24 (TV Series) 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. (2002) User Reviews

Unreasonable Attitudes

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 28 October 2007]

On the day of the California Presidential Primary, between 4:00 PM and 5:00 PM, Elizabeth Nash accepts to meets with Alexis to plant a bug in his wallet. However, she has an unexpected reaction jeopardizing the operation. Kim calls CTY from Pine Canyon and does not tell Tony where she is; then she calls Rick and takes a cab to his house. Teri gets a lift on the road with a stranger to a hospital, but when she sees a restaurant, she asks the driver to pull over since she has some recollection of the place. When the maitre arrives, he recalls her.

In the sixteenth episode of "24", there are many unreasonable attitudes: Kim after an attack does not go to CTU, but to Rick's house; Teri with amnesia does not go to the hospital but stays in a restaurant; and Elizabeth accepting to work with government, but stabbing Alexis. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "16:00"

Perpetual Stupidity and Screw Upsla

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 3 October 2018]

Everyone would have been better is Kim had burned in the car. It would be one less example of her stupidity. What ever happened to the survival instinct? Mom has amnesia. How convenient. Low point in the show. And jack's plan to get Alexis gets screwed up because his plant, who risks her life, to plant a homing device, falls apart when the guy says he loves her. It's as if this big time espionage group is like a bunch of cub scouts and Jack's family can't seem to make a wise decision.

Set-ups, screw-ups and stupid amnesia

[MaxBorg89 · 8/10 · 20 December 2007]

It is stated in this episode that some people might suffer from amnesia after a particularly strong emotional trauma. Fair enough, however the decision of having Teri Bauer lose her memory at the end of the previous show, no matter how plausible that subplot could be, looks a lot like the worst thing that can occur in a serialized drama: a narrative dead end. Basically, the writers had run out of ideas but needed the character to do something, so they came up with the amnesia gimmick.

The biggest problem, though, is that whereas Ep. 16 featured said trickery only in the very last scene, this hour devotes almost half of its time to Teri's irrelevant attempt to remember what happened, taking vital minutes away from the main event: Jack and Senator Palmer's plan to frame Alexis Drazen by setting up a meeting with his mistress, senatorial aid Elizabeth Nash. As the set-up unfolds, Kim Bauer, having once again escaped from her captors, seeks help from the only person she finds trustworthy: Rick, the guy who kidnapped her in the first place (to his credit, he then helped her get away alive).

Fundamentally, this episode is about trust: Elizabeth no longer trusts Alexis and must exploit his "feelings" because Palmer has faith in her (which makes the ending even more shocking, though it is not so unexpected), while Kim has to rely on her awkward connection with Rick to survive. And let's not forget Jack, who has had trust issues since Episode 2. In total, three powerful elements from which to obtain dramatic strength. Pity most of the energy is sucked out by that dull memory loss subplot.

7,5/10.