Day 6: 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Characters Introduced:

None

Returning Characters:

• Audrey Raines (last episode of season 5)

Key Moments:

• The roundtable of pain watches a video screen tracking the planes getting closer to nuking some unnamed country. Wayne won’t back down and won’t explain his actions. The Ambassador calls Wayne and tells him that they have arrested a General that was working with Fayed. Wayne gets pissed and it’s awesome. He rips the Ambassador apart but does abort the bombing. When the Ambassador hangs up, Wayne tells everyone that it was a bluff. The missile was non-nuclear.
• We join Jack in mid-beating of Fayed. Fayed talks shit that Jack is enjoying himself like he did when he killed his brother. Jack tells Doyle that Fayed won’t break. Bill calls to tell Jack about the General being arrested. Doyle takes a shot at Fayed but to no avail. There is dissention between Jack and Doyle when Jack says they should take Fayed back to CTU.
• During Fayed’s transport, Jack and Doyle are distracted by their continuing argument. With their attention somewhere else, an armored truck clips their van. A huge shootout takes place in the middle of the street ending with both Doyle and Jack down. The thugs grab Fayed and drive off with him. A huge convoy of CTU vehicles pulls up and pick up the not dead Doyle and Jack. There are cameras in the armored truck and CTU is watching Fayed with the undercover CTU agents. Jack says for the plan to work, the arrested General needs to call Fayed.
• Bill calls Wayne with this idea and Wayne just absolutely dogs the Ambassador to get him to do it. He even reaches down to his inner-Jack and asks the Ambassador if he has threatened the General’s family yet.
• Fayed tells the undercover agents to pull over into a garage and wait. The phone rings and it is the General. He has been beaten and there are guns on his kids, so he encourages Fayed to get back to the bombs and use them.
• Once Wayne gets word that the plan worked, he sends the Ambassador out of the room and asks Lennox to lock the door. He then keels over.
• Nadia tells Bill that there may have been a duress code passed by the General. Jack tries to call their man on the inside but they lose the signal. Jack and Doyle catch up to the truck in a tunnel. All of their agents are dead or wounded. Doyle stays with them while Jack heads deeper into the tunnel. He finds Fayed after he has killed a truck driver and hopped into the driver seat. Jack hitches a ride underneath the truck. His call to CTU can’t be heard because of all the noise.
• Dr. Welton is working on Wayne and he refuses to go back to medical until the crisis is done.
• Fayed pulls into the warehouse and tells his men that they are taking out downtown LA. Jack gets to work. He trips and snaps the first guard’s neck. He kills the rest of the thugs then takes on Fayed hand to hand. This is probably the best fistfight ever on 24. Fayed kicks the shit out of Jack but Jack finishes him off by wrapping a chain around his arms and neck then hanging him. Before Fayed dies, Jack tells him to, “say hello to your brother for me”. There is an unbelievable moment where Doyle looks at the destruction and just says “damn Jack”. Of course just as they are walking away, Doyle’s phone rings and says Jack has a call. The call is from Audrey who is being held by Cheng Zhi.

Ridiculousness:

• I like the idea that Fayed knows how to drive a big rig.
• In an already horrid season, the return of Audrey and Cheng completely train wrecks the day.

Running Totals:

Torture doesn’t mean you can’t be creative: 1 (43)

• Sadly Jack runs out of ideas and just beats on Fayed for a little bit.

Jack’s body count: 7 (162)

• Jack one man bands another villain’s hideout.