Day 5: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Characters Introduced:

• Vladimir Bierko (Julian Sands): The third and final Russian that Jack chases during Day 5. For a man that planned to take the nerve gas back to Russia, he sure has plenty of fallback plans against the United States.
• Ostroff (Alexander Kuznetsov): One of Bierko’s men who actually gets dialogue and will go on to do some serious stuff at CTU.

Returning Characters:

Not here

Key Moments:

• Erwich delivers the remaining canisters to Bierko. He gets stabbed in the stomach for using a canister and trusting the Americans. Bierko sends his men after Nathanson. Nathanson is already on the run as he finds out that all of his people are being killed.
• Lynn calls his sister looking for his keycard.
• After getting ripped apart by Logan, Lynn walks into a CTU briefing and demands that Jack be arrested right NOW. That has always worked in the past.
• Bill gives the order to Curtis, who is able to talk Jack into surrendering to him and heading back to CTU.
• Nathanson calls Audrey and wants a clean line to Jack. She transfers him to Jack, while Jack is with Curtis. Nathanson wants to meet alone in 10 minutes. When Curtis slows up at a stop sign, Jack chokes him out. He leaves him on the side of the road, takes his gun, and steals his SUV.
• Curtis tells Lynn what Jack did. Lynn is pissed and tells Chloe to track Jack’s cell. Audrey asks Chloe to wipe her phone records. She does this but Lynn was looking at them as it happened.
• Bierko calls Logan to tell him that he didn’t sanction the attack on America. He wants to attack Russia. He gives Logan 15 minutes to give him the Suvarov’s motorcade route through LA.
• Lynn is pissed and demanding answers from Bill. He gets even angrier when Bill tells him that Jack and Audrey were involved back in the day.
• Jack reaches Nathanson’s meeting point and they argue over being a “patriot”. Before Nathanson can lead Jack to his position, a helicopter lands and the two of them scramble.
• Audrey tells Bill about the Nathanson call before Lynn shows up to look over her shoulder.
• Nathanson is trying to escape to the roof but there are too many of Bierko’s men. He reaches the roof and gets shot in the leg and pinned down. Jack shoots the 2 men before they can take out Nathanson. But the helicopter reappears and finishes off Nathanson. Jack takes out the helicopter’s motor with a handgun. The dying Nathanson passes Jack a memory chip.
• Ostroff calls Bierko to tell him that Nathanson is dead but he had help.
• Jack sends the memory chip data to Chloe.
• Before Mike and Logan can decide on what to do about motorcade, Martha pops up to get angry over even discussing Beirko’s demands.
• Chloe tells Bill that she needs Audrey’s clearance to read the data Jack sent her. Bill distracts Lynn and Chloe and Audrey open up the data. Lynn flips out and arrests Bill.
• Chloe calls Jack and tells him that the data implicates a company called Omnicron. Jack asks if a man named Christopher Henderson works there.
• Logan sends the route to Bierko, but Martha takes matters into her own hands and hops in the limo with the Suvarovs. Pierce comes along for the ride too.

Ridiculousness:

• Martha Logan randomly hopping into the limo of Russian President would happen in what universe?

Running Totals:

Jack loves America not Americans: 1 (17)

• Poor Curtis gets his ass kicked by Jack.

Jack’s million-dollar dream: 1 (5)

• Curtis is put to sleep.

Jack’s body count: 2 (115)

• Jack gets a couple of Bierko’s men.