Day 7: On December 24th, Jack Bauer has 24 hours to help Santa deliver all of his toys. In the process, he must also teach the people of Fayed’s country the real meaning of Christmas… OR MILLIONS WILL DIE!!!
Day 8: On February 2nd, Jack Bauer gets to torture terrorists over and over again. Every time, he gets a little bit better at it.
7:00 AM to 8:00 AM : People straggling into work at CTU, somebody starts the coffee maker,people check their emails, a couple of people check emails. Where is John with the Donuts? It’s his turn. The clock tick down…7:59:56…7:59:57…7:59:58…7:59:59…
8:00 Am - 9:00AM: The donut crisis continues until John calls in to say he forgot he had to get the donuts until he actually got to CTU, so he had to go back and get them, he will be there in ten minutes. Long discussion by the water cooler about whether Sanjaya is going to ruin American Idol. Uh-oh, theres two meetings scheduled for nine AM in the same room, scheduling mix-up and confusion. What will happen? …8:59:56…8:59:57…8:59:58…8:59:59…
1:00 PM – Kim gets her finger jammed in a door
1:30 PM – Kim trips over the leg of her office chair and lands on the cactus.
2:00 PM – Kim goes out to the grocery store
2:05 PM – A bagboy bringing in a big line of grocery carts runs them into Kim, and she sprays him with mace, then runs panicked across the parking lot
2:15 PM – Kim is hiding out behind a dumpster. A drug addict robs her at gunpoint.
2:30 PM – Fleeing through a local wooded area, trying to found a house where she can ask residents for help, Kim is sprayed by a skunk.
Day 7: 9:30 AM: Jack wakes up, bruised and battered, on a beach. He struggles up, sees the fiery wreckage of a small jet down the beach a ways. He starts running towards it.
Whooooooooooosh!
Jack flashes back to 9:00 AM: He’s on a small jet, transporting a recently captured Al Qaeda leader back to the U.S. CTU has gained intel of a possible impending terrorist strike, and Jack is interrogating this prisoner during the flight. Suddenly, the plane hits major turbulence, Jack is thrown to the aisle, and emergency sirens wail. The plane begins to break apart.
Unwhooooooooooosh!
9:40 AM: Jack reaches the wreckage, sees bodies of the pilot and a few other agents who were on the plane. No sign of the Al Qaeda leader.
A couple of other people arrive, having run up from further down the beach.
Hurley: “Duuude… Who are you?”
Jack Bauer: “Did you see anybody leaving this plane?!”
Charlie: “What?”
Jack Bauer: “Did you see anybody leaving this plane!!!”
Hurley: “No, dude. What happened? Who are you?”
Jack: “Dammit!”
Desmond: “But who are you, brother?”
Jack: “My name is Jack Bauer. I’m a federal agent. I need to contact CTU. Where are we?”
Charlie: “That’s what we’ve been asking ourselves for 3 months now…”
Ooh, I like the alien invasion idea. I also like the idea of a massive pandemic that doesn’t get quickly contained, and also massive nuclear warfare. Then everyone dies except for Jack and a bunch of other survivors, and there are battles between the good survivors and bad survivors, and Jack is no longer fettered by the artificial constructs of society.
I’m a post-apocalyptic fiction fan, what can I say?
The next season should be 24 hours of Jack guzzling fluids, pissing, eating voraciously, and defecating, because Jack has done none of that in the first six days. The man has to be hungry and seriously clogged.
I remember him eating voraciously in Day 1 after he is apprehended by CTU after rescuing his family from the racist assassin compound. As for the other stuff, he clearly does it during commercial breaks. As he spends a lot of commercial break time in a vehicle, I think I can safely say that you would not want to be riding shotgun with Jack.