Day 1: 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM

Characters Introduced:

• Ira Gaines (Michael Massee): The first man pulling the terrorist strings.
• Bridget (Kim Murphy): Mandy’s partner in more ways than one.
• Keith Palmer (Vicellous Shannon): The clichéd angry son.
• Nicole Palmer (Megalyn Echikunwoke): The clichéd child who stays in the background.
• Aaron Pierce (Glen Morshower): Always serious always awesome Secret Service man.

Key Moments:

• Walsh meets a contact with info on the Palmer hit and, of course, once he gets the key card and the man agrees to stick around for one more day the contact is immediately shot and killed.
• Bridget decides to blackmail Gaines for another million dollars without consulting Mandy or, better yet, without consulting sanity.
• Jack is unable to save Walsh due to him being shot about 6 times, but he does get the key card and is told not to trust anyone … like Jack needs to be told that.
• Rick and Dan’s kidnapping of Kim is being done for Gaines.
• The key card is traced back to Nina.

Ridiculousness:

• For your information CTU is not a backwoods power station no matter what it looks like from the outside.
• Jack is out of breath after running up a few flights of stairs. He must not have been injected with the Super Soldier serum yet.
• Jack’s CTU vehicle has the futuristic ability to read a key card.

Running Totals:

Jack and Tony are Friends?: 1 (2)

• Tony demands answers from Jack, which Jack completely ignores.

Mole: 1 (2)

• The key card identifies Nina as the mole.

Mandy the Super Terrorist: 1 (2)

• Mandy sits, what appears to be naked, in front of a fire while waiting for her ride. She later has a topless conversation with the guy posing as Martin Belkin for no reason other than she is Mandy.

Cubs Mug: 1

• Tony is holding it while giving the CTU stare.

Battlefield Medic: 1

• Jack field dresses Walsh’s bullet wound with his tie.

Jack’s Body Count: 1.5

• Jack definitely kills 1 shooter while he and Walsh take out the other at the same time.

Jack the Butcher: 1

• In order to identify the dead shooter, naturally, Jack cuts off his thumb.

The Healing Power of Jack Tears: 1

• While racing away from the building, Jack cries over Walsh’ death.