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This Elizabeth operation made this episode interesting. The details of this operation was good to see.



The events during the operation were also well planed and executed. Her attitude in the end is comprehensible.



As Palmer would consider Jack responsible for what would happened to her, the situation becomes quite tense, since the Jack career is on the line too.



Teri storyline is more boring than ever. Kim gets herself into some trouble again, because in case she has not noticed, rick doesn't come from pacify place.



With alexis injury, things get more complicated, and this is what make people interested, and now I will wait to see what happens next.

Jack's very long day continues as he must set up a sting operation against Alexis Drazen by getting Elizabeth to go undercover and plant a tracker on him. Of course, Elizabeth has to go all insane and stab Alexis just when she has the green light to get out of there. Strike one.

A paranoid Kim decides against going to CTU, and being the extraordinary genius that she is, she seeks help from Rick. This was never a good idea, neither on Kim's part nor on the writers'. Strike two.

Teri and her amnesia. Strike three. YER OUT!

But at CTU, Mason finds out that the safe house has been hit, and returns to his earlier sketchiness when he decides to avoid telling Jack. That's a pretty good plot development. A lot of this episode centers on Jack setting things up at the hotel, so his and Palmer's plots are kind of tangled together here. Not a whole lot, but it's a little confusing to have Palmer concentrate on the undercover operation while focusing on the incriminating tape of Carl. However, that's a minor gripe; the fourth act of the hour (Elizabeth planting the tracker), Mason's deception, and the last scene are what give this episode as good a grade as it has.



Hourly Highlight:

Jack in his most accurate Alexis impersonation: "Yeah?"

When first half of a season was mostly action and motion then this part of season has added quite many storylines what really make viewers think and this one maybe is one of the most thoughtful episodes (if can be said like that). Most of this runs around the woman from Palmer's staff who is going to be used to get tracking device to the assassin. But things does not work out quite well. First there is a doubt in that woman's mind and she is not sure if she can do it but when she is in, she just somehow finds her strength and in the end, the assassin crosses a lines and it all ends in ruins for Bauer.



Also Teri is on the run as she remembers nothing and to be honest, that storyline looks quite weird.

4:02 P.M.-4:05 P.M.: Teri, now suffering from amnesia, is in the car with a woman she doesn't know. They're on their way to the hospital. The woman notices

her wedding band, but Teri says she has no memory of her husband. Jack and company arrive at the hotel to set up for the sting operation to catch Alexis

Drazen.



4:05 P.M.-4:08 P.M.: Teri recognizes a restaurant as she and the woman drive past it. Upon entering, she decides to wait for the manager in an effort to

remember who she is. The kind stranger leaves her a phone number and ten dollars for cab fare, and asks her to pay her back when she's able.



4:08 P.M.-4:10 P.M.: Palmer is concerned for Elizabeth's safety in the sting. He tells Jack that he has known her father since before she was born. Jack

does everything he can to reassure Palmer that he will be able to protect her. Palmer tells him that if anything goes wrong, he's going to hold him personally

responsible.



4:14 P.M.-4:16 P.M.: Kimberly makes her way to a pay phone and calls CTU to tell them about the dead agents at the safe house. Tony takes the call, but

can't transfer her to Nina or Jack because they're preparing for the Drazen sting. Not knowing who to trust, Kimberly hangs up.



4:16 P.M.-4:19 P.M.: Tony reports the loss of their agents. Mason orders him not to tell Jack what's going on, because the emotional response will cloud

his judgement. Jack asks Nina why she left the debriefing, but before she answers, she gets called away.



4:19 P.M.-4:23 P.M.: Kimberly calls Rick in a panic, begging for his help. When he refuses, she tells him that she will tell the police everything unless

he helps her. Rick's girlfriend asks him who was on the phone. He doesn't answer. Keith gives his father the tape he made of Carl that explains the plot

to kill Ferragamo and frame him. However, it's not clear what Palmer plans to do with the newly acquired evidence.



4:27 P.M.-4:32 P.M.: Alexis calls his brother to inform him that Palmer is staying in LA after all. Andre is suspicious, and orders him to kill Elizabeth

after he gets the schedule. Jack briefs Elizabeth on how to plant the tracker on Alexis. Back at the restaurant, Teri meets the manager. He identifies

her right away, and tells her that she used to come into the restaurant all the time with a Dr. Parslow. The manager happens to know the hospital he works

at, and goes to give him a call.



4:32 P.M.-4:35 P.M.: Nina tells Jack that Teri knows that she was the woman that Jack had the affair with.



4:39 P.M.-4:50 P.M.: Alexis arrives at the hotel, and enters the room. Jack instantly notices on the monitor that the wallet where he wants the tracker

placed is either in Alexis' jacket or in his pants. They relay the message to a very nervous Elizabeth. Elizabeth tries to place the bug in the wallet,

but she drops it on the floor. She quickly finds it and puts it back in her pocket. She has another chance to plant the bug, and this time, everything

goes smoothly. After Alexis returns, he announces he loves her. Jack calls her to give her the exit message, but she doesn't take it. Instead, she begins

telling Alexis that she loves him as well. Then she picks up a knife. Jack realizes what is going on and storms the room, but not before she turns around

and stabs Alexis.



4:54 P.M.-4:57 P.M.: Kimberly arrives at Rick's door, and is met by the girl we have seen thus far at Rick's house.



4:57 P.M.-4:58 P.M.: Dr. Parslow comes to the restaurant. Teri doesn't seem to recognize him.



4:58 P.M.-5:00 P.M.: Senator Palmer is furious with Jack, and blames him for the stabbing. Alexis' phone rings, and Jack answers it. The man on the other

end tells Jack to meet him. Tick, tick, tick...

A very large part of this episode involves the sting operation with Elizabeth and Alexis. It was very tense and its definitely the best episode in the second half of the season so far.



There are several nerve-wracking moments: when Elizabeth drops the wallet; when Elizabeth ignores the phone call from Jack; when Jack sees that Elizabeth has got a knife; when she stabs Alexis with the knife.



Of course, no one on Jack's team knows that Alexis was instructed to kill Elizabeth before she left, so either she was going to be killed or CTU was going to have to bust in anyway.



Aside from the operation, the highlight of the episode was when Tony and Mason were discussing whether to tell Jack about the safehouse being attacked.



Kim was silly not telling Tony where she was though, it would have really helped her out. And now shes just going to get herself into an even deeper mess for the rest of the season because of that... And so she goes back to Rick... As much as I was glad he didn't get killed by Drazen's goons, they really should have written him out by now.



Quote of the hour! Elizabeth Nash: "How would you know how smart I am? We've spent 15 hours together, and most of that has been in bed."

24 continues its string of episodes that have one good storyline and two subpar storylines. The Palmers finnaly got minimal airtime as I had been wanting, however the alternate storylines between Kim and Teri were equally boring.Teri is struck with amnesia and must turn to an old friend for help- The fact that Teri actually got Amnesia and the writers turned that into a big part of this episode was really weak in my thoughts and I would have hoped for them to do so much better. Kim going back to Rick wasnt that shocking, but I dont think anything that she could have to do with him is going to turn out good. Jack Bauer leading the team to try and get Alexis was pretty cool and the big twist at the end with her killing him was a huge blow to what the entire episode aimed at. I thought a lot of the moments were intense, but the fact that the only cool part of the episode was ruined by the fact that she killed him was still a little dissapointng

This episode shows an incredible disparity in the quality of the four different storylines and the writers’ foresight, or lack thereof, on where to go with these characters.



JACK

The sting op on Alexis with Elizabeth Nash was a pretty interesting, ending with Elizabeth unexpectedly stabbing Alexis. Great finish with Jack having to pretend to be Alexis Drazen to meet the man with the red hat.



PALMER

Story also beginning to heat up as Palmer, Sherry, and Mike debate what to do with the incriminating recording. Meanwhile Palmer must also deal with Jack and how he's handling the Elizabeth Nash sting op.



TERI

“yawn”

Sure, the amnesia thing is plausible, but the scenes with her and Dr. Parslow were just….boring. Every time I saw her and Parslow on screen I would groan, waiting for the scene to shift back to the Elizabeth sting op at the hotel, or something more interesting.



KIM

Wow….yeah, going to Rick’s house, the guy who kidnapped you this morning, but not going to CTU? Smart. And this feels like the set-up for more boring and pointless storyline...



Overall, this episode showed that the writers have a distinct idea with where to head with only two of the four character arcs for the rest of the season. Yet the writers’ scrambling to give Teri and Kim some of kind of storyline in these next few episodes makes for some pretty boring and nonsensical 24.



Overall score: 83/100 (B-)

After Terry is seperated from Kim, the traumatic event gives her amnesia. She turns to a friend for help. Kim manages to survive a deadly crash and tracks down Rick to a house hoping that he'll help her out. But just as Rick was going to help Kim, one of his friends arrive and forces both of them to stay there. Teri and Kim aren't out of danger in this episode, both of them will deal with things that can get both themselves killed. The writers cleverly plotted this episode, it was a very watchable episode, it's so much fun to watch.

4:02 P.M.-4:05 P.M.: Teri, now suffering from amnesia, is in the car with a woman she doesn't know. They're on their way to the hospital. The woman notices

her wedding band, but Teri says she has no memory of her husband. Jack and company arrive at the hotel to set up for the sting operation to catch Alexis

Drazen.



4:05 P.M.-4:08 P.M.: Teri recognizes a restaurant as she and the woman drive past it. Upon entering, she decides to wait for the manager in an effort to

remember who she is. The kind stranger leaves her a phone number and ten dollars for cab fare, and asks her to pay her back when she's able.



4:08 P.M.-4:10 P.M.: Palmer is concerned for Elizabeth's safety in the sting. He tells Jack that he has known her father since before she was born. Jack

does everything he can to reassure Palmer that he will be able to protect her. Palmer tells him that if anything goes wrong, he's going to hold him personally

responsible.



4:14 P.M.-4:16 P.M.: Kimberly makes her way to a pay phone and calls CTU to tell them about the dead agents at the safe house. Tony takes the call, but

can't transfer her to Nina or Jack because they're preparing for the Drazen sting. Not knowing who to trust, Kimberly hangs up.



4:16 P.M.-4:19 P.M.: Tony reports the loss of their agents. Mason orders him not to tell Jack what's going on, because the emotional response will cloud

his judgement. Jack asks Nina why she left the debriefing, but before she answers, she gets called away.



4:19 P.M.-4:23 P.M.: Kimberly calls Rick in a panic, begging for his help. When he refuses, she tells him that she will tell the police everything unless

he helps her. Rick's girlfriend asks him who was on the phone. He doesn't answer. Keith gives his father the tape he made of Carl that explains the plot

to kill Ferragamo and frame him. However, it's not clear what Palmer plans to do with the newly acquired evidence.



4:27 P.M.-4:32 P.M.: Alexis calls his brother to inform him that Palmer is staying in LA after all. Andre is suspicious, and orders him to kill Elizabeth

after he gets the schedule. Jack briefs Elizabeth on how to plant the tracker on Alexis. Back at the restaurant, Teri meets the manager. He identifies

her right away, and tells her that she used to come into the restaurant all the time with a Dr. Parslow. The manager happens to know the hospital he works

at, and goes to give him a call.



4:32 P.M.-4:35 P.M.: Nina tells Jack that Teri knows that she was the woman that Jack had the affair with.



4:39 P.M.-4:50 P.M.: Alexis arrives at the hotel, and enters the room. Jack instantly notices on the monitor that the wallet where he wants the tracker

placed is either in Alexis' jacket or in his pants. They relay the message to a very nervous Elizabeth. Elizabeth tries to place the bug in the wallet,

but she drops it on the floor. She quickly finds it and puts it back in her pocket. She has another chance to plant the bug, and this time, everything

goes smoothly. After Alexis returns, he announces he loves her. Jack calls her to give her the exit message, but she doesn't take it. Instead, she begins

telling Alexis that she loves him as well. Then she picks up a knife. Jack realizes what is going on and storms the room, but not before she turns around

and stabs Alexis.



4:54 P.M.-4:57 P.M.: Kimberly arrives at Rick's door, and is met by the girl we have seen thus far at Rick's house.



4:57 P.M.-4:58 P.M.: Dr. Parslow comes to the restaurant. Teri doesn't seem to recognize him.



4:58 P.M.-5:00 P.M.: Senator Palmer is furious with Jack, and blames him for the stabbing. Alexis' phone rings, and Jack answers it. The man on the other

end tells Jack to meet him.

This was one of the better episodes of the Drazen arc. It's not nearly as good when rewatching it, but it will have you on the edge of your seat the first time you watch it.



Pros

-I really liked the suspense in the Elizabeth Nash/Alexis Drazen storyline. There was a great feeling of anticipation in this episode that there hadn't been since Gaines was still on the show.

-I also liked the beef between Mason and Tony about telling Jack about the safehouse being hit or not. That's what was so brilliant about this first season overall, the deep layering of the different storylines.

-When Elizabeth finally went into Alexis's room, it was easily the highpoint of the episode. Very tense and I think Callery did a great job setting the mood.

-Awesome twist with Nash stabbing Drazen.



Cons

-Ah crap. More of the stupid amnesia plotline. So incredibly boring and useless.

-I didn't like Palmer's attitude towards Jack in this episode. It never went anywhere after this storyline was over with and he seemingly forgot how Jack had saved his life earlier in the day.

-Oh Kim, Kim, Kim. Instead of trusting the police or CTU, she decides to trust the guy that kidnapped her and drugged her friend earlier in the day, the guy who she had just met that same day.

-The ending where Jack pretended to be Alexis was...just a little too convenient for me.

I've got to say that I'm not at all imprsesed with 24's first season now that I've had the frame of reference of three more seasons behind it, I can see some serious holes in this first season.



This show's weakness is the family storyline. The people who enjoy this show are the ones that like gun fights, fast paced action, and smart plots. The people I am watching this show with begin to twitch every time Kim comes on screen because her plotlines only involve bratty dialogue and stupid plots. This episode is a prime example of that.



Teri gets amnesia, which is just plain stupid. It seems that the family plots are there simply to fill time while Jack drives from one place to another. Once 24 cracks that problem by using parallel CTU plotlines, they quickly find no need for the family.



This episode is seriously weak. You're just going to have to tolerate it because the end is fast approaching, and it's a bit more fun.