This time David's sharing an apartment building with Joe, an alcoholic ex-cop who resigned after his partner was killed due to his inaction, and Timmy, a ten-year-old boy whose parents recently divorced. One of the series's more tragic touches is that David can't have kids, since he's consistently shown as an ideal father. He's successfully brought Timmy out of his shell by, among other things, taking him to an old western film festival. David and Timmy's repeated quipping "Pilgrim" and "Yuhp" wear out their welcome well before the episode's end.
On the job front, David's a custodian at a hospital where a mafia boss named Sammy is under protective custody. Sammy's nephews went him dead before he can testify, so they kidnap Timmy to coerce David into opening the hospital door for some hired assassins at 2 a.m.
Curiously, the titular time frame isn't introduced until over halfway through the episode, and even then, there's little focus placed upon it. The idea is that Joe and David have to rescue Timmy before 2 a.m. so that Sammy won't be killed, but we're not given much sense of the passage of time, and they don't make the deadline, so the episode's most intense moments happen well after the nine hours have expired.
That said, this is a very solid if not exemplary episode. Sammy is characterized eloquently and believably enough that you want him to be saved, regardless of his testimony. Timmy's a likable kid, too, even with all the "Yuhp"s. The deadly hunt through the hospital is rife with tension, and more than balanced off by good human moments, like Joe's interactions with Timmy, or his mother's impassioned pleas for Joe to help. Not a grand slam, but a winner nonetheless.