24 season 1The first season on DVD? check here: The first season episode guide12:00-1:00 A.M.The Pilot / season 1 - episode 1
Written by: David Greenwalt and Joss Whedon
Directed by: Joss Whedon
The first shot in the show shows the time as 4 am local time in Kuala Lumpur. On a busy street a man ducks into what looks like a store, unloads a laptop and starts to transmit information. They do a neat satellite shot and we assume we follow the information to the USA and we also assume that this guy is an American since he has no accent, or is really good at covering it up. We enter Senator Palmers life at some sort of social, probably to round up votes. Walsh makes a call to tell them that there will be an attempt on Palmers life sometime on that day.
1:00-2:00 A.M.Kidnapped / season 1 - episode 2
Written by: David Fury
Directed by: James A. Contner
Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) receives a desperate call from Richard Walsh, who says he has uncovered key information about the Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) investigation. On the home front, Kimberly is frightened by the increasingly erratic behavior of the young men who are holding her, and Teri's concern for her daughter grows as she and Janet's father continue their search. Elsewhere, Presidential candidate David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert), unaware of the threat to his life, slips away to ask an old associate for help in dealing with a scandal that could derail his campaign.
2:00-3:00 A.M.Key Card / season 1 - episode 3
Written by: Doug Petrie
Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
From his car, Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) digitally sends the thumbprint to a tech. Teri calls to tell Jack that Kimberly phoned and said, "I love you" at the end of the conversation. This worries Teri because Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) never says, "I love you." Jack convinces Teri and Alan York to remain at the furniture store to wait for the girls..Gaines is really angry at Mandy. He is quite pissed off because he has to fork out an extra million dollars to Mandy's mystery friend who will not give them the ID. He threatens to withdraw the first million dollars if the ID doesn't show up. Gaines takes a walk out on to the deck and runs into the Martin-Alike who is waiting outside.
3:00-4:00 A.M.One Dead Cop / season 1 - episode 4
Written by: Joss Whedon & David Greenwalt
Directed by: Vern Gilum
Janet is laying in the middle of the street. A car drives up and honks at her and yells wondering what she is doing in the middle of the street, is she an idiot? Then an odd-looking character swims in and out of focus. He is walking down the street talking to himself. She looks like she wants to yell for help but can't find her voice. Meanwhile, Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) is being dragged away by Rick and Dan. They are trying to cover her mouth so she can't scream and she bites the hand over her mouth. She is upset over them leaving Janet and says that they have to go back. Dan says that she is dead and Kim argues that he doesn't know that.
4:00-5:00 A.M.Jail Break / season 1 - episode 5
Written by: David Greenwalt and Jane Espenson
Directed by: Scott McGinnis
Teri and Alan York barge into the operating room of St. Mark's Hospital to find Janet on the operating table. Jack (Kiefer Sutherland), following the squad car carrying Penticoff, gets the news about Janet from Teri. He too is on the hunt for Kimberly, and will report back to Teri when he knows more. Meanwhile, Dan and Rick shove the tied-up Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) into Gaines' car. Gaines orders Rick and Dan to pick up their money at his compound. Rick wants to split, but Dan argues that they've got $20,000 coming and that's enough to convince Rick to finish what he started.
5:00-6:00 A.M.The Real Alan York / season 1 - episode 6
Written by: Tim Minear
Directed by: James A.Contner
In the operating room, Janet is crashing and they are trying to save her. At this point it looks bad as they repetitively shock her as Alan and Teri look on. Teri's cell rings and it is Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) calling to let her know that he is on the west side and he'll be there soon. Teri tells him that there is a complication with Janet but Jack says not to let anyone near her, she might be in danger but don't tell anyone. Meanwhile, Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) looks for some reciprocity as she assists Rick with a task assigned by Gaines; and Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) learns that not all members of his team have been on the same page.
6:00-7:00 A.M.Decisions / season 1 - episode 7
Written by: Tracey Stern
Directed by: David Straiton
A glitch in the conspirators' plans prompts a move by the CTU traitor, who is revealed in this episode. As day dawns, so does a new dynamic as Gaines takes his control over the situation to another level. Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) is his hostage and Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) his unwilling puppet, thanks to state-of-the-art surveillance that shows his every move. Teri, however, is able to gain the upper hand over York, whose impostor status is made known to Jack. Meanwhile, Rick agrees to join Kim in an escape attempt; and Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) decides to go public with Keith's secret, sparking controversy within the family.
7:00-8:00 A.M.Jack the Puppet / season 1 - episode 8
Written by: David Greenwalt and Jeannie Renshaw
Directed by: David Grossman
Jonathan's on his way to the breakfast when Gaines rings him to make sure he's in. Sherry asks Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) if he's decided what he's going to do. He says he's rewritten his speech, which now includes the truth. Keith and his father have an argument, as Keith expects he'll be going to prison for killing a white man. Before Jonathan gets past security, Palmer's press assistant, Jessica Abrams, introduces herself, as she's a big fan. Pierce runs a check on Jonathan, and gives him clearance. Meanwhile at CTU, Jamey and Tony (Carlos Bernard) each get startling news about Nina (Sarah Clarke), forcing both to change their plans.
8:00-9:00 A.M.Jack in Jail / season 1 - episode 9
Written by: Howard Gordon and Tim Minear
Directed by: Tucker Gates
Jack's (Kiefer Sutherland) explanation of the power-plant incident is met with skepticism from the Secret Service; Teri makes a sacrifice for Kim (Elisha Cuthbert); Jack seeks leverage against the stonewalling Jamey. Gaines, in a rage, is on the phone with someone trying to find out if Jonathan got a shot off. He hangs up to see all his feeds are down. Before he can find out why, Jamey calls to say she had to shut off his tap, because Milo was on to them. This does nothing to lower Gaines' blood pressure, nor does it buy Nina (Sarah Clarke) and Tony (Carlos Bernard) much time, as Gaines wants Jack back under his command ASAP.
9:00-10:00 A.M.Cell Phone Call / season 1 - episode 10
Written by: David Fury and Jeannine Renshaw
Directed by: James A. Contner
Another episode begins with Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) on the lam and on his cell with Nina (Sarah Clarke), who's trying to help him avoid police roadblocks. Teri finally gets in touch with Jack, only to be silenced when henchmen Rick and Eli return looking for Eli's missing cell phone. But Teri's able to keep the line open, providing the opportunity for Jack and Nina to listen in. At CTU, a new director takes the helm, and Tony (Carlos Bernard) finds a clue on Jamey's disk that reveals a wealthy contact whom Jack is interested in meeting.
10:00-11:00 A.M.Jack the Kidnapper / season 1 - episode 11
Written by: Tim Minear
Directed by: Winrich Kolbe
Alberta Green announces how Secret Service think the photographer, Martin Belkin, may be in on the assassination attempt, as he hasn't been seen since the breakfast. Nina (Sarah Clarke) tells her she hasn't heard from Jack (Kiefer Sutherland). Kevin calls Cofell, because something important has come up and he needs to be met at a parking garage. After getting off the phone with Kevin, Cofell tells Mark his change of plans, but Mark doesn't acknowledge them, and Cofell soon figures out that he's not talking to Mark. Jack cocks his pistol, explaining to Cofell that it's his last chance to tell him where his family is, but Cofell continues to declare his innocence. Jack backs off and has Cofell stay put while he calls Nina, who opens a secure line. After she fills him in on what's up there, he says he's got Cofell.
11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M.Reunion / season 1 - episode 12
Written by: Howard Gordon
Directed by: David Semel
Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) closes in on Teri and Kim's (Elisha Cuthbert) location in this gripping hour. And while Jack insists on keeping it a one-man operation in the field, he calls on Nina (Sarah Clarke) for vital tech support. But she and Tony (Carlos Bernard) have problems of their own: Jack's replacement, Alberta Green, is now convinced they know where Jack is. Still believing Jack is a threat to Palmer (Dennis Haysbert), she pits Nina and Tony against each other in an attempt to force a confession. Meanwhile, Palmer's worst fears are realized when he learns just how far his backers will go to protect his candidacy.
12:00-1:00 P.M.All About the Water Tower / season 1 - episode 13
Written by: David Greenwalt & Marti Noxon
Directed by: David Greenwalt
While Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) and Rick escape, Gaines, Kevin, Neill and a couple other thugs pick themselves up after the explosion. Gaines orders Neill to take the jeep and cut Jack off at the service road, and the others to come up behind him. Gaines butts Kevin in the stomach with his rifle for letting this happen, refusing to hear anything he has to say. Rick tells Jack to go on without him, as he's in too much pain to continue and he's slowing him down. Jack agrees that Rick is, and tells him to speed up. After a near brush with one of Gaines' men, they press on. Teri tries to follow Jack's route, but is forced to make a detour to avoid the thugs. When she uses the palm pilot to see which way is best to go, Kimberly whines that it's not the way dad told them to go.
1:00-2:00 P.M.The Palmer-Bauer Connection / season 1 - episode 14
Written by: David Greenwalt & Jeannine Renshaw
Directed by: R.D. Price
The chopper brings Jack (Kiefer Sutherland), Teri and Kimberly in to CTU. While Green and Nina (Sarah Clarke) are standing by to meet them, Green asks who is on board and Nina says just Jack and his family, since the prisoners were picked up separately. After the chopper lands and they get out, Jack learns that Teri's been having abdominal pain. He tells her they've arranged for her and Kimberly to see a doctor. She wants to stay with him, but he's got an appointment with Green. After some agents help the women into an ambulance, Green drops the bomb on Jack that she's placing him under house arrest until he can be turned over to the FBI. While Jack is being escorted back inside, he asks Nina in secret if she could drop by the clinic they've taken Teri and Kimberly to and check up on them.
2:00-3:00 P.M.Operation Nightfall / season 1 - episode 15
Written by: Tim Minear
Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
The motive behind the assassination conspiracy comes into focus as David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) has a face-to-face meeting with Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) Bauer. Convinced that Jack wants him dead, the senator cuts through red tape to meet the alleged suspect, seeking to put an end to the entire affair "right here, right now." But when the two men start to compare notes, they find they have a common acquaintance, someone who may be another target. They also realize why the conspirators have chosen this particular day for their actions. Meanwhile, Nina (Sarah Clarke) debriefs Teri and Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) at the CTU safe house.
3:00-4:00 P.M.Big Car Explosion / season 1 - episode 16
Written by: Howard Gordon
Directed by: Nick Marck
The strangler goes through Ellis' possessions after letting him cool on the men's room floor. He snatches a couple things from the body while Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) continues to beg Ellis to pick up the phone. The strangler picks up the phone for him, and hangs it up. After an aborted attempt to call back, Jack rings Agent Watson in CTU's New Orleans branch, and asks him to check on Ellis, whom he fears might be dead. Milo interrupts Jack with some urgent news: he's gotten hold of surveillance photos and case files of all three assassins, which he's already sent to Secret Service, and one of them is Victor Drazen's son. Outside the safe house, a chain of CTU agents have been set up to look like construction and lawn care workers.
4:00-5:00 P.M.Mad Woman / season 1 - episode 17
Written by: Tracey Stern
Directed by: Regis B. Kimble
Keith Palmer meets with Carl, who warns that "you're in way over your head." But that doesn't stop the troubled Keith from issuing a challenge to his father. Meanwhile, Tony (Carlos Bernard) learns that Teri and Kim's (Elisha Cuthbert) safety has been compromised, but Mason (Xander Berkeley) declines informing Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) of the situation. It's a calculated move to keep him focused on the business at hand as the Secret Service and CTU prepare for an operation that could give them an advantage over the conspirators. However, Jack does learn of Nina's (Sarah Clarke) telling exchange with Teri, and he's not happy about it.
5:00-6:00 P.M.Jack Bauer AKA Alexis Drazen / season 1 - episode 18
Written by: Jim Kouf
Directed by: James A. Contner
Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) announces to his team that Alexis had planned to go straight from his date to a business meeting, where he'd be making a payoff. Meaning somewhere in the hotel room is money, which Jack needs them to find. Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) demands that Elizabeth be let off the hook, and stomps his feet when Jack responds that he doesn't recall asking her to give Alexis an emergency appendectomy with a letter opener. After his temper subsides, Palmer realizes Jack is just trying to protect him, and agrees to back off and let him do his job. Nina (Sarah Clarke) and a few other agents quickly find the money, in bearer bonds. She hands them to Jack, then wonders how he plans to magically transform himself into Alexis.
6:00-7:00 P.M.Middle of Nowhere / season 1 - episode 19
Written by: Tim Minear and Joss Whedon
Directed by: Michael Lange
Jovan Myovic watches as Teri and Dr. Parslow enter the Bauer home. When the house's security alarm sounds, Teri does not know how to turn it off. The alarm company calls, but Teri is unaware of the password. The guards from the company arrive, and Teri pretends to look for her purse to show them ID. She notices photographs of Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) and Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) in the living room. The guards recognize Teri from the photos, and they turn off the alarm for her. At California Plaza, Nina (Sarah Clarke) informs Jack that the man who was receiving the payoff is named Alan Morgan. Although he is now dead, he was supposed to turn off the electricity in one section of the city's power grid.
7:00-8:00 P.M.Jack and the Tazer / season 1 - episode 20
Written by: Garry Cambell
Directed by: David Straiton
Dennis Hopper joins the series for the season's remaining five episodes as the mastermind behind the conspiracy. His identity and motives for seeking vengeance against David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) and the Bauer family are revealed during this taut episode, in which Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) continues searching for clues as to why the Drazens had planned to cut the power in an apparently deserted area. Lou Diamond Phillips plays a man named DeSalvo who has some answers. Meanwhile, Mason (Xander Berkeley) heads back to interrogate Alexis Drazen; Rick tells Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) what to tell the cops; and the country responds to the press conference in which Palmer talked about Keith.
8:00-9:00 P.M.Jack Gets Beat Up / season 1 - episode 21
Written by: Jeannine Renshaw
Directed by: Thomas J. Wright
The polls close in California. A television reporter announces that Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) appears to have swept the state, as well as all others that held the Super Tuesday primary. In the company of himself, Palmer soaks up every last drop of the news, no doubt waiting for the right moment to let the bragging begin. Kimberly, meanwhile, is biding her time in the women's group holding cell. An estrogen-challenged black officer brings Melanie around, and drops her off so Kimberly can have a familiar face to keep her company. Melanie walks right over to Kimberly, and tells her she's in her seat. Kimberly says fine, gets up, and sits elsewhere.
9:00-10:00 P.M.Drazen Family Reunion / season 1 - episode 22
Written by: David Greenwalt
Directed by: David Greenwalt
Victor offers a deal to the Feds, and Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) makes his own deal in order to help Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) after learning Victor is alive. From Drazen's red van, Jack calls Nina (Sarah Clarke) at CTU. He orders her to get Alexis Drazen on the line so Victor can confirm that he is alive. From his hospital bed, Alexis admits failure to his father. Victor tells his son that since they are both alive, he has not failed. Victor tells the CTU people listening to the call that he will trade the life of Jack for that of Alexis. Mason (Xander Berkeley) speaks up, informing Victor that he is not authorized to make such a trade. Victor says that when he calls back, Mason had better have an answer.
10:00-11:00 P.M.Secrets Revealed / season 1 - episode 23
Written by: David Greenwalt
Directed by: David Greenwalt
Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) calls into CTU and tells them he is fine, but that he has to help find Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) first. George (Xander Berkeley) & Nina (Sarah Clarke) realise the only reason Jack would be set free like this is if the Drazens were going to try and get him to kill Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) again. George calls the Secret Service to tip them off and to prevent Jack from getting to Palmer. Palmer gives Patty his room key, and tells him to meet him in 20 minutes Victor and Andre Drazen reunite with Alexis, but he dies moments later from internal bleeding.Patty tells Sherry that Palmer has given her his room key and told her to meet him. Sherry tells Patty to report back to her after she sleeps with him. Tony (Carlos Bernard) discovers that the plans to the detention facility that was holding Drazen had been tampered with.
11:00 P.M.-12:00 A.M.Unhapilly Ever After / season 1 - episode 24
Written by: David Greenwalt
Directed by: David Greenwalt
The episode finds Sherry Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) distressed about the role she's been made to play in the media ruse that was necessary to buy time for Jack (Kiefer Sutherland). When Jack arrives at the perimeter of the Drazens' location, a war of wills ensues. However, a phone conversation gives Jack information that helps identify the second CTU traitor, enabling him to warn Nina (Sarah Clarke). And as time grows short for the Drazens to make their escape, Andre and Victor disagree about whether to follow through on at least one part of their plan. After learning that the Drazens know about Palmer, Jack calls Nina to say he is certain that someone in CTU is feeding the Drazens information. Only she, Tony (Carlos Bernard), Mason (Xander Berkeley) and Ryan Chapelle know that Palmer is alive. report error and omissions here
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