24: Day 3
 

For anyone that has seen it, you know that 24 is one of the most addictive shows on television, and the third season premiere is a little over three weeks away. I am one of the most obsessed fans of the show you will find, so I am taking it upon myself to start the Day 3 thread for us to post speculation on the new season, reviews of episodes, etc.

From the season three trailer I have gathered that the episode is about a deadly virus that is about to be spread through Los Angeles (poor LA. Always getting attacked). Jack now has a partner Chase, which I am not too sure I am keen on. Perhaps he will shoot him in the leg or something after the first episode, because that's what Jack does. :)

I have high hopes for this season and can't wait for the 28th. What do you guys think?

24 is awesome, i can't wait for the premiere of season 3. I'll definitely be watching it.

Should be just as sweet as the first two seasons. Can't wait to see Mia Kirshner again. SOOOO HOoot

I will be in Europe.... but thank goodness for VCRs and Tivo :)

I heard that Season 3 is supposed to take place 3 years later. Not too happy about that. I have a 24 forum on my site if anyone is interested. If that's considered as spam I apologize.

Yeah, it is three years later. I don't see a problem with that. Season 2 was 18 months after season 1.

For a while, I had thought season 3 would pick up right where 2's finale was since Max had put plan B into effect and Mandy had rendered the president helpless. Of course, seeing Jack roll off the stretcher after a heart attack for another 24 hours would have been totally impossible...even for Jack Bauer ;)

I can wait either, I just hope some questions will be answered, like President Palmer's handshake...


Counting down...tick tick

Isn't it getting just a LITTLE bit unrealistic now?

I think they could have something a bit easier to swallow if they'd changed the format slightly. Call the sequel "7 Days" or something. Make if take place over a week, rather than one day.

It would give the script writers a bit more to work with...

Mr Mephisto


PS - Never watched the first two series to the end. Does Jack ever get tired and doze off? I would!

Yeah, but then it'd defeat the novelty of the show. The fact that each episode is one hour in his life makes for riveting television.

Besides, it's television. I don't want it to be totally realistic.


He dozed off in season one when he had kidnapped the waitress, but quickly woke up when he realized she was trying to escape.

His heart stopped last season. Close enough.

24 is awesome and it keeps you on the edge of your seat.

I love 24. But I think they started taking some liberties with the "24 hour" concept. Like driving across LA in just one episode... that can't happen.

And could we just ditch all the "Kim" story lines.

24 is by far the most riveting show on TV. Although I agree, the stupidity of Kim gets a bit old after x amount of kidnappings and such.

Can't wait till 3!

Fear not. I think just sticking her behind a desk at CTU can keep her from getting eaten by cougars, kidnapped, held hostage, etc. She is just gonna be getting it on with Jack's new partner. :)

Good grief! I couldn't stand the Kim subplot. Once I found out she's working at CTU, I breathed a sigh of relief. :)

I am just as obsessed and have made it clear to all my friends that when 24 is on, you do not call, you do not show up, you do nothing to interrupt me from it. I never miss an episode and damn Elisha Cuthbert is smokin' HOT. In fact, she is my computer's wallpaper now :D

She's my phone's wallpaper, and I have that do nost disturb rule in effect as well :)

Palmer better be in it. That guy kicks ass.

Goddamn 24 is good, I unfortunatly didnt find out until this summer when I rented the Season 1 dvds.
Now Im desparatly trying to watch season 2 before season 3 starts.

My biggest problem with season 2 was the fact the story revolved around the threat of a nuclear weapon going off in L.A. The problem is that you knew, right from the start, that a nuclear bomb was not going to decimate Los Angeles. A prime time US tv show just wouldn't do it. Granted, I wasn't expecting the bomb to go off at all, so I'll give praise for that.

In the first season, you were (or at least I was) never sure whether Palmer would be assasinated. It kept me coming back. A virus spreading around LA... I like that idea better than the nuke. A virus can do damage a smaller scale, so who knows what exactly will happen.

I definitely see your point there, but you still know that in season 3 LA won't be infected by the virus. The part that makes the show fun is all the stuff that happens from the beginning to the end.

it is that way with every TV show I think. The bad guys can't win. :)

Hopefully Elisha will have a REAL purpose this season not just running around the forest like an idiot. Anyhow if you like 24, you might want to check out Alias. I recently started watching this and its just as good if not better.

Yea, I know that much, but at least its possible for the virus to infect a single person, while not having a complete outbreak. So who knows who will get infected as the season progresses. With a nuke, tho, there really isn't too much middle ground.

Will the new season of "24" be as good as the last 2?
 

I am definitely looking forward to it. The previews look pretty good. Show starts in about an hour!

24 Day 3: 1pm - 2pm


I just got finished watching the season premiere of 24, and it was damn good. It was presented commercial free again this year, and I am glad Ford actually put some effort into their commercial this year. I actually watched it this time since it had a plot. If you remember last year, it was just that lame Toby Keith commercial.


The plotline is what I had read: PNP will be released in Los Angeles if Ramon Salizar isn't release from prison in the next six hours. Salizar was put into jail by Jack who spent a year undercover in Mexico. Ramon talked about things Jack was put through down there, and we found out that one thing was that he now has an addiction to heroine eating at him. I think this is going to be an excellent addition to the plotline because we will be able to see Bauer's struggles with craving. The scene at the end with him throwing his junkie kit across the room was intense. The other moment I enjoyed was when we found out that Kate Warner and Jack have just broken up and are separating their stuff. Apparently Jack broke it off with her, so I hope we find out a reason behind it. I can only assume it has to do with his erratic behavior because of all the heroine stuff.


President Palmer is planning a debate at USC, and we get an idea of how his brother is right off the top when he announces he fired someone important to the President's staff. There is obvious tension between him and the president's Doctor/Girlfriend that I am sure we will see unfold as well.


I am not too sure how I feel about Chase yet. I don't think his character has had enough time to really develop in the first hour. He just seemed to be in the background for the most part when it came to actual CTU actions. I really don't care about his relationship with Kim at this point. It should also be noted that I am not too big on that new haircut of hers. I guess I just think that Kim shouldn't even be involved in the season. Putting her in at CTU just doesn't really add that much I don't think. Let her sit at home and get bitten by cougars or something.


All in all I am very excited for this season. I think a subplot is going to develop again with the President and his staff as well as one with Michelle and Tony (It is weird hearing him call her sweetheart!). Tony might move to Langley, and the fact that Michelle won't have a job out there might cause some kind of tension as Tony decides whether or not the job is worth it.


7 days until the next episode. If you watched this week, what did you think of it?

Screw that! They should have made season 2 the day right after season 1, and season 3 the day right after season 2! Talk about shitty luck!!

Kim... went from a baby-sitter to a computer genius in three years :rolleyes:

SPOILER... don't read if you haven't watced






I watched the premiere. Overall, it was pretty solid and it set up the entire season pretty well. The whole heroin addiction thing will really add a new edge to Jack's character. He needs to win an Emmy next year.

That being said, with the heroin and his heart stopping last season... I wouldn't be surprised if he dies, but I doubt the producers would be dumb enough to do that.

That was my thought.... if only it were that easy!

She isn't a total dumbass. If you saw the Pilot you saw her and Jack in a hard fought chess battle, which I think gives her some credibility.

If you read articles over the past few weeks, you would know that Sutherland suggested they kill off his character at the end of last season to keep the audiences guessing. Definitely woulda gotten the job done, but I think it woulda been show suicide.

Refreshing a drive!? WTF? Oh and I wish all servers had pull-put LCDs.....Kim is welcome to refresh my drive anytime.:D

Duly noted and agreed. That haircut looks atrocious on her.

Loved the first episode, glad to see Palmer didn't die, but I thought they made it too obvious something was going on between him and his doctor even before they kissed.

Great tension, questions left unanswered, another winner in my opinion.

I hope they aren't prepping the Chase character to star in the next season or get a new star.

If Jack dies in this one, I want the show to die with him. It just would not be the same without Sutherland.

Totally, wholeheartedly agree. If Jack dies, and the show goes on, can we say "jump the shark"?

I don't know if it would be shark jumping. Depends on who they would get to replace him.

Yeah, i think it's safe to say i would probably stop watching the show if Jack died. I know it wouldn't even be the same without him.

I would still watch if they killed Jack and replaced him with Tony.

Tony's great, but he's no Jack. :)

Killing Teri in the first season was a big enough message to show us that 24 isn't a typical show.. if they keep killing off their primary characters, it'll turn into a revolving door of cast members, like.. ER.

I thought Kim was gonna play a insignificant part in this one.... she's always got be up in the middle of shit doesn't she?

24 Day 3: 2pm - 3pm


Hour two begins with Jack saving the remains of his heroine stash. My prediction was right that Jack had to use "junk" as Chase called it to get deep inside the Salizar cartel. You really got a sense of his addiction when Chase and Jack were walking through that junkie house and Jack was just in awe of the girl shooting heroine into her toes. :)


Kim finally told Jack about her and Chase's relationship, which gave Jack an excuse to get rid of Chase. Of course Jack isn't happy that his daughter is dating a field agent, so he decides to take him out of harm's way. I am still not hot on the idea of Jack having a partner, so if they just leave Chase at CTU to work with Chloe that will be fine by me. I was impressed by his stepping on the wound of the junke that Jack shot though. :)


We are beginning to see the personality of Wayne Palmer. He has access to Senator Keeler's playbook for the debate, and is all for using it. His brother wants nothing to do with it. Wayne gets it anyway and discovers something about the President's girlfriend/doctor. It was alluded to last week in the preview, and they still haven't told us what it is. I really can't think of what it might be. Was she a stripper? Was she a heroine addict to? :)


Random Note: Kyle Singer's girlfriend is paler than I am.


The cliffhanger this week is that the guy that has been keeping an eye on Kyle is actually a CTU employee. PLEASE! How many moles or spies can that agency have inside it? It has to be the most insecure agency in the country. Jamie, Nina, and now this guy. We don't really know that much about him as of yet, but I am assuming he works in the office closely with Kim, Tony, and Michelle. I just wish they would think of something more creative than rehashing the whole spy in the agency bit again this season.


7 more days...

I was thinking that too.
CTU must be the most insecure facility in the world.
Bleh.

Hopefully they have some better tricks up their sleeve than backtracking over the previous seasons' plot devices.

What's with Jack's secretary/assistant? Jack apologized to her but she’s acting weird to everyone, even Tony. I bet she’s gonna mess something up.

I wonder if the season ends with Jack dying and telling Chase he has his blessing to date his daughter.

Wouldn't CTU know if someone was using equipment to monitor things they possibly should not be... like Kyles home.

i watched a few episodes of season 2, now i want to go buy the dvd sets so i can see it all

They didn't know Jamie was doing the same kinda stuff back in season 1. Maybe this new mole has a job like hers....

the could always make season 4 take place sometime between seasons 2 and 3 if they kill Jack this season.

Seems like there is plenty of story in there...

man I love this show.

I know I'm in the minority here but I still think that 24 could work with replacement characters. it hasn't hurt Law and Order. BUt I really don't want to see Jack killed.

Trench I agree with you, i think that 24 would still be one of the best shows on tv without Jack. But the presence Jack brings is so hard to find. Tony sometimes has it going, and even Mason had it in season two. Im still hoping he doesnt die

Dude, is that the dell kid? I love the dell kid, that makes me so happy.

24 Day 3: 3pm - 4pm


Wow. When TV Guide said there would be a big shock in the first three episodes, and at the end of this episode I yelled out loud, "Holy Shit!"


I guess the big thing to talk about this week is Tony pretty much getting removed from this season after getting shot in the neck. Whether or not he has been offed entirely is unknown, but I am highly doubting it since Michelle seemed composed in the trailer for next week.


This is what makes 24 so awesome. No one is safe. I was really happy to see Tony get out in the field again because his scenes at the Warner house last year were awesome, but I didn't see him getting shot, and especially not so early in the season.


I grabbed that Nicole is an old friend of Jack's (possible former fling?) that he hasn't spoken with since Teri's death (approx 4.5 years ago). She easily picked up that Jack is shooting up. I don't really think she has much of a character at the moment. She is a mere virologist, but I have to imagine there is more to her than that. I don't really see her coming on to Jack or anything like that, but maybe she will be the one to turn Jack in...well if Chase doesn't.


We began to see Chase's temper in this episode. When he found that Tony was going in the field at the orders of Jack, he went ballistic. It is causing strains in his relationship with Kim, but I really don't think he is going to break it off with her. If anything, he is going to just walk out of CTU and find Jack.


The Palmer storyline with Ann seems like a rehash of the past two seasons, but with a different woman. I am tired of the trust issues that Palmer has with the women in his life. Wayne finally admitted his dislike of Ann, and I can definitely see him going to extremes to make sure Ann is not a factor in his brother's reelection.


Kyle Singer was infected with the virus when he was in Mexico 11 hours ago, so come the end of sweeps he will be contagious. I assume for the next 3 hours we are going to have to build up to some kind of hostage situation with Jack and Salizar's people facing off over Singer somewhere.

I gotta admit, i didn't see that coming. I cannot believe Tony got shot in the neck. I knew something big was supposed to happen but i wasn't expecting that. Wow!

But as you said, that's what makes 24 so great. Knowing anything could happen.

Wow... (just watched a tape now)

This show rules. I didn't have a clue it was coming either. I thought it was something more subtle, like the sketchy dealer guy somehow infecting Tony or something when he brushed against him as Tony was about to encounter Kyle.

Do you all think Tony is dead? Michelle might seem composed from the trailer simply because they haven't told her yet.

Why would the guy shoot a gun, at Tony or the kid? It doesn't make any sense.

Because it CTU takes in Kyle Singer, he can't infect the population. Remember, he is the carrier of the virus. By keeping him on the streets, he is going to infect anyone he is around.

He did this in order to create a diversion so that the kid could naturally escape. The terrorists knew that once the kid was taken into custody, their leverage would be taken out of play and their boss (Salazar) would still be in jail. In order to prevent that, the guy had to create chaos and hope that the kid would become free in the resulting chaos, which judging from the previews of next week, this indeed will happen. Then they can go ahead and capture him and then proceed to use him to spread the virus.

The guy wouldn't shoot the kid, this would also negate the only thing they have in hoping to get Salazar out of jail.

--wow Tikki, we posted at like the same time--

The guy knew that CTU had surrounded the mall. His partner (the mole at CTU) told him to abort. Shooting Tony may have been a diversion, but there's no way he could be sure that the kid would escape. If anything, it was a desperation move.

True, there's no way to guarantee that the guy could be sure that the kid would be able to escape. Even I was thinking that cause CTU had posted security at every exit to intercept him if he got out. So I assume he's able to escape in the resulting chaos, everyone in the mall is running out, and no one could expect security to catch the kid in that case.

I agree, though, that it was desperation. But it was only choice given the circumstances. Otherwise their whole plan would fail.

Yeah, Tony getting shot was definitely a holy shit moment. It does add to the "realism" that no one is safe.

Then again I was glad when Teri Bauer was killed. She annoyed me.

This weeks episode wasn't up to snuff with the previous few weeks. I think this is more of a filler episode to get us up to President Palmer's debate and Jack's escape from the prison with Salizar. I'll just post a few notes because I wasn't all that impressed this week.

* I think Chloe is in with that other terrorist guy at CTU (I can't spell his name). She is way too quirky and their whole scene about the personal cell phone seemed too fake.
* Tony isn't going to die, but Michelle is going to leave CTU in the hands of the traitor guy and all hell will most likely break loose.
* I am glad we finally got to see Chase beat the hell out of someone. It gave him some personality. I was worried at the beginning of the season about having someone tagging along with Jack, but as we can see, it's not anywhere near that. Thank god.
* i honestly have no idea what is going on with Kyle Singer's story line. Are they just going to throw him out into LA at 6pm?
* After Palmer's debate, what use is he going to be? And why 30 minutes before the debate is he not prepping. Also, why is no one in the auditorium?
* The last five minutes of the episode were the best. Jack racing against the clock to get out of the jail was a total thrill ride. Letting the prisoners out of the cells gave me a nice laugh.

I think next weeks episode will be a lot better with Jack having to get out of the prison and the debate between palmer and keeler. I am sure we will hear something more about Tony as well.

7 more days...

hrm.. I'm not fully sure about the Kyle Singer storyline myself. However, it looked like he was placed in an incubator or some type of contamination chamber. So, I'd say that they'll hook up a some sort of exhaust hose from that chamber and filter it out into the LA atmosphere, therefore making the virus airborn.

Not every episode can be full of action sequences... some episodes need to be used for plot development and suspense, and this was one of them. I'm all for sacrficing an episode in terms of action content if it makes subsequent episodes all that much better, which I think will be the case for next week's show.

So there's an hour left before the kid is contaigous. How is Jack going to deliver Salazar in time to prevent the virus from going public, especially now that he's been captured by those prisoners?

And another thing, why does Jack have to always wind up breaking the law in order to save the world?

because you gotta get your hands dirty to get results

Now, give me that hacksaw. ;)

Sooner or later, the whole President blackmail story line has got to tie in with the rest of the terrorist plot.

Agreed. There is more to that then we are being told.

What really I want to know is how Chase is going to handle having Jack handed to him by the prisoner/hostage situation in the prison. Will he keep jacks "cover?" Or will he turn Jack in for helping Salazar break out?

Also, while I'm thinking of it. I can't believe they ended last season with the president collapsing from the handshake, and then make almost no mention of it in the new season. I know this season is supposed to take place a couple of years after season 2, but I think they could have/should have made season 3 tie in with the end of 2 much more than they did.

It does tie in:

a) Palmer is very untrusting of people
b) His hand is scarred
c) He is very short on breath and energy, which is due to the attack on his life.

Would he even need to turn Jack in for helping Salazar break out? I'd think that the warden would be able to figure that out after seeing Chase tied up in Salazar's cell, and plus the guard in the control room who was forced to open all the prison cells by Jack's gun... they'd arrest Jack anyway for helping Salazar break out.

I still can't swallow the whole mall scene. The mall is surrounded by CTU and cops. A guy fires a gun in the mall with the cops watching. And both the shooter and the kid get away no problem! Let's block all the exits, but forget about the parking garage. No one would ever leave that way. :rolleyes:

24 Day 3: 5pm - 6pm


I was thinking about it earlier this week and I am glad we have moved from Middle Eastern terrorists to Mexicans. It's a nice change of pace. Just thought I'd share that.


I said that last week was a set up for the next few episodes, and it seems I was right. This week's episode was pretty good in my book. The main plot point was Jack trying to get Salizar out of the prison and on his way to Mexico. It started with Jack and Salizar taking out two guards to get their uniforms to try and just walk out the door. Of course that wasn't going to work, because in the first five minutes of a prison riot the prisoners had already started fires and taken out every guard there was.


In one of those "yeah, that's not going to work" moves, Jack tries to take on a gaggle of prisoners (hehe. gaggle). Obviously you know that hardened criminals can take out even invincible Jack. This leads to the best part of the episode (and in the end the worst part). The Russian Roulette scene was unique and entertaining to watch. I don't think it had as much intensity and drama as it could. Even if Surnow and Cochran want you to think no one is safe in 24, I was pretty confident that Jack and Salizar were going to make it out of there alive. I was pretty sure that the guard was gonna go down too.


Chase is starting to come into form. I am slowly starting to like his character more and more with each week. His taking over command of the prison and then getting "hands on" shooting everyone left and right was good stuff. I still think he is Jack's flunkie though, which was very evident at the end of the episode when he let Jack get on the chopper without any problems. If someone had just tried to strangle me, you'd be damn sure I would be getting on that chopper too and getting my revenge once Salizar was released.


Back at CTU, Kim is getting suspicious of Rael. Please please please please please don't let her get taken hostage!!!!! I can't take another season of Kim in peril. Having her deal with the fact that her dad lied to her and is using heroine is enough trouble I want to see her in. Let her character grow by showing how she can cope with working at CTU while knowing every single thing her dad is doing out in the field. That is what I enjoyed about her character this week. You can only imagine how hard that must be to be told your dad lied to you to break out a federal prisoner.

Seeing Tony laid up on a gurney was gross....

Watching Kyle Singer hang himself was disturbing...

Now that CTU knows that Jack is using, I am sure they are going to blame his irrationality on it. I am just imagining Jack getting back to CTU and them trying to ship him off to rehab at that very moment. If they did that, I don't know if Chase could carry the weight of the super hero yet. I don't think I like him enough for that. hmm. Now that I think about it, ship Jack to a rehab clinic, and let him break out.

Now that Jack and Salizar are in the air on their way to Mexico and Kyle Singer is in custody, I am gonna predict a few things to happen.

a) Rael is going to reveal himself, kidnap Singer, and we are back at square 1.
b) Jack is going to get to Mexico safe and then have to shoot his way out of Salizar's compound. Marie is gonna get shot in it, which is going to get Hector on the road for revenge.
c) Kim is going to snap on that nerdy kid, and get relieved of her duties. I am sure Chapelle will try to have her arrested for conspiring with Jack as well.

So, now the worst part of tonight's episode? The Public Service Announcement on why it's bad to play Russian Roulette. We have been shooting people and doing far worse things on 24 in the past 2 seasons, so why are we doing PSA's now? It just seemed really out of place and very OC/90210-ish.

7 more days...

The whole Russian Roulette sequence really really bothered me. Nothing before on 24 had any affect on me beforehand, but this one just seemed to push my edge. Yeah, the episode overall was good, action packed, but that particular sequence just seemed to take away from the quality of the episode in my opinion.

It seems like more and more that Jack won't return next season. He referred to this as "his last assignment" when he talked to the pres, I doubt they'll put him in any position of power at CTU now that his herion habit has been exposed, and that whole starting a prison riot certainly doesn't help. How is he going to avoid jail/rehab in his immediate future?

I don't think it was done as well as it could have been. That prisoner was too crazy. he should have been more rough and evil: like the guy that tortured Jack last season.

yeah, but it seems like every season we have that moment where its going to be Jack's last mission.

season 1: Going after the Drazens by himself.
season 2: taking the plane into the desert.
season 3: breaking out salizar.

Yeah, good point. We'll just have to see what happens. Now that his heroin habit has been exposed though, is he gonna be able to do anything at CTU? Maybe he'll just freelance or somethin...

Another nitpicky thing I had in this episode. How in the world do you find that random truck with that license plate in 10 minutes or so? Last time I checked, LA is a pretty big city, and they only had a last known location and direction for that truck about an hour or so ago? Yes, I know it's Hollywood, I'm taking it with a grain of salt, but this just seems way too unrealistic.

Argh! I wanna see this! Can't wait till they air it over here. They're in the middle of showing the second season again, to build up for the third I think. I loved the two first seasons, watched them religiously.

Willing suspension of disbelief ;)

Did we ever find out how exactly Singer was infected? Yeah, we know he went to Mexico, but how exactly did he contract the virus?

This week we start off with Jack and Salizar up in the air and Chase trying to...chase them down. Jack's favorite buddy at CTU, Chapelle, has returned this season and is once again in charge of CTU. I guess having Michelle running things just doesn't cut it for Division. Chapelle's character bores me. He is always the same dry person, although I did enjoy that uncomfortable hug he shared with Michelle when she got news that Tony was going to have a full recovery. I assume she is going to visit him in the next few hours, so all the Tony fans can get their fix.

Chapelle tells everyone that Bauer is expendable, so they can shoot him out of the sky if they want. I am glad that didn't become an issue, because rehashing story lines is really boring. Plus, who on earth can survive TWO air crashes? This is an issue with Palmer and it pulls him from the debate at a critical point. Wayne is obviously not pleased, and wants Bauer dead so that he can't talk about the authorization for the breaking out of Salizar. I am beginning to think that Wayne is going to be removed from his position in a few hours because of his bickering with Anne. I also am beginning to think she has a few skeletons in her closet that are going to turn her into Sherry 2. You don't really think that Palmer can have anything go in his favor do you?

Hector tells Marie that Jack is bringing Ramone, and she is definitely not pleased. Hector wants to kill Bauer and Marie just doesn't trust him. Jack just doesn't have many friends.

Kyle Singer wasn't infected with the virus? What the hell?
Nice Mustang, Jack.

The big thing we get out of this episode is Kim discovering Rael is a traitor and once again being taken as a hostage. She is just a seasoned pro at this hostage situation thing. I don't really know how he is going to hold her hostage that long inside of CTU without being discovered. Perhaps he is going to move offsite with her? Kill kim? I don't think so. At least not now. I could see it happening in the end of the season. Think about it. Jack puts her at CTU so he can keep an eye on her, and she is still murdered because he wasn't there to protect her 24/7.

The show is going to darkness now that it is 7pm. All the fun happens in the dark. Nuclear bombs explode, Drazens invade DoD prisons, and mosque's are invaded. Can you believe that the season is already 1/4 of the way through?

7 more days...

Mach-1:D

Suddenly i want to trade my 1998 in for one of those. :)

It was only a matter of time before Kim gets put into a dangerous situation. Wayne is creeping me out. As for Kyle, was he another diversion? Is there another person who has the virus?

I guess there could be someone/something with the virus, but what would be the point? The drug dealers got what they wanted in the form of Ramon back in their custody... so I'm not sure what else they'll want, except for Jack Bauer being killed. But they'll most likely string that torture process over several episodes.

As for the rest of how the season is gonna turn out... I just dunno. I was really excited about the whole bio-terrorism plot, etc, but now that it's gone and it's replaced by Kim being in danger yet again, and Jack being captured yet again.. it seemed cliched almost. This week's episode was just "eh".

We start off with Gael duct taping Kim to a chair and asking what she saw. Again, Kim in peril is overplayed. Why not Chloe or someone else? Gael is quickly uncovered as the mole inside of CTU...well, at least this years mole when Adam tries to get into Tech 1 and discovered the access codes have changed. Gael really doesn't put up that much of a fight when he is trying to escape CTU.

The party on Ramon's plane is real exciting. He fights with wanting to kill Jack for half the episode. The way Jack took out Pedro by faking the seizure was good stuff. I wish I was cool enough to break a guys neck with my legs. :)

Chase is on the hunt for Jack much to the chagrin of Chapelle. He ends up at the house of a contact Jack and he established while working the Salizar case before. This accountant dealt witht the financial issues of Salizar and he uncovered that Jack's plane would be landing in Las Nievas.

Chase is finally growing on me now that he is given the ability to grow as a character. It grows more and more each week. How he dealt with the accountant was good stuff, defying his boss was very Bauer-ish, and just by going dark in general is going to be really interesting....he is heading to Las Nievas to get Jack back.

President Palmer is dealing with the repercussions of withdrawing from the debate with Senator Kieler early. I am really not interested in this storyline. I don't care about Anne. I would actually go so far as to say I don't even like her character. She seems too weak to be dating the leader of the free world. She always looks like she is going to cry. Her issues with her ex husband are not of interest either. She is going to go to his office to get some documents that will clear her name and most likely be framed for something like murder or conspiracy, etc. They want to make her out to be another Sherry so Palmer won't trust her. In fact, I wouldn't put it past Wayne to be the one setting up the meeting between Anne and her ex. He wants Anne out of the way, and this would be a good way to accomplish that.

"Chloe is a pain in the ass" was definitely the quote of the episode. :)

Interrogating Gael was interesting. I don't really know what Chapelle was having Johnson injected into Gael but it seemed painful enough. Chapelle really isn't that great at interrogation. Repeating the same thing over and over was way too reminiscent of Jack trying to get Joseph Wald out of his bunker last season. "Dammit, Joe! Come out!"

Speaking of pain, apparently Tony has been taking classes from Jack on dealing with pain. He was shot in the neck a few hours ago, just exited surgery, and is already leaving the hospital to go back to work. The plausibility is really weak, but it made for good TV. The reason why he had to leave the hospital? Too good.

Apparently Jack, Gael, and Tony had it all planned out to get Jack back in with the Salizars via Hector. Having Jack break Ramon out of prison was a way to reestablish his cover in the Salizar family.

First off, Hector Salizar is most likely taking too many of his own drugs to let a guy who betrayed him like Jack back into his inner circle again. Once you get past that fact though, this is genius. Ramon is obviously against all of this and not trusting whatsoever. With Jack back inside, he can get access to the virus and try and get rid of it.

It is also most likely going to set up a clash between Chase and Jack. Chase is going to get captured and Ramon is most likely going to want Jack to take him out to prove his loyalty to the family again.

I honestly didn't see any of this turning out this way, so once again the writers have thrown a curveball to the viewers which makes us wonder what is going to happen next. Luckily we have next week, and then its a christmas break most likely. :(

7 more days...

24 Day 3: 8pm - 9pm

After last week's awesome episode, we follow it up with one that isn't nearly on par. The episode starts off with Tony explaining to President Palmer the situation. Everything from the past 7 hours was setup by Tony, Gael, and Jack: the body at health services, the virus in general, etc. There is a bigger virus on the market, and Jack needed to reestablish his cover with the Salizards to incercept it. Palmer is definitely pissed about it.

Obviously, Ramon isn't pleased about Jack being back in the circle. Breaking him out of prison was all part of his plan to gain the trust of Hector so he can get capital to buy the virus from the Ukranians. Jack is playing the angle of being pissed that he isn't getting much love from CTU. His wife was murdered because of the job, his daughter isn't the same because of it, and he was pissed because he busted his hump to get Ramon in jail and got nothing for it but "a demotion and a heroine habit."

The first strains on Hector and Ramon's relationship began to show because of Jack being back. Hector trusts him, but Ramon doesn't. One of them is going to kill the other most likely. The other big detail we discover about Jack is that Maria and he had a fling together while he was undercover the last time. She is obviously bitter that he didn't get her out of their like he said he would. I guess we can assume that Kate and Jack's relationship ended in part because of this.

Tony is struggling to deal with the fac that he was SHOT IN THE NECK a few hours ago and is back at full speed. How long he is going to be able to last in this condition is beyond me. I am going to guess that he collapses a few more times and then they ship him back to the hospital. Michelle is upset that Tony didn't tell her about the Salizar op. Guess the honeymoon's over.

Thank god Anne is gone. Every week I care less and less about Palmer's storyline. Political scandals are not interesting to me. I can see that stuff on FoxNews. I want to see people getting shot, terrorist threats, and Jack Bauer doing the impossible when I watch 24. Anyway, Anne is gone and her name is cleared by some letters her now deceased ex husband gave her. yippee. I don't even think Sherry could save this storyline.

Chase is on the hunt for Jack, but has been captured by the Salizards (predictable). To prove his loyalty to Ramon and Hector, Jack has to show that he would kill Chase. Good thing that gun was unloaded. Where is this going to lead? Chase thinks Jack has turned, and Jack can't really tell Chase what is going on for fear of losing his cover.

So, January 6, 2004 is when 24 returns, and there is a big surprise dealing with another buyer for the virus. hmm. I wonder who the other buyer is? coughNINAcough.

Yeah, I heard it was Nina too, but how would that work? Shouldn't she be in jail for lots of things [murder, attempted murder, treason, etc]?

No, she got a presidential pardon.

The entire plot has taken a turn for the worse. It went from interesting to "who cares".

how do you figure....don't make a statement like that and not back it up with reasoning.

I completely disagree, the show is all about plot twist.

Whoa, hold on a sec. I thought the pardon was for the "future murder of Jack Bauer" when she had the info about Sayed Ali last season. But CTU was able to re-capture her after she had taken Jack sorta hostage. So it seemed to me that she was headed back to jail... did the pardon cover her past crimes too?

Now, back to this season... so what's the point of having that virus outbreak threat if you know that the government is never going to negotiate with terrorists? Were Jack, Gael, and Tony just hoping that maybe this time, the government would make an exception given the grave nature of the threat, and that the prison break out would be a backup?

You so easily forget that George Mason had to call Palmer to get the presidential pardon before Nina would even talk in the first place. After he got that, he sent Jack in for the best scene in the history of 24. :)

The virus outbreak was their excuse for breaking out Salizar. Without it, it would have just seemed like a regular breakout rather than an attempt at stopping some sort of catastrophic disaster.

Got it. Thanks for clearing it up.

I'm still a bit hazy on the whole logistics behind Nina's pardon. So I guess they took her into custody once they got the info so she couldn't kill Jack, but then soon after let her go?

yep. they strapped her ass to a chair in LA until the bomb was defused. Then they had to release her.

The virus scare was not real. The mole in CTU was not really a mole. The plot thread with the President seems to be resolved, except his girlfriend dumped him. And no one is in danger except Jack and Chase. Yes, yes, I know they have to stop the sale of the real virus, and I'm sure the action will pick up or the story will take another twist, but it just doesn't have the cohesiveness or edginess like the first two 24 hours. Just my opinion. :)

patience grasshoppa.

I do agree with you on the president's storyline though. it sucks.

Man this show is addicting. Great twists to it that keep bringing you back. Scenes like the russian roulette in the prison and Jack pulling the trigger on Chases' head are intense. I can't think of another show on network television that shows that kind of stuff.

Can't wait till Jan. 6th.

watch SPOOKS or MI-5 as its know in the US market. They do character fucks ALL the time. Check your listings for A&E. ALIAS I used to like more because of those same kinds of character twists, but MI-5 really takes the cake.

Back on to the 24 thread, I'm finally caught up with my Tivo and can say that this is some really good plot twists. I'm still going to say that my FAVORITE season so far is Season 2, but this one has been a good one so far.

i appreciated that they didn't use the same plot device of "mole in CTU", but instead led the audience down that path and then took it in a new direction. i'm liking this season overall - the twists don't seem as contrived as some from season 2. (i still have yet to see any of season 1... how does the first season compare to 2 and 3?)

first season was really well done. There was some really good drama and some interesting connections. It didn't break strides as far as writing goes until they got to the second season, since there were a few parts where they didn't know what to do with some people ex. Jack's Wife.

It's still a good watch, and I'd watch it again.

I love this show I watch it every week. I was thinking about buying the first and second season on dvd for my husband and I he hasn't had much interest in it this year, but I have.

I still think Gael is working with the Salazar's.
I can't wait till the next episode!

I'll keep an eye out for those shows. Never heard of MI-5 or sppoks. I've watched Alias once or twice but it didn't do a lot for me.

Couldnt agree more if you guys like 24 check out MI-5.

Just like the last 2 years 24 has you on the edge of your seat and the end of every episode is a cliffhanger.

Great episode again last night. Well I didn't get to watch all of it last night since I was all drugged up on cold medicine but this afternoon it was good.

Seems to me that there's a lot of emphasis put on the personal relationships between the characters. Me thinks we havn't seen the end of all the knives in the backs.

I missed last night's episode. Will try to catch it if I can though.

So far, I have been enjoying it though. Think that I may have missed a couple of episodes. But everytime that I do catch it on tv, I find that I totally get into it. Very cool series so far.