"24" Day 2: 10:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. (2003)

Director:

Ian Toynton

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"24" (2001)

Original Air Date:

4 March 2003 (Season 2, Episode 15)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Jack must deal with the nuclear bomb at the airport. CTU discovers a recording implicating that Sayed Ali is supported by three presidents of Middle-Eastern countries. |

Plot Keywords:

Digit In Title | Black President | Period In Title | Punctuation In Title | Black U.S. President

Cast

Kiefer Sutherland	...	Jack Bauer
Sarah Wynter	...	Kate Warner
Elisha Cuthbert	...	Kim Bauer
Xander Berkeley	...	George Mason
Carlos Bernard	...	Tony Almeida
Dennis Haysbert	...	President David Palmer
Reiko Aylesworth	...	Michelle Dessler
Jude Ciccolella	...	Mike Novick
Michelle Forbes	...	Lynne Kresge
Max Martini	...	Steve Goodrich (as Maximilian Martini)
Lourdes Benedicto	...	Carrie Turner
Donnie Keshawarz	...	Yusuf Auda
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Tom Baker
Dylan Haggerty	...	N.E.S.T. Tech #1
Dean Norris	...	General Bowden

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Portugal:M/12 (DVD rating)

Company:

Imagine Television

Trivia:

This episode won a Creative Emmy for Outstanding Dramatic Underscore. It was also nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing and Outstanding Sound Editing, but lost to "The West Wing" (1999)'s 25, "ER" (1994)'s Chaos Theory and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000)'s Fight Night respectively.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Jack jumps out of the plane, he leaves the door open, but when the camera goes back to Mason the door is closed.

Quotes:

Jack Bauer: [Jack is on the phone with the President discussing who will fly the bomb] We have a lot of volunteers, Mr. President. All of them good men.
President Palmer: Let them know that whoever flies that plane, we *will* take care of his family.
Jack Bauer: I understand, Mr. President.
Steve Goodrich: I don't see any volunteers, sir.
Jack Bauer: I'm flying that airplane.

Fox's finest hour

Not only do the outstanding performances given by xander Berkeley(George Mason), Kiefer Sutherland (Jack Bauer) and Elisha Cuthbert (Kim Bauer) live up to previous emotional moments but the script! Within 1 hour of screen time (taken from different episodes) the writer has created an audience- character bond between the dying George Mason who was previously a stubborn emotionless man who was merely a 'gap' character. the moving 'Goodbye' to the daughter was fantastically acted and the perhaps sadder scene on the plane was more subtly written. In his goodbye Mason makes some points which I had been thinking from the beginning of this series- 'Maybe you want to die'. such fantastic acting and smart character development; twenty four's finest hour and probably FOX's too! (why did Berkeley and Sutherland not get recognised for this?)