Day 5: 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

Characters Introduced:

• Spenser Wolff (Jonah Lotan): You had to know that sleeping with Chloe would be high maintenance.
• Diane Huxley (Connie Britton): The single mom that Jack is slumming with. Her cluelessness towards Jack will be quickly remedied.
• Derek Huxley (Brady Corbet): Diane’s ratty looking kid who doesn’t trust Jack. I’m not sure if his morning with Jack will cure that.
• Haas (Jeff Kober): Only in this hour, but he is the man who killed David Palmer. Bastard.
• Martha Logan (Jean Smart): Logan’s loon of a wife. Jean Smart’s performance is definitely a matter of taste. It is a taste I do not enjoy.
• Evelyn Martin (Sandrine Holt): The poor assistant to Martha. Her day gets even worse than dealing with a crazy person.

Returning Characters: (Pack a lunch, by far the largest amount of returning characters to start a season)

• Jack Bauer (Last episode of season 4)
• Chloe O’Brian (Last episode of season 4)
• David Palmer (Last episode of season 4)
• Wayne Palmer (Last episode of season 3)
• Charles Logan (Last episode of season 4)
• Mike Novick (Last episode of season 4)
• Walt Cummings (Last episode of season 4)
• Bill Buchanan (Last episode of season 4)
• Curtis Manning (Last episode of season 4)
• Edgar Stiles (Last episode of season 4)
• Tony Almeida (Last episode of season 4)
• Michelle Dessler (Last episode of season 4)
• Audrey Raines (Last episode of season 4)
• Dr. Besson (3am – 4am of season 4)

Key Moments:

• Time for another DVD teaser and if you lost consciousness at some point it is presented by Toyota. That is very important.
• 12 months after Day 4, Jack is driving a Toyota. They play up the homeless vagabond aspect by Jack wearing a raggedy hoodie with long hair poking out the sides. In an important historical moment, the magical messenger bag makes it’s first appearance.
• Chloe pulls up in her own Toyota and shows off her new adult look with big-girl hair.
• Jack begins their meeting by yanking Chloe into the shadows. She tells him to leave Chicago because someone accessed her hard drive and will figure out that Jack is alive. She feels bad that Jack is living like a hobo but Jack switches to Kim. She tells him that his fake death destroyed her life.
• Then the rest of the teaser is Toyota commercial disguised as a car chase. Jack’s car out handles the non-Toyota sedan chasing him ending with the Toyota handling the slide but the non-Toyota loses control and crashing into a forklift.
• 6 months later, there is some man calling himself Frank (psst he is actually Jack Bauer) who can’t find work at the construction site today.
• The Palmer brothers are working on David’s memoirs. Wayne notices that David is distracted but before he can get him to open up, a sniper bullet opens up a hole in David’s neck.
• While Logan and Walt talk about today’s summit with Russia, Mike takes the call about David’s assassination.
• CTU is in motion and hasn’t made any significant changes since Day 4. There is now an upstairs meeting room for awkward conversations. Bill and Curtis talk with Logan about the assassination. CTU warns that Logan may be a target but he refuses to call off the summit.
• Chloe pulls off a walk of shame inside her own home. She is uncomfortable with Spenser and before she can come to grips with her one night stand her phone rings with David Palmer’s death.
• Jack is watching the news about David’s death and silently crying. Diane nearly gets shot when she invites Jack to breakfast. In a shocking twist Jack is eating food with the Huxleys, which should fuel him for the next decade. Derek questions Jack’s fake past but Diane stops him and says she trusts Jack.
• Tony and Michelle are arguing about whether they should go in to CTU and help with the Palmer investigation. She decides to go in and Tony hems and haws but he eventually follows her. Before he can get to the door, an explosion blows through the side of the house. He runs out to find Michelle on the ground and cradles her body. A huge explosion engulfs both of them in fire.
• Edgar and Spenser talk about the bombing of Tony and Michelle. Edgar calls Chloe with the news, as she is about to enter her car. Paranoia sets in as she looks around and spots a guy getting out of van. Always run when you see that. Haas sends his minion after her and she escapes him by using an escalator trick.
• While Jack and Diane banter over breakfast, a frantic Chloe calls Jack breaking their protocol. She tells him about Tony, Michelle, and what happened to her. Jack tells her to go dark from CTU (yes!) and directs her to some oilfield north of LA that he can get to in 30 minutes. During this conversation Jack is tooling up, he digs out his messenger bag and pops on his sunglasses but, disappointingly, they are not the aviators.
• Martha introduces herself by telling Evelyn that she doesn’t like her makeup and sticking her face in a sink full of water. Walt arrives to tell her about David’s assassination. She starts at sad but moves on to obsessed with speaking with Charles. Since he is in front of the cameras talking about David, everyone tries to stop her. Although she starts yelling and screaming in the background of the press conference, she is eventually convinced to shut the fuck up and wait a minute.
• Jack hijacks the emergency helicopter from the construction site he couldn’t find work at. Before he can leave, he spots Derek spying on him from the shadows. He yanks him up by the scruff of the neck and tosses him on the chopper.
• Dr. Besson wheels Tony into CTU medical … NO! You’ll die in there like everyone else! Curtis wants to question Tony about phone records he found between Tony and David Palmer on the day Jack “died”.
• Jack calls Diane and tells her to start driving to LA to pick up Derek. He gives her absolutely no reason why.
• Charles meets with Martha after his speech. She claims that David was killed because of something he planned to tell her. Charles tries to dissuade her from this belief but she pleads for him to believe her. He says he will have Walt look into it then walks out of the room and tells Walt that she is delusional and should be ignored.
• Chloe arrives at the oilfield at the same time that Jack touches down in the chopper. She touchingly runs right into his arms and thanks him for saving her ass. Before they can leave, Haas and his men arrive. Jack tosses some smoke grenades, gives Chloe a gun, and tells her to take Derek and hide. Jack uses the smoke to knife the first guy. In one of the many scenes that highlights that season 5 was when 24 was given a shitload of money to throw around, Jack kills Haas' other 2 men in a spectacular car crash. Haas spots Chloe but Jack spots him and shoots him in the leg. Chloe has developed the taste for killing man so she whirls around and shoots Haas in the stomach. Jack questions the dying Haas by promising medical care if he answers. Haas says Palmer was the target and Jack the fall guy but he let’s slip that he pulled the trigger on Palmer. Jack responds to this revelation by standing up and shooting him dead for killing his friend.

Ridiculousness:

• Toyota!
• I know that Jack is supposed to be living under the radar but did that have to mean that the television he is watching is from the 1970s and needs rabbit ears.
• How the hell could some teenager tail Jack without him noticing?

Running Totals:

Jack’s body count: 5 (106)

• Jack’s Toyota cannot be defeated.
• Jack wipes out Haas and all his men.

Chloe drives a sane man crazy: 1 (9)

• Her mile a minute rant explaining to Spenser that she is not a slut was fantastic.

The healing power of Jack tears: 1 (8)

• David Palmer was Jack’s friend.

Human beings still eat?: 1 (7)

• Not only are characters eating breakfast, one of them is Jack.

Cubs mug: 1 (5)

• Tony makes sure his coffee mug is in camera.

Jack loves America not Americans: 1 (13)

• Jack punches the pilot because he needs his ride.