After the shocking conclusion to the previous episode we learn that Ryan Chappelle is indeed dead; there were no tricks involved Jack really did kill him! Looking into the work he was doing points to regular payments being made by Saunders; he has a daughter and she lives right there in Los Angeles. With this lead they decide that they will question her to determine if she knows where her father might be. The problem is they are certain that Saunders will have somebody watching her so they will have to find a way of replacing her with a look-alike while the questioning goes ahead. There is only one person at CTU Los Angeles that looks enough like her to take the role
Kim Bauer. She accepts the task against her father's objections. Meanwhile the infected man who left the hotel has turned up at a local hospital although he has had contact with people along the way so it is quite possible that the virus is in the open. As if that wasn't enough for one episode we learn what Saunders' next demand is
he expects the president to disclose the identities of all foreign nationals acting as agents for the United States; a demand he surely can not give into.
This was another gripping episode; when I first watched it I suspected that they may have used some ruse so that Chappelle wasn't really dead; while on the one hand I was sad to see the character go I was pleased that the creators hadn't taken the easy way out. By ordered Chappelle's death the president has demonstrated that he will give in to terrorism. The plot involving Saunders' daughter was interesting as it put Kim in danger; not because she was just caught up in events like in previous series but because she close to put herself there. The scenes after the switch had a decent level of tension as the CTU agents watching the scene didn't know which of the people in the area were working for Saunders. As always the acting was pretty solid and the action was well paced and the scenes switched at just the right time to keep the tension high.
This was another gripping episode; when I first watched it I suspected that they may have used some ruse so that Chappelle wasn't really dead; while on the one hand I was sad to see the character go I was pleased that the creators hadn't taken the easy way out. By ordered Chappelle's death the president has demonstrated that he will give in to terrorism. The plot involving Saunders' daughter was interesting as it put Kim in danger; not because she was just caught up in events like in previous series but because she close to put herself there. The scenes after the switch had a decent level of tension as the CTU agents watching the scene didn't know which of the people in the area were working for Saunders. As always the acting was pretty solid and the action was well paced and the scenes switched at just the right time to keep the tension high.