Day 3: 4:00 a.m.-5:00 a.m. (30 Mar. 2004)

After the interrogation goes nowhere, Jack and Chase let Amador escape hoping he will lead them to his client's location. Michelle places the hotel under quarantine and must make a ... See full summary »

Director:

Kevin Hooks

Writers:

Joel Surnow (creator), Robert Cochran (creator),

Stars:

Kiefer Sutherland, Elisha Cuthbert, Carlos Bernard

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
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)
Paul Blackthorne	...	Stephen Saunders
Lothaire Bluteau	...	Marcus Alvers
Jesse Borrego	...	Gael Ortega
Greg Ellis	...	Michael Amador
Paul Schulze	...	Ryan Chappelle
Andrea Thompson	...	Dr. Nicole Duncan
D.B. Woodside	...	Wayne Palmer (as DB Woodside)
Doug Savant	...	Craig Phillips

Storyline

After the interrogation goes nowhere, Jack and Chase let Amador escape hoping he will lead them to his client's location. Michelle places the hotel under quarantine and must make a difficult decision in how to handle the ensuing panic. President Palmer is put into a awkward position when handling the Milliken situation.

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Plot Keywords:

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 March 2004 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

20th Century Fox Television, Imagine Television, Real Time Productions

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This was the first of three episodes submitted for Emmy consideration.

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Goofs

Violating the real-time formula, the hotel manager is in his office and his assistant tells him that there's people with guns outside. Then the next scene seconds later has the assistant in the basement trying to find a way out.

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Soundtracks

"Jack Bauer's Theme"
(uncredited)
Written by Sean Callery
Performed by Dominik Hauser

User Reviews

It's Showtime, At Least With Part One

Well, they certainly finished last week's episode on a dramatic note as Gael was unable to prevent a vial of the virus to begin working in a ventilation unit of the big hotel. Now, the race is on to try to stop the machinery, quarantine all the people without starting a panic and finding the other 11 vials. The man who put the vials there, Alvers, who has been captured, says that 11 other vials exist but he doesn't know where they re. He also says all the people in the hotel will die. (I kind of doubt that since one of the main C.T.U. figures, "Michelle," is in the building. She's the one who captured "Alvers.")

Meanwhile, Amador would rather die than expose whom his boss is, making everything think this guy - who knows Jack - must be scary, indeed. In a neat twist, they purposely let him escape, hoping he will lead them to his boss.

Meanwhile, Gael starts getting sick, big-time, with a lot of blood coming out of his nose. Later, one of the people in the hotel has similar problems. One employee tries to escape. The virus has been given a compound with acerbates the process.

These writers go a little overboard at times trying to make this even more complicated and suspenseful than they already, but I guess that's better than having the opposite and having it drag. However, you just wonder "what next will go wrong?"

Well, plenty as we see in the ending of the episode! (This is really a great finish!)