"24" Day 7: 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. (2009)

User Rating:

8.1/10   

Director:

Jon Cassar

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"24" (2001)

Original Air Date:

11 January 2009 (Season 7, Episode 2)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

A device that overrides the nation's homeland systems falls into enemy hands while the President's husband investigates his son's recent death.

Plot Keywords:

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Cast

Kiefer Sutherland	...	Jack Bauer
Cherry Jones	...	President Allison Taylor
Annie Wersching	...	Renee Walker
Colm Feore	...	Henry Taylor
Bob Gunton	...	Ethan Kanin
Jeffrey Nordling	...	Larry Moss
Rhys Coiro	...	Sean Hillinger
Janeane Garofalo	...	Janis Gold
Carlos Bernard	...	Tony Almeida
John Billingsley	...	Michael Latham
Isaach De Bankolé	...	Ule Matobo
Hakeem Kae-Kazim	...	Colonel Iké Dubaku
Carly Pope	...	Samantha Roth
Peter Wingfield	...	David Emerson
Nick Chinlund	...	Masters

Runtime:

42 min | Germany:40 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Company:

Imagine Television

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Towards the end agent Walker stares at a notebook computer deleting its files instead of quickly pulling the plug and/or battery.

Excellent conclusion to the return of 24.

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.-As the sniper holds his ground Renee calls Malice to inform him of their current situation, he instantly sends a SWAT team to their location and has Janis lock down the building the sniper is inside of. Jack is ordered by Renee to leave the battleground and stay with a fellow agent in his van for his potential actions and his current attitude. The sniper from the inside knows that he's in water cooler situation, luckily for him a man sent by Tony is posing as an FBI agent and assists him outside, making it out okay. Jack, after having an enamored conversation with the agent with him, asks for a a few minutes outside, their he notices the sniper walk out of the area untouched, Jack informs Renee but asks her not to take immediate action, they agree to slowly follow the sniper to his destination point, in hopes to find Tony. As they follow the sniper Renee puts her career onto he line and lies to Malice. Malice, concerned, doesn't believe her and asks Janis to follow them with a tracking device program in her computer software. Meanwhile Tony and his henchmen pull one on the government by having the two planes almost nicking each other, they promise more cybernetic attacks soon, and those times will be serious and people will get hurt. Preident Taylor continues her meetings discussing plans to a surprise invasion on Gen. Manjumba and is briefed on the potential hazards that could occur if they do not act fast. At the same time she is briefed on the tech terrorists, she knows the situation and wants it taken care of but Gen. Manjumba is at her most concerns at the moment. She is even having a meeting with the leader of that country to talk strategically. Meanwhile her husband Henry goes to have a private conversation with Samantha regarding the death of his son and the oodles of money she mysteriously has. Much to Jack's small belief Tony is not in this alone, he is working with Emmerson, as he has for the last three years in a row. And both are working for Gen. Manjumba. Jack and Renee arrive on the scene where they encounter the sniper and duke it out with a few other men in the area aboard Tony's hideout, a boat at the docks. After disposing of Tony's men Jack and Renee investigate the boat, Renee finds the device Lathan built for them, it's not working. Before Jack and really ask Tony a serious question Malice arrives in a copter with armed agents.

This episode deals a lot with the subject matter of trust, and putting the care for others ahead of some objectives.

The acting is superb( Especially from Garoflao, Feore, and Sutherland), the story structure is solid enough, and the twists are quite surprising.

I especially liked the way they handled the political element and and the conflicts President Taylor had with.

So far, so good.

10/10.