"24" 4:00 a.m.-5:00 a.m. (2001)

User Rating:

8.4/10   

Director:

Winrich Kolbe

Writers:

Joel Surnow (creator) &
Robert Cochran (creator) ...

TV Series:

"24" (2001)

Original Air Date:

11 December 2001 (Season 1, Episode 5)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Jack follows the arrested conspirator to the police station in order to get more info on Kim's whereabouts. Palmer meets with a reporter who has some damaging information. Kim realizes just how dangerous Ira Gaines really is.

Plot Keywords:

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Cast

Kiefer Sutherland	...	Jack Bauer
Leslie Hope	...	Teri Bauer
Sarah Clarke	...	Nina Myers
Elisha Cuthbert	...	Kim Bauer
Dennis Haysbert	...	Senator David Palmer
Michael Massee	...	Ira Gaines
Daniel Bess	...	Rick
Matthew Carey	...	Dan
Vicellous Reon Shannon	...	Keith Palmer (as Vicellous Shannon)
Jacqui Maxwell	...	Janet York
Karina Arroyave	...	Jamey Farrell (credit only)
John Hawkes	...	Greg Penticoff
Xander Berkeley	...	George Mason
David Barrera	...	Philips
Tanya Wright	...	Patty Brooks

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

Portugal:M/12 (DVD rating)

Company:

Imagine Television

Goofs:

Continuity: When Senator Palmer is talking to his son, the clock reveals the time 4.57, however just seconds before had the "24" clock shown 4.37.

Quotes:

Nina Myers: Okay, there's a payphone down the block and it's in service. What about a warrant?
Jack Bauer: Forget the warrant.

Soundtrack:

New Noise

There's no such thing as "sorta dead"...

"If you ever want to see your daughter again, get me out of this!" Greg Penticoff (an unrecognizable John Hawkes) told Jack Bauer at the end of the previous episode. Now, fearing for Kim's life and with George Mason still suspecting him of treason, Jack has to come up with a plan to get Penticoff out of jail. Pity the LAPD won't agree on that one...

In the meantime, Teri and Alan York learn of a Jane Doe that has been taken to the hospital and Alan identifies the half-dead girl as his daughter Janet. This means she didn't die two hours earlier, as Kimberly's kidnappers told Ira Gaines, and lying to Gaines has damaging consequences. In addition, Senator Palmer's personal problems worsen during a meeting with Maureen Kingsley, the woman who wrote the troubling article about Keith and has a virtually foolproof source for the story: George Ferragamo, the boy's therapist.

Bauer's awareness of his daughter's condition adds poignancy to the narrative, as does Palmer's realization that he might not be able to trust his own family, while a sudden jolt of violence serves as an effective reminder of the fact that 24 can be unexpectedly brutal at times. The real value of this fifth hour, though, comes from seeing Sutherland's performance acquire new layers of complexity: as he tries to get Penticoff out of custody, Jack shows the first of his many fake bouts of anger, fooling the cops and also the audience. No wonder the actor won a Golden Globe for his work in Season 1.