Day 5: 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Characters Introduced:

• Shari Rothenberg (Kate Mara): I love the storylines that I blocked from my memory. Shari loves her sexual harassment.

Returning Characters:

None

Key Moments:

• Bill tells Chloe to research what Audrey has been up to over the last 18 months. He then takes Audrey in for questioning.
• Jack drags Collette into CTU with the normal threats.
• Bill, Karen, and the prick, Miles, are arguing over how to interrogate Audrey. Jack walks into the room and tears Karen apart. She brings up Nina Myers and Jack says she was undercover for years before she screwed over Jack. He then moves on to say James Heller will destroy Karen for torturing his daughter. Jack gets his way.
• Bierko’s men stage a fight to ambush some cops and steal their stuff.
• Chloe has found evidence that Audrey and Walt had a one-night stand.
• Shari arrives to replace the dearly departed Edgar.
• Jack begins the questioning of Audrey by telling her to answer his questions or they will bring the pain. She denies everything, so Jack moves on to the dalliance with Walt. Jack hammers her over this and she admits to it and says she was in pain over his death. Jack goes back to ole number one by tossing the desk, grabbing her neck, and pushing her against the wall. He calls off the interrogation.
• Karen is a bitch and says Jack was weak and sends in the liquid pain for Audrey.
• Jack is leading Audrey out of CTU but the redshirts come for him. He takes out a couple of them before getting the stun gun. Audrey is dragged back to holding.
• Henderson calls his men and tells them to find and kill Wayne Palmer.
• Pierce can’t get in touch with Wayne so he decides to go look for him.
• Jack schools Karen on how Henderson is derailing them. He tells her he will catch Collette in a lie and void her immunity.
• Bierko and his men kill their way into a power plant. He gives an engineer 15 minutes to lower the PSI so he can put the nerve gas in the pipeline.
• Pierce finds Wayne in the woods and they run off.
• Audrey is getting the liquid pain.
• Chloe finds proof that Henderson and Collette have spoken to each other numerous times. Jack tells Bill to get Audrey out of holding and void Collette’s immunity deal. He doesn’t wait for the go ahead. He knocks out the guard protecting Collette and immediately puts her at gunpoint. She admits Henderson gave her Audrey’s name. Jack says Henderson’s plan worked and he is now pissed off. He gives her 3 second to give him the name of the target or he will kill her. Collette says it’s a natural gas plant but doesn’t know which one. Jack moves on to scream at everyone until they free Audrey.
• Shari uses her chemistry knowledge to pinpoint the natural gas plant that Bierko is at.
• Henderson’s men fire a missile at Wayne and Pierce. Wayne is knocked out but Pierce drags him into his SUV and drives off.
• Jack and Curtis are in a chopper heading to the plant.
• Bierko’s men have set all the canisters.
• Jack and crew drop from the helicopter to the roof of the plant. Jack and Curtis sneak into the control room leaving bodies in their wake. Bierko sees the PSI is low enough and sets off the gas. Jack kills a bunch of thugs but Bierko runs off. Jack tells Bill that their last chance is to blow up the plant! Now that is a plan. He heads out to set the C4 with a 30 second charge. Jack gets the hero shot of running at the camera with all the explosions happening behind him. Instead of heading to safety he spots Bierko and changes course. Before any shots are fired an explosion knocks Bierko against the cop car. Jack picks him up and after a scuffle drags him into the car as the plant explodes all around him.

Ridiculousness:

• It would be nice if someone could explain to me the protocol for CTU interrogations. Karen pushes to give Audrey the liquid pain right off the bat! Shouldn’t that be the last resort?
• Audrey slept with Walt? Good lord the soap is getting in my eyes.
• Bill tells Shari she did good work and pats her on the shoulder. Shari tells Chloe that it was harassment … what the fuck 24?

Running Totals:

Torture doesn’t mean you can’t be creative: 3 (34)

• Jack eventually puts the choke on Audrey so it counts.
• Audrey doesn’t escape the liquid pain.
• Jack doesn’t touch Collette but he does give her 3 seconds before he will kill her.

Jack loves America not Americans: 3 (20)

• Jack takes out 2 CTU redshirts.
• Jack knocks out the guard inside Collette’s cell.

Jack’s body count: 3 (119)

• Jack takes out a few of Bierko’s men but not Bierko.