Day 5: 3:00 AM - 4:00 AM

Characters Introduced:

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Returning Characters:

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Key Moments:

• Jack calls Karen and says he has the recording and will be landing soon. Bill tells him they will send a team to meet him.
• Curtis tells Audrey that her father survived his sweet car crash. Karen pops up to send Curtis off to pick up Jack.
• Graem gives Logan a solution to his Jack problem. They will send a fake distress signal that will give Logan the right to shoot down the plane. Logan has second thoughts but doesn’t say no.
• Karen brings Bill back out onto the floor without giving the prick, Miles, a reason.
• Mike tells Logan that a distress signal has been sent from the plane. Logan plays dumb. The admiral that they speak tells them that the appropriate response is to shoot the plane down. Mike argues against this but Logan agrees with the admiral.
• Karen tells Jack about the distress code. Jack tells the co-pilot to land the plane now. He is told there is nowhere to land so Jack tells Bill to find him a stretch of freeway. Jack cuffs the co-pilot to the stick and tells him to take the plane down.
• Chloe is brought back into CTU and immediately starts working with Karen and Bill. The prick, Miles, is losing his mind.
• Bill gives Jack a location and Jack tells the co-pilot to land there or they will be shot down. Curtis is on his way.
• Jack yells at the co-pilot to descend and jumps in to help him level the plane out. Logan is told the plane is attempting to land but he still screams for them to shoot it down. Mike pleads with him to stop. Jack and the co-pilot struggle to get the plane on the ground. I would call it C+ CGI show the plane landing on the freeway and coming to a stop just before hitting an overpass. Jack sends the passengers out the back of the plane so he can sneak out through the emergency exit.
• Jack calls Curtis and finds out where he is coming from. Jack hops in the back of the SUV but they hit roadblock of soldiers. Curtis talks his way past the checkpoint.
• The prick, Miles, calls Karen and demands answer for the presence of Bill and Chloe. Karen makes another dumbass decision and decides to tell him the truth. He argues against it but eventually agrees to help.
• Bierko is being transported out of CTU, but one of his men is driving the transport.
• Mike tells Logan that Jack escaped the soldiers. Logan reacts so poorly to this information that Mike asks if he is all right. Mike leaves the room and Logan ignores Graem’s call.
• Jack is back at CTU and Karen tells him that the Attorney General will be ready in 10 minutes. Jack gives Chloe the recording so she can clean it up and make it ready for the AG.
• Logan stares out into the distance. He grabs a box off the shelf and calls Graem. Graem tells him about CTU’s call to the AG. Logan tells him that he thinks what they did is right and Graem tells him that the country can’t have a sitting President put on trial. Logan opens the box to reveal his special gun.
• Charles talks to Martha one more time. He apologizes for hurting her, not any of the other shit he did just hurting her. She does not let him off the hook. He walks back to his office and his gun. He takes out his secret stash of hooch and pours himself one last drink. After the drink, he picks up the gun. Of course, the phone rings at this exact moment. The prick, Miles, calls and offers to destroy the evidence. He gets the go ahead from Logan, walks up to Chloe, and holds a device near her computer.

Ridiculousness:

• How in the holy hell is Bierko able to get one of his men as the driver of his prisoner transport? There is no way he could be prepared for this specific situation and had a man ready undercover. Could they have, at least, introduced the man by showing the dead body of the original driver?
• Wouldn’t Chloe have immediately made copies of the recording?

Running Totals:

No cliches to speak of