Season 4, was my favorite before they jumped the shark, but it was Season 5 that got me thinking that my joke might not be a joke at all. For the newbies…

“If you ever wanted to know what the Anglo American Establishment (Empire) is up to just watch 24 with Kiefer Sutherland, they’ll tell you.”

Season 5 was ranked as the best season of 24, even though I personally liked Season 7 the most because it had my tinfoil hat full kablooie.

The season starts with Jack Bauer trying to get get morning show-up labor work at a Mojave oil field under the alias Frank Flynn. Immediately, Former President David Palmer is assassinated by a sniper at his brother, Wayne Palmer‘s apartment, and CTU Los Angeles is put on a Level 5 Protocol right away, with added pressure from President Charles Logan to arrest or kill the assassin right away before the Russian President Yuri Suvarov (Nick Jameson) and his delegation arrive to sign an administration defining anti-terrorism treaty, until…

Jack’s breakfast with his landlady/lady-friend Diane Huxley (Connie Britton) and her son Derek (Brady Corbet) is interrupted when Chloe O’Brian, fresh from a mistaken one-night stand with a co-worker, Spenser Wolff (Jonah Lotan) calls to tell him that not only was Former President David Palmer assassinated but that Tony Almeida and Michelle Dessler were bombed and she might be being followed. Jack jumps into action, steals a helicopter, stuck dragging a nosy Derek Huxley along to take Chloe to safety when Palmer’s sniper, Conrad Haas (Jeff Kober) and his mercenaries arrive.

A doctored video leaves CTU operating under the assumption that Jack killed Former President Palmer. President Logan’s wife, Martha (Jean Smart) unsuccessfully attempts convincing her husband, Charles, conspiracy is afoot, which is true, but she gets gas-lighted. Meanwhile, after some audacious sneaking around at Wayne Palmer’s FBI & LAPD infested residence, Jack obtains encrypted information in David Palmer’s memoirs that lead to the Ontario Airport, but Chloe is caught as Jack escapes with Derek Huxley. Right after Jack passes Derek off to his mother, Diane, her son spots some shady looking men and goes after Jack. Jack catches a Russian, Chevensky (Taras Los) the information led him to and he cyanide capsules himself to death just seconds after heavily armed terrorists wearing bomb-vests detonate some bombs and take over an entire terminal, taking hostages. We learn that White House Chief of Staff, Walt Cummings is working with the shadowy figure James Nathanson (Geraint Wyn Davies) orchestrating everything.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: true lies on television – false flag operations and the art of plausible deniability. As we see, White House Chief of Staff, Walt Cummings is forehead deep in a terrorist operation on American soil that involves taking an entire terminal hostage and murdering innocent people. This gives a nice dose of plausible deniability for the President of the United State, and it’s something that is discussed in the show more than once for various reasons, to protect the president. Plot thickens…

After some CTU shenanigans involving the White House sending the bumbling incompetent hubris heavy halfwit, Lynn McGill (Sean Astin) from Division to take point, Jack convinces CTU from inside the airport that he didn’t kill Palmer and manages to save the morning despite all the shucking and jiving from the White House. But we quickly learn that the Dawn Brigade attack, led by Anton Beresch (David Dayan Fisher) was to cover up Ivan Erwich‘s (Mark Sheppard) theft of a cache of secretly stored Sentox VX-1 Nerve Gas canisters that were hidden in a bunker under an adjacent hanger onsite being monitored by cyanide chomping Chevensky. After Erwich makes off with the Sentox canisters in a S.W.A.T. truck, meeting Schaeffer (Timothy V Murphy), whom takes transport of the canisters, guaranteeing customs paperwork being finalized at the port. We learn that Erwich plans to use the canisters on Moscow in retaliation for Russian occupation of his homeland. Walt Cummings assures Nathanson that Bauer will be handled when he arrives at CTU, wrapping things up to assure success of their mission.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: plausible deniability – just a quick reminder that at any time any of our operatives could be designated expendable in order to maintain a level of plausible deniability or operational integrity, and since the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing all the time, it could be anyone. It could also be justified, depending upon how you look at things.

We discovered just before the assassination attempt on Jack Bauer by Hank (Robert Rusler) that the White House Chief of Staff could easily place a mole within any government agency without anyone knowing about it, but Spenser squeals without resistance. Jack heads to the Presidential retreat outside L.A. to give Walt Cummings a good seeing to and Erwich catches Schaeffer tampering with the canisters at the Port of Los Angeles and sees to him. But Cummings fesses up to the President before Bauer even gets to them, telling him that it was all about providing a smoking gun of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Central Asia and guaranteeing the flow of oil for a generation and pretext to increased military presence in the area.

Ivan Erwich hooks up with a shady engineer, Jacob Rossler (Patrick Bauchau) willing to reconfigure a remote trigger for an Sentox chemical delivery system. CTU finds this out and sends Jack with a tactical team and he find him with a teenage sex slave Inessa Kovalevsky (Angela Sarafyan), but he’s wholly unwilling to help CTU unless they give him full immunity and he gets to keep Inessa. Lynn McGill is unwilling to listen to Jack and tells him to take the deal, so the moment she gets a chance, she kills Rossler with one of his own guns.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: true lies on television – again, over and over in fact, the “the United States doesn’t negotiate with terrorists” line is just a crock of shit and wholly untrue. We have, do, and will continue to negotiate with terrorists, if not team up with them directly if it suits our interests at any given moment.
  • We Do Negotiate With Terrorists – Slate
  • Al Qaeda and ISIS, Made in the USA
• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: government duplicity – CTU instructed Jack to take a deal that allowed a pedophile child rapist to go free with his sex slave whom is already missing, having been kidnapped from her family in Kiev, Ukraine to be sold as a slave. Look, this is something that is going on and has been going on for an extraordinarily long time. The recent Epstein kerfuffle barely scratches the surface. I won’t go into it here, you can read about it for yourselves if you possess the intellectual curiosity to actually read some extremely uncomfortable material. I’ve read more than enough to disgust and horrify me. As preposterous as it may sound, it’s true whether you are willing to accept it or not.
  • The Franklin Cover Up – by John DeCamp
  • Trance Formation of America – by Cathy O’Brien/Mark Phillips
  • Access Denied For Reasons of National Security – by Cathy O’Brien/Mark Phillips
  • Former FBI Chief Exposes CIA & FBI crimes – Ted Gunderson

Walt Cummings appears to hang himself (the White House chooses to cover it up of course ) just before Lynn McGill gets rolled for his CTU access card by his junkie sister and her dope-fiend boyfriend. Ivan Erwich gets his canisters prepped for Rossler, killing the unlucky guy he coerced into precision cutting them open for him. With Rossler dead, Jack is able to meet up with Erwich’s people posing as him. Under Chloe’s guidance, he is able to reconfigure the chip and Erwich’s men force him to come along to a shopping mall so they can disperse the nerve gas to makes sure the triggering mechanisms work.

Despite saving numerous lives and managing to follow Erwich’s man, he commited suicide to avoid capture and interrogation, leaving CTU with nothing. Erwich confirms with his financier and leader, Vladimir Bierko (Julian Sands), that the Sentox gas was genuine. But Bierko, upset that Erwich wasted time and resources on killing American civilians to make a point rather than attacking Moscow, kills Erwich by stabbing him with a knife. He decides it best to kill Nathanson and refocus on using the canisters on Russia. Nathanson contacts Jack Bauer, seeking protection from others within the government involved in this conspiracy.

Concurrently to this, Vladimir Bierko was already coercing President Logan to provide the itinerary for Russian President Suvarov so that Bierko’s soldiers could ambush them. Logan’s wife tried talking him out of letting him have it, but he acquiesced and she tagged along for the ride in hopes that he would stop it, but he didn’t. Meanwhile, Chloe had tracked a company called Terra-Dyne, which had amassed a large stockpile of strontium isotope, which is used in the manufacture of Sentox nerve gas as part of the Sentox Project for their parent company, Omicron International, a major defense contractor who manufactured Sentox for the Department of Defense. Jack right away asks about a man named Christopher Henderson (Peter Weller) whom was unnamed but vaguely referenced as a corrupt CTU operative back in Season One, happens to be a Senior Vice President of Omicron. Though he was never indicted, Henderson, whom was the individual that originally recruited Jack to CTU, was implicated in the sale of classified intelligence to defense contractors.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: true lies on television – Noam Chomsky often discusses public perception of government vs concentrated private power. Whilst the people continue fighting over a not so subtle fake narrative of a left vs right ideological struggle within our government, the private sector continues their encroachment at every level of our government. Weapons manufacturers of every variety whom receive billions in public funding to subsidize their risk (R&D) are spending almost as much as they receive for free from you and me to avoid paying taxes back into the system that shielded them from the free market. Yet, they still continue selling to other players around the globe in the so-called free market, which isn’t actually free when you protect them from it and they still sell to our enemies. While Americans are bickering over capitalism and socialism, the difference between the national interest and special interest gets hazier and hazier. However, when you realize that weapons manufactures are officially part of the “national interest,” and schools, roads, bridges, women and minority groups, the elderly, etc., are considered “special interest,” concepts of what’s vaguely known as national socialism truly is can become clearer. Maybe if Americans evict those stupid swastikas from their creativity bereft imaginations, we might be able to stop our constitutional republic from becoming an unaccountably brutal corporatocracy without a face and a regenerative head. I don’t blame you, dear reader. This comes from decades of well funded think tank social engineering.

Jack, with the help of Chloe O’Brien and Audrey Raines makes his way into Omicron to question Henderson, but Henderson plays it off well, says he’s going to get help from I.T., as Lynn McGill has a meltdown at CTU, having already fired or placed half his best staff in holding. Curtis relieves McGill of his command when he steps over the line. Meanwhile, as Logan prays for his wife to survive Bierko’s attack, Jack realizes he’s not as smart as he thought and just might be losing his touch.

CTU’s last second intervention doesn’t stop the attack on the Suvarov’s motorcade. But after his wife and the Suvarovs survive the attack, Martha informs Secret Service Agent Aaron Pierce (Glenn Morshower) that President Logan knew it was going to happen and didn’t stop it. Jack Bauer, bee-lines straight over to Christopher Henderson’s home to say hello to Mrs Henderson. Curtis takes point when data comes in that a hospital is about to be hit with a nerve gas canister and begins evacuation procedures moments before CTU figures out a billionaire radical post Soviet Era terrorist named Vladimir Bierko even exists. Curtis shoots the baddie, locating the armed canister just as Henderson gets home, removing it from the building just in time shortly thereafter.

Jack brings Henderson back to CTU for interrogation, having already asked Audrey Raines to bring his daughter, Kim (heavy sigh) in so he can hopefully see her to let her know he isn’t dead, which doesn’t quite work out for him. They go right to work on Christopher Henderson through the use of pharmaceutical interrogation to attack his nervous system by sending pain throughout his body. When Bill Buchanan informs McGill that his junkie sister was found murdered, and when he blames her boyfriend, Buchanan informs him that they killed by a professional and finally he lets it out that he got rolled, but it was too late.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: torture normalization – if you were paying close enough attention, all those computer nerds at CTU were listening in to the whole kerfuffle without remark or judgment when Jack shot Mrs Henderson in the leg. Christopher Henderson was “willing to endure a tremendous amount of pain” to protect someone, even letting his wife get shot in the leg for it. However, the American mind is desensitized just a little bit more towards apathetic amoralism. The urgency of the situation also adds to the social engineering mechanism that is counterterror entertainment television. (A.K.A. torture porn)

With 40% of their personnel killed by the nerve gas, (Edgar dying choked me up) Karen Hayes (Jayne Atkinson) at Homeland Security suggests personally overseeing an emergency restructuring. POTUS & Vice-POTUS discuss implementing martial law to stop the terrorists. Needless to say, Jack, Chloe, and Buchanan get everything handled just before Tony, grieving from the death of his wife, tries killing Christopher Henderson but he was faking his coma and sticks Tony with a needle of something or another and escapes as Tony dies in Jack’s arms. But Jack learns that Chloe scored information about an information broker who works freelance named Collette Stenger (Stana Katic) whom is connected to Bierko. Subsequently thereafter, President Logan declares martial law and implements a military enforced curfew in the Los Angeles area despite his wife’s suspicions that the VP is setting him up to take a political fall. When Karen Hayes and her mincing sidekick Miles Papazian (Stephen Spinella) arrive to CTU, it’s hardly a smooth transition.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: crisis normalization – I could be reaching here, but multiple times this show pushes the idea of the necessity of implementing martial law, only this season is the first time it’s actually done and enforced by the military. Television programming is a subtle method of softening the minds of people. One could even go so far as to consider it a mechanism of psychological warfare. In the USA, psychological warfare is not necessarily limited to military conflicts. Engineering of public opinion is as old as commercial advertising itself, older perhaps.
  • Obfuscation – Here’s the thing, and this is just me talking. The VP often moves in the shadows and you never really know what he’s up to. Did you really think George W Bush was in charge? What about Ronald Reagan? Did you think he was in charge? Cheney ran W and HW ran Reagan. Just saying. There’s also been suspicion by man that Johnson whacked Kennedy and HW tried having Reagan whacked. #JustSaying
• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: crisis normalization – DHS (Department of Homeland Security) is a completely new department that was implemented by the Bush Administration and developed by people who claim to be proponents of smaller government, people who felt the government was too large and unyielding, yet it operates like a 21st Century Gestapo (secret political police) and more recently the Schutzstaffel (SS), as in a racial police, which is more than just a problem. Yet it remains wholly unaddressed and continues to function with impunity.
  • crisis normalization reiteration – if you pay closer attention, Homeland Security holds position ABOVE CTU and can step in to take over altogether and all CTU seems able to do about it is bend over and take it.

MORE TO COME…

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*** ALERT — SPOILER HEAVEN***Jack offers Theo Stoller (Henry Ian Cusick), a German Intelligence agent gathering intelligence on Collette’s clients, the WET List when he refuses to cooperate with CTU in the apprehension of Stenger, whom just sold Bierko some schematics, which upset everyone at CTU/DHS and gets Chloe in a heap of trouble. But they breathe easy again when Jack fuck’s Stoller and it self destructs on him before he can use it. Collette Stenger demands an immunity deal for her cooperation and the moment she gets it confirmed by her attorney she gives them an address to a safe house, naming Audrey Raines as her D.O.D. contact who sold her the schematics. Jack interrogates her, but not hard enough by Karen Hayes’s opinion and standard, so she sends in Rick Burke (Martin Papazian) to interrogate Audrey, but Jack gets Stenger to confess to lying after finding her connection to Henderson and it’s stopped.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: true lies on television – The above scene is important, and to be understood you must understand that after WWII, whatever you think you know about the aftermath is likely untrue. Understand that it was a Nazis who were part of the formation of the CIA, and we allow their operatives to ply their trade here on our own soil. Collette Stanger is also another reality, one I am personally familiar with on more than one occasion. Understand that after the Cold War, there are numerous operatives whom were once working for the German government whom operate as freelance information brokers to this very day, holding many connections within our own private defense sector and selling information obtained by having sexual relations with various people holding security clearances. Your government knows full well and does nothing about it, by the way.
• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: true lies in television – immunity deals galore on 24. The US keeps claiming it doesn’t negotiate with terrorists, but it keeps giving immunity deals to people who give sing a song of special treatment.
  • Wikileaks Veteran Cooperates – Daily Beast
  • At risk of redundancy, here’s Jeffrey Epstein – Wikipedia
• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: torture normalization – yet again, we’re shown that sometimes torture could be necessary. But it’s backed off rather quickly, however mistakes are made and sometimes we have to live through them and move on. But again, you’ve been desensitized and though she was innocent, she moved on and that was it. Better cough up your tax dollars or else.
  • Did 24 Prime the Pump for Torture? – Psychology Today
  • Prime Time Torture, Selective Perception of Media Modeled Efficacy For Torture – Thesis Paper by Nathaniel A Silver 2015

Wayne Palmer goes to meet Aaron Pierce at the Presidential retreat but is ran off the road and pursued by Henderson’s mercenaries while Bierko and his mercenaries make their way into the Gas Company to launch a large scale nerve gas attack. Pierce finds Wayne Palmer on the grounds of the retreat, helping him evade pursing mercenaries. Concurrently, Jack and Curtis get to the Gas Company, shoot it out with Bierko’s mercenaries just as Bierko releases the gas into the main distribution tank. Jack blows it all up and catches Bierko (exciting show, huh?), barely avoiding getting the both of them blown up along with everything else. (yeah, I know, but that’s why they call it the suspension of disbelief)

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: war on terror salesmanship – visualization of several canisters of Sentox nerve gas being released into the main distribution tank of the gas company, regardless of the excitement of seeing Keifer Sutherland kicking ass and killing tangos, imprints an unforgettable image on the American psyche of the possibility of nerve gas pouring into American households while their children are sleeping. It also aids in the social engineering of American minds to sow seeds of fear of the other. This manufactures consent for more cuts to schools, social programs, roads & bridges, to be rerouted to counter terror operations, bloated military budgets, more militarized police, and of course because I forgot to mention it, more prisons.

Vice President Hal Gardner (Ray Wise) pushes Karen Hayes to be more aggressive in rolling CTU into DHS and mincing Miles suggests using Audrey Raines to help them do it. Wayne and Aaron Pierce make it back to the Presidential retreat and Wayne Palmer confronts Personal Aid to First Lady Martha Logan Evelyn Martin (Sandrine Holt) about emails she had sent to the late Former President Palmer that may have led to his assassination, but she refuses to cooperate because her daughter is under threat and in their custody. She has proof of who is behind everything, but won’t help unless he can get her daughter back for her. Wayne calls Jack in on it and when he speaks to Audrey, he becomes suspicious that the VP Gardner may be the one that Henderson was protecting when they were torturing him earlier, and goes together with Wayne to take her back and when take her back, Evelyn Martin dispels any notion of VP Gardner having anything to do with anything.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: true lies on television – I swear, just when George W Bush couldn’t have possibly looked any more guilty and complicit in everything
  • from 9/11

    • “Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.” (from Rebuilding America’s Defenses Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century: a report by PNAC – the Project For a New American Century, p. 51)

  • The curiously quick and suspicious roll out, passing, and implementation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS was created long before 9/11)
  • The so-called PATRIOT ACT which was already written and ready to go long before 9/11,

Season 5/Day 5 spilled beans and let cats out of bags so they could spray their stench all over the place. After stashing Evelyn Martin in a motel room, Jack and Wayne kidnap a bank manager from his home and use him to get into a bank where she stashed a recording of President Logan and Christopher Henderson. Logan had already put out an APB on Jack and they end up getting the poor guy killed on their way out of the bank in a firefight with authorities seeking to apprehend him. Meanwhile, Henderson snatches up Evelyn Martin and her daughter from the motel after her kid panicked and called an ambulance. Bauer gets away with Wayne Palmer and the recording but since he knows Audrey could be being followed, he enlists the freshly fired Bill Buchanan to assist. He escorts Wayne Palmer to safety while Jack rendezvous with Audrey and her father Defense Secretary Heller to handover the recording to him, but Heller screws him.

Things start getting sketchy at this point because the POTUS becomes increasingly suspicious looking to just about everyone. His defensive disposition makes him look strange to Mike Novick, and Aaron Pierce already knows that Logan was responsible for the assassination of David Palmer, whom he respected deeply. Chloe snatches mincing Miles’s access card and scampers off just before Henderson retrieves the recording from Jack and Audrey. Meanwhile, sellout Secretary Heller shows up at the POTUS retreat and attempts pressing Logan into quiet resignation, but it doesn’t quite work out the way he thought it would and he ends up driving his car off a cliff to keep himself from being used as Logan and Henderson’s pawn. Curtis ends up saving Audrey and apprehending Henderson anyway, despite his mercenaries coming in to scoop him up after Jack takes off to chase after Henderson’s guy.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: true lies on television – something I’ve been saying for years to just about anyone who would listen is that government isn’t the actual power. Government isn’t the substance, they’re the shadow cast over the public by big business. Circles of concentrated private power are able to use think-tanks and Public Action Committees to wield more power and influence over public institutions, our government, our military, and our intelligence services. Every war that has ever been fought in the past century was a private war because contrary to your high school history class, history is not war. History is finance, war is merely the side-effect of the amalgamation, consolidation, and privatization of territory and resources by concentrated private power.

By this point, the First Lady knows everything from the President Logan’s own word. Jack sneaks onto a diplomatic flight to intercept the recording while mincing Miles gets off on overseeing the pursuit Bauer, ruining Chloe and Buchanan. Karen Hayes is suspicious enough to bend Mike Novick’s ear over President Logan’s personal oversight of pursuit of Jack Bauer on unseen spurious evidence that he was involved in killing Palmer even though he was already cleared and the crisis already averted. Bill Buchanan is arrested and placed into holding so him and Karen could allow Chloe to escape and continue helping Bauer. Mincing Miles is suspicious of all of this because Karen Hayes appears to be leaving him out of the loop, so he calls Mike Novick, who blows him off. Mike Novick presses President Logan on the issue regarding Jack Bauer, but Logan dismisses it altogether. Bauer ends up commandeering the plane, intercepting the recording from the co-pilot working for Henderson.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: true lies on television – on this particular drama, they’re pretty honest and straightforward in regards to the fact that private sector groups and business interests manipulate and control political figures and institutions, yet the do tend to distance them from the intelligence services as a whole. I’ve personally known extremely wealthy individuals with fast phone call connections to intelligence contacts as well as the Carlyle Group. This is a reality that this show does seem to distance itself from, yet at the same not, not much of a distance. But it felt like something worthy of contemplation, so I thought I’d mention it.

Mincing Miles becomes doubly suspicious when Karen Hayes brings Buchanan out from holding to help Bauer bring the recording in to CTU. Mike Novick receives the distress signal and the POTUS goes full Meryl Streep to hem and haw over the ethics of shooting him down, shooting Novick down when he tries to talk him out of it. Buchanan gets him coordinates to the 118FWY and they level off at the last second when a fighter jet had them in missile lock, landing just in time for Curtis to take Jack back to CTU, barely slipping through the Marine battalions surrounding the cordoned perimeter. Karen Hayes makes a grievous error of judgement in bringing mincing Miles up to speed on everything.

Vladimir Bierko is transferred to CTU’s primary holding facility and busted out by his soldiers. They immediately start moving on his next plan by the time CTU gets word of their vehicles being hit by an IED. President Logan attempts coaxing Agent Pierce into playing his game but patriot Pierce will have no part of it, leaving Logan no choice but to give another Secret Service agent the nod to kill him. Meanwhile, Bauer has no choice but to team up with Henderson to pursue and re-apprehend Vladimir Bierko before he can instigate another terror attack. Henderson convinces CTU to let him go in to deal with an arms dealer named Joseph Malina (Jose Zuñiga) who can help them find Bierko. Jack argues against them on this, but they do it anyway. The First Lady foils Pierce’s imminent execution, giving him just enough distraction to save himself. In Downtown L.A., Henderson convinces Jack and Curtis to let him go in alone to meet with Malina, where he gives him the heads up that Jack and Curtis are coming for him, telling him to purge all of his files. Despite Bauer’s disbelief of Henderson’s dubious explanation that he was bamboozling Malina to putting his important files on a flash drive to make it easier for them, Chloe quickly got schematics for a Russian submarine that was in dock scheduled for US Naval inspection that was part of Logan’s earlier Russian treaty, which called for the sharing of technology. Henderson’s knowledge of Russian subs of that class give Jack the idea of taking him with them to the Port of Los Angeles.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: fear peddling – the overall goal of shows like this is to engineer consent of the American psyche to overlook the shrinking budgets for public education, roads, bridges, environmental protection and cleanup, and a right and proper healthcare system and dismiss the ever growing budgets for military expenditures, wars of aggression (imperialist expansion and empire building), and clandestine operations abroad, as well as to engineer a public willingness to sacrifice our civil liberties and right to privacy all in the name of national security and protecting American lives. However, when you also pay closer attention to the fact that they’re telling you flat out that private sector business interests who profit off of war, clandestine operations, weapons manufacturing and procurement, as well as oil, energy, and various other corporate interests are all too willing to orchestrate such schemes in order to profit and/or change society to fit their interests and protect themselves from YOU, you really should take everything you’re told on television in fiction or news with skepticism.

Needless to say, Jack and his team manage to stop Bierko and his terrorist crew from launching 12 multiple warhead missiles, just in the nick of time thanks to a lone surviving U.S. Naval Petty Officer’s help. They kill Bierko and his men and Christopher Henderson manages to shut down the missile launch sequence within the last 10 seconds, just before Jack breaks Bierko’s neck. The F-18s are recalled and Jack goes looking for Henderson, killing him in revenge for the assassination of David Palmer, Tony Almeida, and Michelle Dessler. Jack then recruits Chloe O’Brian, Aaron Pierce, and Mike Novick to help him take down President Logan. Chloe brings in her ex-husband, Oxford and MIT dropout and Saks Fifth Avenue shoe salesman, Morris O’Brian (Carlo Rota), whom happens to be a gifted systems analyst, to try and reconstruct the recording destroyed by Miles Papazian earlier. Meanwhile, as Jack and Aaron Pierce are working to get Jack where he needs to be, Mike Novick tries to delay the President, First Lady Martha Logan runs interference by seducing her husband, who tells the helicopter to standby. After they get their freak on, Jack infiltrates his way onto the helicopter and kidnaps President Logan in an attempt to coerce a confession out of him. But though he wasn’t able to do so, Logan just couldn’t help himself. His wife couldn’t resist crying and going into hysterics when they carried the late Former President David Palmer’s casket from the helicopter.

So in the end the President of the United States was escorted away, sure. Jack Bauer and Audrey Raines have their little moment of reconciliation. Bill Buchanan ends up asking Karen Hayes, who’d originally come gunning for his job, out for breakfast and gets a rain-check. Chloe gets a kudos from Bill, with a memento photo of her and Edgar that he found among his personal effects that he thought she should have and even left with her deeply caring and sympathetic ex husband.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: – true lies on television – All’s well that ends well, but let’s talk turkey here. Do you honestly believe that in the real world that regardless of what a POTUS ever does, that he’s going to end up in shackles, an orange jump suit, breaking big rocks into little rocks, pressing license plates, or working in a field and calling the hacks “Boss”?? Think on just how many delusional Americans actually believe that even if Donald J Trump is found guilty of high treason, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and lying to the sheriff, that he won’t get a piecemeal house arrest sentence and be right back to going to cocktail parties and grabbing young women by their how-do-ya-dos in less than 4 years. Yeah, sure, they’ve got their all’s well that ends well Season 5/Day 5 ending, or do they?

MORE TO COME…

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