Day 2: 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
- Episode aired Feb 11, 2003
- TV-14
- 43m
Jack tries to get information out of Syed Ali. Mason gets Bob Warner to reveal some previously classified history on Marie that paints Reza's murder in a new light. Lynne Kresge becomes susp... Read allJack tries to get information out of Syed Ali. Mason gets Bob Warner to reveal some previously classified history on Marie that paints Reza's murder in a new light. Lynne Kresge becomes suspicious of Sherry.Jack tries to get information out of Syed Ali. Mason gets Bob Warner to reveal some previously classified history on Marie that paints Reza's murder in a new light. Lynne Kresge becomes suspicious of Sherry.
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Did you know
- TriviaA phone call trace in this episode takes only takes a few minutes. In the previous season a phone call trace took more than half an hour
- GoofsIn several close ups of character Bob Warner, you can see the facial hair is not his own, but a prosthesis that has it's base visible around the edges of his mustache.
- Quotes
Bob Warner: [In an interrogation room] it's hard not to think there must be some mistake with the evidence you have
George Mason: [Referring to Marie] it's black and white: your daughter killed Reza and two of our agents. We need your help to understand what her connection to Syed Ali is
Bob Warner: Had I known she was involved I would've done something
George Mason: And now that you do know, does it help explain any strange behavior? Anything at all can help us
Bob Warner: [after clearing his throat] well Marie went to college in London while I was working there. That's when her mother died and it hit her hard. It hit all of us hard
George Mason: And?
Bob Warner: She ran away for a while
George Mason: How long?
Bob Warner: Three, maybe four weeks. We got the police involved but she sent us a letter saying she was fine, that she was traveling and she just needed some space. And when she came back, well I was so grateful to see her that I stopped asking questions
George Mason: No sense that anything had "changed" a fundamental difference?
Bob Warner: She'd become less politically "inclined"? She's always "flirted" with causes. Respectable causes like save the wilderness or abolish the death penalty. She stopped talking about all that
George Mason: Well, that's what happens when you're radicalized. Handlers train you to stop talking about anything and keep it to yourself. Your better to blend into the background
In order to prevent such a massacre, Jack has taken Syed Ali into custody, only to learn he has been following a red herring: the person who will take care of the final stages of the attack is Marie Warner, the most unlikely of suspects. Until her father reveals some new facts, that is: Marie never really got over her mother's death, and spent a lot of time abroad to cope with the loss. It was probably during that time that she became the threat to national security she is now. Speaking of national security, tension rises within David Palmer's staff as Ted Simmons keeps torturing Stanton and one of the President's advisers, Lynne Kresge (Michelle Forbes), discovers a connection between Stanton and Sherry Palmer. As for Kim Bauer and her recent problems with the law, she has managed to escape from the police and, after encountering a cougar in the previous episode, she seems to have found a safe place in the woods, where she meets a solitary hunter named Lonnie McCrae (Kevin Dillon).
It is the last plot strand that raised most of the negative criticisms aimed at the show when the second series originally aired: according to several people, the Kim character lost all her dramatic strength in Day 2, as her misadventures had practically no connection to the bigger chain of events and were deemed narratively pointless. That is totally wrong: in fact, a lot of lesser genre films have been lambasted for having screenplays that lay their foundations on a bunch of coincidences in order to connect everything. Why, then, should a product as intelligent and precedent-setting as 24 be scolded for aspiring to a heightened sense of realism, a factor that requires that not all sections of the script be linked all the time? Sure, the woods subplot may not be the most interesting part of the episode (that would be Penny Johnson stealing every scene she is in once again), but it deserves a re-evaluation, not least for giving Kevin Dillon his actorial dignity back an entire year before Entourage debuted.
- MaxBorg89
- Mar 25, 2008
Details
- Runtime43 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1