the first episode sinec the pilot that had me on the edge of my seat for most of the episodes events. The fact that Janet York has been taken toa hospital and that Terri and Alan are now going there is much better then having Teri and Alan run all over town trying to find them.



Jackes action scene trying to catch the bad guy who knows far more then Jack gave him credit for was great. I think it was kind of pointless that the officer had to die, but in the end it was needed for the cops to refuse to hand the bad guy over to CTU agent Jack Bauer.



David Palmers storyline was meh, nothing really exciting happeneing over in his neck of the woods yet, hes just a filler for now.



Still....good episode

another great episode. it turns out the presidential candidate palmer is having problems of his own. jack's life starts to get really complicated. kim baeur's kidnapping have placed her in a very bad situation. the suspense keeps on coming, the action is relentless. this is one cool tv show, the producers scored a jackpot with this one. it's a really clever show, this is what a tv show must be, i hate those reality nonsense out there, this is what the networks should be showing on tv. 24 really rocks, it's so exciting, each hour is action packed, it's really fun to watch.

The episode after Tony calls in Division to take care of Jack Bauer and we're still not sure of who the CTU Mole is.



Rather unfortunately, and much to my annoyance the mole storyline was given a bit of a back seat in this episode, and there were no telltale signs from anyone new, meaning this episode failed to progress in parts.



Charcter development however comes in huge bucketloads. In this episode we learn just how "extreme" Jack can be, breaking out from a CTU Lockdown, getting Nina to cover, violence to security. To an extent it's in this episode it's revealed just how much of a renegade Mr Bauer is.



Elsewhere, George Mason continued to come across as something of a baddie. Pressing Nina and Jamie for information about Jack was brilliant, and his "low blow" remarks to Nina were just plain dirty, but definately added to his character and personality.



Storywise there were lots of near misses. Dan and Rick driving past Alan Yorke and Teri was a great idea, and one that left you almost shouting at the TV. Furthermore, the scene near the end where Jack learns from Penticoff that his daughter is in serious trouble was genius, and yet another reason to watch the following episode, as was Gaines taking Kim.

After the previous episode experienced some filler tendencies, this episode appeared to move the action forward, although some of the stories plod forward. However, this slower pace in some of the storylines allowed more time to develop character, especially Palmer and Mason. It seems like they are on a steady roll with this episode.



Rick and Dan drag Kim back to van while Janet lies barely conscious on the street. Kim demands that they go back and get Janet, but neither of them complies. She appeals to Rick, but still Dan shuts him down. These guys are obviously amateurs or else they would've figured out immediately that leaving her there is a major loose end for their part of the operation.



Jack tries to reassure Nina of her place at CTU moments after she was cleared of leaking information. Because of this, Jack brings her into his circle of trust. Jamey, Nina and Jack have to trust each other and work together to stop the threat. Any person at CTU could be working with the terrorists. Although I'm surprised Jack didn't do more to root out who this dirty agent was, but he is too busy in the next few hours to thoroughly investigate.



At Palmer's hotel, he calls his advisor again, ordering Carl on the phone to find who the source of the story about Keith is. Sherry sees him talking and asks him where he was in the last episode. He doesn't tell her exactly. When she informs him about the assassination threat, he shrugs it off. Being the first black presidential candidate who could win certainly makes him a target for many radical groups. He's used to threats as much as a person could be.



Tony has found a lead with an empty seat in the flight manifest. Since the flight was full and had a waiting list, they wouldn't have departed with an empty seat. This lead is left open because of purges the writers had to do out of respect for 9/11, but this seemingly loose end serves the purpose the terrorists wanted. We can assume that the "empty seat" belonged to Martin Belkin. Every government agency would probably have access to this information. If they knew Martin Belkin was dead and his impersonator appeared at the breakfast, game over. By the time the authorities find out, it's too late.



Jamey finds another worthwhile lead in the keycard. Decrypting pieces of the data, they isolate an address. Unfortunately, it'll take Jamey hours to decrypt the entire card, so Jack decides to check this address out now. As soon as Jack leaves, Jamey's analysis of the keycard is disrupted. Mason returns and places CTU under lockdown. Jack plays dumb for a guard and with the help of some slight of hand, knocks him out and escapes CTU.



Under lockdown, Tony tells Nina that he was the one who called Mason in because of Jack's behavior. With two of their agents dead, Tony needs to know what is going on. Mason then confronts her about Jack's location, but Nina feigns ignorance. This episode, if anything, explores Nina and Jack's relationship. Why is she so unwaveringly loyal to him? Why is she willing to sacrifice her job or go to jail for him? These questions are left open to explore later, but it's good that they set it up early.



Sherry must've informed Secret Service about Palmer's nonchalance regarding the terrorist threat, because Agent Pierce arrives to inform him about the seriousness of the threat. It isn't that convincing since they do not know much about the threat yet. Today is Super Tuesday, a pivotal day for Palmer's campaign, and he can't spend it locked away in the hotel. Both jobs, protecting Palmer and winning the election, are both much more difficult now.



Back in the van of doom, Kim continues to beg Rick and Dan to go back for Janet, but neither of them budge. Despite Rick being the better of the two, Rick doesn't do anything. Dan suddenly realizes that Kim does have a point, only that Janet could identify them. Therefore, they need to keep her quiet. Kim pleads more assertively, but is silenced when Rick ties her up.



Nearby, Teri and Alan are pulled over for speeding. They alert the officer to the 911 call they made, but Alan is impatient when the officer checks it out. When he gets too aggressive, he's placed under arrest for disobeying a direct order. Unbeknownst to them, the van of doom passes the scene. Yes, this storyline is filler, but it also provides an interesting look into Alan's psychology. Previously he had been seen as compassionate towards Teri and her problems, but now we see a darker side.



At the address on the keycard, Jack finds a mostly rundown building complex, evident by the spray painted address number. While investigating, he finds a man, Penticoff, smoking a cigarette. A chase ensues and shots are fired, alerting a nearby police officer. She stops Jack, enabling Penticoff to escape. After he explains the situation, she allows him to continue pursuing the suspect with her. You can almost tell the lack of confidence they had in this actress considering how little dialogue she had and how unconvincingly she delivered it.



Mason grills Nina further about her relationship with Jack, exposing flaws that he hopes will lead to her talking, but she doesn't say anything. He really gets under her skin, describing her as a cast aside lover and a flunky who had the potential for greatness in the agency. Part of this is obviously out of jealousy for the respect Jack commands and the frustration that comes from not knowing why. Regardless, she remains quiet.



The van of doom approaches the road where Janet is still lying unconscious. Dan holds his gun out the window, preparing to shoot. Kim screams, but can't make enough noise to stop him. Rick doesn't do much either, sitting aside and only half-heartedly telling his friend not to do it. Fate, by way of an ambulance, intervenes and stops him.



In a dark room, Palmer listens to Carl on the phone. He found the source. It is George Ferragamo, Keith's former therapist. After the call, Palmer shares the news that has been troubling him. They both initially believe Kinglsey is lying. Doubt creeps in, and Palmer starts to believe that Keith may have killed the rapist. Kingsley has proven herself to be a professional journalist, and wouldn't do something like this unless she had enough evidence to prove it.



Pursuing Penticoff, Jack gets a call from Teri. He never learned to put his phone on vibrate. Penticoff hears the phone and fires. Jack has to turn it off. Unaware of the circumstances, Teri's obviously not pleased. The officer, Jesse Hampton, calls for back up. Jack and Hampton split to cover more ground. However, Jack is pinned down by the police helicopters who are unaware that he isn't a hostile. In one of the lamer plot contrivances, this largely empty building has a janitor who cleans it at 3 in the morning. This janitor distracts Hampton long enough to allow Penticoff to take her hostage.



The 911 call Teri made is verified and the officer lets a cranky Alan go. They speed off to find an ambulance racing down the road. Believing it could be one of the girls, they ask a homeless woman if she knows where it went. In a Boston accent, she tells them that it likely went to St. Marks. Elsewhere, Rick and Dan meet with Gaines to deliver Kim. When asked about Janet, Dan lies and says they killed her and hid her body. This is definitely a bad move to lie to a man like Gaines. The mercenary turns to his new leverage and makes a simple threat; if she's bad, she won't "be back in the mall in a day or two".



Jamey is next in Mason's interrogation block. He emphasizes that Jack could be using her. She doesn't say anything. The interrogation ends abruptly when they find Jack's name on a police frequency. Knowing where Jack is, Mason ends the lockdown and leaves to find him. Before he leaves, he asks Nina, who he still believes was involved, what's the big deal with Jack. She doesn't answer. We learn what the big deal is if we haven't already.



Penticoff calls for Jack to reveal himself, which he does. Hampton yells to Jack not to because Penticoff will likely kill them both anyway. Jack tells Hampton, who he knows speaks Spanish, to cover because he is going to lunge at Penticoff. Penticoff drops a rare extreme swear word before shooting Hampton dead, just like Hampton warned. Jack manages to subdue him.



After Hampton's body is taken away, Jack demands to speak to Penticoff. The cops don't want him to take him in because he killed one of their own. However, wouldn't Jack be able to pull rank as a federal agent? Penticoff is a part of a federal investigation. It's not like Jack would let him go after what he did. They do allow him a few minutes. Penticoff demands that Jack spring him, which he refuses. Then Penticoff calls Jack by name and warns that if he wants to see Kim again, he'll help him.



Things are slowly coming together. Now Jack knows that his daughter has been kidnapped and it is connected with Palmer's assassination attempt. This becomes a major part of the entire season, so his discovery of this knowledge is an appropriate bombshell. It's great to see Mason back and further developed regarding his relationship with Jack. We also learn more about Palmer and his family, which helps us since he didn't get a lot of coverage early in the season.

This episode had one of my all-time great 24 one-episode wonders. Officer Jessie Hampton was a no nonsense police officer that happened onto the scene where Jack was chasing after Greg Penticoff in one of 24's numerous abandoned warehouses that it loves to use. Aaaah, she even spoke Spanish that Jessie Hampton. God bless your soul (hope I'm not giving anything away there...).



Highlights

-Officer Jessie Hampton!

-Teri and Alan York being pulled over by a cop

-A great ending with Penticoff and Jack



In many ways, the revelation at the end of the episode was a springboard for the next 8 episodes and really the rest of the season as a whole. Great episode.