Episode Report Card M. Giant: C | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Day 3: 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
By M. Giant | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on April 19, 2004
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Chappelle really is dead, but it turns out he was on the right track after all; heâd found evidence that Saunders has a daughter. Amid much drama and recrimination, Spawn of Kiefer is tapped to swap places with Spawn of Saunders so CTU can question the latter without her dad knowing. Palmer suddenly remembers he has a Cabinet, and while heâs briefing them Saunders demands the names of all covert agents working for the United States. Bill from Hill transmits the V-I-R-U-S to a few fellow citizens before an urgent care center shrink-wraps him, and Special Agent Charlie Brown tries to determine the extent of the mess he made. Believe it or not, Spawn doesnât screw up her mission, but the agents backing her up do. Sheâs safe, but Saunders is going to be on to them very soon. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Due to some graphic violence, viewer discretion is advised. Now I know they're tacking that on every episode.
Previously on 24: Bitchelle told Soul Patch that someone had evaded the lockdown at Inn Fection without ever knowing he'd been exposed. The man in question got a nosebleed. Saunders forced Palmer to order the death of Chappelle. Special Agent Charlie Brown tried and failed to nab Saunders before the 7:00 AM deadline. Kiefer asked Saunders why he was doing this, and Saunders told him he wouldn't understand. Kiefer brought Chappelle to a train yard and shot him point-blank in the melon. The following takes place between 7:00 AM and 8:00 AM.
Kiefer stands over Chappelle's body, looking sad and wondering why his ex-boss's head is so intact. Sorry, Kiefer, it's network TV, and that viewer discretion warning will only let you get away with so much. No brain matter and skull fragments for you. There's not even much blood. Chappelle's definitely dead, though. The black van driven by Saunders's men pulls up, the passenger in the shotgun seat holding a pistol on Kiefer. Worst shotgun rider ever. Kiefer aims his own gun at the armed man. Shotgun gets out of the van, along with two other guys from the back. They're all dressed in black clothes and black ski masks, and so is the driver. Kiefer and Shotgun continue to hold their weapons on each other as the other two henchmen run a tricorder over Chappelle's body. "He's clean; there's no tracker," one announces. They're giving CTU credit for more intelligence than it has. Chappelle's body is bundled into the van. Paul Schulze's name is in the opening credits, by the way, even though he's only in this scene and one other and has no lines in either. Shotgun tells Kiefer that if he tries to follow the van, Saunders will release the V-I-R-U-S. The men in black pile into the van while Kiefer continues to hold his gun at the ready. I don't know why he's bothering; if I'm right about what happened at the end of the last episode, his gun is empty. Plus there are four of them and one of him, so if they decide they want to rock and roll, the odds are not stacked heavily in Kiefer's favor. The van screams off. Kiefer calls Brother Palmer to report. Brother Palmer just says, "Thanks, Jack," and hangs up. Kiefer manages to not blush in the face of Brother Palmer's effusiveness.
Palmer sits at his desk, apparently trying to see the future in its highly polished surface. Brother Palmer comes in to give him the news about Chappelle. Palmer is bummed. He tells Brother Palmer what happened and why -- entirely for our benefit, because Brother Palmer was the one who talked him into agreeing to Saunders's demand in the first place.