So Someone Fill Me In On 24...

[Guest Flyboy]

So, I began watching the first season of 24 (DVD set) and I'm absolutely hooked. I see that the fourth season is about to start soon, but if you guys would kindly fill me in on all the stuff that happens between the first season until now so I'll be in the loop.

[BlackFlagg 0]

This is just me, but I say go out and rent season 2 and 3 on DVD, it's a little over 2 weeks till season four starts, if that's not enough time to watch all of em record the season 4 episodes that come as you're watching 2 and 3 then when you finish them watch the taped episodes then join in with the regular sceduale.....

 

I know I didn't start watcing 24 til the second season, I got hooked and when it was on Holiday break I bought season 1 on DVD and plowed through it, heh.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

That's a good idea. So, so much happens over a period of several years, and while some of the fundamental characters stay the same, a lot lot lot changes.

[JasonX 0]

So, I began watching the first season of 24 (DVD set) and I'm absolutely hooked.  I see that the fourth season is about to start soon, but if you guys would kindly fill me in on all the stuff that happens between the first season until now so I'll be in the loop.

OK:

 

Season Two

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Arab Terrorist threaten to nuke Los Angelos but as Jack stops them, he discovers that the Arab Terrorists were being helped by factions in the US Government and the heads of various oil companies, who want to start a war in the Middle East so they can occupy three countries (the names are never mentioned but I would assume they include Iran and Iraq).

 

Meanwhile Palmer gets caught in a coup de'tate when he discovers that the conspiracy involves key members of his cabinet staff. Meanwhile Jack meets up Sherry Palmer, who acted as gobetween between the big oil groups and the terrorists and who was responsible for getting the bomb in the terrorist's hands. The bomb BTW is found (with help from Nina, who gets roped into helping Jack in exchange for a pardon, before escaping) in the desert but George Mason (head of CTU) ends up being the one who flies it into the desert so it can go off without killing anyone save for George. Sherry is doing all of this mainly so she can get revenge on her ex-husband for divorcing her after the events of season one and gets forced at gunpoint to help Jack lure the main oil company executive who came up with the whole plot, into the open so Jack can catch him and arrest him.

 

Palmer gets restored as President and stops the US military from starting a war. However we learn that the oil company executive wasn't the real brains behind the plot; it was the dude who played "Operations" on Le Femme Nikita who along with the Drazens (AKA The Injustice League of Eurotrash) were behind the whole thing. The season ends with Jack being taken to the hospital by his new GF that he meets in the season (Kate Warner, who's sister was in on the plot to detonate the bomb and who sought to use her Arab husband and father as the patsy for her treason), Tony chilling at CTU with his new girlfriend/coworker Michelle, and the evil lesbian assassin and Injustice League of Eurotrash member from season one poisoning Palmer....

 

Season Three

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Several years pass since season two. Palmer is all better, Jack has returned to the states after spending a year undercover busting a narcoterrorist ring, and Kim is working at CTU/fucking Jack's protege Chase. The evil narco-terrorist boss and Jack come up with a convoluted scheme to blackmail the US Government into letting him escape by threatening to let loose the Ebola-lite Virus on Los Angelos. Jack goes AWOL helping narco terrorist escape, Tony gets shot in the neck, Kim gets held captive by a spy at CTU, and Chase follows them to Mexico and gets captured/tortured. BUT all is not what it seems, as Jack is faking being evil and the mole holding Kim hostage is part of a three man plot to nail the Injustice Gang of Eurotrash once and for all, who are out to buy the Ebola-lite virus. But again, it's all a smokescreen for ANOTHER nonsensical plot twist as a new big bad shows up in the form of Saunders, a British secret agent who was with Jack when they killed the family of the head of the Injustice Gang of Eurotrash. Left for dead, he was tortured for years before escaping and deciding to make America pay for what happened to him He kills the Injustice Gang of Eurotrash's representatives, gets Nina arrested AGAIN and ultimately shot dead by Jack, and detonates the virus in a hotel that kills everyone there (including Jack's double agent/daughter capturing-keeping safe dude), and capturing Michelle. He then uses Michelle and the virus to force Tony to turn traitor and help him evade Jack, who Saunders makes kill annoying boss-dude Ryan Chappelle when Chappelle does what no one else can do and exposes Saunder's organization so Jack can bust them down. This leads to the worse moment (Jack-wise) when Jack bitches Tony out for trying to save his wife instead of committing treason and let a mass murderer walk free, which is what a REAL MAN would do in the eyes of Jack....

 

Meanwhile Palmer's presidency and love life is ruined by his idiot brother, who ends up getting Sherry Palmer murdered as part of a convoluted and retardation causing plot where Palmer's idiot brother's fucking of the wife of a high ranking corporate doner to David's campaign results in Sherry nagging said dude to death and him lying to the police to protect Sherry, who ends up getting shot by the wife (who commits suicide) while the idiot brother watches and does nothing to stop because he's an idiot. In the end Palmer basically decides to give it up and calls his campaign for a second term off, meaning that the dad from Unhappily Ever After will be the new President.

 

Saunders is ultimately caught but not before ordering an agent of his to detonate the virus at a school. Saudners then dies a bitch's death at the hands of Jack's double agent/daughter capturing-keeping safe dude's wife. Saunder's remaining agent attaches the virus bomb onto Chase's hand and Chase has Jack chop off his hand to stop the bomb (the hand is later said to be reattached BTW). And at the end of the season Jack lets Tony be sent to jail for treason and doesn't lift a single damned finger to save him or to get David Palmer to intervene and save Tony from a minimum of 20 years in jail. And the season ends with Jack in his car crying like a bitch before drying his eyes and going back to CTU to interrogate several members of Saunder's organization.

[Ted the Poster 0]

Just rent the third season, if you can. It'll help you understand some of the things mentioned in the new season.

 

Hey Jason, remember the review you did last season that was ripped apart by a lot of us? Do that again.

[Guest Flyboy]

And at the end of the season Jack lets Tony be sent to jail for treason and doesn't lift a single damned finger to save him or to get David Palmer to intervene and save Tony from a minimum of 20 years in jail. And the season ends with Jack in his car crying like a bitch before drying his eyes and going back to CTU to interrogate several members of Saunder's organization.

 

Did the writers forget that Jack is being a HUGE hypocrite in this case being that he did the exact same thing to protect HIS family in season one?

[BlackFlagg 0]

And at the end of the season Jack lets Tony be sent to jail for treason and doesn't lift a single damned finger to save him or to get David Palmer to intervene and save Tony from a minimum of 20 years in jail. And the season ends with Jack in his car crying like a bitch before drying his eyes and going back to CTU to interrogate several members of Saunder's organization.

 

Did the writers forget that Jack is being a HUGE hypocrite in this case being that he did the exact same thing to protect HIS family in season one?

Let's see, Jack broke the rules to keep his family safe but still managed to do his job....and he was risking the life of one man, future president or not, one man. no matter what he did he would always find a way to keep his family and Palmer safe.

 

Tony put at risk millions of lives to save his wife<a trained CTU agent who knows the risks of her job as opposed to Jack's family who were civilians> and di so with no plan to do anything but give up there one bit of leverage to save Michelle.

 

So yeah, there's a big difference between what Jack did as opposed to what Tony did.

[Kahran Ramsus 0]

I don't remember Jack ever putting Palmer in danger in season one. He always tried to save him while saving his family as well.

[the max 0]

The ONLY times that Jack put Palmer in danger in season 1 was because he wanted to protect his family:

 

Incident 1: Breakfast at the Plant, where Jack doesn't put a bullet in the assassin's head because he was forced into helping him smuggle a weapon into the plant and get it in the hands of the assassin. He ends up saving Palmer by reaching for the black agent's gun.

 

Incident 2: Jack is sent by the Drazens to Palmer's hotel with the only objective being that Palmer answer a call on a specific phone that had been given to Jack by the Drazens. Turns out that this phone is rigged with a bomb, which Jack tosses out the window at the last second, saving Palmer's life and eventually convincing him to fake his death to save Kim.

 

That's it for season 1. I don't believe that they saw each other in person in season 2, but Jack saved Palmer's presidency by getting Kingsley to confess to forging the Cyprus recording.

 

Palmer's only saved Jack's life once, during the Nina-Jack hostage situation in season 2 by sending a sharpshooter to knock Nina out of commission and that was after pardoning Nina for killing Jack (in advance) in exchange for information to deliver Syed Ali.

[Mole 0]

I watched season 1 a few weeks before season 3 premiered. I started to watch season 2 right afterwards, but watching that many episodes of a show in a row gets tiresome. Even the awesomeness of 24.

[Kahran Ramsus 0]

The ONLY times that Jack put Palmer in danger in season 1 was because he wanted to protect his family:

 

Incident 1: Breakfast at the Plant, where Jack doesn't put a bullet in the assassin's head because he was forced into helping him smuggle a weapon into the plant and get it in the hands of the assassin. He ends up saving Palmer by reaching for the black agent's gun.

 

Incident 2: Jack is sent by the Drazens to Palmer's hotel with the only objective being that Palmer answer a call on a specific phone that had been given to Jack by the Drazens. Turns out that this phone is rigged with a bomb, which Jack tosses out the window at the last second, saving Palmer's life and eventually convincing him to fake his death to save Kim.

 

That's it for season 1. I don't believe that they saw each other in person in season 2, but Jack saved Palmer's presidency by getting Kingsley to confess to forging the Cyprus recording.

 

Palmer's only saved Jack's life once, during the Nina-Jack hostage situation in season 2 by sending a sharpshooter to knock Nina out of commission and that was after pardoning Nina for killing Jack (in advance) in exchange for information to deliver Syed Ali.

What I meant was that I don't remember a situation where Jack chose the life of his family over the life of Palmer. He always had a plan to try and do both. Tony was flat out helping Saunders escape.

[the max 0]

Season Two

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Arab Terrorist threaten to nuke Los Angelos but as Jack stops them, he discovers that the Arab Terrorists were being helped by factions in the US Government and the heads of various oil companies, who want to start a war in the Middle East so they can occupy three countries (the names are never mentioned but I would assume they include Iran and Iraq).

They don't want to occupy these countries, they want America to bomb them and start a war so that the price of oil goes up, thus making the heads of the oil companies several billion dollars.

 

 

 

 

Saunders is ultimately caught but not before ordering an agent of his to detonate the virus at a school. Saudners then dies a bitch's death at the hands of Jack's double agent/daughter capturing-keeping safe dude's wife. Saunder's remaining agent attaches the virus bomb onto Chase's hand and Chase has Jack chop off his hand to stop the bomb (the hand is later said to be reattached BTW). And at the end of the season Jack lets Tony be sent to jail for treason and doesn't lift a single damned finger to save him or to get David Palmer to intervene and save Tony from a minimum of 20 years in jail. And the season ends with Jack in his car crying like a bitch before drying his eyes and going back to CTU to interrogate several members of Saunder's organization.

 

Saunders told him to detonate at a mall, in an open place. Rabens was on the run from Jack and Chase and the first place that he was able to seek refuge was the middle school. Also, Rabens didn't attach the device to Chase's hand, Chase did it himself so that Rabens couldn't run off with it. You can tell because when Rabens dies, he was aiming his gun at Chase's wrist in an effort to shoot the cuff off.

 

As for the end of the season, it rationalizes like this:

 

Jack's family was in danger in season one, but every time that he went to their aide, it had to do with Palmer. For instance, the main theme of the first half of the season was that Gaines had Kim and Teri at his compound. Well, Jack had already been tapped by Gaines as a helping hand to get the gun into Jonathan's (the assassin at the breakfast) hands. So Jack knows that Gaines -1- Has his family as hostages and -2- Is behind the hit on Palmer in some capacity. Therefore, once Jack escaped SS custody, he went after Gaines for personal AND professional reasons. Not only does he get his family back, but he accomplishes his mission (at that time); Find the person/people behind the assassination of David Palmer and stop it from happening.

 

As for what Tony did, Tony knew that Saunders wasn't fucking around as Saunders had already released the virus in the hotel. Tony acted selfishly because of the circumstances that had already happened between he and Michelle that day (Tony is shot in the neck, Michelle is potentially exposed to the virus.) Tony's knowledge of the situation is also that Saunders's daughter is the only leverage that CTU has on him, but he still sacrifices that in more ways than one (more on that in a sec) and potentially puts the lives of millions of innocents to save ONE person. Plus, not only did Tony knowingly contact and assist Saunders (by pulling Baker and his team away from the NE entrance of Saunders's apartment) but he also scrambled the voice on his phone call with him in an effort to slow Chloe down. In essence, Tony's moves are entirely assailable because not only did he knowingly assist a bioterrorist, but he had no contingency plan as to cover CTU's ass should Saunders have gotten away.

 

So, the cases are the same in one key way. How each agent reacted with his loved ones under the gun. Jack reacted in a vengeful way. Tony panicked.