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A so-so episode. The scenes involving Chase were the best of the episode. The torture and the escape had me on the edge of my seat, but it was very sad when Claudia died, =[ why is it that the ones who try to help out always have a tragic fate? Things with Jack were boring in this episode though, the only remotely interesting thing that happens is that he kisses Nina *rolls eyes*



Sherry Palmer being back will make the Palmer storyline a bit more interesting for sure. I didn't like the conversation between Wayne and Julia at the restaurant though, it was too cheesy.



The CTU scenes really dragged this episode down. My god, the storyline with the Chloe and the baby is just stupid!! What is the pont? I'm not going to say anything bad about Chloe because I really like her, but this has to be the worst storyline in 24 history, unless the baby is infected with the virus or is secret mole working for Nina.



Quote of the hour! "Nina: (sighs) What are you up to, Jack?"

Logic/Details - » The objective in this episode is not very attractive, since Jack and Nina have a private reunion and Chase has to be free. So the writers had to do some miracles scenes to keep things interesting enough to avoid to bring boring scenes.



Progress -» Chase escapes and Jack is with Nina.



Emotions/Stimulation/Highlights -» The scenes featuring Claudia can keep you at the edge of your seat. There a sad scene also. You have some interesting action and Jack and Nina private moment. Also someone you know is back.



Ending - » Besides the return surprise, the ending is not very attractive this time.



Overall - » Another good episode that is valuable because some character as some good scenes with tension that can keep you in the edge of your seat. Another surprise was made also. Overall deserves a 7.

.. I would say so evil but we all know that.. her char is just superb. She manages to come up with such an amazing plot turns. The moment when she came out of the wan last episode was superb and this episode, she just keeps the surprise up. The choice she makes with Jack and how Jack has to convince her that he is a new man. That was just cruel.



On the other storylines.. the whole thing with Chade and Claudia. I was so sad to see her being shot. She did everything she could to help her family and Chade.. and she ended up.. I hope Chade will get rescued and he would be out of the major trouble..



And where is Palmer.. there just has to be Cherry.. oh..

I never watch a whole season of 24 without any interruptions from other (better) series. This time I acquired the DVD of Invasion S1 and it made me drop this 24 season immediately. I always return to it though, just after I finish watching all episodes of the "distraction". Maybe that's a good thing, but probably it's just because I have nothing else to watch then.



And always (without fail) I get a sinking feeling when I start watching 24 again. It has a really nice premise and the plots are, when summarized, not that bad either. I actually got pretty excited at the beginning of this season because of the whole virus storyline. But as always, as the season progresses 24 shows to me its eternal flaws: little or no character development, not enough originality or twists in its plotlines, many fillers (most notably the episodes where the action has progressed nothing whatsoever during the 45-minute run).



Now, onto this episode. It simply didn't work for me. The "comic" relief this time centered on Chloe who had nanny troubles and thus had the genius idea of hiding her baby beside her desk the whole evening. There was a little domestic scene between Tony and Michelle, the first being angry with the latter because she had doubted his professionality and told Chapelle about that. This could've easily been discarded as we already dealt with this problem in the previous episode. The main storyline however didn't bring much relief either... Jack tried to get in with Nina, which ultimately succeeded. Chase just kept being tortured on and on and on and on.



All in all, nothing to keep me enthralled for several hours on end.

If it weren't for the crap about some baby at CTU, this would be a relatively stellar hour. And the return of everybody's favorite African-American would-be First Lady of the United States doesn't thrill me either.

As the Milliken subplot develops some more, Jack's got his hands full tracking down Nina and forcing her cooperation in helping the Salazars get the virus. He manages to find her meeting with Amador in a church, then gets knocked out and tied to a chair with Nina ready to kill him. Which she stupidly doesn't.

Elsewhere in Mexico, Claudia rescues Chase from the torture shack, but of course has to die in the process. Okay, so Chase is geared up to actually do something in Mexico besides scream, but we'll see what that something is in the next hour.

Now this is still another episode that tries to wring the Mexico storyline for all its worth. However, I do like the fact that Jack's doing something other than following up on a lead or getting involved in a gigantic shootout. In my opinion, it makes the tone of this first half of S3 more suspenseful, even original by "24" standards.

But…baby at CTU? Arrggh!



Hourly Highlight:

Hector shooting Chase through the hand (and as we'll observe later, that hand just can't seem to catch a break).

I think that this is a very underrated episode considering all of the action and twists that we were given throughtout the duration of it all. The action in this episode seemed to be non stop, with Claudia breaking Chase out of being tortured, which will finnaly establish him back into the field again to begin trying to help Jack bring down this virus. I think Chase works really well when hes on camera without Jack, but I think he struggles with him. Hopefully he stays away from Jack for now. the only part of the episode you could say dragged was Waynes conversation with Julia, but even that was loaded with useful information that we will need to know for the upcoming episodes. David giving a call to Sherry might seem a bit repeatitive, but you have to realize that he turns to her on the worst days of his life for a reason - he needs someone that can fight dirty because he cannot and Sherry is always a good person to go to in that siutation. I like the fact that Sherry is back and the twist was one I didnt see coming right until the phone call was picked up. Jack having to kiss Nina to try and maintain his cover was a great part of the episode. I think that Jack and Nina have a wonderful on screen connection in the good guy vs bad girl sense of the connection. This was a fantastic episode, the best of season 3 so far I think...

Claudia helps Chase escape from the Salazar hacienda. Things get really rough when Hector and his men start shooting at them. Jack and Ramon commits in finding Nina. David Palmer calls Sherry and asks her for help about Milliken. Chloe gets a visit from someone who drops off a baby to her. Chase provides assistance to Jack as soon as Claudia's family are in safe hands. There are a lot of stuff that's going on in this episode, things go really fast for an hour, that's the beauty of it, it's fast paced. This is what action TV should be, it's exciting.

Well, I guess there is a law that Nina has to sneak up in all of Jack troubles somewhere. At least the days that end up on the series. Makes you wonder: Is he always thinking that she will show up during any crisis that he has?



And oh yeah....I guess there is a law that Sherry Palmer has to show up as well.



The show is getting a little too predictable at this point.



But they surprise you enough to keep you watching. I think Claudis's death proves that the show is willing to kill anyone at anytime and not just during the final seconds of the episode.



The kiss between Jack and Nina was revolting but I can see why he did it to not blow his cover.



Overall, it should be interesting to watch.

This really was a pivotal epiosde in the story following on from jack's discovery that Nina, the women who killed his wife, was the other bidder. It is a good episode because whenever Jack and Nina are together sparks fly and it makes for thrilling viewing especially as he has to make nina believe the lie that he has turned, if there was ever one person who doesn't believe a word Jack says it is Nina. the only disappointing part of this epsiode was teh action which was very brief but at leats there was soem following a few slow episodes in terms of action. The Plot ha snicely warmed up after this epsidoe and it makes for thrilling viewing once again.

Yeah, that's right, I gave this episode a 4.1, despite the fact that I gave it plenty of pros. Reason? The cons were so so bad, it's hard to express it. The Palmer storyline was so bad in this episode that I took offense to it. There were scenes in this episode that you could tell were just thrown in there to fill the rest of the episode out to make it an hour. The Wayne/Julia scene was horrible and the "dramatic" death of Claudia wasn't that dramatic since we never really knew her anyway.



Pros

-Again, Chase took the torture like a man.

-Tony and Michelle's reaction to the name Nina Myers. That's great stuff right there.

-Good acting by Vincent Laresca and Vanessa Ferlito.

-Hector shooting Chase's hand was ruthless.

-Chase closing up his wound was badass on Jack's level. I think the writers put that in there so we would finally like Chase and it worked for me.

-Chase popping up out of the truck to shoot the baddies was pretty cool.

-Chappelle's reaction to Chloe having a baby was pretty funny. As was Chloe's response (parents are a protected group Mr. Chappelle!)

-Nina taking out Jack was BADASS!

-The scenes between Jack and Nina at the end made this episode. Without them, this would've gotten like...a 2 from me. Great scenes that were perfectly in character for the two of them.

-Seeing Sherry back was good, but predictable.

-Jack kissing Nina was so revolting that I almost literally threw up. And that's good that TV can do that to you.



Cons

-Did they really want us hating a small child as much as we ended up hating Sergio?

-The expositional dialogue wasn't that great.

-Almost everything that was going on in places other than Mexico was stupid. Stupid Palmer storyline. Stupid beginning to the saga of the CTU baby. It was bad that I couldn't wait when they went back to Mexico, because the Mexico storyline wasn't that entertaining to begin with, especially not for a main storyline. For instance, when the show came back from a commercial break at one point and the scene was Wayne meeting Julia at a restaurant, didn't you groan? I sure did.

-For whatever reason, Claudia's death didn't really do anything for me. Maybe it's because I never really had enough time to care about her character, but I just had kind of an apathetic reaction to her death.



This episode is the epitome of everything that was wrong with Season 3 of 24. Thankfully, the season picked up when it left Mexico, but it was perilously close to jumping the shark after these atrocious Mexico episodes.