JACK: Why am I being flown to my undercover location in a giant helicopter with CTU written on the side?

MICHELLE: Because it looks good.

JACK: And why do you need to be here anyway?

MICHELLE: Because I look good.

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KIM: We're going to go down this alley

MEGAN: That's so cliché.

KIM: Oh no! We've been cut off and blocked in!

MEGAN: That's so cliché.

KIM: Look, I'm trying to save you, what's with the attitude?

MEGAN: I'm a child actor, go figure.

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JACK: Hey Eddie.

EDDIE: Hey Jack.

JACK: How's the reggae career?

EDDIE: I don't talk about that any more.

JACK: Too bad. Electric Avenue was pretty funky. Anyway, I brought you a disembodied head.

EDDIE: Cool.

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MEGAN: Ow, my head hurts

KIM: Don't worry, it's just for dramatic tension

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INVESTIGATOR: You have to go to Reza's car, find his passport and write down which countries he's visited recently.

KATE: OK.

INVESTIGATOR: But you have to do it frenetically, and just as he's on his way back to the car.

KATE: What? Why?

INVESTIGATOR: To create dramatic tension, duh!

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PAULA: Couldn't we be doing this from outside of Los Angeles?

TONY: Just get on with it and stop mithering.

PAULA: Sorry. It's my job to be suspicious and mousy.

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KIM: I'm going to hide you amid these conveniently placed cardboard boxes. Stay here.

MEGAN: OK

KIM: Stay here

MEGAN: OK

KIM: Stay here

MEGAN: OK

KIM: Stay here

MEGAN: OK

KIM: Stay here

MEGAN: OK

KIM: Stay here

MEGAN: OK

KIM: Stay here

MEGAN: OK

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MARIE: I'd just like to tell you how wonderful a sister you are.

KATE: What, now? Why?

MARIE: Dramatic irony.

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TONY: George, where are you going? Are you trying to escape the blast?

GEORGE: What do you think?

TONY: I don't believe this, you're the second person thinking of quitting on me this morning.

GEORGE: Sorry. It's my job to be suspicious and beary.

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LYNNE: President, don't you think having that guy taken away by security goons was completely out of character for you?

PALMER: What do you know anyway? You're Engisn Ro from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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EDDIE: We're gonna blow up CTU.

JACK: I can see it's gonna be one of those days.

EDDIE: At least no-one's kidnapped your family yet.

JACK: Give them time.

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KIM: Gah! After me telling her to stay where I left her all those times, she's not there any more! That's so cliché! MEGAN! MEGAN! MEGAN! MEGAN! MEGGGGAAAAAAAN!!!!! MEGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!! MEGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!

So, the media are going to break a story that Palmer doesn't want public, and he's doing everything in his power to stop it. Kim is being chased through alleys with an injured companion and no-one knows where she is, but CTU are trying to find her. Mason is being untrustworthy and is rowing with Jack over finding Kim, and Jack is on the trail of some evil terrorists from another country. Exactly which season of 24 is this that we're watching?

US viewers -no spoilers for future episodes in your reviews please!