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Originally Posted by irishjayhawk
Can someone recap season 5 again?
And I agree with the notion that season 1 was the best.
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Season 5: Jack had fake his death at the end of season 4 to escape having to be captured by the Chinese for storming into the Chinese consulate. Only 4 other people knew about it -- President Palmer, Chloe, Michelle, and Tony. In the first episode of season 5, Palmer and Michelle are killed, with Tony badly injured. Chloe is a target, too, but she calls Jack and arranges to get rescued. The murder of Palmer is set up to frame Jack.
Palmer et al are killed because of Palmer's knowledge about the existence of a supply of Syntox Nerve Gas. A anti-Russian seperatist group gets ahold of the Syntox on this, the day of a arms/intelligence treaty between Russia and the U.S.
Jack is able to trace the Syntox back to a government-connected company run by Christopher Henderson, Jack's old boss at CTU (before the show). Henderson is not the main villian, though. Eventually, it is revealed that President Logan (!) had been responsible for much of the day's events. Logan was working with a mysterious man wearing a bluetooth earpiece (revealed in season 6 to be Jack's brother, Greahm).
Jack, in tandem with friends, is able to get Logan arrested. But the Chinese capture the now-out-of-hiding Jack and bring him to China to be held and tortured.
My shitty rundown does not convey how solid this season was.