Dissecting Day 6, Hour 6.

To listen to Slate's Spoiler Special about the sixth hour of Season 6 of 24, click the arrow button on the player below:

This week's episode of 24 depicts the hour between 11 a.m. and noon—an hour filled, it turns out, with dreary exposition, policy debates staged with clunky formality, and a few hints of juicy family drama.

As part of Slate's Spoiler Special podcast series—recently expanded to include television shows—we'll be hosting regular "post-view" discussions of Season 6. (Click here to listen to a discussion of the first four hours, and here for a discussion of Hour 5.) In this one, Slate's Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Julia Turner discuss the pressing questions raised by the episode, among them: Is Nadia evil? How will Karen get to Los Angeles? And does Jack have a thing for his brother's wife?

Because we reveal plot twists in these chats, we recommend—but don't insist—that you watch the show before listening to the program.

Here are links to our previous Spoiler Specials:
24: Day 6, Hour 5
24: Day 6, Hours 1-4
Notes on a Scandal
Dreamgirls
Casino Royale
Sleeper Cell
The History Boys
Fur
Borat
30 Rock
The Prestige
Marie Antoinette
The Departed
The Black Dahlia
Snakes on a Plane
World Trade Center
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Miami Vice
Scoop
Lady in the Water
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Devil Wears Prada

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