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The cliffhanger in this Episode was one of the Best that 24 produced until now.



The Best Part of this episode of course is Jack and and his infiltration inside of the eddie group. This created some tenses minutes that was nice.



The problems that Palmer will have to face in his administration continues to be build.



Kim Situation was a little funny, other than that, had no value.



Kate family drama continue to be boring.

Mm.. Jack is back of being Jack.. Kim is Kim and finding every trouble she possibly could. Everything is back to normal, I would say. So, the story I think is not getting away too quickly and maybe little weaker than season 1 but still good. I most say when at the start of first season, I did not liked Kim's storyline that this year's one is much better.



And Jack is in intriguing position too. I am not sure if I got it right what they are going to do but.. it anyway sounded really well. And the whole wedding and Kate storyline.. I think it looks little off first but soon we will find out more of it.

9:00 A.M.-9:04 A.M.: In the O.C., Lynne Kresge updates the President that the CIA is proceeding on its potential response to a nuclear threat. Because he

fears mass hysteria, Palmer wants assurances that they will not leak the information. At the industrial complex, Marko and his crew load the completed

bomb into a van. Gary finishes his call in Kimberly's room, while Megan is still crying. Kimberly motions to Megan, and the girls make a break for it while

Gary is on the phone. As they run down the stairs, Carla hands Kimberly her car keys, and tells her to take Megan away. Kimberly loads Megan into Carla's

car, and pulls out. Although Gary threatens Kimberly, she escapes. Gary then phones his security company to track the location of his vehicle.



9:04 A.M.-9:09 A.M.: Jack is transported by helicopter to a waiting car. While enroute, Michelle briefs him with photos of Joseph Wald's crew. Jack recognizes

one of the men as Eddie Grant, a guy that he befriended while undercover. Jack orders that no other agents get near his operation. The press begin to suspect

something, because the President cut short his fishing trip. Although Eric Rayburn doesn't agree, Palmer wants to deal with the media immediately. As the

helicopter touches down, Jack checks in with Mason about Kimberly. He learns that when an agent went to pick her up, she was gone. Jack calls Kimberly's

cell phone, unaware that her phone is still sitting in the Matheson house. He leaves a message warning her to leave Los Angeles. At CTU, Tony assures the

frightened Paula that the nuclear bomb may only be a false alarm. When Mason learns that forged Middle Eastern passports found in a car that was crossing

the border matched those of the suspects, he sends the closest agent to investigate. Unfortunately, that agent is the one who is waiting for Kimberly at

the Mathesons'.



9:09 A.M.-9:12 A.M.: Jack goes into a salvage garage, and asks for Wald. He is met by Eddie Grant. Eddie knows him as Jack Roush. He accuses Jack of putting

Wald in jail, but Jack tries to square himself by saying that he has news about Marshall Goren turning state's evidence to convict Wald. Jack gives Eddie

his bag, and Goren's decapitated head rolls out. Jack tells Eddie that he doesn't have to worry about Goren testifying anymore. Eddie smiles, and brings

him into the back room.



9:16 A.M.-9:17 A.M.: Palmer conducts an informal press briefing outside his Presidential retreat. He brushes off their questions about his shortened fishing

trip with a joke. Press secretary Jenny Dodge lets him know that a reporter named Ron Wieland still suspects something is wrong.

Nearly all the characters sit around without accomplishing a whole lot this hour. However, it being only the second episode of the season, I'll go easy. The developments in Jack's storyline are really what keep the episode afloat.

Jack goes undercover with Eddie Grant, who's somehow involved with the nuke threat, but is certainly not the one behind it. That's another problem with this episode: no major villain presence. In the second hour of S1, Ira Gaines was introduced, and that served to keep the audience on their toes and engross them with the character. Here, we have only passing references to Syed Ali, who stays hidden for quite a while longer. Eddie and his goons just reek of that "disposable henchman" smell.

Kate Warner, who was present in the last episode but whom I didn't mention 'cuz she didn't do anything, does some stuff here but it's not worth mentioning either. So why'd I bring it up? I dunno.

I appreciate the writers' efforts to integrate Palmer's story into the actual threat this season, and the media angle provides some interesting political intrigue. But not much develops there until the end, when Palmer meets with a nosy reporter and decides to stop the guy from leaking anything.

Overall, this hour is interesting, but it seems to be little more than a prelude to the next one.



Hourly Highlight:

Jack breaking Dave's ankle.

As its only the second episode, the plot hasn't advanced much yet. The scenes involving Jack when he meets Eddie and his goons is great and its a really tense moment when Dave checks up on his identity. But Jack completely owns Dave in this episode by breaking his ankle, that was a funny moment xD. One negative though is the fact that Jack seems to have recovered too quickly from the vunerable state he was in less than an hour ago. But the ending was a classic!! They are bombing up CTU!! Definitely the best ending so far this season.



The Palmer storyline is quite interesting in how its being inplemented into the main plot involving the nuclear bomb. That Eric Rayburn is a bit of a prat though.



The Kim storyline was hilarious when she was nearly getting hit by a car multiple times. The fight between her and Gary in the middle of the street was also quite funny. But it was extremely predictable when Megan was no longer behind the boxes.



I don't really know what to make of the Warners yet as this is the first time a random family has got involved in the plot. Its obvious their storyline has some kind of relevance to the nuclear bomb plot though, unlike the Kim plot.



Quote of the hour! Ron Wieland: "Well, I don't remember the last time a journalist got a private interview with the President. So that tells me I'm barking up the right tree."

In this second episode... the story continiues... now one hour later... We can see all good and bad things that happened to Jack and that are related to the virus. The president gets to know that his girlfriend Anne may be against him... He gets to read that part, after his brother finaly turns him to.

Kyle is still trying to get the drugs and get cash, but Jack finds out about him and chases him...

Also Kim tells Jack that she's going out with Chase for several months and that their relationship is getting serious.

A great episode with all new things happening

Lets get the worst of the worst over with now. Kim.... Kim, Kim, Kim, Kim....Why.... Of of all the episodes this season, this is your stupidest. First off, why not go striaght to the police and say, "I didn't do s*it, this guy beats his wife and kid..." Wouldn't that make things a whole lot easier? And getting out of the car and running with Megan? Just run the bastard over! And leaving Megan in the boxes... thats it. I've had enough of talking about Kim.



Meanwhile at the OC, the President begins to tussle with Eric, who obviously has war on his mind. They disagree over the way the media will handle the situation.



Then there's Jack, who goes undercover with a group of domestic terrorists. This is bad ass Jack at his best. The head, the comebacks (Shouldn't have been playing with adults...), and the breaking of the ankles. Jack plays it cool. Jakc seems to fit right in with these guys, with the exception of one dude, who finds Jack suspisous. But what does this episode for me is the ending. Best cliffhanger ever. Period. As the group of thugs drive along in their van with all the C4, Jack sits in the front seat, still playing his character. He cooly asks Eddie who is driving, "So what are we doing?" Eddie answers "Conversion." "What do you mean conversion?" Jack answers. Eddie goes "Well we're turning a government building, into a cemetary.." Jack still playing the part asks again "What building?" Eddie answers, "They call it the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit, the CTU...." As he tries to register in his head what he just heard, Jack says smuggly, "Yah....alright..." He slowly turns to the front, as his expression turns from smiley to serious, as he puts on his glasses, and realizes what is about to happen.



Best ending ever!! I actually sh*t myself when I saw it! It's that sweat. When Jack faces the front, you're just like "OH sh*t Jack!!! Things are about to get real messy!!!"

The plot continues to grow with all of the characters. I somewhat didnt like the fact that Jack switched to being badass so quickly, pretty much in the span of 20 minutes. But with only 24 Hours I guess its something he had to do really fast. Hios daughter, Kim, is also in a lot of trouble and watching her storyline develop with the crazy father of the little girl was actually quite amuzing. President Palmers storyline is still as bad as it was in season 1 and I really hope that something is done about that this season. It just seems any scene with him in it seems to be below average - Denzel would have been cooler. XD

Jack goes undercover in a criminal gang hideout. he discovers a plot to bomb CTU. he tries everything that he can to prevent the bombing from taking place, but elements inside the government are standing in his way. Kim takes Megan from her house after she witnesses Gary beating up his way. Palmer and Eric feuds over the handling of the press. Jack's deep cover takes place for some time, he needed to make the criminal gang believe that he really is a crook like they are. They eventually reveal to him about a lead his been looking for all morning.

While this was probably the weakest episode of all of the nuclear bomb arc episodes, it was still a great setup episode for the spectacular Hour 3 episode with some very nice character development.



Pros

-Good beginning with Kim getting Megan out of the Matheson house.

-I loved that Jack's codename was Jack Roush.

-Goren's head falling out of the bag followed by the reaction of Wald's crew was hysterically funny.

-Jack absolutely owning Dave numerous times was great. Great sound effect on his leg breaking.

-Great tense moment with Kate going through Reza's car.

-Kim beating the hell out of Gary was probably Kim's finest moment ever.

-Great score during the scene where Mason realizes that the nuke has a 90% chance of detonating.

-Ron Wieland was a perfect journalist. The actor that played him was perfect, that man deserved an award.

-Great ending with Eddie telling Jack about the plans to blow up CTU.



Cons

-A lot of things that really didn't affect the main plot.

-I could have gone without some of the Warner scenes in this episode. I know they were necessary for character development, but I really didn't care about them at this point.

-Predictable twist with Megan being gone from the boxes. God, Kim is such an idiot most of the time. I especially laughed at her as she ran in front of oncoming traffic for no reason.