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Jack and Chase find Nina and drag her onto a plane back to LA in hopes of milking her for info on Amador. But because Jack needs something to occupy him for an hour, the writers have thrown in this dumb self-contained plot where he inadvertently triggers a worm in CTU's computer system. This part of the story also gives us the name of one Marcus Alvers, an associate of Amador who will play a somewhat prominent role in the near future. But that's overshadowed by the lameness of the worm.
No, this episode actually belongs to Sherry Palmer, who's taken it upon herself to go to the Milliken house. There's a little twist when Sherry's big plan doesn't exactly go well, so she improvises and ends up doing something that Daffy would label "dethpicable." It's one of the most hilarious scenes ever on "24," and I can't touch upon how great it is—you must see it yourself.
But that scene is the only thing keeping the episode afloat. The things that nearly sink it are the worm arc, the revelation about the baby that doesn't make me care any more than I did prior, and the fact that the best scene in the episode still took place in the Palmer storyline. Unless we're talking about a presidential coup, that last one's not good.

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Logic/Details - » With Nina caught and with so many episodes left, was time to manage every objective better. So the plan was take the action to the computer Systems by Nina. Palmer Storyline seems to be advancing, since Sherry did what she never did before. The system worm made by Nina was unrealistic in terms of informatics but ok, just to make some action, it is understandable.



Progress -» One more death, For Jack Side, things still the same. Nina Caught.



Emotions/Stimulation/Highlights -» There was some tension with the computer systems CTU. Chloe revealing who´s baby is, was surprising for some part of the audience.



Ending - » Nothing Special, since this revelation was expected by many people.



Overall - » There is some action and the rest is a nice setup, so this episode is watchable. The bug at CTU was a great plan by the writers to make sure that there was some action in this episode.

And how they just manage to do it again and again? Nina tries to make a deal and tells something and they all buy it and make a phone call and everything goes crazy. That was amazing storyline and the all intense atmosphere.. Chloe at the lead and the whole trying to stop the worm. It was such a great part of the episode.



Also the thing around the baby was somehow interesting as we all wanted to know whose the baby is. 24 always comes up with most shocking storyline so.. I think tension was up.



And Sherry.. she did a great job I think.. let us see what comes out.

This episode was brilliantttt. It was a nice little twist with Nina and the worm. I loved how she was so confident that the worm would bring down the computer systems at CTU. She totally owned Jack!! There was an amazing development in character for Chloe in this episode too considering she is the one who manages to fix the worm. It shows us what a geek Chloe is at her job, so now I can forgive her for that stupid storyline with the baby!!



What Chase said to Nina about Jack killing her made me think, 'Hmm, I wonder if the end for Nina Myers is near'. Nina is going to go to CTU to be interrogated and when they don't need her anymore, I believe that Jack will kill her if he gets the chance.



Sherry was ace in this episode!! she always manages to bring up the quality of the show. I was in hysterics watching her tiptoe through Miliken's room. The highlight of the episode were the insults Sherry threw at Alan which eventually led to his death. I couldn't help but laugh my ass off at what Sherry was saying to him, which I feel bad about considering he was in the middle of having a heart attack.



Quote of the hour! Sherry Palmer: "You're just a little boy, Alan! A pathetic little boy!"

The ending wasnt as dramatic as I would have hoped, as we suspected that the baby was going to be Chases all along. This episode was pretty much a filler, with Jack, Nina, and Chase needing to be on an airplane to get back to LA where they would be able to get there hands on Amador. The bug at CTU was a great plan by the writers to make sure that there was some action in an episode that looked like it would be nothing but fillers. Sherrys involvement with Milikin took a surprising turn for the worse. I would have thought that Alan would have caught them near the end of the episode, but his death was a pretty big shock. It should send shockwaves through David and all of the Senators of his administration, for the better or for the worse for him I dont know. But with drama needing to happen with the white house end of things (to keep with the "three storylines" thing) Im sure that Julia wont be able to do everything that Sherry said once the cops arrive and start to ask questions...

Nina Myers is flown back to CTU, along the way Nina pulls a trick that threatens CTU with a computer virus. Chloe is detained after she refuses to get rid of the baby, but the CTU computer worm crisis gets her out of detention. CTU's fate is now in the hands of Chloe. This episode works really well, even though we don't understand the geek speak that takes place, the story is still good to watch and the action is awesome. This episode amazes me in every way, the acting is really good, the sets used in this episode were awesome.

So Nina isn't that dumb at all. But we already knew that. Jack takes a plane hostage, so Nina doesn't get her way. I enjoyed that everything in CTU went from a quiet workplace to total chaos in seconds from the spreading of the worm. What's even more satisfying is the way it concludes, and Nina's attempt to compromise undercover agents across the globe failed. Nina always knew a way to be a step ahead of CTU, but it seems as though Chloe is a step way ahead of Nina. And the ending I didn't see coming...Chase is that baby's daddy!

dang!



sherry is absolutely positively evil!!!! alan is dead!! first, she SCARES and TERRIFIES him into a heart attack, then keeps his pills from him, and watches him die. this will, indeed, come to back to haunt her, and be the demise of julia and sherry.



yes, i've seen the end result before i saw the cause. not good to do!



the baby was chase's! i called it! chase and nina! wouldn't that be a twist! chase and... chloe! chase and...michelle, chase and sherry, chase and jamie, altho that would be impossible. haha.



crazy. what's kim gonna do?



nina's attempt to sabotage the CTU computer network failed! jack should have offed nina the first chance he had. stupid decision not to! ahhhhhhh. nina is a pisser!



anyway, this episode was crazy!!!! it was fantastic and soooo unpredictable.

One of the best character development episodes you'll ever find. This is also my pick for the most underrated episode of 24 ever.



Pros

-Jack coming out of nowhere to punch the living bejeesus out of Nina.

-Chloe and Chappelle were two peas in a pod in this episode. His reaction to Chloe not having a boyfriend was one of my favorite Chappelle moments.

-Great little character scenes on the plane. Jack and Chase making up over Jack shooting Chase in the head with an unloaded gun, Chase and Nina's little scene, all of the great stuff with Jack and Nina at the end. His smile at Nina is a top moment for the show.

-Oh wow, Nina's remote worm was GENIUS! One of the few times that Jack has ever been truly owned by someone, it's fitting that it would be by 24's greatest villain.

-God, Chloe is so hot when she's stopping remote triggered worms in the CTU network. :)

-Sherry brazenly getting Alan's cellphone.

-Chloe's line to Adam about it being sad that she has to do that stuff knowing that Adam and Kim had stabbed her in the back was one of the funniest of the season.

-Alan waking up and finding Sherry was so great as was his evil smirk at her. The best part of course was all of the actual dialogue for Sherry in both of her scenes with him, culminating with her brilliant beatdown of Alan leading to his death. Orgasmic. Great acting by PJJ and Albert Hall.

-Alright ending to the saga of the baby.



Cons

-Penny Johnson Jerald sounded weird and fake in this episode when acting as Sherry. Hard to explain. It sounded like someone else was reading her lines or something.

-Jack didn't get to do a whole lot.



Excellent episode. It's too bad that so many people have the attention spans of a 2-year-old and complained that there wasn't any action in this episode.

Sherry pushes Alan & Julia Milliken over the edge in her blackmail quest while a recaptured Nina plays Jack and Chase to nearly bring the CTU computer system crashing down. Chloe is the technical heroine, but has to betray Chase as the father of baby Audrey in the process.

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Season Three is regarded by many to be the weakest season of the show so far.By many shows standards, it still suceeds on many levels.Many people however point the failure firmly at the Mexican twist in the first twelve hours. The fact that this episode spends ten minutes on Mexican soil marks the show moving up a gear and the major start of the virus plotline which I rank amongst 24's finest so far.

This virus is gonna hit President Palmer hard. If he thinks he has problems controlling Alan Milliken, he's seen nothing yet.But his enforcer ex Sherry steps too far here - this is the first time we've directly seen her resort to murder(or at the very least manslaughter) to maintain her "protection" of David.

Another character who knows her time is growing short is everyones favorite beeeyatch Nina. Off Mexican turf, Miss Myers has to contend with the fact that her characters' usefulness has come to the end of the line. All three main protagonists know this - Jack is determined to see the renegade exCTU agent locked up where she belongs, so much so that he goes against Tonys orders to land the plane. Even Chase can see that Jack will not be swayed by Ninas' claims this year - his drug addiction combined with all the rest of the past emotional baggage over Teris' death has toughened Bauer up.

With that in mind, Sarah Clarke plays Nina as the ultimate joker - the snake whose only weapon left is to twist before biting.The computer worm also gives us a relief to the horrific baby subplot, which takes the stupid filler award for this season after Kim+cougar in Season Two and Teris' amnesia in Season One. Chloe does slightly milk this to be her usual annoying abrasive self, having more mood swings than a salmon with flu.But it does spare us the hideous technospeak which is particularly high in this episode - this fact earns the episode more marks when you know that the writers didn't actually research true terms, just bunched hitech words and phrases together to sound worse - another instance of the writers knowing smile and wink to the audience - saving the world can be fun sometimes.

So one virus has been averted - but another one is just around the corner, in the skies above America...