TV series 24: Season 1 – Episode 5
This is a synopsis, commentary and review of the TV series 24: Season 1 – Episode 5, which occurs in the time frame of 4:00 AM to 5:00 AM. This episode of 24 was directed by Winrich Kolbe. For a complete list of all the stars and directors from all 195 episodes of 24, please click here.
This episode of 24 begins in a hospital surgery room, where Janet York (Jacqui Maxwell) is being prepped. Then Alan York (Richard Burgi) and Teri Bauer (Leslie Hope) rush in to the hospital and then back to surgery. Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) calls Teri and she tells him about Janet – and that Kim Bauer (Elisha Cuthbert) is still missing. Teri is hysterical and neglects to tell Jack the serious nature of Kim’s last call to her.
Dan and Rick put Kim into Ira Gaines’ (Michael Massee) car and then Gaines tells them to drive to the compound to get their money.
Jack arrives at the police station where the man he chased was taken after killing the cop. He calls Nina Myers (Sarah Clarke) to get help seeing the man, who is in custody. Nina’s computer is still on lockdown, so she asks Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard) for help. Jack talks his way in to question the arrested man, but George Mason (Xander Berkeley) arrives and takes Jack into custody before he can question the man. Mason does the questions. The man says he’ll only talk to Jack. As people watch, Jack enters the room where the man is, whispers something to him and then attacks him. The police intercede. The man, who we learn is named Penticoff, gets his one phone call, and calls Jack, who had placed a piece of paper in his mouth while they fought. He tells Jack he knows about Kim, but won’t talk until he is free. He has to answer a phone call at the building where Jack found him in 20 minutes, or Kim will be lost forever. Jack gets Nina to setup a trace on the phone line just outside the building. Jack then gets Penticoff out of the jail – by giving him a stolen key card for his holding room.
Senator David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) calls Maureen Kingsley (Devika Parikh) and meets with her. Maureen tells Palmer about her sources for the pending story that Palmer’s son, Keith Palmer (Vicellous Reon Shannon), killed his sister’s, Nicole Palmer (Megalyn Echikunwoke) rapist. Palmer gently threatens Maureen and then leaves the meeting and goes to Keith’s room to talk to him. Keith refuses to tell Palmer anything about the night in question.
Mason sets up a satellite feed computer at the police station to track Jack and Penticoff. He sees Jack and Penticoff get into Jack’s SUV and drive away. He now starts tracking where Jack went. Penticoff gets his phone call from Gaines, but it’s on a cell that was hidden near the pay phone Nina was tracing. Gaines tells Penticoff to go to a vehicle and dispose of the body in the trunk. He and Jack get to the car and open the trunk – where a dead man is bagged. Mason and his team arrive. Mason’s going to arrest him until Jack shows him the body. Mason takes Penticoff to District and Jack takes the car and body to CTU. Jack calls Teri and tells her he’ll be at the hospital in 20 minutes.
Gaines arrives at the compound with Kim in the trunk. He asks Dan about Janet, again – and again he lies to Gaines. Gaines shoots and kills Dan.
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