# 24: Season 5: Episodes 23-24 (5:00am - 7:00am) Season Finale **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 22, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788 "2006-05-22T18:45:31Z")\ **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:** [May 22, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/1 "2006-05-22T18:45:31Z")
> [@](#): > > **FAQ Bauer (aka Thread Rules)** > _1) What can be discussed in plain text, unboxed?_ > A: Any events in episodes, once aired on the east coast – as well as any speculation based on these already-aired events. > > _2) What should I confine to spoiler boxes?_ > A: Any discussion of upcoming shows that contains information from sources outside the aired material, or any speculation based on such things. This includes the “Next week on 24” previews, which some people do not watch, in order to stay “pure”. > > _3) What will the terrorists do next season?_ > A: They will destroy the world’s supply of Midol, then they will steal all the toilet paper from all the Ladies’ Rooms in L.A. So… - Bierko escapes and captures the Red October. At least it only has regular missiles instead of nukes. - Henderson cuts a deal… Will he live to the end of this day, and come back next season? - Logan gets smarmier and smarmier. Martha begins her own rampage, shooting Secret Service agents. (Well, just one). - And Miles goes out and buys himself a new T-shirt, which reads, “I betrayed my country, and all I got was a slap in the face and this lousy T-shirt” Oh, and Jack is pissed. Final two hours, tonight! * * * _24_, Season 5, Episodes 23-24 Season Finale 5:00 AM - 7:00 AM SPOILERS AHEAD! 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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/2 "2006-05-22T18:46:52Z")
Speculate on the manner of Logan’s defrocking [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=372689). ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/3 "2006-05-22T18:47:38Z")
Ah, and I see we have a [Presidential Death Wish List](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=372689) thread in honor of Prez. Logan, so might as well do the link. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/4 "2006-05-22T18:52:43Z")
Logan will die of a simulpost. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/5 "2006-05-22T18:56:13Z")
So I wonder if we’re going to see Miles again? Next season, maybe? He thinks he’s headed off for a posh job at the White House, but if Logan is ousted, then Miles’ job opportunities become a bit more limited. I hope he’s not gone for good – just because I want to see somebody exact revenge on him. Preferably Chloe. And what about his snooty little girlfriend-in-cahoots? She’s still there at CTU, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/6 "2006-05-22T19:00:35Z")
We should have a pool to determine the number of loose threads that will remain unwoven this season. Bank manager’s wife? Eaten by the family cats. Hot Presidential Aide and whiney daughter? Probably also cat food. Jack’s new girlfriend and son? Currently selling the stuff he left behind on EBay. Hunky German agent? Missing in action. Kim and therapist boyfriend? Still time for them to be hit by an errant missile from a Russian sub. Chinese vendetta on Jack? Forgotten about? Or is he going to be Shanghai’ed onto a tramp freighter at the end of the episode? Henderson – does he ever apologize to the missus for that whole bullet in the leg thing? And who gets Edgar’s massive Star Wars collectibles collection? ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/7 "2006-05-22T19:19:59Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Jack’s new girlfriend and son? Currently selling the stuff he left behind on EBay. They’ll end up living with Henderson, once Jack makes good his deal and sends Henderson into hiding. Unconscious guy (zapped by Chloe)? He next hits on (and ends up marrying) Sexual Harrassment Girl. Wayne Palmer? Continues hiding out in Bill Buchanan’s basement, and after a few days, wonders why nobody has checked up on him. Gets hungry, eats the family cat. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/8 "2006-05-22T20:36:23Z")
As long as we’re at the end of the season, I’d like to propose a few more nicknames: Martha - Whack Bauer Audrey - Crack Bauer Kim - Rack Bauer ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/9 "2006-05-22T21:12:52Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > We should have a pool to determine the number of loose threads that will remain unwoven this season. And we’ll never find out who those bluetooth guys are. I’m guessing the Order of Skull and Bones. Or [Balls and Shaft](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110759/). ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/10 "2006-05-22T21:36:37Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > As long as we’re at the end of the season, I’d like to propose a few more nicknames: > > Martha - Whack Bauer > Audrey - Crack Bauer > Kim - Rack Bauer I hate to break this to you, but “Rack Bauer” had [already been given to Kim](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7241835&postcount=72), and “Crack Bauer” was previously assigned to [Lynn’s druggie sister and/or her boyfriend](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7242305&postcount=83). “Whack Bauer” is up for grabs, but “Whacked Bauer” was previously proposed for Sexual Harassment Shari. Besides, I think the final judgment was that only those who are truly kick-\*ss are deserving of the Bauer name. Hence Curtis, Chloe and poor, mistreated Aaron. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Bongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9adbd/32.png) [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/11 "2006-05-22T21:59:55Z")
Just in case someone doesn’t know: the thigh shooting starts one hour earlier tonight. Synchronize your watches, agents! (And prepare for long, painful withdrawal symptoms starting tomorrow morning.) ---
**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:** [May 22, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/12 "2006-05-22T22:04:21Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Logan will die of a simulpost. Aaron: I’m sorry Mrs. First Lady, he’s gone. You deserved better. 1:01:01 Jack: I’m so very sorry, he’s dead. 1:01:02 Aaron: Great Jack, now she’s dead too, you son of a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Bongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9adbd/32.png) [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/13 "2006-05-22T22:10:56Z")
1:01:03 Jack and Aaron get into a slap-fight. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/14 "2006-05-22T22:12:40Z")
Although I’m not the OP, I submit to him that he request the title be changed to reflect the new start time of 8:00, since I know not everyone knows and might tune it late or have their DVR’s set improperly, and many people avoid the threads until after watching the episode so as to avoid any hint of a spoiler. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/15 "2006-05-22T22:22:34Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > Although I’m not the OP, I submit to him that he request the title be changed to reflect the new start time of 8:00, since I know not everyone knows and might tune it late or have their DVR’s set improperly, and many people avoid the threads until after watching the episode so as to avoid any hint of a spoiler. Joke’s on you! That’s the episode title, not the time of the broadcast… ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/16 "2006-05-23T00:24:21Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > Joke’s on you! That’s the episode title, not the time of the broadcast… I know that’s when it takes place in “24 time,” I was makikng the suggestion of adding something like “heads up, it starts at 8!” or something. But it’s a moot point now. So…Bierko AND Henderson dead in the first twenty minutes…so will we get a full hour and forty minutes of Jack torturing the president? 😃 ---
**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:** [May 23, 2006, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/17 "2006-05-23T00:25:30Z")
Henderson. Man, that was cold. Even for Jack. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/18 "2006-05-23T00:27:29Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > > [@Finagle](#): > > > > Jack’s new girlfriend and son? Currently selling the stuff he left behind on EBay. > > They’ll end up living with Henderson, once Jack makes good his deal and sends Henderson into hiding. Well, guess \*\*that’s \*\* not gonna happen. Can’t decide whether Henderson did that because he was committing suicide-by-Bauer, or whether he really thought Jack wouldn’t shoot him if he wasn’t armed. If it’s the latter, he knew Jack less well than he thought. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/19 "2006-05-23T00:34:11Z")
I always get way too worried about the “innocent bystanders” I kept expecting Rooney to get killed. Did he ever get off the sub? ---
**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:** [May 23, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788/20 "2006-05-23T00:42:49Z")
Morris is another “La Femme Nikita” guy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am-season-finale/357788.md?page=2)