Day 8: 6:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.

Season 8, Episode 3, Aired
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While CTU are still interrogating Meredith Reed, Jack follows another lead with Chloe's help.''''Dana Walsh is struck by a shadow from her past.''''The involvement of President Hassan's brother Farhad becomes clear, when Davros contacts him.
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  • Jack is forced to put his plans to move back to Los Angeles with his daughter on hold (surprise) and follow a lead to a possible assassin. However, Jack's efforts are thwarted when he is falsely accused of killing a police officer.moreless

    8.0
    "Great"
    By meathead704, Sep 11, 2011 Report Abuse
    This episode definitely had some very suspenseful moments. However I kept seeing more of something I was afraid of. Again Chloe tries to get Brian Hastings to listen to her theories and he once again dismisses them as nothing until... One of the high points of this episode was how the assasination attempt on Hassan was staged. The set up was very clever and it helped build up to an exciting finale. I hope we do not hear anymore about Jack wanting to head to LA as soon as possible. It's painfully obvious that is not happening any time soon.moreless

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  • An overrated episode because of the level stills being not very good althought its ending is really breathtaking and the tension begins to be remarkable.

    6.5
    "Fair"
    By Roces24, Apr 05, 2010 Report Abuse
    After two installments that were only good, the plot begins to be faster and with a lot of suspense and nerve.

    This third episode is not the best episode yet, although is better than the last. But is engaging, nerve cracking some times and not very enough to please the audience, but yes to give one chance to the show.

    The music is according to the episode, the tension increases and the ending of this episode is really shocking and leaves you at the edge of your seat. The worst details are the new director of CTU, is very weak for me and without the authority of Geroge Mason or Bill Buchanan for example, and the plot of Dana Walsh. I hope that her plot will improve in the season.

    Also another thing is the script in general, because sometimes is slowly and other times goes too fast.

    The writers have to fix it.moreless

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  • Decent transitional episode

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    By JackBauer95, Feb 22, 2010 Report Abuse
    As is the case with all of the premieres, they always have one filler episode in which the plot doesn't move forward and instead we have repetitive conversations and boring subplots. With this episode is a balance of both. The first 30 minutes would be filler, and poor Jack, in order to let the assassination plot go uninterrupted, is tortured by a sadist cop who mistankely believes Jack is a cop killer. By the time Jack is able to get away with the help of the crazy cop's partner, he knows that the UN bomb threat is a setup, something that the incompetent Hastings didn't even consider as a posibility. Since Jack can't arrive to save the day, this time is Cole's turn, who, in an amazing sequence, saves President Hassan. As with the rest of the episode, there were some good moments, but "24" must not make transitional episodes with unnecesary filler, as has done many times in the past.moreless

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  • Not Bad

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    By Dante_Edy, Feb 07, 2010 Report Abuse
    This episode was better than the last one, with Jack free and not against CTU for the 1000th time.

    The presentation went fine, the complication phase had some filler time, however was well explored, at least something not too much repetitive. Jenny drama is interesting for those who like this type of drama, it is not bad, but for me is nothing special, for now does not annoys me.

    Meredith had some little filler time and finally this thing is practically over for her part, liked Hassan attitude. The villains plan was good and CTU really fall for it, however Jack and Chloe have more experience than the rest of the CTU in dangerous situations, so they didnt fall for it so easily. The ending was good, if not great, filled of tension, for the fans that care, of course.

    Presentation Phase - (7/10), Complication Phase - (6/10), Jack situation was totally filler, was not bad to actually watch it, Climax Phase - (8/10) the best part, filled with tension, Ending - (8/10), good enough, Time and Scene Management - (7/10) fillers just to delay the main event, Plot Details/Holes- (8/10), Surprises/Shocks/Twists - (7/10), Suspense/Tension - (8/10), Drama - (7/10)., Predictability / Unpredictability (7/10).

    Not Bad.moreless

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  • Somebody needs to grab David Fury and Alex Gansa by the scruff of their grubby necks and remind them that 55 minutes of stalling and 5 minutes of accelerated action do not a good episode make.moreless

    5.5
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    By screenagedkicks, Jan 24, 2010 Report Abuse
    Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the most transparent display of stalling for time ever broadcast on primetime television. How David Fury and Alex Gansa ever thought the discerning public would buy into this sorry excuse for a plot device, we'll probably never know. Just in case there's any doubt as to the nature of this atrocity (which, quite frankly, there can't possibly be), I am talking, of course, about Jack Bauer's little trip to the poorly-lit, dingy household basement and his subsequent maltreatment at the hands of Side-Splittingly Abysmal Caricature #302. Come on guys, do you take us for fools? Jack finds himself stuck between a rock and a hard place as NYPD officers show up just as he wanders into the household that Doug Hutchison slaughtered only moments ago and despite calmly illustrating his innocence and using the kind of langauge that only ex-government officials and general all-round trustworthy hard-asses would in order to demonstrate his credentials, he's beaten to a bloody pulp by an officer who decides that this moment, right here, is the one at which he's going to let out his pent up frustration at years of what he perceives to be injustice against his co-workers? Oh please. This is truly laughable stuff, a lorry-load of cringeworthy contrivance that attempts to justify itself by proporting to be socially relevant (guys, legislation is too namby-pamby! All these cop killers quite literally get away with murder!) but actually just turns out to be thoroughly embarrassing. And not only that, but it's hopelessly predictable too. In one corner, we have the bent copper stereotype, thuggish, irrational and frankly idiotic, and in the other, we have his doubting partner, who, quite convienently for the show's timeline, takes the majority of the episode to pluck up the courage to do the right thing and put an end to the absurdity that's taking place right in front of him. It's yet another example of appallingly lazy writing, reliant on the sort of conventions and tropes that take meagre seconds to pluck out of thin air. Frankly, it's insulting to think that the writing staff expect us to buy into this crap. And then, that they expect us to be perfectly okay with their penchant for representational stereotypes. Oh yes guys and gals, the one-dimensional ciphers don't end here. Moments prior to the beginning of this strand, Bauer manages to acquire Hutchison's most recent location from a thoroughly intimidating group of young men playing basketball, who threaten to cause him significant injury simply because he's trod on their turf, or some such garbage. Well, the idea that da yoof are a bunch of disrespectful hooligans would be bad enough but just to an even greater dollop of prejudice into the mix, these ruffians are all African-Americans. Thugz from da hood. And what does it take for Jack to get the info? Bribery! Well I never. Those crazy black kids will do anything for a quick buck. Honestly, what IS the point in all of this? What purpose does this horrible display serve, other than to offend? Why couldn't Jack simply have acquired the information from a couple sitting on a park bench? Would that really have been so bad? Why did we have to resort to racial stereotyping? 24, what the freaking hell are you doing?

    Unfortunately, the vast majority of the remainder of the episode is decidedly uneventful and, as a result, it's difficult to overlook either of these contrivances. CTU continue to ignore pretty much everything that Chloe (and through her, Jack) says, which just makes you want to throw sharp objects through the television, Mykelti Williamson proves shockingly unconvincing as the interrogator of Hassan's mistress, taking a massive dump all over the tried and tested good cop/bad cop dichotomy (what's with all the guerning? Seriously. Is this guy even aware of the word 'subtle'?), and even the Presidential storyline seems to lack some of its prior sparkle. We do get a nice sequence in which President Hassan confesses his affair to Hastings which actually proves that Gansa and Fury can occasionally surprise, but for the most part, things seem to be squarely on auto-pilot... until the last five minutes of the episode, that is. Yes, in true 24 style, after spending 7/8 of their time putting the brakes on, the writers suddenly accelerate down the highway faster than a speeding bullet as all hell breaks loose at the UN and we flit back and forth between the CTU detail, President Taylor, Jack, Hassan's motorcade, dastardly Davros (I'm sorry, but I can no longer take Doug Hutchison's character even remotely seriously now that the 'previously' sequence has revealed this to be his name... I half expect him to yell 'EXTERMINATE!' every time he appears onscreen, or be followed by a couple of hundred Daleks) and the even more dastardly Farhad, as the plot to kill Omar comes to fruition. It's a brilliantly breakneck sequence and one that is genuinely engaging because the outcome is never clear. Agent Ortiz's ultimate sacrificial attempt to save Hassan's life is a thrilling piece of television, superbly executed by the production crew, and goes some small way to redeeming the episode. But only a little.

    Somebody needs to grab David Fury and Alex Gansa by the scruff of their grubby necks and remind them that 55 minutes of stalling and 5 minutes of accelerated action do not a good episode make. Especially not when the stalling consists of the kind of plot that is not only insulting to our intelligence, but is also somewhat prejudicial. Bent coppers, delinquent youth, gang-like and disrespectful African-Americans... these sort of stereotypes should be a thing of the long-forgotten past, not a part of a forward-thinking 21st Century drama series. Sorry guys, but this just isn't good enough. Must try harder.moreless

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    • Original International Air Dates: Australia: February 9, 2010 on 7TWO Norway: March 7, 2010 on TV2 Zebra Latin America: March 8, 2010 on FOX Finland: September 20, 2010 on MTV3 Edit

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