Day 5: 2:00 AM - 3:00 AM

Characters Introduced:

• George Avila (Kirk Acevedo): The plane sequence has a bunch of familiar faces even if it is only for a small amount of screen time. Gotta respect the Oz alum as the air marshal.
• Hans Meyer (Kirk B.R. Woller): Another familiar face who may have been on everything single television show ever. He is the first man Jack suspects on the plane.
• Ross (Blake Robbins): He is the drunken guy at the bar, which I would usually not list but he is the second major Oz actor to pop up this hour.
• Sue (Stephanie Erb): The flight attendant who’s job got much harder when Jack stowed himself in the cargo hold.
• Captain Cotter (Richard Gilliland): The pilot who doesn’t know how to be smooth.
• Scott Evans (Andrew Hawkes): The co-pilot and Henderson stooge.

Returning Characters:

Look at all those new folk

Key Moments:

• We get a couple frantic minutes as Karen is telling Bill to get Chloe out of his house. Bill sends her out the back door and says he will run interference. He awesomely takes off his dress shirt and messes up his hair before letting Homeland Security into his house. He then tells the lead agent he will only talk to Karen Hayes. Bill talks shit to the prick, Miles, and Karen tells the agents to bring him back to CTU. The prick, Miles, is confused by Karen’s actions and argues to interrogate Bill in the field.
• Chloe enters the bar of a hotel near Bill’s house. I don’t know why she is doing her work in the bar instead of getting a room for some privacy. She calls Karen and they start working on the plane. Chloe then calls Jack with an update on the passengers and he tells her to find the connection to Henderson and the identity of the air marshal. Once she tells him, Jack pops out of the cargo hold, sits down next to the air marshal, and cracks him upside the head with an elbow. He also steals his badge.
• Chloe finds a passenger with a connection to Henderson. Jack flashes his badge and takes Hans to the back of the plane. He chokes him out and tosses him down into the cargo hold.
• Martha acts crazier and crazier and calls Mike for help. When he tries to comfort her, she lets slip that something really bad has happened but she can’t tell Mike.
• Mike brings Martha’s crazy to Logan and asks what the hell is going on? When Logan can’t blow him off, he spins him a lie about their marriage has become a lie and Martha is reacting to that. He tells Mike to give her whatever medication she wants.
• Hans claims that he hasn’t spoken to Henderson in months.
• Sue notices that they are missing a passenger and the marshal is unconscious. She notifies the pilot and co-pilot.
• Martha gets her drugs but Mike doesn’t get his answers.
• After more research, Choe tells Jack that she doesn’t think Hans is their man. Jack feels the plane turning and knows that his presence is known. The marshal tells the pilot to depressurize the hold to knock Jack out. Karen gets Jack through to the pilot and he pleads his case. The pilot doesn’t buy it so Jack takes matters into his own hands and starts pulling on wires that make the plane wobble. He is let out of the hold and sends the air marshal down into the hold. He walks through the aisle of the plane with his gun out freaking out the passengers. Jack tells the pilot he will search the passengers one by one. The pilot tells Jack he is landing the plane.
• Logan finds out that Jack has hijacked a plane and calls Graem with the information.
• Bill is led through CTU. The prick, Miles, talks shit but Karen calls him off. The prick, Miles, calls Mike confused that Karen hasn’t killed Bill in cold blood yet. Mike tells him to back off. Karen puts Bill in a holding room and shuts down the monitoring. She takes the call from Logan and Mike in the holding room. Logan wants the plane on the ground and Jack arrested and still refuses to explain why.
• Chloe tells Jack that Henderson’s man is the co-pilot. Jack tells this to the pilot. The pilot has no skills and after asking obvious questions, he tries to get up and unlock the door but the co-pilot knocks him out. He was able to open the door though, so Jack rushes in and knocks the co-pilot around before taking the recording from him. He calls Chloe and says they will be landing in 15 minutes.
• After having another argument with Martha, Logan takes a call from Graem. Graem tells him that Jack has the recording and Logan needs to shoot down the plane.

Ridiculousness:

• Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with Miles? I hate this motherfucker more than any other shitty CTU character in the history of the show. Even though Bill and Karen are playing a game, shouldn’t the former head of CTU get the respect of being questioned in person before you torture him in the field?
• Chloe at the bar is definitely a funny idea, but to go so far as to have her stun a drunken guy is many steps too far.
• Is it that easy to make a plane wobble? If I get into the cargo hold and yank on a wire, the plan will tilt in a different direction?

Running Totals:

Jack loves America not Americans: 1 (22)

• Poor air marshal never stood a chance.

Jack’s million-dollar dream: 1 (6)

• Hans is put to sleep.