24 (TV Series) Day 3: 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. (2003) User Reviews

Singer Getting In Deeper And Deeper

[ccthemovieman-1 · 9/10 · 11 May 2007]

We find out quickly that things are worse in a number of areas: 1 - The virus will kill more people than originally thought; 2 - There is a mole, "Gael," working in Jack's organization who is keeping tabs of what's going on and relaying it directing to Hector Salazar; 3 - Jack is still fighting his drug habit, about to shoot up when he's interrupted 4 - A prison guard is working for Salazar.

This sort of thing goes on and on with more complications, more people you can't trust, and then....an unbelievable occurrence with the Kyle Singer's bad of virus-infected cocaine. His stupid mother could have spread the stuff everywhere....or are these drugs tainted in the first place?

There are lots of stunning developments in this case, many of them revolving around Singer. A very intense episode.

The plot thickens

[MaxBorg89 · 9/10 · 15 August 2008]

Fifty episodes in, 24 shows no signs of tiredness, despite the fact the real-time format made some people doubt the serial's long-time potential. Of course, continuous conspiracy plots and troubled protagonists help a lot.

Still fighting his addiction, Jack is about to close in on Kyle Singer, not knowing one of Salazar's men is doing the same. He's also shut Chase out of the pursuit, claiming he doesn't want Kim to be heartbroken should things make a wrong turn. Meantime, President Palmer has to face a possible scandal related to his affair with his physician, Dr. Anne Packard, whose ex-husband will implicate her in a past incrimination unless he's paid a neat sum of money.

Be it cover-ups, succession disputes or, in this case, nice old-fashioned blackmail, the political aspects of the series have always proved riveting thanks to intelligent writing and a marvelous performance by Dennis Haysbert, the show's real soul next to Kiefer Sutherland: his character was last seen at the end of Day Two fighting for his life, and now here he is, still recovering but showing no weaknesses whatsoever, standing out as the second best fictional American President ever created (the first is Josiah Bartlet from The West Wing). Then again, that isn't very hard when the biggest competition comes from turkeys like Independence Day and Air Force One, is it?

Find the Kid!

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 17 January 2019]

Things are ramping up. Kyle is ready to make the drop and CTU is on its way. Salazar's men are out there. I don't know. You have 25 people trying to bring this kid in. Couldn't one orchestrate this just a little more efficiently. Subplots include the President listening to his brother, deciding to make an irreversible move. Kim and this guy are all in a lather. She can't seem to figure out that what is happening is deadly serious. Jack is a monomaniac when it comes to Kim and this part of the show is really tiresome. Of course, there is a dramatic moment at the close.

The virus is in the open

[Tweekums · 10/10 · 22 October 2012]

Three episodes in and the tension is rising even further as Jack and the HazMat team are rapidly approaching Kyle Singer's house but after a confrontation with his parents he has fled and the bag of white powder has been ruptured! When they get there they soon establish that the powder was harmless; that is of little reassurance though as it just means that Kyle is the means of introducing it into the population so they must find him and isolate him before he becomes contagious. Meanwhile back in prison Salazar has arranged the kidnapping of his guard's family to force the guard to kill prison warden Luis Annicon. There is also a subplot involving the president's new partner who may be implicated in a perjury plot involving her ex-husband several years previously; the president believes that it is just a ploy to get money but it could damage the campaign as it is a difficult allegation to disprove.

This was a really good; the tension kept getting increased and just when you think it can't get any more exciting a major character gets shot in the neck... just in time for the end credits so we'll have to watch the next episode to learn whether or not he survives; and knowing 24's propensity for killing off major characters I wouldn't want to guess whether or not he makes it. If there was a weakness it was having a traitor working within CTU and being able to feed all the information to Salazar's men; it seems vetting and security are rather poor there given how often it seems to happen; I guess we can chalk it up to dramatic license though. The story with the presidential campaign has yet to get really interesting although I'm sure it is building up to something that will be important in later episodes... besides we need some quieter moments in between all the action!

So far not so intriguing.

[ignacio-mig14 · 8/10 · 2 January 2014]

In my consideration, up to this point Season 3 lacks some of the intrigue and kind of hidden stuff that kept me guessing in the previous seasons. In the first one, for instance, I was very excited to find out who the real mole in CTU was, and whether if Palmer would survive the threat or not, and in the second one, whether if the bomb was going to go off or not, and who were really behind the attack, and why. Here, you know from almost the first minute who wants to spread the virus and who's carrying it, the mole in CTU (seriously, another one?) is revealed in the second episode and he doesn't seem to be much of a deep character, unlike Nina, so things doesn't have much surprise here. Jack becoming a drug addict sure was a shock but I don't know if it's worth a 24-episode storyline anyway. Kim and her daddy issues and boyfriend issues got old already, and Palmer's girlfriend storyline doesn't attract me that much either, and the President's disbelief when someone tries to show him the truth about the women in his life is growing a little tired for me too. A president should be a little more bright than he is, and most of all considering the things he's been through already. It's not bad, but I hope it gets better.

Great Show but...

[matiasbockerman · 9/10 · 26 August 2022]

I say this a second Time but I can't help My self: I have been tapered of many times from opiates and have been in many rehabs and I seen a lot of people in withdrawal symptoms and have a lot of symptoms but coughing is not one of them. In real life, a person who uses heroin becomes so sick that then you can only lie down, you do not chase the bad guys a gun in your hand. The series is great and I watch it for the first time. But it's really annoying when the facts are wrong.

classic 24

[nerrdrage · 10/10 · 28 September 2023]

This is the type of episode that I watch 24 for: where the careful setup of previous episodes all comes together in a tsunami of interconnected disaster raging in from all directions.

Jack's addiction is discovered, Chase doesn't trust him as a result, Chase gets in the middle of a super top secret op that only Jack and the President know about (of course),

The dumb kid with the virus acts even dumber (why would the cops care so much about a low-level drug mule that they bring in dozens of agents with armored vehicles and helicopters to catch him? Think, dummy!) and gets his girlfriend caught up in his major dumbness.

Tony is possibly dying. Michelle can't go to the hospital and leave everything to the tender mercies of Chloe and Adam, even though Chloe is sharp enough to detect something off about that skeevy-looking new guy...

Meanwhile Palmer is risking his moral stance at the prodding of his feckless little brother.