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A two-bit foot chase is quickly over with, and the episode mainly focuses on a sting operation to rescue Josh and capture Phillip, which ends up only half successful. Marilyn also gives Gredenko's real location to CTU, but alas, he's already gone by the time they get there. And Morris comes close to an alcoholic relapse. I did say "MAINLY focuses," did I not?
Only in the second half does the presidential assassination plot start to juice up. Turns out that Lennox is secretly planning to stop Pollock and redeem his weasel self. Too bad Pollock learns of this almost at the same time we do and knocks Lennox out. This is an annoying episode for the good guys.
As ludicrous as Phillip Bauer has proven to be, he is an entertaining character, and he makes this episode very much worth it. In the span of an hour, he points a gun at both his son and his grandson, demonstrates Batman-esque vanishing prowess, and decides to help CTU out by giving Jack a link to an old friend…actually, enemy—or maybe friend now? Confusion abound, but such is on-the-fly telewriting. At least they managed to come up with a great way to get people to tune in next time.

Hourly Highlight:
Jack and Phillip's rooftop confrontation. Sucks that this is the closest to a showdown they'll ever have.

Again - they seems to build episode is quite same schema - they have exciting start to continue last episode end (this time Jack coming in last minute to save Milo and Marilyn), then they have a lot of time nothing happening, much talking.. oh.. I really most say all the Morris down did not caught me much and his char.. ok - we get he made a mistake and he suffers but somehow it does not look believable on the screen.



Best part of this episode was Jack's struggle to get to his father and then free Marilyn's son.. and I like the end - when Jack makes that call.

Wow this episode was really something to talk about wasn't it? So Jack finally finds out how far his father is involved and how far he willing to go to protect the 'families legacy'... whatever that is.... I have to say though that i feel for Jack, but we really got a taste of how ruthless his father can be so maybe Jack is right to be concered about him. As for the nukes, i really don't know where they are going with that story. A lot of intresting things happened this episode and i am keen to find out what is going to happen next.

Very enjoyable episode this one...Unfortunately a lot of my suspicions came true...Marilyn spilt out everything and Jack found out the truth about his father...Phillip gives the impression of being fooled by Jack at first but he manages to outsmart him...he plays a dangerous game in trying to protect his company and surrendering his family instead...In the plot to kill the president Tom's position is revealed, Reed managing to prevent him from making this plot public...A wonderful surprise was the return of Charles Logan who promises Jack some information...I must admit i was surprised to see Philip managing to escape...i thought he would be eliminated, either by Jack or Marilyn,but although he was one step from killing Jack he rather escape.

This episode was kind of slow, until the end. The surprise ending lifted the episode IMHO.



Why is it that the characters can travel to any LA location within 15 minutes, but when you need backup the teams are always ten minutes away?



Marilyn is completely useless. Ugh. Do we seriously need another Kate Warner on this show? Wasn't Sandra Palmer enough? I hope Marilyn is gone now.



Jack found out about his father soon enough. I thought it was going to be a big secret throughout the season. Glad I was wrong. The end scene between them was quite good.



The new storyline with Morris is interesting. Almost anyone would have done what he did in that situation; people who aren't trained to withstand torture probably will break. Somewhere he knows that, but that doesn't stop him from feeling guilty, which is also something I think most people would feel. His emotional turmoil probably started when Jack said "you gave him something that WORKS?" It didn't seem to have dawned on him until then that he could have given them something that wouldn't work. I wonder where they'll go with this storyline. I'm guessing he'll either get to redeem himself (possibly by sacrificing his life) or that he will committ suicide before the day is over. The alcohol problem seems unnecessary though.



Just when I was about to cheer for Lennox' decision, that rat he's been talking to comes out of nowhere and whacks him. I had not expected that.



As for the plot twist at the end... wow. I can imagine that a lot of people considered it a bad twist, but personally I really liked it. Great seeing Logan again. Is he finally going to prove capable of anything?

I'm thinking in the long run his father might just do him in to. The fact that he didn't underestimate him when he was younger just proves that he knows his son is a formatible adversary and to stop him he'll have to think ahead of him if that's possible...

Just in case it doesn't sound like it later on, I really enjoyed watching this episode. Now. What in the world motivates this Bauer family? And what in the world is wrong with them? I mean, besides DaddyDearest…



Having kidnapped his own grandson, threatening to kill him if he doesn't get the location of his own damned partner, Gredenko, so he can kill *him*, DaddyDearest contacts his field team for a status update. I loved the look on Daddy's face when he hears that his other son, Jack, is dead as a result of the attack he ordered on the faux safe-house–priceless! You'd think he really cares! And maybe in some sick, twisted way he really doesn't want to kill this son any more than he did Graem, but we know he certainly won't hesitate for a minute to take him out if he deems it necessary to protect himself ("and everything I've built.")



nitick #1–wasting time: in the scene where Marilyn and Jack are *rushing* to the supposed location of DaddyDearest and Josh, we have them stopping to allow Marilyn to strip & put on that perfectly-tailored-to-her-size-2-frame bullet-proof vest before going into the hotel. Why the hockey puck didn't she do that in the car ride over there? There've been guns and firebombs all damned day, so it's not as though she's *just now* walked into a dangerous situation…



Morris malfunctions for a bit and needs to clear his head. Stressed by his dismal day, he weakens and buys some liquor. Morris tries to self-medicate his overwhelming guilt, but his body stages a mini-rebellion. So, it's back to work! Which brings me to nitpick #2–Morris at CTU: The man has just been held hostage by the world's biggest terrorist, drilled into with a 3/4" bit, and forced to arm several nuclear weapons that are going to go off TODAY. I think that would warrant a mandatory DAY OFF, even from CTU. I mean, it's not like they're short-staffed, or locked in the building 'cause the world's most deadly virus is running rampant outside, 'cause you know, been there, done that. So, WTF???



Anyway, Milo's resulting mini-convo with Chloe about Morris' ability to perform his job had me rolling:

Chloe: (serious as a heart attack, as usual) He took a drink, but he didn't metabolize it.

Milo: (incredulously) He didn't *metabolize it*?!!

I say again, WTF??



Back to Jack and DaddyDearest: after the grandson is exchanged for Jack, DaddyDearest and he have a 'come to Jesus' discussion. Daddy tries to clarify the whole situation with Gredenko: he was worried that the whole connection to him and that unsavory President Palmer situation would come to light. And the bombs were just a bargaining chip, but somehow Gredenko got the upper hand--But nothing must come between him and his great work. You see, Daddy's just a great patriot who wants what's best for this country. Yeah—a patriot who's successfully implemented and concealed a plan to Assassinate the President of the US!!! Unfortunately, this show demonstrates, year after year, that the country's chock full of just this type of patriot. And they're at it again…



Want this day to get even better? Ring, Ring…Clap hands, here comes Charlie!

I really had high hopes when this season started, but after the nuke exploded the writers of the show do not seem to know where the story is heading. It's becoming pretty boring. Plus remember the past three seasons where in the first nine or ten episodes there's usually this kid who starts off as quite annoying or just plain insignificant but before the kid character leaves the show you're sure to love him especially after jack saves the kid? In season 3, there's the kid where we thought was carrying the virus with him, season 4 there's lukas haas who intercepted the terrorists' plans in the internet and last season there was this kid who almost got himself blown-off in the airport. All 3 started off as either annoying or just plain ordinary,but we learned to really care for them before they leave the show. Well there is still this kid this season but he remains to be annoying and insignificant even after the 10th episode and even after jack saves him. What gives? I think that's main problem i have this season, with the exception of jack and chloe, i do not care much for anybody.I guess that's the price you pay after killing off most of the regular cast members last season. well with that being said i sure wish the creators of this show kick it up a notch the next hour!!

For one full hour, Jack abandons the hunt for the nukes in order to save an annoying kid from his terrorist daddy. Sigh.



I've wanted to enjoy this plot since the death of Graem. I really, really did. But this episode completely derails everything for me.



I am less and less interested in this storyline as time goes on - and considering that this is the main plot thread of the season and therefore I'm meant to care more about this plot than any other that's not a good thing.



More and more, this season feels like just another season of 24. At the start of the season there was a definite feeling of desperation, of the government being at the end of its rope - which is why Jack is back on American soil in the first place. I can't place it, but it feels like ever since the nuke went off this entire season has derailed. Since then it feels like just another day at the office, no different than the way CTU has operated on any of the previous five seasons - and I was led to understand that wasn't what they were going for. Not to mention that since then we've been embroiled in this completely sub-par story about Jack's family. I'd hoped that the story would perk up once Graem was taken out of the equation, and it did for a bit, but in his place we've got this completely uninteresting story angle about Jack moving in on his little (older?) brother's widow. Wasn't it just at the start of this season - not even a full twelve hours ago, if I'm not mistaken, that Jack was asking about how Audrey was? Audrey? Remember her? Skinny, long face? The love of Jack's life? No? I guess the writers don't either.



It upsets me that I am very much hoping that this episode is the last we see of Phillip - at least for a while. His motivation was ridiculous, and he was little more than a cookie-cutter terrorist who happens to have a personal connection with Jack - almost no different than Victor Drazen, Stephen Saunders, Christopher Henderson, or Nina Meyers (except that Nina was actually interesting for the most part).



And what's with Jack looking to get his father off the hook? He's completely avoided involving CTU in apprehending his father, and when Papa Bauer has a gun to his head, what does Jack do? He apologizes. ":( Sorry you never liked that I was a world-saving government agent instead of a corrupt businessman like you and my lame brother." Whaaaaaat?



I'm kind of interested to see where this angle with Logan goes, primarily because Gregory Itzin is a great actor - and was a good portion of why the originally retconny revelation of him as a terrorist ended up making sense.



I'm interested in seeing where this goes, but I do have one gripe - does everyone who was in on last season's plot have to be involved in this one? I guess it makes sense on Logan's end considering that the plot of last season was very entrenched in Russian-American politics. Hopefully the season starts picking up again next week. I'm not hopeful. We'll see.

Marilyn and Milo hide from the pursuing death squad. Jack gets to them on time and kills most of the men on the death squad. Jack confronts Marilyn with what happened and she explains everything to him. Lennox continues to cooperate with his sinister aide who is planning a coup. This episode is so exciting, so much is packed into this 43 minute drama, it works so well. The suspense, the drama, the cat and mouse chase. The writers really did a great episode, I can't wait for the next one. This is really exciting, this one hour episode was definitely worth my time.

In this episode we see exactly how far Philip is willing to go to protect his empire. The plot against the president is revealed. It is an Assassination attempt. Tom Lennox tries to stop it in the 11th hour but is assaulted by his ex fellow conspirator. I really felt for Maurice in this episode. He made the device which can enable Fayed to arm any of the suitcase Nukes he wants. He feels personally responsible and extremely guilty. He reverts to alcohol after being sober for 3 years. Marylin tells Jack the truth about the phone call and the Fact that his father is behind his brothers death. They try to trick Philip into leading Jack to his whereabouts. They succeed but Philip outwits them and Take Josh hostage. The situation seams dire. But Jack surrenders himself for the exchange of Josh. In exchange Philip offers his apology and proceeds to Kill Jack. Or so we are led to believe. To tell the truth I thought Marylin may come up and Shot Philip right at the last second. But the plot thickens. Philip takes off and leaves a message for Jack, something which might help him; a number to call. Jack calls the number. It is Ex President Logan.....WOW!

This episode of "24" is a great example of what we all love about it. The episode begins with Jack coming to the rescue of Milo Pressman and Jack's sister-in-law Marilyn Bauer. This occurs not before Milo heroically tells Marilyn to runaway while he covers her. Bauer finally finds out that his father is in fact a "bad guy", something the audience already knows. We see Morris continue to fall apart. A former alcoholic , he reverts to drinking, however spitting it out before swallowing it. I wondered why they keep showing Morris, wondering if there is more in store for him, or if it is just filler. I liked the awkwardness between Morris and Milo. They were both with Chloe, and now Milo was heroic when Morris wasn't. The reintroduction of Logan was welcomed. While it was anticipated it was also in true 24 fashion. The past always comes back and there is always more to a character than meets the eye. This episode was a good one, it had action and character development. But the best part was the end. It left us thinking and anticipating. Where did Philip Bauer go? Are Marilyn and Josh okay? And where does Logan fit in?

24 Episode 6.10 "Day Six 3:00PM-4:00PM"

Airdate: Monday, February 19th 9:00PM-10:00PM



Logan is back! Something I never thought I'd say back in his fourth season debut as the shaky, indecisive and just flat out worst president ever, but after a rather lackluster start to Season 6 (by 24 standards that is), I can definitely say that in all my excited glory. But we won't be blessed with Gregory Itzin's greatness that earned him his Season 5 Emmy nomination till next week, as the return of the now bearded former president went down in the hour's final moments. Still, his return was the shining moment of an episode that like many others this season, lacked that extra boost of excitement that I now feel we took for granted in previous seasons.



I think the main problem isn't so much that the writing has gotten sloppy, but rather just with the show going on for this many seasons we've become accustomed to its basic structured formula. For example, they've made it clearly apparent that Gredenko is going to be one of, if not the main villain over Fayed behind this season's mayhem. So obviously as past season's haven proven to indicate, he's not going to be caught by a random CTU tactical team not even at the season's halfway point. Not only does this create an utterly useless scene of raiding an empty house, but it just gives off practically zero suspense; which I thought was apparent through most of the episode and thus contradicted the show's usual expectations.



But 24's suspense that no other show on television can even remotely replicate is still only secondary to what 24 is known for the most; that being its fast pace in both the intensity and the development of the plot. While sometimes I believe things are moving TOO fast and not allowing the tension and mood of the situation at hand to properly illustrate its desired impact, its episodes like these where it almost seems the fast pace element of the show was completely thrown out the window. Without any real progress in tracking down the nukes/Fayed/Gredenko other than the number for Logan which won't give us any new information till next episode, it felt like it was just an hour spent trying to keep alive what was left of Jack's crazy family.



Speaking of Jack's crazy family, Jack's line of "Dad, I'm unarmed" proved single handedly that the Bauers are the most dysfunctional family ever (that is if Papa Bauer killing one of his sons, holding his grandson hostage, using his daughter-in-law to force his other son into a trap and then agreeing to let his grandson live only in exchange to execute his other son wasn't enough to justify that claim). Shedding some light onto Evil Daddy's actions, we learned that Gredenko acquired his help when he blackmailed him after finding out that he was 587,649,384th person to order David Palmer's assassination. But before he could kill his second son in as many hours, he either realized his goals were pointless now that protecting the legacy of his company is seemingly impossible or had a sudden change of heart from Jack's end of life speech that prompted him to leave the building ever so quickly and quietly (with enough time I may add to write Jack a little message to call the 24 fan phone number).



Meanwhile in CTU, the medical clinic is treating hourly injuries to computer analysts while Chloe is giving AA speeches, and at least I'm pretty sure they're all still trying to find the terrorist bad guys before they blow up America. It was not the most of productive hours for our LA Counter Terrorist Unit. Considering Jack's family was the center of attention and Jack basically took complete control of the hour's operations after keeping CTU out of it with his explanation to Buchanan of "Just trust me- it's personal", this left CTU's major accomplishment of the hour being to raid an empty house where Gredenko previously was located (which was information Jack gave to them anyway). Makes you wonder how doomed the country would be if this was a day where Jack was dead and/or in a Chinese prison.



Finally, as predicted in my review last week, Tom had second thoughts on the whole kill the president thing. Despite the relief of seeing him not wanting to go through with it, I still couldn't help but smile a little bit when he got whacked in the head with a flashlight. Though things are not looking good for Mr. President Wayne as he might soon join his big bro and wonder "hey... how come the last two days Jack was in the United States a Palmer got assassinated...?" Or maybe it won't come to that, because should this be the case, Assad will be falsely accused and the racist Vice President will be sworn in to lock up all the Arabs.



On a positive note, Sandra Palmer hasn't been seen in over three hours, Jack's gun shooting instructions to Marilyn of "point and shoot" instantly went in the classic Jack Bauer quote book, and it's hard to not be really excited over one of the greatest character returns in the show's history (both the character returning and the execution of the return itself were outstanding). But nearing the mid-day point of the season, I still don't think the quality of the season has matched that of any of the previous five seasons and I'm really hoping there will soon be that groundbreaking episode that sets the season back to usual 24 status.



Overall Episode Rating: 8.3

this particular episode really ..disappointed me its like when i watched this episode it was like i saw it before ..and rena sofer i like her she's a good actor but her performance in this particular episode wasn't very believe able ..a good actor would make you feel with his acting.. hers not so much..

Milo too there's something fake about this guy can't put my finger on it though. now to tom i was kinda surprised to see tom backing off the plan to kill the president ..he strikes me as an evil person..

now to the very end of the episode ..where i was surprised to see Logan's face again..i really hate that guy ..why on earth would they bring him back ..

Plot: Morris gets off the wagon after accepting the shocking reality that a man with the name of Milo is more of a hero than he is. Tom has a change of heart about killing the President, but his assistant beats the crap out of him with a flashlight before he can sound the alarm. Jack barters his life for Josh’s and attempts to reason with his insane Dad. President Logan really needs to shave.



Hey Morris, AA called and they want their f*%(#ng chip back! Why is CTU filled with so many dysfunctional, emotionally damaged, people? Honestly, who is screening these guys? Aside from alcoholism, Morris has developed an insufferable inferiority complex. Sleeping with Chloe has been known to cause that in most men. By combining his over the top British accent, his insistence on using terms like Love in a professional setting, and his constant fretting over his own manliness, the writers have succeeded in creating a character more annoying than Chloe. He endured some very harsh torture and resisted as long as he could. I would have broken the second I saw that drill and I wouldn’t think anything less of myself. He should focus on the fact that after this horrible ordeal he went right back to work! Hello, sick leave for at least a week for me, Chloe can handle the nukes.



In the aftermath of the explosion from the Russian’s house, Milo does his best to protect Marylyn. Nothing says hero like cowering behind a dumpster until Jack comes to save your ass. No wonder Marylyn wants to rekindle that flame. Her mind says my husband was just killed, but her eyes say its time to move on. Using the oldest trick in the book, Jack has one of his newly acquired captives call his father and tell him that Jack is dead and Marylyn will only give him the Russian’s address after seeing her son. Unfortunately for Jack, his father has seen TV in the last 20 years and saw this coming a mile away. Jack arrives at the scene only to discover that his father still has the upper hand. He then offers himself as a new hostage in exchange for Josh. Jack’s dad has a serious obsession with this company of his. If he is so adamant about preserving his legacy someone should probably suggest to him that he stop threatening to kill his only remaining male heirs. Jack gives his dad the, “I’m sorry I was never good enough for you” speech and in a sudden change of heart, his Dad spares his life. He murdered one son in cold blood, held his grandson at gunpoint, and has tried to have Jack killed numerous times before, but damn that was a moving speech! Some how Phillip manages to ninja vanish from the roof leaving no trace except for a cell phone with a number on it. Yo, Jack it’s me Logan! You might not recognize me because I grew a beard. The sole purpose of my facial hair is to indicate that I’m a broken man, living in a disheveled state. Come on over and I’ll help you out.



Parting Thought: This episode was almost as boring as Lost www.lifereviewed.com

We knew a nuke had to go off eventually. That was inevitable. Can't save the world every time. However, Since then, 24 has given us a lot of set ups with very little follow through: empty houses and abandoned apartments. Jack's family history, although interesting, is encroaching upon the plotlines that 24 fans have come to know and love, making this season lack a certain desperate nature. I still think Kiefer is nailing the role, his style has not failed him. I think it is this seasons slow-to-rise quick-to-fall episode to episode approach is what is hurting the show. CTU isn't as on it's game as it has been in the past and the President plotline is a little slow as well. I like President Palmer (who will forever be my Principle Wood on Buffy the Vampire Slayer... it's an authority thing!) but maybe his death is what will set this plot into overdrive. It'll be a shame though, because I love his character. This episode, specifically, was the slowest one this season. And this season being compared to other seasons... that is saying something.

This episode was well written and very good. 24 is always good but this episode was even better then that with the deception of his father and ending with Jack calling a number that connects him with his enemy Charles Logan who was responsible for the death of David Palmer and Tony Almeida and Michelle Dessler all which were his friends. Logan is like the one man Jack wants to be dead for all of which he did last season. If he had his way the same if Curtis had his they would feel that justice was served if Logan was dead but Jack isn't that lucky like when he killed Nina Myers except that she fired on him and Kim which forced him to defend himself so the revenge worked for him.

Morris is almost back to drinking knowing he might be responsible for many thousands of deaths if the remaining bombs go off since he gave Fayed the device to arm the bombs. While stone faced Chloe keeps his secret about almost falling off the wagon. Whats up with Chloe? She looks like she had a Bo-tox treatment that went wrong. If she died, how would anyone be able tell?



Jacks psyho dad seemed a little less crazy when he let Jack go and didnt kill his grandson. Why did he do it? Is he feeling guilty about what hes done? (if he killed Jack, 24 would be over, so it was no real suprise he didnt put a bullet in Jacks head).



Finding the Mad Russians house empty was also no big suprise.



Not the strongest episode, but still kept my attention for the hour.

I have heard some clamoring today around the proverbial water cooler that last night's episode of "24" was pure filler. While I do agree that there was not as much action as far as bullets and bombs go, there was plenty of plot development. Also, there was some gun firing as we saw Milo get shot while trying to protect Jack's ex-lover, I mean, Graem's wife.



As for plot development, we saw that Morris is a recovering alcholic and that Charles Logan has some connection to Krischenko.



I really was not expecting the end of the episode to play out as it did with Jack's dad taking off. I had just figured that Jack's ex-lover would kill his dad, but the way it ended was much more mysterious and interesting.

The last half of this episode is much better than the first.

I am very impressed how the writers have finally managed to find a use or a storyline even for Morris and Milo as they just argued in the first several episodes.



Now Milo comes out the hero and Morris is breaking down and losing control.

The scene where he buys the bottle of Whisky, drinks, and breaks down was very well acted out. Pitty about the overly British accent though.



It looks like next week will see the attempt on the president, with Tom Lennox out of the picture and Assad's speech due to be made shortly, the attempt seems inevitable.



The music score in this episode was again superb, particularly during Moriss' scene, excellent work from Sean Callery again and highly Emmy worthy.



The ending. Unexpected to the extreme! who would have thought that would happen?! "CTU knows where I am", obviously Logan is being held somewhere and now they need to go to him for the information they need as all leads are exhausted.

I smell a deal is about to be cut.

The previous episode brought the calamitous introductory phase of the season arc to a close in the best fashion possible, linking together the various plot threads into the suggestion of a more intriguing whole. At the same time, it also emphasized the sloppy writing that has plagued the season since the premiere. In particular, some of the dialogue has lacked a certain honesty.



Situations have seemed ridiculous in the past, but recently, characters have said things that wouldn’t be found in standard melodrama. So coming into this episode, the question was relatively simple: which version of “24” would hit the air this week? The impressive version with the wide yet interwoven scope? Or the disappointing version with the silly dialogue?



Philip’s active role in preserving his company’s viability is clearly an important part of the complication phase of the arc, and that’s where much of the problem resides. James Cromwell is a good actor, but he may not be the right man to hold this role. His delivery seems to lack the gravitas of a major villain.



It doesn’t take long for Jack to be told that his father is the enemy, which keeps this particular plot thread from dragging out. Jack is forced to choose between Josh, who might be his son (though he doesn’t seem to realize it), and hunting down Gredenko. As noted in the review for the previous episode, Jack’s decision to deal with his father directly as another step in his restoration as a hero, paralleling developments earlier in his life. It makes perfect sense for Jack to be forced to face his father one on one. Jack’s willingness to let himself be executed is a sign that his journey is far from over.



Of course, the disappointment arises when Philip reveals that he wasn’t the one behind Gredenko and Fayid. He was simply trying to keep his role in the fifth season’s plot from being exposed by Gredenko. Not only does this water down some of the implications from the previous episode, but it takes away some of the power of Philip Bauer’s motivations. Instead of preserving a current agenda, Philip is protecting himself from past indiscretions. It’s not quite as compelling as it could have been (assuming, of course, that Philip is being honest).



The conspiracy against Wayne Palmer takes another major step forward as Tom is led further down the path towards his fateful decision. He makes the right call, but too late to stop the plot to assassinate the President. It is rather fitting that he become the victim of a frame after what he did to Karen Hayes, and it’s what he deserves after considering treason in the first place.



Apparently the writers didn’t get the message about how annoying the drama at CTU can be, because they found a way to make Morris even less appealing. It’s becoming harder and harder to believe that Chloe would cover for someone like Morris, regardless of their history. She’s certainly written off people for less in the past. It’s hard to imagine that Bill Buchanan wouldn’t let Morris stay on the job after what he endured. This simply puts Morris in the position to screw up when it’s convenient for the writers to have someone drop the ball.



The episode ends with Philip inexplicably letting Jack live, despite already trying to kill him, and leaving Jack a cell phone with ex-President Logan’s number waiting. For some unexplainable reason, Logan offers to help Jack find Gredenko, but only if they talk alone at Logan’s location. This turn of events is hard to swallow, and unless the writers make sense of it in the next episode, it will simply be another addition to the list of reasons why this season has been a missed opportunity.



In the end, this was a transitional episode, which is what one would expect at this stage of the game. If the usual pattern holds, the next big shock should hit right around episode 12, the mid-point of the season. Logan’s involvement is obviously a part of that. If the writers can make this revelation something more than an attempt at shock value, it could be worth the wait.

This eason of 24 just has a load of great episodes and this is one of them. Marilyn tells Jack about his father and that he has Josh. When Josh hears his Granfather on the phone saying that he would kill him if his mother didn't cooperate, I think instead of standing there I would have thrown something at him and run away. Tom Lennox is a good guy instead of a bad guy, I like how the writers lead you to believe on thing but it is not entirley true. In my opinion James Cromwell delivered another great performance as Philip Bauer. The best part of the episode is when Jack gets the phone number from his father and he call it and it is none other than Charles Logan. later...

I find 24 riveting, as I already said, I am prepared to overlook its flaws for that reason. When Jack said to Buchanan that he didn't need his help, it was personal - I was like, of course it is! At some point, it always is! But you'll still do the right thing, Jack!



Jack is consistent throughout the show, he is so keen to see the good in people but is usually disappointed, and it doesn't take long for him to volte face - Marilyn nearly got it in the neck for sending them to the booby-trapped house. But he had a blind spot for his father (not for his brother though, him he saw right through!). At some point, they will be face to face again, & I think Jack will not be so compliant then - his shock will have passed.



I wasn't shocked at Logan's appearance, just not at that moment. Who left the phone? Jack's dad?



What did surprise me was Lennox - ultimately he could not be the man who stood by while the President was assassinated, which was a pleasant surprise for me. Good for him. I hope Reed's decision not to kill him comes back to bit him on the **s*.



And CTU's teams - who would work on one of those? Lower life expectancy than a Star Trek Red Shirt!

Jack gets a confession out of Marilyn after confronting her following rescuing her and Milo from his father's team. Jack finally realizes his father was behind the attack , killed Graem and is trying to save himself and his company. Jack learns that Josh is being used as bait by Phillip to get Marilyn to set up Jack. Only Jack survives and now used Phillip's hench man to get to his address and confront his father. Meanwhile back at CTU Morris continues to struggle with his own feelings and guilt regarding the suitcase nukes. He takes a walk and goes to the store and as a recovering alcoholic almost nearly falls off the wagon. He tells Chloe he didn't have a drink he spit it out. In Washington Lennox finally shows he does have some good in him and comes to his sense to alert someone about what Reed and company are planning to do regarding the President. However Reed overhears him and assaults him in the boiler room. Over at the hotel in Los Angeles Jack manages to rescue Josh and return him to his mother by sacrificing himself to his father. Phillip explains he's a patriot and he's been trying to in his own way find Gredenko and stop all this. He also doesn't believe he would get immunity from CTU if he helped them. Jack agrees to let Phillip kill him. Only Phillip runs out and Jack follows to find a phone telling him to call a number. When Jack calls the number former president Charles Logan answers. Wow after a 2 hour special that was heavy on the action and explosions and whantot. This was a nice great episode that showed a lot of plot twists and character development. A great finish which takes things in a new shocking direction. I thoroughly enjoyed the episode.

Its amazing that so many people are giving this episode bad reviews. I think it was one of the most intense episodes this season. There was more focus on Jack and the family rather than all things political which was refreshing.



Tom Lennox changing his mind about the plot against the president was predictable - I knew it the second Wayne told him that he still valued his opinion. I am beginning to hate Reed more and more.



Poor Jack was really shocked when he found out his father was actually the one that orchestrated the Gredenko's fake location and the bomb there. I was a bit surprised that when they came face to face, Jack did not use his superhuman power to kill Philip right there and then.



Poor, poor Morris was nearly driven to drink. At least he thought the better of it and spat it out. And he actually tried to be polite to Milo!



Yay, Logan is back. As much as I hate Logan I was looking forward to him coming back. I think this episode was a really emotional episode for me and that is its value. Anything that evokes emotion is brilliant and on top of that, the acting was really really good.

Sorry... I have to disagree with the poor reviews. Though I have taken issue with some repetitive story-lines like the would-be Palmer Assassination Redux, it seems people leave bad reviews because they weren't paying attention. If Philip Bauer DID intend on killing Jack, Josh and Marilyn, they WOULD be dead. He had the opportunity to do away with all of them, yet he didn't. How can it be unlikely that he is willing to do such horrible things to his family when the point is... he didn't follow through.



Clearly there's more to it than we realize... and that's probably why Daddy Bauer left a phone with Logan's number. He found out that Jack didn't have the man he was looking for, Marilyn's knowledge no longer provided any leads, and it was all about bluffing in his desperation to get the information he needed and disappear. Well, he got away. Wasn't that his purpose?? To me it's a perfect case of "like Father, like son". A little to reminiscent of the Season 2 premiere of *Alias* with the whole treacherous 'on your knees' gun-wielding vanish-parent trick... but enjoyable nonetheless. Keeping it in the family has made this season quite compelling.

You know, there are just times when things don't make a whole heck of a lot of sense on this show. Usually I can forgive these because in terms of the amount of time that has passed in the character's lives it's only been a few minutes. But then you get into glaring things like we've had the past few weeks and these things start to add up. So, who is the mastermind behind all these plots and the plot from last season? It seems as if this changes from hour to hour. It was Graem, now it's Phillip Bauer and next week it could, possibly be Logan. I think the writers are working too hard to have this all tie together and to make it have some personal connection to Jack. And if Phillip Bauer is so hell-bent on not having anyone find out his connection to the day's events and cleaning up his own mess--to the point he kills one son, has another marked for death and kidnaps his own grandson--why does he let Jack live and run off at the end? Of course, we all knew that Jack couldn't die (since Milo is in no way prepared to be the bad-ass field agent that Jack is), but couldn't there have been a less cliched way out of this. Jack offered it to Phillip with the promise of immunity. And you can't tell me Jack couldn't pick up the phone, call in a few favors from President Palmer and make that happen. Hell, the guy just issued a blanket pardon to the known head of a terrorist cell. It seems that he could be pursuaded to help out Jack. And again, Jack has sacrified a lot to help the Palmer family and this country. So now we've brought Logan back into the mix. And let me thank anyone who writes up a commentary on the episode each week and includes info from the promo about it. Way to ruin that little twist for me, though it wasn't that huge a shock to begin with. Hopefully Logan coming into things will do something because so far, this season is really spinning the wheels.



And Logan's being not in prison brings up some interesting questions, some of which I hope we'll get answers to next week. Meanwhile, I have to ask--how creepy weird was it when Jack was helping Marilyn get into the bullet-proof vest? And all those weird moments where he'd touch her face and such. Will there be a smackdown for Jack when Audrey inevitably returns later this year? And have we all forgotten about Teri Bauer, Jack's wife who was killed to end day one? I will admit I almost lost it when Jack proclaimed Milo's wound "not that severe." Was it just me or did anyone else hear "It's only a flesh wound" run through their mind? That Milo--he takes a licking and keeps on ticking. I guess there must be something in the water at CTU that makes guys act all macho. I'm thinking if I was shot in the arm or tortured with a drill, I might take a few hours off or at least some painkillers. But not Morris and Milo who are stiched up and back to work in under ten minutes. Damn, those doctors at CTU are good. Of course, Morris is having some other issues and could fall off the wagon. I actually found this plot a bit more reasonable than I thought I would, though how it is every person at CTU has some sort of personal drama like this can be a bit of a stretch. Is there not one relatively well-adjusted person who works there?



And over in Washington, Tom Lennox has a change of heart, which leads to a butt-kicking by Chad Loew. First of all, how stupid was Lennox to not let Chad Lowe get out of earshot or to check and be sure he was gone before making the call? Second of all, will the Secret Service guy not think something's up or does Tom makes these kinds of calls all the time so it's nothing new from the wacky guy who works for the president? Finally, I have to wonder just how they're going to smuggle in a bomb to the Presidential bunker....but then again this is 24. On a side-note: So, Marilyn didn't stay long in the stairwell, hugging her son did she. Because she might have seen Phillip Bauer running by and stopped him. Or maybe it wasn't really Phillip Bauer that James Cromwell was playing but actually Zephram Cochrane and he beamed away from the roof-top. Oh and who carries an extra PDA around to leave for people on a rooftop like that? Or was that Jack's that he took and then left. Maybe I missed that because I was trying too hard to figure out who was up to what and why this week.



But at least Logan's back. This could kick-start things.



Man, it seems like I say that every week...if I predict it enough, eventually it has to come true. Doesn't it?

The episode was mediorce. It seemed that the writers had no where to go but down. Jack's father a meglomanic thirsty for power, willing to kill both sons and grandson, gimme a break. President Palmer ( who doesn't look credible) being assasinated again by insiders, come on!!! Jack's looks like he is ready to retire to Florida or a mental institutuion. Listen writers, producers and Keifer the show is turning into a bad cartoon. James Bond does it better!!!

Overall this was an average episode, but for 24, an average episode still means pretty good.



Reed Pollock (Chad Lowe) is determined to kill President (Wayne) Palmer at ANY cost. Personally, I don't think he will succeed. 24 likes to kill people as a "going for the jugular" moment and I don't think that it would be that much of a shock if he was murdered. President Wayne, for now, seems like a lame duck as doesn't have half the appeal that his older brother has.



About Chloe and her ex-husband Morris: I hope they are not making a Tony and Michelle 2.0 out of this relationship. Morris even has a drinking problem and now they are having special moments. I think he want to get back together with her. Which means that one of them will (hopefully not Chloe) get killed soon.



Wow. Jack's dad is pretty sadistic. James Cromwell has proven now that he can act pretty much anything. I never thought that he would actually shoot his own son but I think the show did a very good job of showing that JACK thought that he would.



Can't wait to find out what Former President Logan had to say to Jack....

Well, most importantly: LOGAN IS BACK! Oh yes, I love that fact. He was probably the best villian in the history of 24, and now he's back!



Not only the actor is fabolous, but the character too. So it's a great thing. I hope he stays for a couple of episodes.



The episode had very strong plots for a change. Jack finally owned the episode: he got the most of the screentime, which is as I said good for a change: he seemed to get the least the last couple of episodes.



I thought the showdown at the end was very suspensful, and I was cheering when Jack rescued Milo. Well, Milo, not even a field agent, done really well. Although Marilyn wanted me to eat the TV: she's told to run, yet, she just keeps screaming and nothing else.



The presidental plotline is getting better too. Lennox is now sure that the president's life is in danger, therefore, he changes his mind, and decides to help stop the assassination attempt. However, that son of a b**** Reed hears Tom calling the security, so he knocks him out. Ouch. Although I doubt President Palmer will be killed, I can't wait for the showdown.



Jack's dad is an interesting character, and I really thought in this episode we'd see him go. But, no... even though his 'escape' was a bit cheesy(seriously, how could he walk out without Jack hearing?) But it all paid off at in the ending: Logan is back.



Overally, this episode brings back the good old 24 structure: lots of fearless Jack, the President's life is in danger, and twists make sure that the plot is as complicated as ever. Funnily, Fayed got zero screentime in this one, which is hilarious as in the first 4 hours he seemed to be the mastermind of everything.



Season 6 is finally on track.