"24" Day 5: 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. (2006)

User Rating:

8.4/10   

Director:

Brad Turner

Writers:

Joel Surnow (creator) &
Robert Cochran (creator) ...

TV Series:

"24" (2001)

Original Air Date:

13 February 2006 (Season 5, Episode 8)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Jack poses as a terrorist and hundreds of lives are at risk in a shopping mall. Meanwhile, the President must manage a high-profile suicide.

Plot Keywords:

Period In Title | Digit In Title | Punctuation In Title | Title Ends With Period | Number In Title

Cast

Kiefer Sutherland	...	Jack Bauer
Kim Raver	...	Audrey Raines
Mary Lynn Rajskub	...	Chloe O'Brian
Gregory Itzin	...	President Charles Logan
James Morrison	...	Bill Buchanan
Roger R. Cross	...	Curtis Manning (as Roger Cross)
Louis Lombardi	...	Edgar Stiles
Jean Smart	...	Martha Logan
Sean Astin	...	Lynn McGill
Jude Ciccolella	...	Mike Novick
Sandrine Holt	...	Evelyn Martin
Mark Sheppard	...	Ivan Erwich
Timothy Omundson	...	Polokoff
Robert Maffia	...	Andrei
Alla Korot	...	Suzanne Cummings

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Portugal:M/12 (DVD rating)

Company:

Real Time Productions

Goofs:

Continuity: When Jack is in the mall and enters the room with the ventilation controls, you see him go for the rightmost lever, in the next shot he is pulling the lever to the left of that one, yet there is not enough time for him to have moved on and you don't hear him pull the lever down. In total there are 5 levers, we only hear 4, though he starts with the rightmost one and finishes with the leftmost one, we see him pull all the levers.

Quotes:

Lynn McGill: Jack, this is a direct order from the President. Now enter the correct code and let them release the gas. Now!

Seeing The Big Picture Or The Small One

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

This is one of the few times I've been disappointed in Jack, and in the program. It seems that PC is sneaking in here more and more this season. Men have to make tough decisions, many times sacrificing the few so that many will live. Women, as this program shows, cannot do this. They see only the immediate picture, the smaller picture. This episode's main question centers around the above.

Terrorists are going to set off one of their 20 canisters of nerve gas to see if it works. They are going to do so at a local shopping plaza. Anywhere from 800-1,000 people may be killed. If you stop that from happening, and that could happen because Jack Bauer has infiltrated the group, the terrorists will be on to you and you'll never find the other 19 canisters, which could kill 500,000 people.

There are three CTU big-shots mulling this over and the two men agree to let it happen, as unappealing as it sounds, but the one woman, Audrey Raines, is against it? "How can you kill innocent women and children?" she asks frantically. (Aren't there male shoppers and clerks, too?).

Anyway, she gets overruled and pouts. The President reluctantly goes along with the plan but Jack disobeys the order and, of course, becomes "Rambo" once again and thwarts the nerve gas plot at nearly the last minute. )A dozen people are affected.) Despite putting a tracer on one of the terrorists who gets away, things unravel with another suicide. By the way, that's two programs in a row we see someone kill themselves. It must be the fashionable thing to do on 24.".

So now, the good guys are back to square one, except they have 19 canisters to worry about instead of 20. Meanwhile, the First Lady is in a snit because of a new press release concerning Walt Cummings' death. She's creating a fuss. What else is new?