24 (TV Series) Day 3: 1:00 a.m.-2:00 a.m. (2004) User Reviews

Women Are Featured In This One

[ccthemovieman-1 · 8/10 · 21 May 2007]

Well, here's the deal after the first few minutes. Chase and Jack are coming back to Los Angeles, Jack just having captured Nina. They figure Almador's headed to Los Angeles with the virus but they don't know his intentions. He is an arms dealer, not some biological terrorist.

Meanwhile, Sherry's the ex-wife of President Palmer, is hot on the trail of Alan Milliken, whom she thinks just might have killed a potential foe, someone whose testimony will put an end to Milliken's threats to Palmer.

At the office, Chloe is under watch by security because she brought a baby into the office and won't say whose the kid belongs to, and is acting a little strange.

This episode turns out to be a nasty woman one in which three females all do bad things, led by Nina, who tries to bring down the C.T.U.'s computers, Sherrie and Julia, both of whom stand and watch as Alan Milliken can't get his pills and winds up dead. Well, there's one threat eliminated. However, there is still Amador to catch. He's supposed to meet some guy named Alvers.

Another woman also plays a prominent role in this hour: Chloe, who helps get the computers back in line but her secret about the baby leads to a soap opera finish.

They won't let you relax for one minute

[MaxBorg89 · 9/10 · 19 August 2008]

The first half of Day 3 was crammed with events, characters and shocks, and ended on a quite discouraging note (Amador heading to Los Angeles with the virus after giving Ramon Salazar a bomb that eventually killed him). The second half starts with the program's trademark relentlessness, taking full advantage of the real time and the presence of Sarah Clarke as one of the show's juiciest villains: Nina Myers.

With Ramon dead and Amador at large, Jack and Chase choose to take Nina back to the CTU. During the journey, however, she asks if she can make a phone call, and by using that trick she activates a computer virus that jams the agency's entire anti-terrorist network. Her terms: unless she's taken back to Mexico, there will be nothing left to save. As for the other manipulative woman, Sherry Palmer, she decides to confront Alan Milliken personally, a choice that might not pay off the way she expected.

This is one of the most tense episodes of the season, the entirety of the running time (well, almost) being devoted to the CTU's attempts to neutralize the computer virus. It's an exercise in textbook suspense that keeps the characters and the viewers alert all the time: relaxing is not an option here.

Additionally, this is the episode where awkward computer analyst Chloe O' Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub) is allowed her first moment in the spotlight, anticipating her more prominent role in seasons to follow and proving she isn't just a "pain in the ass", as she was described a few hours ago.

Nina sets a trap

[Tweekums · 9/10 · 4 November 2012]

After Amador's escape with the virus everybody is desperate to find him before he can sell it to another buyer; they search the area but there is no sign of him. Jack does however manage to capture Nina Myers and she says she will help in exchange for a pardon. She gives them one bit of information free; she is sure Amador is heading to Los Angeles where he will meet a man called Alvers. On the flight taking her, Jack and Chase back to the States she says she has more information; to access it Jack must call a certain number then perform various 'code actions' on the phone. It turns out this was a trick and the code activated a worm she planted in CTU's computers; if the plane doesn't turn round it will render CTU's computer security worthless and any terrorist hacker will have full access to the system. She believes there is no way anybody at CTU can stop it in time but Chloe thinks she is up to the job. Elsewhere Sherry Palmer pays a visit to Julia Milliken hoping to find evidence linking her husband to whatever happened to Kevin Kelly, the man who was planning to give evidence about him. This visit doesn't quite go according to plan as Alan Milliken wakes up and finds them talking. In a third plot strand it looks like Chloe will get in trouble over the baby until she finally says who the father is.

After the action backed excitement of the previous episode this episode forgoes the action and replaces it with dramatic tension. Penny Johnson does a great job as Sherry Palmer shows just what the character is capable of, Gina Torres also put in a fine performance as Julia; it was interesting to see her play somebody who isn't the alpha female for once! This was very much an episode for the female characters to take their turn in the spot light as Mary Lynn Rajskub took centre stage at CTU playing Chloe and Sarah Clarke's Nina effectively controlled the situation on the plane as her captors waited impotently to see whether Chloe could stop the worm in time. The main plot involving the virus wasn't advanced too much but the problems with the computers meant Jack and the and the people at CTU could be busy with something in the time to took them to return from Mexico; something that wouldn't be a problem for other series but due to the 'real time' nature of '24' they have to find something exciting to fill such times and here I think they did a good job.

Kidnapping a child

[gitgirl · 19 January 2020]

Didn't Kim kidnap a kid last season and now she tries to put Chloe down for doing it? I don't remember Kim ever calling CPS!!! I'm starting to dislike Kim with every season!!!

Go Go Chloe!!!

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 19 January 2019]

As Jack, Chase, and Nina head back to LA, Nina plays a card. She tricks Jack into putting a worm in the computer system at CTU. The only person capable of doing anything about is Chloe, but they are so caught up in her having brought a baby into the unit, they are ready to ship her off to jail. Nina makes demands that they turn the plane around and head back to Mexico. In the other plot element, Sherry goes to the house of MIlikan and pulls quite a coup, leaving death in her wake. We get some satisfaction for a change, although that representative who stole the virus is on his way to make a connection with a guy named Marcus. So everything is back in the lap of CTU as we head into the 14th hour.