Grade for 24: Season 9, Episode 3 — 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

Chloe and Jack get to the pub where Derrick Yates was killed by Simone — B

Jack goes to the bathroom and finds Yates dead — C

Jack goes out of the pub to find the girlfriend — A

Jack finds Simone’s wig in the trash — B

Jack tells Chloe to find Simone and finds her going into the London Tube — B

Jack and Chloe head in pursuit — A

Kate Morgan questions the men caught in the apartment complex where Yates escaped — B

Navarro calls Erik Ritter and tells them to get out of there — F

Basher tells Kate to piss off — C

Ritter instructs the agents to cut everyone loose, but Kate knocks out Basher and tells Ritter to take him to the car. We like Kate — A

Jack gets to a London subway stop and enters the train to find Simeone — A

Like a good customer, Jack pays for the subway — A

Jack enters the Tube to search for Simone — A

She sees Jack so she cuts her leg to make people think he attacked her — D

She gets off the Tube and yells that Jack is trying to kill her — D

Jack has to follow her — C

Simone gets out from a side exit — D

Chloe tries to find her and Jack reaches the surface without any sign of Simone — D

Chloe freezes after she sees someone looking like Morris (ex-husband) and her son (Prescott) and totally misses Simone running out of the Tube — D

Simone gets into a cab — D

Chloe tells Jack she missed her — D

Simone escapes — D

Jack meets up with Chloe and finds out that Morris and Prescott were killed in a car accident — C

Chloe tells Jack she was targeted because she knew what happened Jack left — C

Jack tells Chloe she has honor Morris and Prescott by doing what she has to do. Jack asks for her help to stop the attacks on Heller — A

Mark Boudreau is given an Executive Order from Ron Clark that would hand over Jack to the Russians, which President Heller needs to sign — F

Mark tells Ron to keep “a tight lid on this”, but Audrey walks in and hears “tight lid.” — D

Audrey is pissed at Mark for embarrassing her father while prepping for his Parliamentary speech — B

Audrey says Mark was trying to punish both her and Heller for disagreeing with her — B

Mark tells Audrey her father has to step back and asks her to talk to the President to not do the speech — F

Audrey agrees — C

Mark then forges the President’s signature on the Executive Order. Mark is a jerk — F

Chloe finds Simone through a facial recognition search — A

Jack asks Chloe if Simone is related to Margot — A

Yes! — A

Chloe says Margot was married to an Al-Qaeda operative and Jack realizes that it’s she who’s planning the attack — A

Simone gets back to Margot and gives her the drone controls — D

Simone’s brother works on targeting the drone — D

Simone sees her husband Naviv and she kisses him — C

Margot tells Naviv to give Simone a proper kiss. Really? — B

Margot tells Naviv what she instructed Simone to do with Yates was for a higher cause — D

Jack and Chloe get back to Open Cell headquarters and they Adrian Cross again — B

Jack asks if the drone that killed Major Sheppard was hijacked and Open Cell confirms it was — B

Jack wants to get into the U.S. Embassy to talk to Lt. Tanner who is about to be delivered to the British military — B

Cross reluctantly agrees to help Jack build an identity — B

Ritter and Morgan take Basher to a gang which has an issue with him — A

Kate unlocks the car and Basher begins to talk about Yates — A

He stalls so Kate opens the window so the gang can see him — A

At the U.S. Embassy in London, there’s a demonstration where Tanner is being taken — C

Simone is being stitched up by Margot — B

Margot asks Simone about Jack — B

Margot digs the stitching needle deep — D

Kate and Ritter head to the U.S. Embassy — B

Ritter asks Kate how she missed her husband spying for the Chinese — B

Navarro calls Kate and wonders why she pistolwhipped Basher — D

Kate tells him that she thought he could lead him to Jack and the drone attack in Afghanistan — A

Kate says she wants to question Tanner and Navarro agrees — A

Heller sees Sky News’ report on the Embassy demonstrations and Audrey talks to him about the Parliament speech — B

Heller says he’s going to give the speech and not giving up on the UK base agreement — B

Jack is at the Embassy and hopes his ID will work — C

Cross puts a faulty number on the ID that will cause Jack to get detained — F

Simone seduces Naviv after he shows second thoughts about the drone attack while Margot watches off a monitor in another room??? What kind of sick woman is Margot??? — D minus

Episode 3 quad

Heller arrives at Parliament and Prime Minster Davies attempts to talk him out of speaking to the MP’s — B

Mark wants Audrey to stop him, but Audrey tells him to stop making everyone’s decision for them — A

President Heller goes in front of Parliament and gets heckled by the angry MP’s — B

Heller freezes — C

Jack’s ID is flagged. Damn you, Cross! — D

Chloe is pissed — A

Ritter and Morgan arrive at the Embassy — A

Chloe tells Jack to get out — A

Jack walks away from the gate and he takes a gun from British security — A

He shoots a protestor in the leg and causes a disturbance — A

Jack runs into the Embassy and is spotted by Kate — A

The angry crowd runs into the Embassy and Jack is pursued by Jack — A

Bridge episode. Not much action.

Overall grade — C Plus

About Ken Fang

Ken has been covering the sports media in earnest at his own site, Fang's Bites since May 2007 and at Awful Announcing since March 2013. He provides a unique perspective having been an award-winning radio news reporter in Providence and having worked in local television. Fang celebrates the three Boston Red Sox World Championships in the 21st Century, but continues to be a long-suffering Cleveland Browns fan.

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