24

Okay, we'll actually see the hotel again in a few hours, but that's beside the point.
Jane cooperates and gives Jack a chance to capture her father. Via a phone call that lasts too long, CTU finally gets Saunders' location and goes to arrest him. Unfortunately, the slippery Bigbad has a pretty big ace up his sleeve…
This is implied rather early on, but only to throw the viewers off. Are Saunders' people keeping an eye on Jane and Kim, waiting for the right moment to take them hostage? Hey, I'm not one for seeing yet another Kim kidnapping. And huzzah: no Kim kidnapping! Instead, the kidnappee has an emotional connection to Tony Almeida. He must go through what Jack went through during S1's Gaines arc, as Michelle finally leaves the damn hotel and lands herself in another mess. Not as messy a mess as the mess inside the hotel, but still, not a lot of people would want to be in her messy shoes right now. Mess, mess, mess.
It almost feels sorta cheap how the writers build up the red herring only to focus on a completely different sleeve-hidden ace entirely. Almost. Sorta. But I'll take it, because as I've said in previous reviews, this IS "24", and one of the greatest shows in the history of the universe must be allowed a break every now and then.

Hourly Highlight:
Saunders nonchalantly strolling down the street, with a bunch of CTU and LAPD units none the wiser.

Logic/Details - » So, this episode leads to Hunt Saunders. Was not difficult for the writers to managed this episode, since the Hotel Plaza plot is finally over for now. This lead to another focus which is the involvement of Saunders and Tony. Scenes like Kim and Saunders daughter were only to buy more time. Even some scenes with Palmer managed to do that. So, if this is about to buy time even Adam has his time on screen just because his sister was one of the infected.



Progress -» Saunders daughter Helped and Jack hunt Saunders but since there is 4 episodes to end this season, this was not possible yet.



Emotions/Stimulation/Highlights -» Knowing about Michelle results make you feel relief, Tony action here was understandable Ending - » Good build up for the next episode.



Overall - » This episode continues to structure the many way that Jack and CTU try to find Saunders, but in every way, the leads fails and they have to restart again and go after another lead. In My opinion, 6 continues to fit this episodes well.

So, now when Jack has Saunder's daugther and he is free to use it against him. They even find a way as even if the girl denies everything first, Jack does find a way and when she makes a call to his father, they are able to get his location. Hunt for Saunder is on.



But things get even more exciting as Saunder is not planning to leave the place he is in and seems not even a bit worried. We all have to ask why and when he mentions something about taking her in phonecall I think we all are sure this is Kim.



On the other storyline Michelle finally gets her test results and she is clean. She has amazingly moving phonecall with Tony and it just leads to the end of the episode - the have taken Michelle and Tony has to do what he is asked in order to not to lose it. Wow.. that was something..

Another episode with a great surpring twist at the end of it. Without Palmer at his disposal to give into his needs, Saunders pulls a sting operation to capture Michelle Dessler and opts to use Tony Almedia to allow him to safely walk into the unknown. I thought this was great writing and should provide with the final confrontation between Jack and Saunders within the next two or three episodes. I dont know whats going to happen once Jack finds out about Tonys involvement in letting Saunders go, but I can assume that Jack and David will not be happy of the devolopment in light of what is going on. Since Jack Bauer still has Jane Sauners, I can assume a trade will be set up so that Michelle can be traded for Jane. This episode was pretty action actions throughout, with no more boring storylines clogging up the episodes. Sherry Palmer is out of the scenerios and there is no more Alan Milikin mess. Kim is on her way back to CTU where she will regain her normal duties. Overall, a very well written episode.

Jack detains Saunders' daughter and she is brought to CTU. President David Palmer finds himself underfire from the press. Tony becomes a liability to CTU when his personal life is compromised. This episode pulls surprises that will keep the suspense from faltering. The action in this episode is really good. The suspense is really riveting, the writers came up with a good way to emphasize the action and the dramatic scenes. This is a really great episode, I had so much fun watching it. The action was exciting, it didn't look like it was slow. The suspense just kept on coming.

This episode was fantastic. It even had a great moment between Michelle & Tony after Michelle finds out that she isn't infected with the virus. That moment brought tears to my eyes when I saw Tony & Michelle teary eyed. I love it when tony said to he "I can't believe I almost lost you" And then Michelle saying the same thing again. But my favorite part had to be when they both *finally* said thier "I love you's" to each other. I've been waiting since the beginning to hear at least one of them say it.



I thought that Saunders was planning on kidnapping Kim, but instead he outsmarted CTU once again and instead kidnapped Michelle. Poor Tony.



I'm starting to find the whole president buisness a bit boring. I really hate Wayne.



And poor Adam, having to find out about his sister like that.

Another Season 3 episode, another brilliant ending. While this episode had some more weird dialogue, it had one of the best plots of any Season 3 episode and even had some clever things thrown in for the fans. Nicely done.



Pros

-I loved the reference to Hancock Park in the beginning of the episode. That was one of the cooler Easter Eggs ever on the show. (In case you didn't know, Hancock Park was where Yusuf Auda died in Season 2.)

-I loved how they finally acknowledged that the President of the United States was in harm's way and nobody was saying anything about it until this episode. Thank you! Also, the subtle homoeroticism between Palmer and Pierce was hilarious.

-Cool scene where Jane contacts her father. Good dialogue and good acting.

-Nice fakeout with us thinking that Michelle might have tested positive for the virus.

-Good scene with Michelle telling Tony that she's okay.

-I'm glad Saunders shot Osterlind. He was a crappy character.

-I loved the massive effort at a fakeout in this episode where we were led to believe that Saunders was going after Kim and Jane instead of Michelle. There hadn't been that much effort towards a fakeout in one episode since the pilot episode of 24.

-Great scene between Chloe and Tony re: Adam.

-Jack hanging out of the SUV = win.

-The reference by Saunders to Teddy Hanlin when talking about unstable CTU snipers was also another brilliant Easter Egg.

-The ending was freaking brilliant. The realization that the Kim/Jane thing was a fakeout, the badassery of Saunders, Tony being involved in the A plot for a change, Tony's panic and loneliness in the hallway in the final shot, the great score, and Saunders calmly walking away from the building instead of running. So brilliant. I just can't say enough about how great Season 3's endings were for the most part.



Cons

-Very slow expositional beginning. That's basically all that Act I was, exposition.

-Weird dialogue by Wayne in the Secret Service scene.

-Weird acting by the actor that played Osterlind.

-Lame attempt at finally giving Adam an actual storyline with his sister.