"24" Day 4: 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. (2005)

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Director:

Ken Girotti

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"24" (2001)

Original Air Date:

31 January 2005 (Season 4, Episode 7)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Jack takes Audrey into the field in order to ID a suspect she recognized from the compound, but the terrorists learn where they are and pin them down...

Plot Keywords:

Digits In Title | Punctuation In Title | Title Ends With Period | Period In Title | Number In Title

Cast

Kiefer Sutherland	...	Jack Bauer
Kim Raver	...	Audrey Raines
Alberta Watson	...	Erin Driscoll
Lana Parrilla	...	Sarah Gavin
William Devane	...	Secretary of Defense James Heller
Jonathan Ahdout	...	Behrooz Araz
Roger R. Cross	...	Curtis Manning (as Roger Cross)
James Frain	...	Paul Raines
Louis Lombardi	...	Edgar Stiles
Logan Marshall-Green	...	Richard Heller
Geoffrey Pierson	...	President John Keeler (as Geoff Pierson)
Arnold Vosloo	...	Habib Marwan
Nestor Serrano	...	Navi Araz
Aisha Tyler	...	Marianne Taylor
Angela Goethals	...	Maya Driscoll

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Portugal:M/12 (DVD rating)

Company:

Imagine Television

Trivia:

As of this episode, Lana Parrillawas upgraded from guest star status to a series regular.

Goofs:

Continuity: At 12:54 p.m. Audrey is shown in her original outfit of burgundy skirt suit with a white top underneath using a computer at C.T.U. At 1:00 p.m., she is still at the computer but in a completely different outfit - a pink sweater, pants, and a suede jacket.

Here's The Plan

I'm glad Jack explained what was going on to his girlfriend because the technological gibberish is too much for my feeble brain at times, so a short summary of the what the terrorists are doing put it all together. In a nutshell, they have an "override device" which maintains heat levels in the reactors of nuclear power plants and with this "override" they can melt down all 104 plants in the U.S.. If the plants melt down, millions of lives will be lost in the surrounding areas and a disaster of unparalleled magnitude will exist.

In this episode, we get more drama, some of it soapy such as Erin's daughter, but most of it has the Ariz family melting down, not the reactors! Two of the three are betraying "the cause," the teen kid who has been shaky throughout and now his mother. I wonder - in real life - if the father ("Navi," played by Nestor Serrano) would have just shot these two at the first sign of trouble. Actually, a more realistic look would be that this family never would have been in this situation because the father would have known the other two members of his family couldn't handle the assignment. He lives with his wife and son and would have known them better than what's shown here. That part of the story lacks credibility, as does the C.T.U. which is always having leaks and traitors. Whoever screens the personnel in that high-security outfit should be shot themselves!

Anyway, the drama continues despite a great effort by one of the CTU computer nerds: Edgar, a big fat guy with a lisp and a New York City accent so thick you can cut it with a knife. However, Louis Lombardi, who plays him, is a good actor and his role in here is one of the best. Too bad Choloe was canned; she and Edgar would have always made an interesting pair of people at verbal odds with each other.

This show mainly features annoying people so I might as well mention the Secretary of Defense's son "Richard," whom I am sure we have not seen the last of, unfortunately.

At the end, we see a former CTU guy come back and help out Jack. That was great to see! Also good is how this show manipulates your emotions. You cannot watch this show without becoming emotionally involved, either really rooting for some people and/or despising others.