All in a day for Frank Flynn: 24 Season 5

David Palmer

Bang! You hardly get yourselves going in season five, and two of the characters you have watched on screen are dead.  Former President David Palmer is dead, as well as Michelle Dessler.  This forces Jack back into action, after taking up the name of Frank Flynn working as a day-to-day labourer.

The day starts off with President Charles Logan set to sign anti-terrorism alliance treaty with Russian President Yuri Suvarov. The motive for the days events seem to hang on this as Russian rebels feel this will increase the suffering of their people.

Bauer is framed for these murders but also the attempted murders of close pal Tony Almeida and his trustworthy CTU analyst Chloe O’Brian.

Whilst under the alias of Frank Flynn he boards with a mother and her son, Derek, who gets involved in the days events at the Ontario Airport as he and 39 other are held hostage.

But this plot is only a diversion for the terrorists lead by Vladimir Bierko to steal 20 canisters of Sentox Nerve gas with it being deployed in several locations, namely killing 40% of CTU including the death of a loveable old chap called Edgar Styles, how could they kill off Edgar? Oh and CTU director Lynn McGill (not loved as much!).  The other targets included Sunrises Hill Shopping Centre, Tyler Memorial Hospital and the Wilshire Gas Company, but deaths are kept to a low by CTU and the efforts of Curtis Manning with Bierko captures in the end.

The nerve gas is traced back to a company called Omicron International to a former ally of Jack’s and CTU agent Christopher Henderson and Bauer managed to capture him.

But whilst CTU is still struggling in the aftermath of the Sentox gas attack Henderson is able to escape and ‘kill’ Tony Almeida.

Jack now goes on the rampage to try and find out who is responsible and after help from Wayne Palmer, President David’s brother and First Lady Martha Logan’s special assistant it leads to President Logan, who has a private group following his every move and led by a person known as “Graem” , who later turn out to be Bauer’s brother.

Bauer finds a recording that will nail Logan but it gets into the wrong hands and a Homeland Security member of staff, who have taken over CTU due to the attack, uses it for his own personal gain and hands it back to President Logan.

Bierko escapes CTU and uses a last remaining nerve gas cylinder on a submarine with 12 missiles capable of destroying seven blocks.

Henderson works with Bauer to capture the vessel and manages to kill Bierko and his men on board the submarine, and in the end kills Henderson.

Jack now sets his sights on Logan and after kidnapping the president he tries to force the truth out of him, little does Logan know that Bauer had placed a recording device on his pen and he later confesses to his wife Martha and is then arrested.

But this is not all!  The Chinese have learnt Jack is still alive after the killing of the consul in season four and they capture him in the hope he reveals U.S Government and military tactics to the Chinese. Will he? Wont he? You’ll soon find out!

The ins and outs of Season 3

Day 3 sees CTU deal with a deadly virus threat that would be released in Los Angeles.  We again see the return of Jack’s nemesis Nina Myers just as he is trying to overcome a heroin addiction after his undercover operation with the Salazar’s, as others feel he still has not got over the death of wife Teri at the end of the first day. Jack has a new partner in Chase Edmunds, but things take a turn for the worst when it is revealed Chase is seeing his daughter Kim, and it causes tension between the three of them.

President Palmer is seeking re-election against Senator John Keeler, but his campaign turns sour after one of his major backers Alan Milliken discovers Palmer’s brother, Wayne has been sleeping with his wife, Julia.  As well as this controversy his campaign suffers a major blow when revelations come out about his girlfriend, and personal physician Anne Packard.   So the president turns to  his ex-wife Sherry to deal with Milliken. But she takes it all a step too far as she kills Milliken, not allowing him his medication he needs to stay alive. Despite his best to cover this up Keeler uses it as leverage in the campaign and basically forces Palmer to abandon his re-election bid. Towards the end of the day, Julia kills Sherry before taking her own life.

Back at CTU, it turns out that Tony Almeida. Gael Ortega and Jack have been working undercover on a sting operation but Chase is totally unaware of the situation and goes to “rescue” Jack after he has been held captive by the Salazar’s.  Tony recovers from gun shot wounds to return as head of CTU, with many doubting his ability at head of CTU.

Nina comes in just as Jack and the Salazar’s are trying to get hold of the virus from Michael Amador, but he plays them all for fools. After Nina is captured by CTU and interrogated she then tries to commit suicide but fails. She then escapes CTU only to be found by Kim, before Jack comes in and finally gets revenge for the death of Teri.

Amador meets with his accomplish Marcus Alvers, who has planted some of the virus in a hotel ventilation system and the man behind the terrorist strike, Stephen Saunders.  Gael is killed trying to prevent the virus from entering the system and Michelle has to deal with the threat at the hotel.

Saunders contacts President Palmer and gives him a series of assignments, one he carries out successfully but the other is to kill Regional Division Director Ryan Chappelle as Jack and Chase try desperately to capture Saunders, but in the end Jack is forced to kill Chappelle and hand over his body as proof.

Once Saunders is captured by CTU Jack uses all means possible to stop the threat of the remaining vials which eventually leads to Chase making an incredible sacrifice, his hand as he makes sure the vial is not released.

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