24 Day 5 Season Finale
You know the drill, there will be spoilers in the following, so don’t read if you don’t want to know how the season ends.
Previously on 24…
Bierko escaped and took over a military submarine and planned to launch warheads over US soil. Jack Bauer, Christopher Henderson and some other agent (who will die by the way) are close to the submarine. Over at CTU, Chloe O’brien, Bill Buchanan and Karen Hayes are assisting Jack with the operation.
The following takes took place between 5:00 A.M. and 7:00 A.M.
To sum of the boring part, actually the least interesting part (because nothing about this show is boring) of course, the good team gets rid of Bierko and his men. Hendersen is killed by Jack who goes after the President.
One of the coolest scenes was when Jack confronted Logan in the helicopter. The President kept talking but Jack remained calm and silent. Both actors were very much in-character. It was a nicely done dramatic scene.
During the commercial breaks, I was already expecting Charles Logan to be brought to justice. I was expecting Jack to torture the American President. A President tortured would have looked good on television. I was sad, very sad when Jack said no torture and I thought “Wow, he’s going to get Logan to talk just with his words?” The chances of that happening were pretty inexistant. I also was expecting Jack to get a bullet somewhere, anywhere in Logan’s body, but it didn’t happen and Jack got caught. I just don’t understand why Jack couldn’t just shoot Logan. I’m not talking about killing, but just shooting. After all, Jack did say “Make no mistakes, this is personal“.
As 7 A.M. was closing in, I was starting to get the feeling that there was going to be a cliffhanger. I was right, but it wasn’t the cliffhanger I thought it would be. Martha ended up getting a confession out of Charles who was unaware that he was wearing a transmitter. When the agents were no longer following his orders, I was so happy.
Back to Jack, only a few minutes before 7 A.M., an agent notifies Jack that Kim wants to talk to him through a phone in the building where Jack held Logan hostage. A was pretty happy that happened, because the ending of this season was too good. I knew something would happen to Jack and it did.
The Chinese people are back. I knew Kiefer Sutherland signed a contract to work on the show, as either character or producer or both, for three more years, so I was sure the Chinese were going to come back at some point, but I didn’t expect it to be so soon. Back from the commercial break, I was happy to see Jack all messed up by the Chinese. He was completely powerless and asking to be killed.
I was happy because it meant that it was definitely not over.
A mystery is still in the air and that’s Graham and his men. We still don’t know who they are and what they want.
Before the fifth day ticks away its last few seconds, we see a cargo ship going towards the West in the Pacific Ocean. On the back of the boat, we can clearly read:
Shanghai
