Day four and the show just keeps on delivering. This time Jack is dealing with nuclear threats... again.
Already closing in on the halfway point of season five, so these "days" are starting to blend together for me. Trying to compartmentalize this season, here are the highlights I recall best: Jack is the bodyguard for the Secretary of Defense now, and has fallen in love his daughter (Audrey); terrorists hold the US hostage threatening to meltdown every major nuclear power plant in the country; Air Force One is shot down losing the President and the nuclear deployment codes; IMHOTEP IS THE HEAD TERRORIST!; an EMP takes out downtown Los Angeles; Tony and Michelle are split up; Tony and Michelle get back together; terrorists manage to steal a nuke and deploy it on a carrier missile headed for LA; Jack saves the day at the last second and is then forced to fake his own death before taking off into the sunrise to start a new life for himself.
Really fun season with a bunch of great episodes. My two favorite have to be the one where Jack and Paul make a last stand at a sporting goods store as a bunch of mercenaries move to storm in and kill them, and the other is when that random couple camping in the desert have to keep the Football out of the hands of the terrorists before Jack can rescue them. Then there's the one element of this season that really bugged me. There's that son of the two terrorist you meet at the start of the season -- Behrooz. After everything has gone to shit and both of Behrooz's parents are dead, CTU uses him in a trade to get Jack back from the enemy's custody. We see the trade happen, Behrooz gets thrown into the terrorists' van, they cut out the implanted locator chip on him, and that's it. We never hear from Behrooz again (unless I'm missing something). I'm assuming he's been killed, but it's just weird that no one ever talks about him again even when the day is done and the threats have all been neutralized. As Jack struts off into the sunrise in the final scene, I really wanted him to freeze for a second and just shout out, "Ah shit!! Behrooz!" Then just shrug his shoulders and keep walking.
Onwards to season five.
Already closing in on the halfway point of season five, so these "days" are starting to blend together for me. Trying to compartmentalize this season, here are the highlights I recall best: Jack is the bodyguard for the Secretary of Defense now, and has fallen in love his daughter (Audrey); terrorists hold the US hostage threatening to meltdown every major nuclear power plant in the country; Air Force One is shot down losing the President and the nuclear deployment codes; IMHOTEP IS THE HEAD TERRORIST!; an EMP takes out downtown Los Angeles; Tony and Michelle are split up; Tony and Michelle get back together; terrorists manage to steal a nuke and deploy it on a carrier missile headed for LA; Jack saves the day at the last second and is then forced to fake his own death before taking off into the sunrise to start a new life for himself.
Really fun season with a bunch of great episodes. My two favorite have to be the one where Jack and Paul make a last stand at a sporting goods store as a bunch of mercenaries move to storm in and kill them, and the other is when that random couple camping in the desert have to keep the Football out of the hands of the terrorists before Jack can rescue them. Then there's the one element of this season that really bugged me. There's that son of the two terrorist you meet at the start of the season -- Behrooz. After everything has gone to shit and both of Behrooz's parents are dead, CTU uses him in a trade to get Jack back from the enemy's custody. We see the trade happen, Behrooz gets thrown into the terrorists' van, they cut out the implanted locator chip on him, and that's it. We never hear from Behrooz again (unless I'm missing something). I'm assuming he's been killed, but it's just weird that no one ever talks about him again even when the day is done and the threats have all been neutralized. As Jack struts off into the sunrise in the final scene, I really wanted him to freeze for a second and just shout out, "Ah shit!! Behrooz!" Then just shrug his shoulders and keep walking.
Onwards to season five.
There's a deleted scene where Curtis saves Behrooz. You're right though - the way they abandoned him was just sad. Both parents dead and his girlfriend murdered, and he doesn't even get the dignity of an on-screen rescue?
ReplyDeleteThe lasting image to me from this season, for some reason, was Heller and his daughter tied up back to back on the chairs, and Heller just having this incredible calm presence about him throughout the ordeal.
Has Jack blown up anyone with his cell phone yet?
I don't think so? He does blow up a memory card Desmond (from Lost) is carrying, but no one is harmed in that scene. So, probably not what you're talking about.
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