24 Season 5 Starring Kiefer Sutherland
Jack is Living off the Grid a new Threat is About to Bring him Back
Sep 22, 2009 Christopher Sharman
Jack Bauer is in hiding after the events of Day 4, but those who know he is still alive are about to be targeted for assassination. Their deaths will bring Jack back to LA to uncover a new threat and a conspiracy running through the government.
24 Season 5's Plot and Cast
Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) has been working as a day-to-day labourer at a oil refinery under the name ‘Frank Flynn’ and is renting a room from a single mother.
President Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin) is about to sign an anti-terrorism alliance treaty with the Russian President Yuri Suvarov (Nick Jameson). During the day Russian-separatists terrorists, carry out a series of attacks because they believe that the new treaty will damage their people.
Day 4 saw Jack’s most trusted allies helping him evade capture and disappear after he led an attack on the Chinese Consulate that resulted in the death of the Consul. Two of his friends meet their end in the opening minutes of Day 5, a third is critically injured and the last calls Jack for help. The Counter Terrorist Unit discovers evidence that suggests Jack Bauer was an assassin that killed a prominent political figure and start hunting for him.
The Outside Looking In
This time Jack is not an employee of CTU or rejoins them on a provisional basis as he did in the previous days. This time because he is not under the control of a government organisation, he can be far more extreme that he was before. Jack doesn’t need a warrant to enter someone’s house, or the proper authorisation to ‘encourage’ a suspect to talk.
Fans of the show may be upset to see the demise of familiar faces but that is one of the great things about 24, no one is really safe. Things happen and people die, working for the government is dangerous, but it is shown that it is more dangerous to make an enemy of Jack Bauer.
The writers continue to make each episode as exciting as possible with nail biting chases and the clock always ticking. There is not a single thread; instead, Jack and CTU have to deal with a web of different problems that bring them closer to the terrorists and a government conspiracy. CTU has several familiar faces from the previous season including 24 regular Chloe O’Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub), along with Edgar Stiles (Louis Lombardi), Bill Buchanan (James Morrison) and Curtis Manning (Roger Cross). Audrey Raines (Kim Raver) also appears and the audience learns was devastated by the finale of Day 4.
Fans of the series will not be disappointed as the interlinked plots and sub plots move towards their climax. The cast are comfortable with their characters and a particular joy is Curtis Manning who is one of those rare characters in 24, he listens to Jack, trusts him, and is even able to kick some ass on his own.
Kim Bauer (Elisha Cuthbert) guest stars in a couple of episodes but she doesn’t have anything to do with the main story and her relationship with her father remains as strained as ever.
CTU suffers from a tragedy that sees the demise of a number of characters, some new and some old, and the silent clock (signalling someone’s death) ticks down several times during the long day.
The pace of the day doesn’t let up and the filler episodes are few and far between, with each hour adding to the overall tension of the series.
4/5
Day 5 is a great addition to an excellent series.
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