24 season 5

24 Season 5
Season 5
Season 5 Cast
No. of episodes	24
Release
Original network	Fox Broadcasting Company
Original release	January 15 – May 22, 2006
Season chronology

Season Five, also known as Day 5 of the television series 24 premiered on January 15, 2006 and aired its season finale on May 22, 2006.

The Season Five storyline starts and ends at 7:00 a.m. It is the same time frame as the previous season.

A 10-minute prequel to the season was available with the fourth season DVD. It was broadcast on Sky One in the United Kingdom before the showing of the fifth season.

Season overview

Season Five is set 18 months (September 2009) after Season Four.

After the events in Season Four, Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer is now working as a day-to-day laborer at an oil refinery under the alias "Frank Flynn" in Mojave, California. Jack is renting a room north of Los Angeles from Diane Huxley, a single mother, and her 15-year-old son Derek.

Season Five is supposed to be a monumental day in Charles Logan's presidency. He is scheduled to sign an anti-terrorism alliance treaty with Russian President Yuri Suvarov at his retreat in Hidden Valley, California. This is believed to be the motive behind most of the day's events, as the Russian-separatist terrorists (presumably Chechen, although this is never stated explicitly) who carry out the day's attacks believe the treaty will increase the suffering of their people.

Later, it is found out that the day's events are part of a massive government conspiracy. U.S. President Charles Logan, Chief of Staff Walt Cummings, Defense Department contractor Christopher Henderson, associate James Nathanson, and a group of mysterious men who monitor and influence the actions of Logan from an undisclosed location, led by a man identified only as "Graham" who possibly was the one who made Jack come out from hiding, are all involved. Their initial plan was to release nerve gas on Russian terrorists and to use that as an excuse to invoke the military clauses of the anti-terrorism treaty, allowing Logan to secure American petroleum interests in Central Asia. Former President David Palmer begins to find this out and is assassinated to keep him quiet; his death becomes the main motivating factor in Jack's crusade (completely aside from how he is framed for the killing). As he states several times over the course of the day, "This is personal."

Prologue of Season 5

One year after Day 4, Jack and Chloe meet at a fenced-in scrap yard in Chicago, Illinois. Jack's hair is long and stubble has grown over his usually clean face. He is wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt, and makes sure the hood is up when he gets out of the car. As Chloe turns the corner where Jack is hiding, he grabs her and asks if she was followed. She assures him that she wasn't.

Chloe explains that three days ago, someone remotely hacked into her computer and saw that she had accessed Jack's autopsy report. Jack becomes frustrated and asks why she didn't erase all files related to him. Chloe insists she deleted the files but fears the hacker who infiltrated her hard drive would realize that Jack wasn't dead after learning she'd been accessing the autopsy report and was also in contact with an undercover operative in Chicago. Chloe urges Jack to leave town immediately to which he agrees.

As she walks back towards her car, Jack asks about his daughter, Kim. Chloe explains that Kim was heartbroken over Jack's supposed death, but is doing better now that a year has passed. Jack returns to his car and a motorcycle drives past him. Jack gets back in his car and watches suspiciously as the motorcyclist turns around. Jack and the motorcyclist each rev their engines. Jack checks his rear view mirror and puts his car in reverse.

The motorcyclist looks to his right, and suddenly a black car speeds out from another side street. Jack floors the gas and races backwards as the car chases him down. He turns around and attempts to lose the car in traffic. Jack pulls into another junk yard and the car follows. Jack speeds towards a forklift and jerks his car to the right at the last second. The black car also turns, but loses traction and slides into the blades of the forklift, which are midway off the ground, impaling the driver.

Jack drives back out of the scrap yard while the unknown man on the motorcycle continues to watch him.

Major plots

Much like previous seasons, the season can be divided into several acts:

• Episodes 1–2: Jack Bauer is framed for the murders of his close friends: former US President David Palmer and ex-CTU agent Michelle Dessler, along with the attempted murders of her husband and fellow ex-CTU agent Tony Almeida and CTU analyst Chloe O'Brian.
• Episodes 3–4: Terrorists, led by James Nathanson, use the above plot as a diversion to take 40 people hostage inside Ontario International Airport in California.
• Episodes 5–15: Terrorists, led by Vladimir Bierko, use the above plot as a diversion to steal 20 canisters of Sentox VX1 nerve gas. The gas is deployed at the following locations: Sunrise Hills Shopping Mall (resulting in 10-20 fatalities out of eight-nine hundred shoppers); Tyler Memorial Hospital (completely unsuccessful due to the actions of CTU and Curtis Manning); CTU (successfully killing 40% of personnel—56 deaths—including Edgar Stiles and Lynn McGill); Wilshire Gas Co. (completely unsuccessful; 16 of the remaining 17 canisters are destroyed, and Bierko captured). Meanwhile, CTU traces the Sentox nerve gas back to the company which manufactured it, Omicron International; this company is led, among others, by Christopher Henderson. Jack successfully apprehends him, but he manages to escape in the aftermath of the Sentox attack on CTU, taking Tony Almeida down in the process.
• Episodes 16–21: Believing (incorrectly) that all remaining nerve gas was incinerated at Wilshire, Jack moves to bring the guilty parties to justice. Through the assistance of Wayne Palmer (David Palmer's brother) and Evelyn Martin (Special Assistant to the First Lady), Jack discovers that President Logan is responsible for the attacks. Unbeknownst to everyone else, there is a secret group of men who monitor and influence the actions of Logan, led by a man known only as Graem. Jack finally obtains a recording that implicates Logan; however, it is later corrupted by Miles Papazian at CTU (for the purpose of ingratiating himself to President Logan), rendering it useless.
• Episodes 22–23: Bierko escapes CTU custody, and uses his last nerve gas container to take over a Russian submarine and gain control of twelve multiple-warhead non-nuclear missiles, each one capable of wiping out approximately seven city blocks. After cutting a deal with Christopher Henderson, Jack and Henderson together stop the attack from the submarine, and kill Bierko and his men. During a final standoff, Jack kills Henderson as well.
• Episodes 23–24: Jack devises a plan with Chloe to implicate President Logan. Jack kidnaps President Logan, and attempts to get a confession. Jack fails, but unbeknownst to everyone besides himself, the First Lady, Mike Novick, Aaron Pierce, and Chloe, his attempt is merely a diversion to place a listening device on the President. The First Lady then gets Logan to confess to her everything that has happened; Chloe plays this new recording to the Attorney General, and the Secret Service and Federal Marshals take Logan into custody.
• Final Twist: Jack gets captured by the Chinese who have learned he is still alive. They still want him for the death of the Chinese Consul who was killed in Season 4, and presumably, to extract U.S. government and military secrets for the Chinese government. The season ends with Jack being taken away on a Chinese cargo ship, seemingly destined for Shanghai, moving slowly out into the realms of the Pacific Ocean. This is a reference to the end of Season 4, where the Chinese embassy threatens the CTU agent with transport in a Chinese cargo ship and spending the rest of his life in a slave labor camp.

Subplots

• Jack comes into contact with people who thought he was dead, including his daughter Kim Bauer and girlfriend Audrey Raines.
  • Jack's attempt to reconnect with Kim is unsuccessful; she wants nothing to do with him because of the fact that being around her father brings chaos to those close to him.
  • Jack and Audrey reunite as a couple.
• The First Lady attempts to correct the President's perceived mistakes.
• The Vice President convinces the president to impose martial law on the city of Los Angeles without approval from Congress.
• Bill Buchanan's authority at CTU undermined first by Lynn McGill and then by Karen Hayes, though both eventually come around to his way of thinking.
• Chloe, and later Audrey go against their superiors to help Jack, leading to officials from the Department of Homeland Security attempting to use Audrey to their advantage.
• Homeland Security divides internally when Karen Hayes begins aiding Jack, going behind Homeland & her assistant Miles Papazian.
• Chloe has to cope with the death of Edgar Stiles. In addition, the work colleague she earlier slept with turns out to be an undercover internal-affairs agent under the supervision of Walt Cummings.

Characters

This is a list of the main cast for Season 5. See List of 24 characters for a more thorough list.

Stars

• Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer
• Kim Raver as Audrey Raines
• Mary Lynn Rajskub as Chloe O'Brian
• Carlos Bernard as Tony Almeida
• Gregory Itzin as President Charles Logan
• James Morrison as Bill Buchanan
• Roger Cross as Curtis Manning
• Louis Lombardi as Edgar Stiles
• Jean Smart as First Lady Martha Logan

Special Guest Stars

• Sean Astin as Lynn McGill
• William Devane as Secretary of Defense James Heller
• Elisha Cuthbert as Kim Bauer
• Reiko Aylesworth as Michelle Dessler

Special Guest Appearance By

• Dennis Haysbert as David Palmer

Recurring

• Jude Ciccolella as Mike Novick
• Glenn Morshower as Aaron Pierce
• Jayne Atkinson as Karen Hayes
• Julian Sands as Vladimir Bierko
• Peter Weller as Christopher Henderson
• Sandrine Holt as Evelyn Martin
• Stephen Spinella as Miles Papazian
• John Allen Nelson as Walt Cummings
• DB Woodside as Wayne Palmer
• Connie Britton as Diane Huxley
• Brady Corbet as Derek Huxley
• Nick Jameson as Russian President Yuri Suvarov
• Jonah Lotan as Spenser Wolff
• Mark Sheppard as Ivan Erwich
• Ray Wise as Vice President Hal Gardner
• Kathleen Gati as Russian First Lady Anya Suvarov
• Geraint Wyn Davies as James Nathanson
• Paul McCrane as Graem
• Carlo Rota as Morris O'Brian

Deaths

This season is notable for the high number of major characters killed off. Significant deaths included David Palmer, Michelle Dessler, and Edgar Stiles. Tony Almeida was also killed, but his death was retconned in the seventh season. Guest characters who died were Walt Cummings and Lynn McGill. The life of Aaron Pierce was threatened, but Martha Logan helped save him.

Reception

Although Season 5 was a massive hit in the USA and UK; In New Zealand, the show was rescheduled from the primetime airing on Friday 8:30pm to after the 8:30pm film on Saturday, from Episode 15 because of the lack of viewers. It was replaced by a season one repeat of House. Later in TV Guide's Best on the Box top 20 TV shows of the year, 24 was rated the 9th best show on TV for 2006 in New Zealand.

7:00AM–8:00AM was the most watched episode and premiere in 24's history. It debuted with 17 million viewers, with a 7.3 Nielsen rating in the 18-49 male demographic. The second episode, 8:00AM–9:00AM, aired back-to-back with the first, retaining 15.5 million watchers and a 6.3 in the 18-49 age group. Reviews of 7:00AM–8:00AM were almost universally positive, with a score of 89/100 from Metacritic. In positive light The Hollywood Reporter called the episode, "heart-pounding, mesmerizing adventure unlike anything else up or down the dial." while praising the new and returning actors, giving it a perfect 100, likewise USA Today also gave 7:00AM–8:00AM a 100 and praising Kiefer Sutherland, who portrayed Jack Bauer.

The New York Times giving it a 70 out of a possible 100, citing using L.A. as the same key location for five seasons saying, "all the villains, be they Islamic fundamentalists, drug smugglers, American oil brokers or Russian separatists, keep picking Los Angeles as a target for attack." The Boston Globe gave it an 80, praising returning performances and strong plot.

Emmy nominations

Season Five of 24 was nominated for twelve Emmy Awards, becoming the most nominated series. The nominations were:

• Outstanding Drama Series - WON
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Kiefer Sutherland) - WON
• Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Gregory Itzin)
• Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (Jean Smart)
• Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series ("9:00 PM – 10:00 PM")
• Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series (Jon Cassar, "7:00 AM – 8:00 AM") - WON
• Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series ("7:00 AM – 8:00 AM")
• Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series ("9:00 AM – 10:00 AM") - WON
• Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) ("6:00 AM – 7:00 AM") - WON
• Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series ("9:00 PM – 10:00 PM")
• Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing for a Series ("7:00 AM – 8:00 AM")
• Outstanding Stunt Coordination ("9:00 AM – 10:00 AM")

Episodes

Series #	Episode #	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code
97	1	"Day 5: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m."	Jon Cassar	Howard Gordon	January 15, 2006 (2006-01-15)	5AFF01
98	2	"Day 5: 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m."	Jon Cassar	Evan Katz	January 15, 2006 (2006-01-15)	5AFF02
99	3	"Day 5: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m."	Brad Turner	Manny Coto	January 16, 2006 (2006-01-16)	5AFF03
100	4	"Day 5: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m."	Brad Turner	Joel Surnow & Michael Loceff	January 16, 2006 (2006-01-16)	5AFF04
101	5	"Day 5: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m."	Jon Cassar	Joel Surnow & Michael Loceff	January 23, 2006 (2006-01-23)	5AFF05
102	6	"Day 5: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m."	Jon Cassar	David Fury	January 30, 2006 (2006-01-30)	5AFF06
103	7	"Day 5: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m."	Brad Turner	Manny Coto	February 6, 2006 (2006-02-06)	5AFF07
104	8	"Day 5: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m."	Brad Turner	Robert Cochran & Evan Katz	February 13, 2006 (2006-02-13)	5AFF08
105	9	"Day 5: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m."	Tim Iacofano	Howard Gordon & David Fury	February 20, 2006 (2006-02-20)	5AFF09
106	10	"Day 5: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m."	Tim Iacofano	Joel Surnow & Michael Loceff	February 27, 2006 (2006-02-27)	5AFF10
107	11	"Day 5: 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m."	Jon Cassar	Nicole Ranadive	March 6, 2006 (2006-03-06)	5AFF11
108	12	"Day 5: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m."	Jon Cassar	Duppy Demetrius & Matt Michnovetz	March 6, 2006 (2006-03-06)	5AFF12
109	13	"Day 5: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m."	Brad Turner	Joel Surnow & Michael Loceff	March 13, 2006 (2006-03-13)	5AFF13
110	14	"Day 5: 8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m."	Brad Turner	Story: Sam Montgomery Teleplay: Howard Gordon & Evan Katz	March 20, 2006 (2006-03-20)	5AFF14
111	15	"Day 5: 9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m."	Jon Cassar	David Ehrman	March 27, 2006 (2006-03-27)	5AFF15
112	16	"Day 5: 10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m."	Jon Cassar	Manny Coto & Sam Montgomery	April 3, 2006 (2006-04-03)	5AFF16
113	17	"Day 5: 11:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m."	Brad Turner	David Fury	April 10, 2006 (2006-04-10)	5AFF17
114	18	"Day 5: 12:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m."	Brad Turner	Howard Gordon	April 17, 2006 (2006-04-17)	5AFF18
115	19	"Day 5: 1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m."	Dwight Little	Craig Van Sickle & Steven Long Mitchell	April 24, 2006 (2006-04-24)	5AFF19
116	20	"Day 5: 2:00 a.m. – 3:00 a.m."	Dwight Little	Joel Surnow & Michael Loceff	May 1, 2006 (2006-05-01)	5AFF20
117	21	"Day 5: 3:00 a.m. – 4:00 a.m."	Brad Turner	Manny Coto	May 8, 2006 (2006-05-08)	5AFF21
118	22	"Day 5: 4:00 a.m. – 5:00 a.m."	Brad Turner	Sam Montgomery & David Fury	May 15, 2006 (2006-05-15)	5AFF22
119	23	"Day 5: 5:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m."	Jon Cassar	Howard Gordon & Evan Katz	May 22, 2006 (2006-05-22)	5AFF23
120	24	"Day 5: 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m."	Jon Cassar	Robert Cochran	May 22, 2006 (2006-05-22)	5AFF24

External links

• 24 season 5 on 24 Wiki
• TV.com: 24 Season 5 Episode Guide
• Fox.com: Seasons 1-5 Episode Guides

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