Day 2: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Characters Introduced:

• Rick Phillips (Michael Cudlitz): The FBI agent in charge of keeping Jack from killing Nina. This is definitely a fulltime job.
• John Mason (Eric Christian Olsen): Mason’s shiftless son who has a sweet job manning a snack truck.
• Mamud Rasheed Faheen (Anthony Azizi): The man Nina is taking Jack to and someone with a connection to Ali. Also Omar from Lost, not that significant a role but he showed up a bunch.

Returning Characters:

• Mike Novick (Final episode of season 1)

Key Moments:

• Although Jack removed the CTU babysitter, there is a FBI babysitter waiting for him on the plane. Jack keeps trying to increase the pressure on Nina, but Phillips won’t allow it. Jack does take the opportunity to force Nina to change into people clothes in the middle of the plane, while Jack watches. Pervy Jack!
• Jack and crew arrive and move in a Faheen. Jack’s plan is to send Nina in alone and have her lie her way to Faheen. In a classic Jack line when Nina protests that Faheen will kill her then kill himself, Jack say they will stop him before he turns the gun on himself.
• With Tony’s field questioning going nowhere, Mason tells him to bring both Reza and Bob into CTU to turn up the pressure.
• Nina goes into Faheen’s store and her name gets her into the back room where Faheen is hiding. The conversations are in Arabic and the video feed is dark, so Jack doesn’t know if she is meeting Faheen or not. Eventually he orders the FBI in and they kill everyone in the store, capture Faheen, but can’t find Nina. Jack hunts her down on the stairs leading to the alley and we get a phenomenal moment where Nina kneels down and waits for the bullet, while Jack’s hand can’t stop shaking. He pulls it together and slaps the cuffs on her instead.
• A cop pulls Kim, Miguel, and Megan over and what do you know Gary killed Carla and dumped her body in the trunk.

Ridiculousness:

• Just because this is 24 and the overly sentimental stuff always sticks out, dying George Mason has the police drag his estranged son into CTU. And although you know what is going to happen, George gets through to his son and the both of them cry. Xander Berkeley can make even the weakest material sing.

Running Totals:

Sadly, no cliches this hour.