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[OFFICIAL] 24 - Day 5 Thread

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Well it is that time again kids, my favorite show is about to make it's debut for the season in a big fashion. Let's use this thread to discuss anything having to do with 24, day 5. Please remember that this thread may contain small spoilers, so don't read it if you can't handle it.

Feel free to discuss each episode and offer your own "what I think may happen next week" as well as your "dude, I wish Jack's daughter was back..." replies. If you've read massive plot spoilers that aren't revealed in the current episode, please keep them to yourself or head to a 24 spoiler site... keep this topic to discussing the upcoming episode or past episodes only. Thanks!

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If you didn't know, the premiere of Day 5 is a two day, four hour event on Fox. Two episodes will air on Sunday January 15th and two will air Monday January 16th.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/12/apontv.24.ap/index.html

Jack's back for a fifth season of '24'
Fast-paced show starts new year Sunday
Thursday, January 12, 2006; Posted: 3:42 p.m. EST (20:42 GMT)

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Jack Bauer has been through hell and it's starting to show.

Over the last four years -- one day at a time -- the superhero of Fox's "24" has saved humanity from terrorists, beaten confessions out of close friends, battled heroin addiction, discovered his murdered wife's body, and, last year, even faked his own death. All with little regard for himself.

But now, as the hit series starts up its fifth season with a two-night, four-part marathon (Sunday and Monday, 8 o'clock, EST) , the stress on Bauer, an agent for the fictional federal Counter-Terrorist Unit (CTU), is finally taking its toll.

"This time, something happens to Jack on a very personal level that pisses him off," says Bauer's alter-ego, star Kiefer Sutherland. "Because he's presumed dead, a lot of the boundaries he was restricted by -- by virtue of who he was working for -- simply don't exist now. And he's mad."

Until now, Sutherland has only subtly allowed the stress of selflessly saving the world to show on Bauer's boyish face. This season, however, besides being cranky, our clean-cut action hero is looking downright disheveled.

"The weight on people who are responsible for making decisions that affect so many lives, you can only imagine what that must be like -- putting 10 lives at risk to save 1000," the actor says.

Bauer has been in a constant fight against not only terrorists but often the bureaucracy of his own government.

"Sometimes bureaucracies are incompetent, just by virtue of the fact that they're bureaucracies," says co-executive producer Howard Gordon. "And, sometimes, Jack has to do things outside the law."

Gordon notes that while Bauer has a strong moral compass, "he's sort of politically agnostic. He has a humility and respect for the government on one hand, but a contempt for it on the other ... Jack's strength is in his ability to navigate these really narrow straits, keeping the greater good in mind, even while doing the most loathsome things."

Having faked Bauer's death at the end of last season, the new story line was a challenge for the writers. "We had kind of painted ourselves into a corner," grins Gordon.

Creating a "Jack-centric thriller this year puts him on a collision course with the people who thought he was dead," he explains.

That world includes his one-time mentor, Christopher Henderson (Peter Weller), who is introduced this season.

"Henderson schooled him on the finer points of counterterrorism," says Weller. "The backstory is ... Jack had investigated some CIA agents and CTU guys. While the other people were brought up on criminal charges, they could never prove anything with me. So for my part, he's my prot Deg De -- who turned me in when I was innocent."

Weller probably has a better understanding of Bauer's character than most. "My father was a colonel in the Army who flew President Johnson by helicopter in Texas. He was answerable only to the President," he says.

"This show really gets it," the actor continues, "about how the bureaucracy of the United States gets bogged down in minutia, and yet it can all be severed by one phone call from the C.O."
'Like one big movie'

In addition to Sutherland and Weller, "24" has been able to attract other top-notch talent from the feature-film world, including Sean Astin and JoBeth Williams, who both joined the cast this year.

"We shoot this like one big movie," explains co-executive producer Jon Cassar, one of two directors who helm the majority of the episodes. "The film actors are used to having one director throughout a project, which is what we essentially offer them here. They're quite at home."

Nonetheless, Astin, who plays Lynn McGill -- sent by the President to oversee the goings-on at CTU -- found the TV world required a little adjustment.

"The main challenge was memorizing all the techno-talk. There are five- or six-page scenes full of dialogue! 'Yeah, that's television,' I was told," he laughs.

Gordon notes that the series -- which plays out in real time, with each season covering 24 hours -- doesn't "go after big names just for their reputations. Our material is deceptively challenging to deliver (credibly), some of these outrageous twists and turns ... and it requires the right amount of seriousness, intelligence and emotion. And Kiefer, of course, sets the tone."

"Kiefer can bring all that backstory and pain in his character, and he does it without hitting you over the head with it," comments Weller. "And he's incredibly professional. On his days off, the guy comes in and reads off-camera lines for the other actors. Most guys take the bullion and are gone to the Bahamas!"

The series films at a former pencil factory in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley on a cavernous set that houses not only the impressive CTU headquarters but the beautiful West Coast retreat for the show's President Logan.

For all of Bauer's toughness, his humanity almost sneaked into one episode filmed recently.

"There's a running joke among fans that Jack never goes to the bathroom," Sutherland recalls. "We had a scene where I was running towards a sign pointing 'BATHROOM' to the left and 'OFFICES' to the right. I did a double-take and ran towards the bathroom! We sent it in to the network, as a joke reel. But, quite frankly, nobody wants to see Jack Bauer go to the bathroom."

So how many more years -- or days -- does Bauer still have in him?

"That'll be up to an audience when they start to feel that someone else should come in and do it," Sutherland says. "Personally, I'm hoping that's a long way off."
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#1 Svpernaut, Jan 12, 2006
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damn, when i read the title i thought you meant the 5th episode. started thinking to myself, when the hell did the first 4 episodes air?

#2 macalu, Jan 12, 2006
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damn, when i read the title i thought you meant the 5th episode. started thinking to myself, when the hell did the first 4 episodes air?
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Since the seasons are only one day long, they label them as "day" instead of season. Only the true nerf-fan gets it I guess

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"We have NO TIME!!!"

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Sweet...I can't wait...It's tivo'd but I want to be there to it in HD...

#5 rrj_gamz, Jan 12, 2006
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Official Website : http://www.fox.com/24/

Teasers & Promos : http://24natic.atspace.com/Season5/teaser.htm

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can you believe it? All these things happend in 5 days!

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Well I just finished season 4 in anticipation for this season. I have yet to watch a season live. I actually prefer to watch them on DVD because no commercials and no waiting till next week. I am really looking forward to seeing how they bring Jack back from his new identity. Best show ever made.

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I'm really excited about this as well. I didn't really get into 24 until towards the end of last season, but I've been catching up lately and I've seen all of Season 3 and I'm just about finished with Season 1. I've been able to Tivo just about all of them with the 24 marathons that A&E has been running lately.

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For awhile, i thought I missed the first 4 episodes, being so sure that the 4 episodes were coming at the end of this week and the beginning of next week. I just simply can't wait. This is the ONLY show that I could not wait to watch, and more so, even my mom (who rarely watches english TV shows) is glued to as well. I love how the show is so secretive about everything. It's also the only show I know that can time and time again kill off their own main characters.

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Where's the daughter(Elisha Cuthbert)? Did she go to Honolulu?

I can't wait to watch it in hi-def for the first time.

I can't remember...why did Jack fake his own death?

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i cant wait i cant wait!

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I got season 1 for Christmas last year and just got around to watching it this past break from school. I then proceeded to watch all 4 seasons in a week and a half. I'm disappointed at the prospect of waiting a week to see the next hour though .

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You do realize episodes #3-15 are just watching Jack snoring.

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If any of you are out there reading now, Kiefer's going to be on Letterman tonight... should only be about 10 more minutes or so before he comes out. They should talk a little about Day 5.

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Where's the daughter(Elisha Cuthbert)? Did she go to Honolulu?

I can't wait to watch it in hi-def for the first time.

I can't remember...why did Jack fake his own death?
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It goes back to the break-in at the Chinese consulate. President Logan (the new guy) and his staff wanted Jack dead before he could be turned over to the Chinese because they were afraid he would compromise national security secrets upon torture by the Chinese. By faking his death, this saved Jack from murder by Logan's staff and also convinced the Chinese to not turn the break-in into an international incident because the man responsible for it was dead.

Day 5's going to be so f'n awesome. Can't wait!

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Post spoilers in white!!!

I just finished up season 3. I skipped 3 and watched 4 live. Man was it great to see sherry and Nina bite the bullet!!!

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Did you guys not see this thread?

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=105467&z=1

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Did you guys not see this thread?

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=105467&z=1
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Nope, I even did a search... besides, this is the "Official" thread for the season ;-)

#19 Svpernaut, Jan 13, 2006
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Space Ghost said:

Post spoilers in white!!!

I just finished up season 3. I skipped 3 and watched 4 live. Man was it great to xxx xxxx xxxx xxxx bite the bullet!!!
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uh, you should follow your own advice.

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