I am – Hercules!!
There is much TV Guide does not tell you about the seventh episode of “24’s fifth season. Invisotext on!!
* At 1:06 we will learn that Lynn McGill has a drug-fiend sister named Jenny. She calls him asking for $500.
* Jack Bauer, who was fired from CTU between seasons three and four, is tonight officially reinstated to CTU by President Logan. (So I guess the U.S. is going to war with the Chinese?) Buchanan informs Audrey of Jack’s reinstatement at 1:09 p.m.
* At 1:10 p.m., Chloe will tell Buchanan that her boy-toy Spencer is needed to help crack proprietary security tech that is protecting a bad guy.
* At 1:11 p.m., Jack will ask Audrey to contact daughter Kim Bauer (whom we’ve not seen since season three) and ask her to come down to CTU. Jack wants to tell her he’s alive in person.
* At 1:12 p.m., the bad guys threaten to kill a body-shop worker if he doesn’t help them cut off the casing around the nerve-gas canisters. The key to getting their detonation codes lies underneath.
* At 1:19 p.m., Martha Logan is appalled when Mike Novick suggests to the president that Cummings’ involvement in Palmer’s assassination should be covered up.
* At 1:36 we learn the girl behind the bed in the promos is neither Kim nor Mandy. She’s a 15-year-old from Kiev who appears to the be the underage sex slave of a bad guy named Rossler. Rossler is a guy withholding vital evidence about the terrorists with the nerve gas.
* At 1:37 Jack decides to interrogate Rossler the Jack Bauer Way. There is leg-shooting. There is denial of pain meds. Curtis is ordered to step on the wound.
* At 1:49 Rossler tells Jack he won’t give CTU what it needs to avert disaster unless Rossler is allowed to keep to keep his 15-year-old sex slave.
* Three fresh corpses at three different locales in the final five minutes. At 1:55 President Logan is greeted by a grisly surprise.
* Neither Kim nor Mandy are seen cavorting. Tony does not yet awaken to exact his soul-patch vengeance.
9 p.m. Monday. Fox.
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