"24" Day 3: 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. (2003)

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Director:

Jon Cassar

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"24" (2001)

Original Air Date:

4 November 2003 (Season 3, Episode 2)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

After Goss' infected body is dropped at the hospital Jack and Chase begin to trace his last known locations while CTU tries to figure out how the virus is gonna be unleashed to the public at large. Once they figure out it's gonna be spread through cocaine shipments CTU begins to track down drug dealers in East LA. President Palmer considers canceling the debate.

Plot Keywords:

Title Ends With Period | Black President | Black U.S. President | Digit In Title | Period In Title

Cast

Kiefer Sutherland	...	Jack Bauer
Elisha Cuthbert	...	Kim Bauer
Carlos Bernard	...	Tony Almeida
Reiko Aylesworth	...	Michelle Dessler
James Badge Dale	...	Chase Edmunds
Dennis Haysbert	...	President David Palmer
Christina Chang	...	Dr. Sunny Macer
Wendy Crewson	...	Dr. Anne Packard
Joaquim de Almeida	...	Ramon Salazar
Vanessa Ferlito	...	Claudia
Vincent Laresca	...	Hector Salazar
Riley Smith	...	Kyle Singer
D.B. Woodside	...	Wayne Palmer (as DB Woodside)
Jesse Borrego	...	Gael Ortega
Geoffrey Pierson	...	Senator John Keeler (as Geoff Pierson)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

Portugal:M/12 (DVD rating)

Company:

Imagine Television

Trivia:

Beginning with Season 3, Fox decided to stop airing repeats of each week's episode on its cable outlet, F-X. The decision was made after several local Fox affiliates complained that the repeats were hurting their ratings.

Soundtrack:

3,000 Miles

Two Episodes And I'm hooked!

It turns out Jack has a drug habit because he wanted to gain the confidence of main bad-guy Romon Salazar. However, the good news is that he throws away the needle at the last second and is going to try to clean himself up. The bad news is that he picked a bad day to fight that addiction on his own.

It's confirmed that Romon's brother has worked a transaction in which a deadly virus has been transported, through a big bag of cocaine, to Los Angeles. We know who has the bag and is giving it to someone else for cash. In other words, he - "Kyle Singer" (Riley Smith) - was just being the messenger boy. In this episode, Bauer and younger partner Chase Edmuunds (James Badge Dale) find out about Singer and they try to locate him.

We also get a short subplot in which Jack's daughter Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) and Chase tell the boss that they are getting seriously involved, which does not please him. Apparently, he has made it known that no one in their job with the CTU can successfully maintain a marriage and he doesn't want his daughter to suffer. Anyway, that's just another angle to give the viewers a break from the tense terrorist situation.

This is another good episode and now has me hooked. This is my first go-around on this program and I can see why it's successful. The characters are all interesting, including Denis Haysbert as the President. He has since gone on to star in his own TV program ("The Unit"), so I'm curious to what happens to him on this show.