TV series 24: Season 1 – Episode 7
This is a synopsis, commentary and review of the TV series 24: Season 1 – Episode 7, which occurs in the time frame of 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM. This episode of 24 was directed by Bryan Spicer. For a complete list of all the stars and directors from all 195 episodes of 24, please click here.
This episode of 24 begins by showing us the assassin, who is masquerading as Martin Belkin the photographer (hereinafter referred to simply as Martin Belkin) dying his hair, putting in colored contacts and getting dressed. Ira Gaines (Michael Massee) then tells him he’ll be seeing his target, Senator David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert), in an hour. Gaines then gets back to telling Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) what to do. He tells Jack to get the key card that’s under his visor and continue to CTU.
At CTU, Milo Pressman (Eric Balfour) tells Nina Myers (Sarah Clarke) that he is close to decrypting another part of the key card data. Palmer chases down his son, Keith Palmer (Vicellous Reon Shannon) to explain about why he is going to tell the nation about Keith and his self defense killing of his sister’s rapist: Palmer doesn’t want Maureen Kingsley (Devika Parikh) to spin it the wrong way. Keith is very upset – thinking he will surely go to jail if the details come out.
Kim Bauer (Elisha Cuthbert) asks Rick again to help her escape. He refuses, but says when Gaines pays him he’ll leave and call Kim’s dad.
Jack arrives at CTU and Gaines tells him to switch the new key card with the one Milo is decrypting. Nina tells Jack the body he sent in is Alan York’s. Jack now knows that his wife, Teri Bauer (Leslie Hope), is not with the real Alan York. Gaines calls the fake Alan York (Richard Burgi) and leaves a message warning him that Jack knows – and so might Teri.
Teri tells York she’s feeling sick, and asks him to stop the car. Teri runs off and York checks his messages. York takes the keys out of the ignition and goes after Teri. Teri jumps out and hits him with a rock and struggles with him. He throws the keys away and then Teri knocks him out. She ties York to a tree and tries her cell – but no reception. She runs into the woods seeking higher ground.
Rick asks Gaines for his money so he can leave – Gaines tells him he has to stay.
At CTU, Jack starts to write Nina a note that he’s bugged, but Gaines can see him on CTU cameras and stops him. Jack makes the card switch. Jack then has to call and get priority clearance for the Palmer breakfast and rally. Jack is told by the Secret Service that he should report to Secret Service agent Aaron Pierce (Glenn Morshower) when he arrives at the breakfast.
Rick returns to the small building where Kim is being kept and tells her Gaines wouldn’t release him, so he’s ready to help her escape from the compound with him. Rick will leave the door unlocked when he leaves, and then Kim is to run to the fence and out of the compound.
Milo discovers the key card is different and tells Nina, who goes and asks Jack where the real key card is. Jack puts a gun to Nina and marches her out of CTU. As they leave, Milo and Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard) are suspicious. Jack has Nina drive the car Gaines gave him.
Teri gets cell reception and calls Jamey Farrell (Karina Arroyave) at CTU. Jamey says she’ll send a STU agent to get her.
Sherry Palmer (Penny Johnson) asks Senator Palmer if she can blackmail Maureen into not running the story. She’s been working with Carl Webb (Zach Grenier). Palmer says no.
Rick distracts Kim’s guard and she leaves the building, then Rick joins her and they make their way to the fence.
A dark sedan pulls up where Teri is and two men go to her and identify themselves as CTU agents. They then release York and recapture Teri. They’re bad guys. At CTU, Jamey destroys the note with Teri’s location written on it. Tony tells Jamey to get him a 10-minute loop of the past from Jack’s office, which is where Jack took Nina at gunpoint.
Gaines directs Jack and Nina to an out of the way oil rig. Gaines then tells Jack to kill Nina. Jack marches her to a ditch and shoots her point blank. Nina falls into the ditch. Jack then drives towards the Palmer breakfast.
Kim and Rick are about to escape under the compound fence when Kim hears her mother arriving at the compound and won’t leave.
Tony reviews the video of Jack’s office and sees him take Nina at gunpoint, but also notes that Jack put a bullet proof jacket on her before they left. We then see Nina wake up and start walking towards the road.
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