"24" Day 3: 2:00 a.m.-3:00 a.m. (2004)

Director:

Bryan Spicer

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"24" (2001)

Original Air Date:

17 February 2004 (Season 3, Episode 14)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Regional Director Chappelle forces Jack to undergo a medical evaluation for his heroin addiction. Tony interrogates Nina Meyers. Julia Milliken confronts Sherry after Alan dies while Wayne and President Palmer prepare for the fallout. Nina tries to escape custody after collapsing during the interrogation. |

Plot Keywords:

Digit In Title | Title Ends With Period | Punctuation In Title | Black President | 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
Penny Johnson	...	Sherry Palmer (as Penny Johnson Jerald)
Lothaire Bluteau	...	Marcus Alvers
Greg Ellis	...	Michael Amador
Paul Schulze	...	Ryan Chappelle
D.B. Woodside	...	Wayne Palmer (as DB Woodside)
Mary Lynn Rajskub	...	Chloe O'Brian
Zachary Quinto	...	Adam Kaufman
Albert Hall	...	Alan Milliken
Gina Torres	...	Julia Milliken

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Portugal:M/12 (DVD rating)

Company:

Imagine Television

Trivia:

From this point on, every episode in the series is preceded by the Viewer Discretion Warning for graphic violence. Fox added the notice regularly as a precautionary measure after the FCC began cracking down on television indecency due to the infamous Janet Jackson Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Show (2004) (TV).

Goofs:

Continuity: Another violation of the real-time format: It's 02:09:22 at the end of the first commercial break, when Jack and Kim embrace at CTU. Then they go to commercial, and we come back at 02:13:35 and Jack and Kim break the embrace and start talking. Apparently they hugged each other for 4 minutes?

Quotes:

Tony Almeida: [Asking about Marcus Alvers] All we've been able to dig up on him are a few random medical records under one of his known aliases. He had an MRI on one of his knees, there's a prescription for antibiotics, treated for HIV ...
Dalton Furrelle: [From other room] Her pulse is spiking. Someone hasn't been using protection with Marcus Alvers.
Michelle Dessler: [From other room] She's probably had sex with him.
Tony Almeida: See, Nina, my colleagues in the next room tell me that something in those medical records concerns you. I'm guessing it's not the knee.

The Interrogation Hour

This is the second week in a row that things were pretty quiet, action-wise, but I'm not complaining. These shows are never boring.

"Interrogation" seems to be the theme of this show: Nina, being interrogated by Tony, for what she knows about this Alvers character that seems to be friends with Amador. (Those two meet, with Amador bringing the virus.) Jack is given a medical exam and is interrogated for his heroin habit. He explains the hows and whys he got addicted (to gain the trust of the Salazaar family, drug lords that were in, I am assuming, from the previous year.

In the meantime, there is a baby issue and Chase explains why he is the father of that baby in the office that Chole has been helping out with, and we see a very small bit in which the President is lied to by his ex-wife, who seems to be an expert in that department.

You can see the ending to this episode coming as Jack warned everyone; keep an eye on Nina. I have to say Sarah Clarke as Nina Myers is one of the most interesting villains I've ever seen.