Day 5: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Characters Introduced:

Not this hour

Returning Characters:

• Aaron Pierce (Last episode of season 4)

Key Moments:

• Beresch takes over the airport, kills a hostage for trying to make a call, and tells the police not to come in because his men are wearing bomb vests. Jack watches this first from the shadows and then from the vents.
• Jack calls Bill with the hostage situation. Bill wants Jack out but Jack tells him to screw off. He doesn’t work for CTU but is willing to help them if they want. Bill agrees and Audrey hears about Jack’s new family.
• Mike and Walt interrupt Logan’s press conference with Suvarov to them him about the hostage situation.
• While Edgar is having trouble identifying Beresch, Chloe is brought back to CTU in custody. She makes her case to Bill and he let’s her go back to work. She immediately finds information on Anton Beresch.
• Beresch’s hostage demands are on the air. Logan watches him demand that the treaty between America and Russia not be signed. Logan flips out and wants this fixed right now.
• Curtis is now onsite and Jack breaks down where all of Beresch’s men are located. Diane starts yelling that Derek is inside the airport.
• Logan tells Bill that he wants no more casualties at the airport.
• When Bill calls Beresch and tries to negotiate, Beresch responds by hanging up and executing a hostage. Sad faces all around. The next hostage to be executed just happens to be Derek. Diane sees this and freaks out. Beresch tells Logan that he has 15 minutes.
• Jack takes a picture of one of the bomb vests and sends it to Chloe. He wants to be able to remote detonate it to save Derek. She turns to Spenser for help.
• Pierce pops up looking for Martha. Evelyn covers for her, since Martha is off sexually assaulting some guy for his keycard.
• There is a great moment where Derek is hyperventilating waiting for his execution so Beresch talks him through some breathing exercises. He is still gonna kill him but manners still matter.
• At the absolute last second before Beresch pulls the trigger on Derek, Jack makes one of the bomb vests go boom. Beresch freaks but finds out that it is one of his own men’s vests. Jack tells Bill that he is responsible.
• Pierce finds Martha in a mess of paperwork.
• Walt calls Nathanson to tell him that Jack Bauer is inside the airport. After the call, Pierce tells him what Martha was doing.
• Jack gives Curtis the final locations of Beresch’s men before the assault. Beresch is on the phone with Nathanson. He hangs up and spikes communications throughout the airport. Then he uses the intercom to tell Jack to show himself or Derek dies. Without communication with Jack, Bill aborts Curtis’ assault. Jack gives himself up to Beresch.

Ridiculousness:

• I’m not sure if Beresch grabbing the teenager next is ridiculous or a solid shock tactic to get Logan to fold.

Running Totals:

Chloe drives a sane man crazy: 1 (11)

• She tells Bill that she is guilty of much more than he knows but then asks him if he wants her to identify Beresch or wait around in holding.

Damnit!: 1 (11)

• Jack is not happy that Derek is a hostage.

Jack’s body count: 1 (107)

• Jack’s bomb vest trick was a new one.