Day 5: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Characters Introduced:

• Polokoff (Timothy Omundson): He will be dead by the end of the hour but he is the man ordering Jack around at the mall. Also went from this role directly to Pysch where he is most definitely not a Russian.

Returning Characters:

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Key Moments:

• Jack pretends to be Rossler and takes the call from Erwich. He gets the location and proposes to CTU that he will take the meeting. Erwich sends Polokoff to the meeting but also tells another thug to find an option C of releasing the gas.
• Mike convinces Logan to lay off exposing Walt now that he is dead and gone. Logan says Martha won’t like that, but Mike counters by saying she isn’t the President.
• Jack heads off to the meeting alone with Curtis doing passive tracking from afar. It’s always fun to see Jack pretend to be scared and paranoid. He plays engineer with the help of Chloe talking in his ear. He finishes putting together the detonator and gets punched in the gut for his troubles. Polokoff tosses him in the van and drives off. Audrey wants Curtis to take the van but Lynn wants to let this play out so Jack can lead them to the rest of the canisters.
• In one of the many fantastic moments that you get from Charles Logan, Martha storms in after finding out that Walt isn’t being exposed. Charles and Mike argue their case but Martha says she will go to the public herself. Charles says fine, start with Walt’s wife who has arrived to pick up his body.
• Jack converses with his kidnappers so CTU can hear their plans. They are going to field test the detonator and CTU figures out that it is at a mall. Audrey pushes to take them again but Lynn denies. Bill says that it is a decision for the President.
• Jack and his Russian friends walk through the mall. A security guard is killed and one of the Russians goes to work on the ducting. Jack listens in as the situation is explained to Logan. Logan being Logan tries to push the decision off on to CTU but Bill has none of that shit and says you are the President and this is your job. Logan says release the gas. Jack is not down with this so he gives Polokoff the wrong code. He gets knocked out and cuffed to a table for his failure. Erwich tells Polokoff that there is another way.
• When one of the thugs moves to kill Jack, he uses his dangerous legs to break his neck. Polokoff escapes after releasing the gas. Jack grabs a gas mask and shuts the nerve gas down after about a minute. In a great moment, Jack runs around the mall in a gasmask scaring the hell out of everyone. Bodies are dropping all over the place. Jack shuts down the ventilation system. Since security guards and adults don’t really matter, Jack takes the time to save a cute little girl. He calls Bill and tells him to track the detonator that Polokoff is holding.
• Polokoff calls Erwich and tells him what happened. Erwich tells him to come back to the shop but is shady about it.
• Logan gives Lynn shit for Jack disobeying orders.
• Martha punks out and doesn’t tell Walt’s wife the truth.
• Jack and Curtis are tracking Polokoff back to the machine shop. Erwich calls Polokoff and tells him what to do and when Jack moves in to capture him Polokoff kills himself.

Ridiculousness:

• I’m not sure if we find out in this hour, but I’m complaining now. If Lynn got mugged and lost his keycard, how the hell did he get back into CTU?

Running Totals:

Jack’s body count: 1 (113)

• Jack would totally kill Sayid Jarrah in a leg fight.

Damnit!: 1 (12)

• Jack is sad to see Polokoff kill himself.