The nerve-gas attack that nearly wiped out CTU — killing Edgar and Lynn, among many others — mandates an overhaul in the chain of command. In other developments, Audrey finds a major lead by decrypting Henderson’s computer files, so Bauer and Curtis follow up on it while Bierko and his band of terrorists plan their next strike.
CTU headquarters is reeling from the nerve-gas attack that cost Edgar Stiles and 40 percent of its staffers their lives at the end of last week’s two-hour episode. Tonight, the survivors try to stay alive in a very treacherous environment, while Bierko and his Russian separatists plan their next attack. Jack’s best hope is that Henderson, with whom he has a bitter history, will crack under drug-assisted interrogation and lead him to the terrorists.
Tonight’s two-hour 24 event (beginning at 8 pm/ET on Fox) will host a parade of faces new and familiar, including Elisha Cuthbert’s return as Jack’s beleaguered daughter and the debut of C. Thomas Howell as Kim’s therapist. The evening also introduces us to Vice President Hal Gardner, who has been cast with Ray Wise, a star of the Oscar-nominated Good Night, and Good Luck and who is familiar to TV fans as Twin Peaks’ very bad dad, Leland Palmer.
You don’t want to miss the back-to-back episodes next Monday. Kim is back, as is Tony. We’ll also meet Kim’s new shrink friend (C. Thomas Howell), Logan’s VP (Ray Wise) and Henderson’s wife (JoBeth Williams).
Executive Producer Howard Gordon says he wants to take the show on the road — i.e., outside Los Angeles — next season. “We flirted with going to London last year for six episodes,” he says. “Not with Kiefer necessarily, but to tell another story in another part of the globe. That’s something that I would really love to try to do next year.”
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This episode introduces another new face — RoboCop’s Peter Weller — and Jack isn’t happy to see him. A lead on a company that makes Sentox nerve gas for the military steers Jack straight into an old nemesis, Christopher Henderson (Weller). It was Henderson who first recruited Jack to CTU, and he was head of field operations — until Jack brought him down on corruption charges. Meanwhile, big, bad Bierko (Julian Sands) plots an attack on U.S. soil.
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Furious at Jack for disobeying orders at the shopping mall, Lynn McGill orders Bauer back to CTU. But, Jack being Jack, he instead ignores McGill to follow a lead on the terrorists that he obtained from an unlikely ally. Plus, we get our first look at terrorist mastermind Vladimir Bierko (Julian Sands), who rules his organization with an iron hand.
