Episode Report Card Gustave: B | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Day 2: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on January 13, 2003
Electric blue Kiefer. A new hour of 24 begins now. Previouslys. Reza breaks and is ready to show CTU the Crew and Co. database so that they can find out who authorized that "shipping or-dah" to Syed Ali. Cate is kidnapped. Mikey Palmice is tortured, then killed. Flight 69 goes down, and a mysterious militia group is there to finish off the survivors. Nina gets immunity for the murder of Kiefer in exchange for information leading to the B-O-M-B. The Teen Twosome are still in police custody. Palmer cries quietly at his desk like the Native American in that ad looking at all the trash on the highway.
NSA. Press Conference. Palmer stands in front of a couple of trees…I mean, "in the bucolic outdoor setting of Lake Oswego," and announces to a half a dozen extras…I mean, the "frenzied press corps" that, yes, there is a terrorist threat he tried to cover up, but he only did so in order to prevent any undue panic. "What to release to the public and when is a matter of judgment," says Palmer. "And you have elected me to use that judgment in the best interest of this country." He wraps it up without taking any questions from the press, and walks back to the building with PoorMan'sHumeCronyn. They both agree that the speech was "not the Gettysburg Address," but it should buy them some time.
Back at the Angeles National Forest -- which looks strangely like Lake Oswego and the wooded area surrounding Gaines's TerrorKompound -- Nina continues to hold Kiefer hostage. And as it so often is in hostage situations on TV and film, the one with the gun finds it necessary to explain to his or her captive that their predicament is "nothing personal." "It felt pretty personal when you killed my wife," kwips Kiefer, his hands behind his head. Nina explains that she had to kill Bride because Bride had overheard her escape plans. "What about bombing CTU," says Kiefer. "All those people you used to work with." Not to mention all those co-workers you used to sleep with. Nina explains that she didn't bomb CTU. She only sold the plans to Wald. "Believe what you have to, Nina," says Kiefer. "But you killed your friends." Nina had friends? Okay, let's back up here. What happened to "Yelena"? I thought that Nina was really a chick named Yelena that infiltrated CTU for reasons we have yet to discover. ["Presumably they'd have begun referring to her officially as 'Yelena Von Lastname' if arrest processing revealed that as her real name, so 'Yelena' was probably the alias, not 'Nina.' Good thing I'm not overthinking this." -- Sars] If this Yelena woman was just a mole, then these "friendships" that Nina maintained at CTU were made under false pretenses.