# 24: Season 5: Episodes 1-2 (7:00am - 9:00am) Season Premiere! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 16, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172 "2006-01-16T01:14:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/1 "2006-01-16T01:14:49Z")
And here we are again, ready for another season! Season 5, starts… NOW. * * * _24_, Season 5, Episodes 1-2 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM SPOILERS AHEAD! 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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/2 "2006-01-16T01:18:29Z")
:eek: Helluva way to start… ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/3 "2006-01-16T01:25:52Z")
And keep going! Though if they had to add to the body count as motivation for Jack to come back, why oh why, couldn’t it have been Kim? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/4 "2006-01-16T01:26:37Z")
I already hate Derek. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/5 "2006-01-16T01:29:52Z")
Holy crap! They are not playing around this year! ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/6 "2006-01-16T01:36:41Z")
Man… those are some huge sunglasses. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/7 "2006-01-16T01:44:40Z")
Waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! They killed Michelle! :eek: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/8 "2006-01-16T01:45:23Z")
Nice touch, the wacko first lady. Shrieking violin music is never a good sign. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/9 "2006-01-16T01:47:32Z")
Given the late start they really seem to be making up time. The network mustn’t be showing as many commercials. I still don’t like the new president. Jean Smart’s character is unstable enough, it appears, to be enough of a bother to him as to make me like her. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/10 "2006-01-16T01:57:20Z")
Well, it wouldn’t be a first episode of 24 without having Jack kill somebody. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/11 "2006-01-16T01:57:29Z")
You reckon they’ll still let Palmer sell insurance? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/12 "2006-01-16T01:59:57Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You reckon they’ll still let Palmer sell insurance? It’ll take more than a bullet through the heart to stop an insurance agent. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/13 "2006-01-16T02:03:11Z")
So end of the first episode. The season is off and running with a bang. That’d be a body count of six or thereabouts. Maybe Derek won’t be quite so annoying on the run with Chloe and Jack. It was good to see Mike Novick again. I like the reaction when he heard the news about former President Palmer. And Jean Smart’s character has quite a lot of promise in living up to the hype that the audience wouldn’t know what she was going to do next. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/14 "2006-01-16T02:07:56Z")
Yeeeeeeeah, the assassin actually thought Jack was going to take him to a hospital… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/15 "2006-01-16T02:08:25Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > It’ll take more than a bullet through the heart to stop an insurance agent. 😃 It’s a pretty small target, too. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/16 "2006-01-16T02:10:57Z")
> [@PastAllReason](#): > > So end of the first episode. The season is off and running with a bang. That’d be a body count of six or thereabouts. Maybe Derek won’t be quite so annoying on the run with Chloe and Jack. Six? I counted five. Palmer, Michelle, the terrorist Jakc killed with a knife, terrorist in the car, and the terrorist that gave him the information. God, these past two seasons LOVE having the angsty, hippie-looking, annoying kid (well, last season the guy was more like in his 20’s, but acted like a kid.) Prediction: (NOT a spoiler, pure speculation) The CTU agent Chloe slept with is evil. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/17 "2006-01-16T02:15:17Z")
I lost track of the terrorists killed by Jack apparently, and counted four rather than three. Interesting that David Fury is now one of the co-executive producers. I just noticed it on the credits. ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/18 "2006-01-16T02:15:30Z")
I can’t believe they killed Jeff Kober so fast. I was like “Hey cool, Rack from Buffy got a job” but, then BAM! thwartme ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/19 "2006-01-16T02:18:53Z")
Oh No!, not Michelle! I loved her. LOVED HER! ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172/20 "2006-01-16T02:20:27Z")
I missed last season due to the birth of an infant in the household. Anyone know of a good place to get a nutshell wrap-up? If I can’t find anything I’ll read the episode guides at the original site I guess. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-1-2-7-00am-9-00am-season-premiere/340172.md?page=2)