Day 2: 4:00 AM - 5:00 AM

Characters Introduced:

Racing to the conclusion

Returning Characters:

See above

Key Moments:

• Thankfully the hostage crisis is resolved immediately, the remaining 2 rednecks argue with each other and Jack kicks in the door and arrests them.
• That snake Mike Novick tries to coax David into Prescott’s cabinet conference call but Palmer smells what’s going on and makes Mike work for it. When he gets to the conference, Prescott says the cabinet is invoking the 25^th amendment. Basically they are saying Palmer is disabled and needs to be replaced. Yes they actually claimed that.
• The rest of the hour will have Ron Weiland and Roger Stanton showing up to be witnesses to David’s insanity. All of his choices throughout the day will also be questioned.
• The chip has been damaged and the recordings cannot be retrieved.
• In one of the only highlights of Prescott’s coup, Palmer asks Mike how long he has known about this and when Mike calls him David, Palmer responds by saying, “I’m the President, don’t call me by my first name.”
• Michelle was able to find the name of the hacker who created the recordings and sends that info to Jack.
• David is updated about Jack’s setback but believes Jack when he says he is certain that the Cypress recording is a fake.
• Palmer loses by 1 vote and Prescott is now President.
• Jack reaches the hacker’s apartment and while searching in the shadows, Sherry Palmer walks through the door.

Ridiculousness:

• The whole 25^th amendment bullshit, which sadly will not be the only time this is used on 24, was such thin reasoning to remove Palmer from office.
• Palmer loses the 25^th amendment vote by 1 and is immediately removed by an armed guard. Is this really how our government works? And if so, I want a monarchy.

Running Totals:

A boring hour with no cliches