Here we go with the first ever hour of 24. Now I have to figure out a format for this since I do have 192 hours of show to get through! I don’t want to get bogged down in the plot details; this is more about detailing the awesome and the ridiculous that was aired on a weekly basis.
For now let’s go with 4 sections:
- Characters Introduced so everyone gets at least 1 mention along the way.
- Key Moments so at least the storyline basics are there.
- Ridiculousness because that’s half the fun.
- Running Totals so that years from now when I die without finishing this there can be a rough estimate on how many times Jack’s choked someone out.
Characters Introduced (listed in the order they show up, plus this should get easier after the first episode):
- Richard Walsh (Michael O’Neill): Someone needs to put Jack into action.
- David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert): Just a slightly charismatic presidential candidate for now.
- Sherry Palmer (Penny Johnson): Supportive wife … for now.
- Patty Brooks (Tanya Wright): Palmer’s lead aide who is always hovering around when Palmer is doing stuff.
- Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland): Loving dad, trying to fix some sort of martial issue, constantly being dragged back to work.
- Kim Bauer (Elisha Cuthbert): Love’s dad; hate’s mom. Let’s leave it at that since I will have plenty of time to insult her until I run that well dry.
- Teri Bauer (Leslie Hope): Jack’s wife who immediately does what she is good at complain and worry.
- Janet York (Jacqui Maxwell): Kim’s even dumber friend who’s stupidity makes Kim seem sensible.
- Nina Myers (Sarah Clarke): Constantly influencing everyone in CTU to get what she needs done.
- Jamey Farrell (Karina Arroyave): Ridiculous bangs and pigtails and god knows what else is living on the top of her head. Oh yeah and some sort of CTU tech.
- Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard): Putting his main skill to use … brooding. Also the inventor of the CTU stare that lived on through anyone else that worked there.
- Rick (Daniel Bess): Sketchy dude Kim is meeting up with.
- Dan (Matthew Carey): Other sketchy dude.
- Martin Belkin (Rudolf Martin): Creepy red herring photographer.
- Mandy (Mia Kirshner): Badass chick.
- George Mason (Xander Berkeley): Political stooge that is standing in Jack’s way.
- Alan York (Richard Burgi): Guy that calls Teri and claims to be Janet’s father.
- There is a hit on David Palmer that, of course, was found in Kuala Lumpur.
- Jack hints at sex with Teri, sex he will not have in an episode until 8 seasons later.
- Kim sneaks out.
- Walsh needs Jack to find the mole in the government agencies something that Jack has done in the past. I can’t believe it is that easy to be a double agent in a government agency.
- When Mason doesn’t play ball with Jack, Jack responds by shooting him with a tranquilizer dart then choking him out or what could also be known as Plan A.
- It is revealed that Nina is screwing Tony and it is hinted that she slept with Jack.
- Palmer gets angry over an unknown allegation then proceeds to shut Sherry out to brood on his own.
- Jack literally defines his character for the history of the show in one speech to Nina … Jack doesn’t compromise ever. He does the right thing no matter what the consequences.
- Realizing her parents are looking for her, instead of going home Kim continues to party with the creepy guys she just met.
- Mandy proves her skills by drugging a flight attendant, swiping the photographer’s id badge, fakes being drunk to retrieve her luggage, lines the door with explosives, gets in a flight suit and parachute, sets an explosive in the middle of the plane, blows the door and parachutes to safety 3 seconds before the plane blows up.
- Jack can’t go home once he finds out that a plane blew up. Country before family.
- Real bad CGI of a satellite in orbit that will never be used again.
- Kim meets up with guys to break into a furniture store to get their drink on.
- CTU seems to be run by 4 people at this point in time.
- Kim is too damn dumb to hide her stash of weed from her parents.
- Tony was a CTU hacker? He proves how bad he is at this when it takes a half hour for him to break into a banking database.
- On the other hand Jack can’t even crack his own daughter’s login.
Running Totals:
- She sneaks out of the house at midnight.
- She continues to hang with sketchy dudes instead of going home when she realizes her mother has been looking for her.
- Tony doesn’t think they should look into David Palmer until they have proof.
- Walsh sets Jack into motion to find the first mole.
- Knocks out George Mason
- Jack v. Mason
- The whole plane sequence
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