24 Season 5 – 9 am to 10 am

When I wrote up summaries last year, I started on Episode 4, and never wrote up Episodes 1-3. So, in order to be complete, I wrote the missing episodes

Here’s my summary for Episdode 3

The following summary takes place between 9 am and 10 am

9:00 am – Chaos everywhere outside of the airport, and Diane tells one of the police officers that she has information for CTU. One of the police officers looks a little surprised by this, because he’s never seen her on the show before.

9:01 am – Inside the airport terminal, one of the hostages tries to make a cell phone call using the wrong provider, and one of the terrorists shoots him for it. The head terrorist tells them to switch providers and everyone immediately complies.

9:02 am – One of the terrorist sidekicks goes looking for the baggage handler, but can’t find him. Jack has stuffed him into some baggage.

9:03 am – Using his amazing cell phone technology, the head terrorist calls one of the personal cell phones of one of the police officers without even looking up the number, and tells him that they’re going to blow up just about everything they can think of unless their demands are met.

9:04 am – Jack decides to jump up with the baggage to hide, and then realizes that going into the ceiling where he can crawl around the fragile ceiling tile would be a better idea.

9:06 am – AAAH! Audrey. They should warn us about that. Audrey goes to talk to Bill. Bill lets her know that a body at the refinery was found and it appears the guy died from lead poisoning, so it’s likely Chloe was telling the truth about Jack. Bill gets a phone call….It’s Jack!

9:07 am – Jack tells Bill that the airport has been attacked, and Bill tells him he hasn’t heard a thing about it. Spencer enters, and tells Bill the airport has been attack. Bill tells Jack that he believes him now. Jack rolls his eyes as he takes pictures of the bad guys for his scrapbook, and to send to CTU. Bill tells Spencer to get Curtis to redirect to the airport, which in Curtis time will be about 10 seconds.

9:08 am – Bill tells Jack to turn himself in, but Jack says, “Neener neener! I don’t work for you!”, and that he’s staying inside. Bill agrees, since there’s not much he can do. Jack tells Bill that he sent Diane and Derek to CTU for protection, and Audrey looks a little surprised by this and wonders if Jack staging his death is how he planned to get away from her. Bill tells Jack that he’ll protect them from Audrey. Jack decides to go up a ladder, and up further into the ceiling.

9:08 am – Back at Camp Manilow, the Russian President sends his condolences to the country for having Manilow as President while they both have their pictures taken. Walt and Cheney Looking Guy tell Manilow that there are hostages at the airport, and that CTU thinks this has to do with the Summit, and they want to have a briefing. Manilow tells the Russian President that he has to leave, and the Russian President already knows. Manilow looks like he wants to know how the Russians found out that fast.

9:10 am – At CTU, Spencer is playing with Google Maps and sending pictures to Jack. Edgar suggests using the phone book to find the terrorists, and Bill insists they keep using the computers. Chloe arrives and tells Edgar to use an adaptive search.

9:11 am – Bill tells Chloe that she violated about 11 codes, and Chloe corrects him that it’s about 26 violations (really gotta love Chloe). Chloe suggests that she help with the search for who the terrorists are, and Bill tells her that would be OK.

9:12 am – Audrey rushes in and says that her favorite television program has been interrupted by some sort of broadcast from the terrorists. In the broadcast, the terrorists are all wearing masks, which has GOT to be hot in Southern California.

9:13 am – Manilow’s watching the same broadcast, and insists that the terrorists get off the air immediately because there’s a new “Sesame Street” that he hasn’t seen yet.

9:14 am – The broadcast ends, and Manilow completely loses his mind, and wants the terrorist situation “fixed”.

9:14 am – A helicopter that Curtis is flying lands at the airport, and he gets a phone call. It’s Jack! Jack tells him all about the situation inside the airport. Curtis says, “What, no ‘Hello, Curtis…I’m alive?’” He seems a little surprised Jack is alive, but says he wants Jack to quarterback the situation from inside. Jack tells him there will be time enough for football later.

9:15 am – A police officer tells Curtis about Diane, and Jack wants to talk to her. She tells him that Derek went inside the building. Jack looks, and sure enough, Derek is in there. Jack says a naughty word.

Commercial

9:21 am – Bill reads from the lead terrorist’s resume to the group at CTU and to Manilow. Manilow looks pretty upset that this is all happening, and suggests talking to the terrorists. Bill rolls his eyes, and says he’ll try.

9:23 am – Phone call to the terrorists, its Bill trying out Manilow’s plan. The terrorists respond by bringing a hostage to the TV camera and shooting him. Manilow looks like he won’t be suggesting a plan like that again.

9:25 am – The terrorists grab Derek and put him on TV which Derek seems happy about until they tell everyone they’re going to shoot Derek in 15 minutes unless their demands are met. Derek looks a bit upset by that.

Commercial

9:31 am – Mrs. Manilow is watching the terrorists on the news, and tells her assistant that All-State tried to warn her about something about “national security”. Since the terrorist stuff probably qualifies as “national security”, she’s guessing that this has something to do with it. Also that someone had altered the conversation with All-State when it was taped. Then she leaves.

9:32 am – The terrorists at the airport all are wearing lots of equipment. Jack takes a picture and sends it to Chloe, asking if he can get some of that stuff, plus the frequency of the devices so he can plan a terrorist explosion party.

9:33 am – Chloe sees Audrey and almost throws up. Chloe asks Spencer to look up some frequencies and send them to Jack’s phone which he doesn’t seem too sure about until Chloe turns on the charm.

9:34 am – Agent Pierce at the Manilow compound goes to get Mrs. Manilow, but she’s not there. She’s out creeping around the compound, and walks into the men’s bathroom, creating a messy situation for the guy trying to use it, a communications officer. She wants the transcripts of the phone conversation she had with All-State, and threatens to undress in front of him and scream unless he gives her a key card. This freaks him, and everyone watching, out. He gives her his card.

Commercial

9:42 am – Jack calls Chloe, wanting the frequency codes, but they’re still looking. Spencer just finishing looking up the Mattel codes and wants to go to the Fischer Price codes, but Chloe tells him to look up the Russian codes instead.

9:42 am – Curtis is organizing a welcoming committee for the terrorists, and tries to coordinate who will be entering with who, and tells the team to deploy. It’s going to take 15 minutes to get into position.

9:43 am – The lead terrorist gives Derek some breathing lessons.

9:44 am – Lead terrorist calls Bill. Bill tries to lighten up the conversation, but the lead terrorist really really wants to shoot someone and hangs up.

9:45 am – Chloe finds the maker of the device, and Spencer finds the frequency, which she sends to Jack. The phone has to reboot before he can use it. What is this, Windows?

9:46 am – Just as lead terrorist is about to shoot Derek, the phone reboots, and Jack reboots one of the terrorists causing mass confusion. The terrorist explodes into a thousand pieces of paper.

9:47 am – The terrorists go to investigate, and they find bits of terrorist all over the place. Bill wants to know if Jack did that, and he admits he did.

9:48 am – Manilow calls Bill and wants to know what caused the explosion. Bill tells him their “man inside” did it. Manilow, Walt and Cheney Looking Guy all act really surprised when it turns out that the “man inside” is Jack. Manilow throws a little tantrum when Bill tries to explain about Jack.

Commercial

9:52 am – Agent Pierce is STILL waiting for Mrs. Manilow and her assistant is still stalling. Mrs. Manilow is tearing apart the records room, finds some old high school photographs and hides them. She’s still looking for the All-State records.

9:53 am – At the airport, Curtis continues to coordinate the counter terrorism unit, and tells Diane that Derek is OK.

9:54 am – Agent Pierce walks in on Mrs. Manilow in the records room, and leaves it a mess for that guy in the bathroom to clean up. Mrs. Manilow tells her assistant that she got what she wanted.

9:55 am – Walt calls the Guy In The Dark Room and tells him Jack Bauer is in the airport, that Jack blew up one of the terrorists, that Jack knows one of the hostages, and that it’s likely Jack is mad he can’t go into the terminal for a Starbuck’s.

9:56 am – Agent Pierce tells Walt that Mrs. Manilow is back in her room, but that she was in one of the records rooms. Walt tells Agent Pierce that he thought they had moved everything over to CDs, and Agent Pierce tells him that he would have to take that up with Mrs. Manilow.

9:57 am – Jack calls Curtis, telling him all the new seating plans for the terrorists.

9:58 am – Lead terrorist guy takes a phone call from someone, and then goes to a computer to disrupt the phone conversation that Jack is having with Curtis. This guy must work for a cell phone company.

9:58 am – Lead terrorist announces that he knows that Jack is there, and that Derek is going to be shot until Jack comes out of hiding right away. Bill aborts the mission. Lead terrorist guy points a gun right at Derek!

9:59 am – Jack shows up from around the corner, and they tie him up!

10:00 am – Time’s up!

“24” Season 5 – Episode 2 – 8 am to 9 am

When I wrote up summaries last year, I started on Episode 4, and never wrote up Episodes 1-3. So, in order to be complete, I’m working on getting those written up.

Here’s my summary for Episdode 2

The following summary takes place between 8 am and 9 am

8:00 am – Audrey is showing Bill the latest version of Google Maps, which has an annoying blinking dot feature on it at the compound where Manilow is. Edgar bursts in, telling Bill that he heard there were donuts in the conference room, and that they might have a suspect on video.

8:01 am – Using magic technology that only CTU has for changing low resolution images into high resolution images, the video shows Jack trying to get through a locked door. Audrey looks more perplexed than usual.

8:02 am – Jack tells Chloe that someone is trying to frame him to take the fall for All-State’s assassination. Chloe suggests that Jack get as far away from here as possible, and Jack tells her if he did that the next 23 hours of the show were are going to be quite boring.
Jack wants to go to All-State’s suite and look around. Chloe thinks it’s crazy, but just happens to have a good way to break into the computers over in that building.

8:03 am – Derek looks none too pleased to see that Jack killed Head Bad Guy, and refuses to go into the van when Jack tells him too. Jack calmly asks again, using a very persuasive grip on Derek’s throat.

8:04 am – Back at CTU, Edgar tells everyone the video tape hasn’t been altered, except for perhaps the wrong date in the corner. Bill, Curtis, and Audrey are trying to figure out if and why Jack shot Palmer. Edgar speaks up and says that it was Mary Crosby that shot him. Bill tells him that was “J.R.” and to focus.

8:05 am – Bill wants to know where Chloe is, and Edgar goes into partial meltdown telling everyone that HE wanted to find out where Chloe was but SPENCER didn’t think it was a big deal. And, I quote, “Nah, Nah, NahNah, Nah Nah”. They want to get to Chloe before Jack does. Um…. Too late. And it’s a good thing too.

8:06 am – Manilow stands in an open doorway, trying to figure out what that weird noise is. Walt walks in and tells him that what he’s hearing are “birds”. Walt also tells Manilow that Mrs. Manilow called. Walt can’t figure out why All-State would want to call Mrs. Manilow, so Manilow gives Walt permission to check the phone records.

8:07 am – Audrey calls Manilow and tells him that Jack is a suspect in the All-State death. Walt starts calling Jack names, and Audrey doesn’t like it (but mysteriously doesn’t cry about it). Manilow tells Audrey to find Jack, and hangs up.

8:08 am – Some guy with dark sunglasses is at the refinery looking at all the bodies that are Jack’s handiwork. He’s talking to a guy in a dark room with lots of television monitors, which appears to be bad guy headquarters. Guy in Dark Room (GIDR) says that CTU will find Jack, and then Jack will be taken out. They don’t say where.

Commercial

8:14 am – Chloe’s driving the bad guy van with Derek and Jack in the back. Jack’s going through the bad guy weapons that are stashed back there, obviously impressed. Jack’s phone rings, and it’s his girlfriend. She wants to know where to meet Jack, and he says he doesn’t know yet.

8:15 am – A fake newswoman is giving a fake news report to a fake camera with a very concerned fake look on her face, in front of All-State’s building. Chloe drives the van right up to the building, and makes it through the checkpoint. Good to see tight security.

8:16 am – They’re in the parking lot under the building now, and Jack pulls out an earpiece that just happens to work with Chloe’s amazing visualization of every single agent in the building. Chloe tells Jack there are 167 agents in the building, and Jack tells Chloe there are now going to be 168 agents in the building.

8:17 am – Jack gets out of the van, walks up to an FBI agent taking something out of his trunk and takes him out in about two seconds. Chloe says, “Relax, he’s really good at this”. Jack must have really wanted that guy’s shirt because he’s wearing it now. Jack heads upstairs.

8:18 am – Jack heads for the elevator, and four agents get onto the elevator with him. Jack tries to blend into the woodwork, while the agents completely ignore him.

8:19 am – Jack gets to the penthouse and he starts looking around for the catering table. He sees All-State on the ground and is pretty upset, so he goes into a completely empty room that happens to have a computer in it.

8:20 am – Derek starts asking Chloe all kinds of questions about Jack, like why she keeps calling him “Jack” instead of “Frank”. Chloe tells him that some bad people wanted to cover up their mistakes and that part of that would be Jack being dead. Since Jack didn’t seem to think this was a good plan, he went into hiding.

8:21 am – Jack gets All-State’s computer booted, which, as we know, is all Chloe needs to get into the computer. Someone’s at the door! Jack grabs the guy from behind, and we see it’s All-States brother, Wayne.

8:22 am – Jack calmly explains to Wayne that it would be stupid to have killed All-State, because they were good friends. Wayne tells Jack that the Secret Service guys in the next room would probably like to help. Jack tells him that wouldn’t be that great of an idea. Jack gives Wayne his gun to prove he’s telling the truth, and Wayne finally accepts this.

8:24 am – Mrs. Manilow is watching old blooper reels of All-State, still pretty upset. Walt comes in and asks about All-State’s phone call.

8:26 am – Jack asks if All-State was acting strangely. Wayne says that All-State was acting pretty distracted, especially by the bullet. Jack decrypts the first chapter of All-State’s memoir. Wayne thinks it’s pretty weird that All-State would do that because reading an encrypted chapter is a LOT harder to understand.

8:27 am – Edgar is still sniping at Spencer about Chloe. They finally make up, and Edgar gives Spencer Chloe’s access code to use. They figure out that Chloe is logged in remotely. Neither of them thinks she called in for a sick day, so they call Bill. Bill doesn’t remember a sick day either. They figure out that she’s at the scene of Palmer’s killing, and they figure out that Jack might be with Chloe.

Commercial

8:33 am – A bunch of bad guys are taking guns out of boxes full of straw, obviously having just come from some kind of live stock mission. GIDR calls a bald bad guy and tells him to hurry up.

8:33 am – Jack and Wayne find something Wayne doesn’t recognize in the All-State paper they’re reading on the computer, and it appears to be a name and an location at an airport. Chloe says that all the little dots on her screen are moving up towards the penthouse and that’s a bad thing because the dots all want autographs and have guns. Jack tells Wayne to keep things quiet, and he leaves.

8:34 am – Jack tries to leave, but the room is packed with agents, except for one agent in the kitchen who is looking for a snack. Jack knocks him out, which is going to be pretty embarrassing for that agent later. Jack goes into a private elevator and presses the button to close the door repeatedly, because we know that always makes an elevator go faster.

8:35 am – Chloe’s screen with the little dots goes blank! Jack decides to get off on the second floor (pretty tricky, Jack!) and runs for it down some stairs, beating up an agent as he goes. Jack jumps into the van. Chloe tells him that the name on the paper is a baggage guy at the airport.

8:36 am – Suddenly, a bunch of agents show up out of nowhere and all announce that Chloe and Jack have to give themselves up. The van goes barreling out of the garage, there’s a brief chase, and the agents figure out that it’s just Chloe. Jack and Derek got away!

8:38 am – Jack and Derek hotwire a car and drive away.

Commercial

8:42 am – Jack calls Diane, and tells her to meet them at the Ontario airport. Diane says it’s a long way to Canada, and Jack tells her “Ontario airport in Los Angeles”.

8:43 am – Phone call from the field agents to Bill about Chloe, and Bill asks to talk to her. Chloe tells Bill that Jack didn’t kill Palmer, and that the guy who really did it is waiting for them at the oil refinery, and he’s not going anyway anytime soon. Bill wants to know where Jack is, and Chloe tells him “as if”. Bill doesn’t like this very much so he puts on his angry eyes and ORDERS her to tell him where Jack is. Chloe gets a look on her face that says, “Yeah, right!”, and refuses to tell him. Bill tells the agents to bring Chloe in.

8:44 am – Derek tells Jack that he knows a little about what happened. Jack starts to tell Derek that he cares about both Derek and his mother, which alarms Derek a little bit.

8:45 am – Back at Manilow headquarters, Mrs. Manilow wants to know if Manilow heard the conversation that was recorded between her and All-State. Manilow pulls out a recording device and we hear All-State calling Mrs. Manilow to visit with her, and that he’ll bring the pizza. Mrs. Manilow freaks out, and tells Manilow there was never any pizza mentioned, only hot sandwiches. Manilow tries to convince Mrs. Manilow that she’s not remembering correctly, but she’s not quite buying it.

8:47 am – Edgar tells Bill and Audrey that something is up with the Russian summit that’s about to happen in about 15 minutes, that being the top of the hour, the time when all dramatic things happen.

8:48 am – A UPS truck full of bad guys with guys is driving pretty quickly towards its destination. GIDR is on the phone with the Bald Bad Guy. They are definitely headed towards the Russians.

8:49 am – Cheney-Looking Guy tells Manilow that the Russian helicopter might be targeted. Manilow is really insistent that the helicopter land, despite the extreme amount of evidence that this would be a really bad idea.

Commercial

8:54 am – Jack and Derek arrive at the airport, where Diane is waiting. Jack apologizes to Derek, and tells Derek to go to his mom. Jack tells Diane that his name is not Frank, it’s “Jack Bauer”, and gives her a CTU card and tells her that Bill will take care of everything, including parking validation.

8:56 am – Jack enters the airport looking for the baggage supervisor.

8:57 am – At CTU, they’re watching the Russian helicopter land. Lots of dramatic music! A marine gets off the plane, followed by the Russian president and his wife. Nothing happens! Oooh….bad dramatic music guys! Naughty!

8:58 am – Diane and Derek are trying to leave the airport when they’re stopped. Derek is the ONLY PERSON at the airport that sees the UPS truck with a bunch of guys getting out of the back of it. The guys go into the airport, and Derek follows.

8:58 am – Jack tracks down the baggage handler and uses the words, “You’re going to tell me what I want to know, it’s just a matter of how much it is going to hurt”. That’s our Jack!

8:59 am – Bald Bad Guy pulls out a machine gun and starts shooting, which distracts Jack. The baggage handler chugs a diet Coke, quickly eats a few Mentos and kills himself by foaming to death. Bald Bad Guy announces that no one will be harmed if the President complies.

8:59 am – Walt is on the phone with Head Bad Guy, telling him that he was the one that altered the tape, before Manilow could hear it! Head Bad Guy tells Walt that the airport has been taken, and that Manilow will know the demands soon!

9:00 am – Time’s up!

Season 5 – Episode 1 – 7 am to 8 am summary

Hey, here’s a blast from the past. I didn’t start writing the summaries of “24” over on Dave Barry’s blog until about the 4th show. To complete the season, I decided to go back and write up the shows that I didn’t last season.

Here’s a summary of Episode 1:

The following summary occurred between 7 am and 8 am

7:00 am – A construction site in Mojave, CA, a construction boss is picking people to go to work. We see that Jack is wearing a special CTU bullet proof metal hat, which makes him look just like one of those World War I vets, but this still doesn’t get him picked for work that day. The foreman calls Jack, “Frank”, telling him there will be work tomorrow. Something tells me that Jack won’t be at work tomorrow.

7:01 am – President All-State and his brother are downtown somewhere, watching Spongebob when the TV announces that the Russian president is invading to the US. …Make that invited. All-State and his brother are working on a book, but All-State seems distracted. Soon he’s very distracted by a bullet that hits him. All-State is dead!

7:03 am – President Manilow rushes into his room, really concerned by his chair. No detail is too small for this guy. He even has a guy that’s in charge of fixing his chair. This guy thinks of everything. He also seems really concerned about the media.

7:05 am – Bald White House Guy (BWHG) who looks like Dick Cheney gets a phone call, and Manilow tells his assistant Walt that he doesn’t want Mrs. Manilow having a meltdown, so she’s not to go near any nuclear power plants. BWHG delivers the news that All-State is dead. Manilow looks surprised, and asks “Where?” BWHG tells him in the chest.

7:07 am – At CTU things are in full swing, and Manilow calls Bill and tells him that he wants the person who killed All-State dead, chopped, drawn with butter and thrown to the dogs. And to have salt rubbed on him. Bill tries to convince him that the salt is overkill, but Manilow won’t hear of it.

7:09 am – Scene change to Chloe getting out of bed with some guy named Spencer that works for her! Chloe doesn’t seem too happy about the situation. He convinces her to kiss him and they are about to kiss when her phone rings. She looks really upset now. It’s a telemarketer asking if she wants to save money on her mortgage. That, and President All-State is dead.

7:10 am – Scene change back to Jack watching TV with a really worried look. Jack, not the TV. He is really upset that All-State is dead, and sheds a tear!

7:11 am – Someone knocks at the door, so of course Jack’s immediate reaction is to pull the gun that he keeps under the sofa cushions. I bet he has guns stashed everywhere. It’s just Jack’s girlfriend, who invites him to breakfast.

7:12 am – Looks like his girlfriend has a teenage son, who is absolutely thrilled that Jack is joining them for breakfast. The girlfriend asks the son, Derek, to use a glass instead of drinking from the carton, and Derek being the rebel he is, continues to drink out of the carton, even though Jack just handed him the glass.

7:13 am – Derek confronts Jack about Jack’s story that he worked in Alaska on “The Albatross”, and that perhaps Jack meant “The Dead Parrot”. Derek seems awfully suspicious. Maybe this is what they look for in CTU recruits.

7:13 am – Tony and Michelle hear the news about All-State, and try to call Bill from their impeccably clean kitchen to see if they need him. Tony and Michelle don’t work for CTU anymore (is that allowed?) Tony makes a phone call to tell someone they’re going to meet with that they won’t be making the meeting.

7:15 am – And someone must really hate glass this season, because they just blew up a car to blow out the glass at Tony’s house. Yikes…it was the car that Michelle just started, and she’s definitely dead when Tony finds her out on the lawn. The car blows up as we go to commercial, engulfing Tony and Michelle in a very expensive special effect.

Commercial

7:21 – Back at CTU, Edgar is telling Spencer about Tony and Michelle. Spencer asks if Edgar knew them, and Edgar looks at him as if he’s a moron… the office isn’t THAT big after all. How could he NOT know them? Edgar makes a phone call to Chloe just as she’s about to get into her car to tell her about Michelle.

7:22 – Chloe is just about to get into her car, when she looks around, and sees Moby get out of a white van. She’s immediately suspicious because Moby doesn’t drive a white van, and she makes a run for it.

7:23 – Moby keeps chasing her through a mall. Chloe runs past people, knocking them over. No one seems to mind this typical shopping mall behavior. Moby stops when he’s blocked by two men standing on an escalator! How will he get around this obstacle? He ponders this for a few moments, and finally runs past them. Good thinking, Moby! Except Chloe didn’t go up the escalator. She gets away.

7:24 – Back at Jack’s place, Chloe calls Jack. Jack looks momentarily confused with one woman calling him Frank, and another calling him Jack. Chloe tells Jack that Michelle is dead, Tony is in critical condition, and that people are chasing her. Jack asks, “Who is this really? Am I on Candid Camera?” Chloe doesn’t find this remotely funny, and tells Jack that the only thing everyone who’s been killed today have in common is that they like McDonald’s Filet-o-Fish (I suspect a product endorsement deal) and that only they, along with millions of viewers, know that Jack is alive.

7:25 – Jack goes back to the room he’s been living in, and immediately does what anyone would do in this situation. He starts a home improvement project fixing an air-vent. While he’s doing this, he tells Chloe to head north of LA, to go to an abandoned oil refinery and wait for him there.

7:25 – Jack pulls off the vent cover, and loud dramatic music starts playing. Apparently that’s the alarm system Jack installed. He pulls out the JackSack, puts on dark sunglasses, and puts some Velcro on his arm because we all know it’s impossible to fight crime without Velcro on your arm.

7:25 – Back at CTU, Bill is telling everyone that because it would be too expensive to keep Tony in a hospital and because they can’t afford to have yet another set, Tony will be brought to CTU for safe keeping until they can find a plot thread that involves him. An assistant comes in and tells Bill that someone from DoD is there.

7:26 – AAAAAAAA! It’s Audrey! They should WARN us when they do that. A big flashing warning sign, or SOMETHING. Anyway, Audrey looks around reminiscing about all the good times they had at CTU. The people that got shot, the yelling… Good times… Good times!

7:27 – Bill tells Audrey, “I know it must be hard to be back here” and under his breath says, “I know it’s hard for us”. Audrey tells Bill that Manilow told her to tell him that he would be told by her that she was told that Bill should keep the summit as his top priority. Bill looks pretty confused when he walks away.

7:27 – Manilow is making a speech out in the open, in a heavily-forested area which is in no way a bad place to be with so many people being killed all over town. He’s making a speech about All-State.

7:28 – Mrs. Manilow is having her hair done, announces she looks like a wedding cake and sticks her face in water…. I wish I could make that last line up, but that really just happened. I think this is to enforce that Mrs. Manilow hasn’t got her marble collection intact. Point made.

7:29 – Walt comes to the door, and tells Mrs. Manilow that he has some bad news. She looks hopeful it’s bad news about Manilow. He tells her that All-State is dead.

7:31 – Mrs. Manilow goes running off to tell Manilow something she thinks is important. She’s still dripping wet, and starts arguing with an agent, telling him that she’ll have his family “eating dog food out of a can” if he doesn’t get out of her way. Nice lady! No dry dog food for his family! BWHG and Walt finally get her calmed down.

Commercial

7:37 – Jack drives his pickup truck to a refinery, and knocks this guy named “Weaver” out, with no explanation. He must have made Jack mad earlier. Jack hears something, and he finds Derek hiding behind a crate. He’s stalking Jack! When Derek sees the gun, he tries to convince Jack that he didn’t see it, but it doesn’t work. Jack shoves Derek into a helicopter.

7:39 – Back at CTU, they’re bringing in Tony. Curtis wants to talk to Tony, because he found some really weird things on his cell phone bill pertaining to Jack. I’m guessing that talking to a dead guy is what they consider suspicious.

7:40 – In the helicopter, Derek asks Jack if he’s being kidnapped, and Jack says, that “technically”, no. Derek wants to know where they’re going, and Jack says “Disneyland”. Derek doesn’t like this, so Jack says “LA”. Derek puts two and two together, gets three and decides that Jack is some sort of criminal. Jack looks offended by this.

7:41 – Jack makes a phone call to Diane (Derek’s mom) and tells her to head to LA to pick up Derek. Oh, and that they’re in a helicopter. Jack says he can “drop Derek off” by they decide it would be better just to meet in LA.

7:43 – Things slow WAY down as Manilow goes to see Mrs. Manilow. She tells Manilow that she thinks that All-State was going to tell her something, such as “Trix are for Kids!” She thinks that Manilow doesn’t believe her (which it appears that he doesn’t), but calls her a “silly rabbit”, and they iron things out.

7:44 – Manilow tells Walt that Mrs. Manilow is Cuckoo for Coco Puffs.

Commercial

7:50 – At CTU, Edgar asks Spencer about Chloe. Edgar is suspicious about Chloe not being here yet. Spencer tells him that he just saw Chloe about a half hour ago, and when Edgar presses him on it, he says “Do I have to spell it out for you”. Edgar gives him a look that says he doesn’t think that Spence could spell anything.

7:51 – Chloe gets a taxi driver to pull over at the refinery, just as Jack’s helicopter goes over the refinery. Jack tells Derek that the helicopter was the only way to get to LA fast enough without Curtis driving.

7:52 – Chloe gets through a fence, cuts herself and finally reaches Jack. Jack needs her to work some of her Chloe magic to get into some archives at CTU.

7:53 – They all get in the helicopter and they see the bad guys pull up outside of the refinery. The helicopter isn’t going to reach speed fast enough, because that wouldn’t be the “24” way of doing things. Jack tosses a few smoke grenades and completely baffles the bad guys as Derek and Chloe run off to hide in the refinery.

7:54 – The head bad guy takes off, and when he does, Jack comes out of the smoke with a knife. He shows the knife to one of the bad guys pretty up close and personal, before he can even ask Jack for an autograph.

7:55 – Head bad guy is after Chloe and Derek. Meanwhile Jack shoots some bad guys for driving much too quickly, and gets them to stop their car using a bunch of debris by the side of the road. Jack finds Head Bad Guy, shoots him, and Chloe starts to shoot too. Bad guy goes down, and Jack tells Chloe and Derek to walk away. They go about 10 feet away, and watch what’s about to happen.

7:57 – Jack tells Head Bad Guy that if he wants to be in another episode, he better spill his guts. Jack realizes what he just said, apologizes, and tells Head Bad Guy that he better tell Jack everything.

7:59 – Head Bad Guy says that All-State was the primary target, and that all the rest of the people that were getting killed or chased were just something to set Jack up. Then he says he’s the one that killed All-State. Ooops. Too much information. Jack doesn’t like that very much, and shoots bad guy dead.

8:00 – Time’s up!

You can see the rest of the season on the Steve’s “24” Season Five page.

Welcome to the Visitors from Dave’s Blog!

Welcome to everyone from Dave Barry’s Blog. And yes, I’ll be posting summaries of episodes during season 6.

As a warm up, I’ll be doing the first couple of episodes of Season 5 over the weekend. Why is that, you might ask? Well, I didn’t really start doing summaries until episode 4. The reason I started doing them in the first place was that Dave wasn’t going to be able to see episode 4, and he asked for a summary from the folks that regularly do the “live blog” over there. I decided to write it up, and do it in the “MST3K” spirit that everyone was using on the blog. Turns out that people liked it, so I kept it up.

If you’re interested in seeing what that was like you can read my season 5 summaries on it’s page.

Remember, Jack is back on Sunday!

Get Ready!

Apple’s iPhone

Steve Jobs announced the iPhone today. Very impressive. It has a touch screen, gesture recognition, a sensor that detects when you’re turning the phone so you can use it sideways (to read web pages, for example), it plays iTunes, you can use Google Maps with it, it has WiFi…. There’s a 4 Gig version for $499, and an 8 Gig version for $599.

Yes, I want one.

Maybe two.

You know, as for a spare.

…Anyway, it’ll be released in June, and Cingular will be carrying it. I imagine we’ll be seeing some deep discounts on Palm Treo and Windows Mobile phones this year. It’ll probably be a loooong time before they discount the iPhone though.

Kate Threatens to Quit

Fame must be tough with people hassling you all the time, but it really seems to have gotten to Evangeline Lilly (Kate from “Lost”). She’s so upset about the people the bother her, that she has threatened to quit the show.

You know, I think that celebrities probably do get hassled quite a bit, and probably more than they should. Having said that, if they’re really freaked out about this sort of thing, why did they become actors in the first place?

Lilly says that she just wants to go someplace where she won’t be recognized. Sooner or later, “Lost” will end, and her wish will come true. I’m not sure she’ll like it very much. I don’t think other actors have enjoyed it as much as they thought they would.