TV series 24: Season 1 – Episode 2
This is a synopsis, commentary and review of the TV series 24: Season 1 – Episode 2, which occurs in the time frame of 1:00 AM to 2:00 AM. This episode of 24 was directed by Stephen Hopkins. For a complete list of all the stars and directors from all 195 episodes of 24, please click here.
This episode of 24 begins with Mandy (Mia Kirshner) landing in the Mojave Desert after parachuting from the 747 she blew up. At CTU, Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) gives orders to Nina Myers (Sarah Clarke) and Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard). Jack tells Tony the 747 flight originated in Germany, where the suspected assassin is coming from, so the crash should be considered an attack.
A man in a jeep picks Mandy up in the desert. Then someone on a motorcycle goes to where she had been and uses a tracker to locate something she buried and retrieve it.
Teri Bauer (Leslie Hope) and Alan York (Richard Burgi) arrive at the store where Dan and Rick met their daughters Kim Bauer (Elisha Cuthbert) and Janet York (Jacqui Maxwell). Nobody is there, but Janet’s car is. Dan is driving the van and Janet is sick. Kim complains, but to no avail. Clearly, Dan and Rick are kidnapping the girls.
Richard Walsh (Michael O’Neill) arrives on an upper floor of a building. A man, Scott, comes from the shadows with evidence about who in the agency is conspiring against Senator David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert). Scott hands Walsh a key card with data stored on the strip and then gets shot dead and Walsh is wounded. Walsh calls Jack for help. Jack heads to him.
Mandy arrives at a remote building where Ira Gaines (Michael Massee) is. Gaines pays Mandy and she tells him he’ll get the stolen ID soon.
Jack arrives at the building where Walsh is, gets the entry code from Nina via cell phone – Tony eavesdrops. Jack makes it to Walsh on the roof and they start down to Jack SUV.
We see a flash of Mandy as she meets a guy who looks exactly like the photographer she killed on the plane, Martin Belkin. This is the assassin hired to kill Palmer.
Jack and Walsh kill two men on the ground floor, then Jack cuts one man’s finger off for ID later. Mandy’s accomplice arrives, but won’t give the ID to Gaines without getting more money – Mandy doesn’t like it, either.
Secret Service agent Aaron Pierce (Glenn Morshower) arrives at Palmer’s hotel suite/headquarters with more men and news of the upgraded threat to Palmer’s life. Palmer is not in the suite – he’s gone secretly to the basement to get his car and go meet with Carl Webb (Zach Grenier) about Maureen Kingsley (Devika Parikh).
Jack and Walsh make a dash for Jack’s car, but Walsh is shot twice. He tosses Jack the key card and tells him to have Jamey Farrell (Karina Arroyave) match it to a computer – and the dirty agent will be located. Walsh is shot again and dies, Jack escapes in his SUV. Jack sends the card data to Jamey from his vehicle.
Dan stops the van and jerks Kim out and tells her to call Teri and tell her she’s okay. Dan is about to get rough with Kim, but Rick stops him saying “he told us not to hurt her.” Dan then breaks Janet’s arm to make Kim place the call.
Jamey sends Jack the owner of the computer from the key card: Nina Myers.
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