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24
"7:00 AM to 8:00 AM"
Written by Joel Surnow & Michael Cocee
Directed by Stephen Hopkins
First off, congratulations to Keifer Sutherland on his Golden Globe award for 24. Now he just has to make sure that Tony Soprano doesn't whack him out of spite.
Well, we had another exciting episode of 24, this time finally seeing the breakfast that they've been building to since the beginning. Jack, of course, is still having his movements controlled by Gaines, Jamie is still Gaines' inside contact, Nina has been left for dead, and both Teri and Kim are in Gaines' camp.
We start out with Nina, who was revealed to not be dead thanks to the flak jacket that Jack gave her. She hobbles off to a nearby building, and tries to get a hold of Jamie. This is a bad idea since Jamie is working for Gaines. Thankfully, Jamie is dealing with Milo, and Nina decides to call Tony instead. Tony is obviously very suspicious about what's going on, but goes to fetch Jamie for Nina anyway. Gaines had told Jamie earlier to make up an excuse for Nina's disappearance, however, and Tony catches her in this lie.
Jack is now told to go to the breakfast with a briefcase he had to pick up. There he runs across the shooter whose face is now that of the photographer from the first episode. In the briefcase is a hidden gun, and Jack realizes that the militia wants Jack to take the fall for the murder of Palmer. This places Jack in a difficult position -- can he let a man die to save his family?
Speaking of his family, we get a tearful reunion between mother and daughter. They hug and cry, and tell each other they love one another. Kind of sweet, kind of sappy. Teri knows that Gaines has no intention of letting them live, and she desperately searches for some way to escape, but there is none. Kim dozes off, and Rick comes in to bring them breakfast. She's irate with the kidnapper, because obviously she doesn't yet realize that he has a heart of gold.
Still, the Bauers are nice and tight, which is more than can be said about the Palmers. David had decided to come forward with the truth about his son Keith. Understandably this has somewhat upset the family, and he's trying to keep everything sane. It's also the reason that he insists on being at the breakfast even though he knows his life may be in danger. He has to come forward with the true story, for the sake of his son, and the sake of his candidacy.
The reason he knows that he's in trouble, though, is due to the fact that Nina and Tony quickly deduce that Jamie is the mole. Realizing that she has probably let Gaines into the security system, they time an extraction of her just right to a hidden unsupervised room. There Jamie pleads that she didn't know that anyone was going to die, but Nina and Tony aren't buying it. And though they don't want to place Jack's family in danger, they go ahead and alert Palmer's security to the danger that's facing them.
The security then sets off to find Jack, and they do at the last minute before the shooter can strike, which ruins his shot at Palmer. Gaines, upset by this, orders the death of Jack's family, but a last minute call from Jamie convinces him that Jack's family could still be of use. I must say that the last scene really did have a lot of tension, and though I was reasonably certain that they wouldn't be killing Kim or Teri then, there was still a nice vibe of uncertainty to it.
I do have one complaint about the directing of this ep though. Stephen Hopkins had a tendency to use first person POV shots a lot. This is a rather uncommon shot, mostly used in horror movies to convey looking through the eyes of a killer. In 24, I believe that it's supposed to be making the viewer feel like they're an actual character witnessing this all, but it just comes off as confusing and unneeded. For such an important episode, you would think there would have been more that happened. And while it was certainly exciting, it did sort of drag in the middle parts. Still, I'm sure great things are to come.
Episode Rating: 8 out of 10
-- TJarvis
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