TV series 24: Season 5 – Episode 24
This is a synopsis, commentary and review of the TV series 24: Season 5 – Episode 24, which occurs in the time frame of 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM. This episode of 24 was directed by Jon Cassar. For a complete list of all the stars and directors from all 195 episodes of 24, please click here.
Note: this season of 24 is very involved, with lots of twists and turns – so these blogs may sometimes run a bit long, so that you get the complete picture of what’s going on.
This is the final episode of season 5 of the TV show 24. This episode of 24 begins in the master bedroom of the presidential ranch/retreat. Martha Logan (Jean Smart) has just slept with her husband President Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin) to delay his departure – while Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) tries to get onboard the president’s helicopter. It is evident Martha is feeling a bit ashamed of what she has just had to do. Jack, who is in the helipad flight building with Secret Service agent Aaron Pierce (Glenn Morshower), gets a call from Chloe O’Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub). Chloe says that she and Morris O’Brian (Carlo Rota) may have a way to get the copilot off the presidential chopper.
Mike Novick (Jude Ciccolella) is making the paperwork necessary to get the copilot off the presidential chopper, and to get Jack on as a licensed copilot. Martha comes to tell him that she can’t stall Logan any longer. The switch is pulled off – Jack is now the copilot on the presidential chopper. Logan and his entourage, including Martha, arrive at the helipad. Novick tells Martha she must make an excuse not to get onto the chopper – she does. Logan boards the chopper with two Secret Service agents.
Jack pulls a gun on the pilot and makes him disconnect his com and stow his helmet. The Jack goes back and tasers the two agents and has Logan cuff himself. Then jack takes off his helmet and Logan sees that it’s Jack – and he is clearly afraid. Jack calls Chloe. She tells him to head for an abandoned printing company building, where Morris will meet him with the altered communication equipment jack asked for. Logan pleads with Jack – but Jack just stares at him.
The chopper lands and Jack takes Logan off and into a vacant building. Jack searches Logan and removes everything from his pockets and throws it all on a table. Miles arrives and gives Jack a briefcase and the com equipment – in a small envelope. Jack calls Chloe to confirm he has the equipment – Chloe tells him he has 10 minutes until Secret Service agents arrive and if he doesn’t get Logan to confess by then, they’ll all go to jail for treason.
Jack sets up the briefcase, which has a camera and recorder and is transmitting to Chloe at CTU. Jack starts interrogating Logan. Logan won’t say anything that Jack wants him to. Jack tells him if he doesn’t confess, he’ll kill him. Jack stands up and is about to shoot Logan, but he can’t pull the trigger. The Secret Service agents arrive and Jack lowers his gun and surrenders. The president tells the agents to put Jack into solitary confinement as he collects his things off the table where jack threw them.
Logan arrives at the airport where Air Force 1 is located. Novick and Martha are there waiting for him. Novick gets a call and goes and tells Martha that Jack didn’t get a confession. Novick doesn’t know why. Martha joins Logan on the tarmac, just as President Palmer’s body is being readied for the flight, right after the press conference: there are reporters in chairs in front of a stage and podium waiting for Logan to speak. Martha goes ballistic seeing the casket and starts calling Logan a murderer. Logan tries to calm her, but then he has her taken away and put into an airport hanger. Logan tells his aide that he wants to make sure she’s alright, and he follows.
Logan enters the hanger and slaps Martha on the face. He roughly checks Martha for a wire. He then makes her confess to helping Jack get on the chopper, and asks her why she did it. Martha starts yelling out the reasons: you killed David Palmer, you sold nerve gas to terrorists, etc. Logan says he did it because he had to – for the good of the country. He then grabs Martha and tells her if she blows up again, he’ll fill her full of drugs and have her committed for the rest of her life. Logan tells her to clean herself up, and then the two leave the hanger enroute to the press conference. Logan goes to the podium and starts his speech.
Back at CTU, Chloe gets a call from the Attorney General (AG), just as Bill Buchanan (James Morrison) and Karen Hayes (Jayne Atkinson) walk in the door. They want to know what the hell is going on. Chloe tells them the AG is on a conference call right now, and he’s waiting to hear a recording. The AG asks what the recording is, and Chloe tells them all that Jack placed a listening device in Logan’s things, and the recording is of a conversation 5 minutes earlier between Martha and Logan. Chloe plays the recording.
Logan is delivering his speech – about how wonderful he is. A Federal Marshal in the security detail gets a call from the AG. He then starts talking to the Secret Service agents. They make their way to the stage and after Logan finishes his speech, the marshal arrests him – and shows him the micro-transmitter Jack planted on his pen. Logan looks over at Martha who gives him an “I won” look. Logan then tries to get the Secret Service to arrest the marshal, but they won’t. Logan is escorted away.
Jack is released, and Audrey shows up where he is getting medical attention. They kiss bigtime. An agent comes to Jack and tells him he has a call from his daughter – he can take it on the land line just inside a door into the empty building. Jack tells Audrey he’ll be right back – Audrey says she’ll always be there for him. Jack goes to take the call, but when he picks up the receiver, three men jump him and knock him out.
Buchanan and Hayes talk. Hayes said she’d try to get CTU restarted, and Buchanan back in charge. Buchanan asks her on a date. Morris (Chloe’s ex-husband) takes Chloe out of CTU – lovingly.
Audrey gets tired of waiting and goes to find Jack – but only finds the phone’s receiver of the hook. Audrey runs out and tells the agents that jack is missing – everyone starts looking for him. We then see a very badly beaten Jack being dropped onto a concrete floor in a building somewhere. Cheng Zhi (Tzi Ma) is there – he’s the Chinese investigator from last season. He reminds Jack of his assault on the Chinese Embassy. Jack asks to be killed, but Cheng tells him that he’s far too valuable to kill. We then see that Jack is actually on a cargo ship bound for Shanghais.
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