24: Season Four
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Actor: Carlos Bernard, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Raver, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Reiko AylesworthBrand: SUTHERLAND,KIEFER
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; German (Original Language); Korean (Original Language); Russian (Original Language); Serbo-Croatian (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.1; English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.1
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 1052 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-06
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of 24: Season Four
DVD Review: Great but not the Best
Summary: 4 Stars
This is another great season of 24 but it is not the best one. That is no surprise since it has set such a high standard for television drama. So instead of being superlative, it is merely great.
There are new characters and new leaders in this season along with some old standbys. There are also some old villains making surprise appearances. With the new cast, they combine for a powerful season and, as always, it is a season full of plot twists and unexpected surprises.
There are many out there who condemn 24 as a show that marginalizes Muslims. This season indeed has some nasty Muslim villains. I wonder if those same detractors noticed that some of the real heroes of this season are Muslims as well...and some of the worst villains are Anglo-American males. The point this series makes over and over again is that people who do bad things are bad and their religion has nothing to do with it.
Episode synopses appear below:
7-8 AM The season starts of with a whimper that quickly develops into a bang. Jack Bauer has not been back to CTU since he was fired. Today, he is supposed to go there with the Secretary of Defense to meet with the current director about the budget. The Secretary is unable to go and sends Jack in his stead. The new director does NOT like having him around and is more interested in turf control than in anything useful. While there, Jack gets to witness the takedown of some suspects in the bombing of a train. He recognizes one of them and suspects more is in store. The director will not listen to him, however. Jack takes matters into his own hands and extracts the information violently. The train was a diversion. The real target is the father of his lover, the Secretary of Defense. Jack is just placing the call when the man and the girl are kidnapped.
8-9 AM The new director at CTU is still more worried about protecting her turf than in doing her job. She wants to do her job but doing it in a way that reflects well on her is more important. As such, she arrests Jack because he did not follow the rules. He gets a break from Chloe who still trusts him more than her. He learns that a friend of hers has stumbled onto a possible link involving an Internet virus. She had told the director about it earlier but had been shuffled aside. Now, her source's family have been killed and Jack gets the OK to try and bring him in. He's too late. Other people are in trouble too. The terrorist leader has his teenaged son act as a courier to take a briefcase to a meet. He is followed by his suspicious American girlfriend. As a result, the boy is in trouble and the girl is probably going to be eliminated. It is apparent that there are lots of leaks and that the bad guys are getting their information from the inside but nobody knows where yet. As the hour closes, an internet broadcast shows the Secretary of Defense. The bad guys are preparing to execute him live on the web.
9-10 AM Jack is following the guy who kidnapped the web geek but is doing so without authorization. In fact, CTU wants him brought in. He manages to rescue the guy in the nick of time and heads off after the terrorist who leaves him for dead. He is still having trouble getting the resources he needs and only Chloe is serving as a sort of go between for him and officialdom. Meanwhile, the teenage terrorist is torn up with angst about his American girlfriend. His father wants he dead. He goes to his mom for help only to learn that she has lured the girl over in order to do the whacking herself. Jack is still trying to follow his terrorist but he has to find a way to delay him while Chloe get satellite coverage set up. He is running out of time so he does the only thing he can to slow the guy down without arousing suspicion. He knocks over (robs) the convenience store the terrorist is using to get something to drink. It's LA. Its believable.
10-11 AM It's a tense standoff as Jack tries to rob a convenience store. He is doing it only to buy time until a satellite can be tasked to follow the terrorist. It seems, though, that just about everyone wants to visit that convenience store at that time. Finally, he learns that the satellite has been set up and he breaks out with the terrorist as his hostage. He lets the terrorist go in the hopes that he will lead him to the missing Secretary. Unfortunately the CTU director has found out about the scheme and sends the police to home in on Jack. She is about to pick up the terrorist too but it is pointed out to her that too many people already know that Jack was right and she was wrong. She's a bit distracted, though. She learns that her schizophrenic daughter is busy having a breakdown and she reroutes resources to prevent her daughter from being arrested. The teen terrorist makes a big decision to go with the girlfriend rather than the parents but his mom has anticipated him. She solves the problem herself. Jack is hot on the trail until he is taken into custody by the police.
11-Noon Jack manages to get the CTU director to vouch for him and put him in command of a team going after the Secretary. He is closing in when a traffic stop blows the program. The terrorist is let go too easily so he gets suspicious and kills himself before he can be captured and questioned. Jack still has a hint of where they are going. He is ready to lead a strike team but is called off because the "trial" is getting too close. In order to avoid embarrassment, the President has decided to send in a missile to take out the whole site. The pres is not the only untrustworthy character. The CTU director is still too worried about turf and uses this instance to begin a purge; a contract laborer in CTU is clearly out to advance herself at everyone else's expense; a psychotic daughter is distracting the CTU director and, just to keep things tense, the terror kid who was having second thoughts is apparently over them.
12-1 PM Jack's one man assault is successful is rescuing the Secretary and his daughter but a few get away. They learn that the train wreck from the first episode was just a diversion for the kidnapping. Worse, they have reason to believe that the kidnapping is just a diversion for worse things to come. They need information but those who can provide it are reticent about doing so. Among these is the estranged son of the Secretary. With great pain, the Secretary authorizes more serious questioning techniques. Leaks are still plaguing the CTU. The contract hacker is apparently working for someone else. The Terror teen learns that his own father considered him to be a risk and has authorized his execution. This pleases neither the teen nor the mom.
1-2 PM The Secretary's daughter needs to be taken to a private security firm to try and ID one of the terrorists who took her; she remembers seeing him at a party they both attended and the firm has the tapes. Unfortunately, the mole in CTU sets them up for a hit. They barely make it out because Jack realizes the he can no longer trust CTU. He calls somebody he can trust, Tony, from the previous seasons. The terror mom decides to try and save the terror teen but the terror dad suspects. He ambushes them and now they are fugitives. From this we learn that the terror dad is reporting to somebody even higher up who is not happy. Also not happy is the CTU director. Her daughter goes into cardiac arrest when the wrong drugs are given. To ease the tension some, one of CTU's programmers manages to find a way to shut down the nuclear power plants that are threatened. Unfortunately, he is not able to get them all.
2-3 PM Jack finally has a lead as to who can shut down the nuclear disaster. The Secretary also manages to use his assets to track down the mole in CTU. Unfortunately, it is the wrong person. This is not found out before some...aggressive questioning takes place. Luckily, they do manage to find the right mole and she tries to make her escape. She is apprehended just as she learns her controller wants her dead. That seems to be the case for Jack's prisoner to. Just as they get him, he is assassinated. Terror mom and terror teen are not having much better luck. Because of her wounds, they head for an ER but there the police are called because she has a gunshot wound. They too get away.
3-4 PM CTU has had its biggest leads assassinated out from under them but they get lucky when they manage to trace the location of the cell phone of Terror Mom and Terror Teen. They break in and take the mom into custody and just barely manage to keep her from killing herself. Unfortunately, Terror Teen is out at a hospital trying to get some pain medication for mom. He is talking to his uncle, a pharmacist at the hospital. The uncle is suspicious and not a terrorist. He calls Terror Dad who tells him that jr. is a druggie. CTU heads to pick the boy up but gets there only in time to wind up in a standoff. Dad has his gun pointed at the boy. The mother, who has brokered a clemency deal for the boy, refuses to talk unless the boy is safe. With that, the episode is over.
4-5 PM Jack manages to take both the terror teen and the terror dad alive. His plans break apart, though, on two fronts. Terror teen is still hacked off about dad ordering him to be killed so he takes an opportunistic shot and settles dad for good. Unfortunately, terror mom does not really no a whole lot. All she is able to give them is an address. When it is investigated, they find a new lead that leads right back to the Secretary of Defense and his daughter. Another lead comes from the interrogation of the mole captured at CTU. She is still trying to slime her way into a better position and reveals the existence of a computer where she might get some useful data. The catch is that she has to be present to give her thumbprint to the security program. Against many people's better judgment, she is taken to the site under escort. What they find is surprising and quite unhealthy. The CTU director is coming to grips with not being in Jack Bauer's league. She compensates by getting even more protective and devious about her turf.
5-6 PM CTU finally homes in on where the nuclear gizmo is located. To do so, they have had to violate lots and lots of civil rights. These include the rights of such persons as the husband of Jack's girlfriend. She is beginning to believe him and he MAY be innocent, but that is still up in the air. As they close in, the CTU director's daughter becomes more and more of a distraction with terrible consequences for everyone. CTU manages to shut down the nuclear meltdowns. They do so at the cost of letting the ostensible mastermind escape. The season is only half over. More is definitely to come.
6-7 PM CTU is trying to get things sorted out after averting a nuclear meltdown but the situation is chaos. The director is incapacitated by the apparent suicide of her daughter and Tony is tasked to fill in. Jack and the soon-to-be ex hubby of the Secretary head for the company that unknowingly employed the head terrorist. They want to track him down and see if he has anything else up his sleeve. The problem is that the company is paranoid that they will somehow be blamed for the fiasco. They undertake to try and deceive CTU and destroy any data on the premises. Taking out several square miles of downtown LA does not seem to bother them.
7-8 PM The plot has certainly thickened. The EMP bomb has meant chaos in downtown LA. Most of the episode is concerned with Jack and his romantic rival trying to get extricated while mercenaries from the company that set off the bomb try and track them down. The get help from the young, middle eastern gun store owners whose store they hole up in. (Anyone claiming that middle eastern=terrorist should see this episode to set the record straight.) Since CTU is working blind, Jack knows that his only hope is to attract their attention. He does so by engaging the mercs in a firefight. They survive and are rescued and have a vital printout to get back to CTU for decoding when one of the bad guys, (Anglo male) makes a last effort to kill Jack. He gets the jilted husband instead. This is a shame since he has shown himself to be a good guy and since the girlfriend will probably be really hacked. The episode closes with the revelation of what might be the real target. There is none bigger.
8-9 PM CTU still does not know what the big plan is but they know that there is one. In a desperate attempt to get information, Jack comes up with a scheme to get himself turned over to the bad guys by the terror mom. He talks her into it by promising to get her and her son into the witness protection program. She does her job and gets him to the head honcho but he is suspicious. When she fails his loyalty test, she and Jack are in big trouble. Meanwhile, a fake fighter pilot is getting ready to take to the air.
9-10 PM Jack is a prisoner and CTU still does not know what the big picture is. The terror plot continues, though as an infiltrated pilot prepares to go airborne with a stolen F-117. Because of a few glitches, a diversion is needed so that CTU will not notice the missing pilot. The head terrorist contrives a plot in which the terror teen is exchanged for Jack. Seeing nothing else to do, they go through with it but nothing goes as it should. Jack is recovered but the boy is taken. The pilot is about to launch and they still don't know what the plot is.
10-11 PM The pilot is in the air and his target is a big one but CTU does not know what it is. They head to his apartment to find clues and encounter a woman posing as an FBI agent. They think she is legit but she is hunting for the same information they are. When Jack figures out what is going on, he notifies the target but not before it is hit. It is unsure whether the target survived.
11 - Midnight The president is alive but in no condition to lead the country. That puts the succession on the vice president which poses 2 problems. He seems to be a weak man to begin with and his chief of staff is the slimeball who caused so much trouble for the last administration. Meanwhile, Jack is sent out to rescue the football, the briefcase containing the nuclear codes. It has been found by some innocent campers but the head terrorist wants them. It seems knocking off Air Force One was just a pretext to get the codes. Jack manages to rescue the football but there is something missing.
12-1 AM A lucky lead gives CTU the identity of an associate of the mastermind. They manage to close in just as the suspect is meeting with another unsavory character. Mr. Unsavory kills the terrorist as CTU closes in and claims to have been an innocent citizen defending himself. Everyone knows this is wrong so they get ready to do some intensive interrogation. That is just what the mastermind is afraid of and he places a discreet call to the ACLU types who get a court order to stop the interrogation. Since a nuclear warhead has been stolen, time is of the essence but the weak VP does not want to cloud the first act of his paranoid presidency. Jack decides to take the interrogation into his own hands by resigning from CTU and acting as a private citizen. He gets his information but it is doubtful whether it is enough.
1-2 AM Chloe become a field agent!...but that comes later. The president is hacked about Jack doing things independently and orders the Secret Service to pick him up immediately, even though he is warned that Jack is about to get the mastermind. He has been tracked to a club where he is running his operation. The Secret Service shows up at the worse possible time and tips off the terrorists to police presence. He gets away. This leads the president to realize that he may not be the best man for the job. His chief of staff advises him to call in the previous president to run the situation. (Maybe the guy did learn his lesson.) Chloe gets a tip from the suspicious girlfriend of one of the terrorists. Because they are shorthanded, CTU sends her out with a team to decode the information on the computer. Real agents are supposed to protect her but the bad guys eliminate them. Chloe has to take matters into her own hands with deadly results.
2-3 AM From Chloe's lead, CTU finds a connection to a Chinese national who has holed up in the consulate. The Chinese are willing to cooperate but diplomatic niceties take time...longer that the timetable for detonation of the warhead. The former president authorizes a clandestine operation to go into the consulate and take the man by force. This happens but the "Chinese Fire Drill" of the guards causes problems. In their wild shooting, they not only put a bullet into the terror suspect, they manage to kill their own consul. The diplomatic consequences are going to be grim. For Jack, it gets grimmer still. The suspect is dying and needs immediate surgery. Unfortunately, the surgeon is currently working on the husband of his girlfriend. Since the information is vital to many lives, Jack pulls his gun and forces the surgeon to work on the suspect with fatal consequences for the husband...and Jack's love life.
3-4 AM The Chinese are furious over the break in of their consulate and they want blood. Unfortunately, their cameras reveal the possible face of one of the CTU agents and the Chinese head of security demands an interview at CTU. CTU does a fair job of stonewalling but is hampered by the acting president, who no longer trusts former president Palmer, and by the need to appease the Chinese. Just when it looks like the Chinese will get no further information, an analyst lets something slip. While this is going on, Jack is in the field. Interrogation has at last yielded the location of the terror mastermind. They bring him down only learn that the stolen warhead had been mounted on a missile and the missile has just launched.
4-5 AM While going through the mastermind's cell phone, CTU finds a connection. His phone contains the number of the son of the Secretary of Defense, who has not been heard from since the first few episodes. They bring the boy in blubbering about his rights but he will not say what he knows; only that he is not a terrorist. His sister pleads with him and tell him that he will be tortured but that does not work. Finally, dad gets him to put out. He is gay and had an assignation with a guy who tapped his phone. Now, CTU is after the guy (part of a couple). They find him but he is dead and his accomplice has taken off with Tony as a hostage.
5-6 AM In an emotional roller coaster, the female terrorist plays upon the emotions at CTU bargaining with Tony's life. In the end, his estranged wife sees her responsibility to the millions who may be impacted by the missile so she shares the relevant information. Jack is ready to take her down when she apparently blows up herself and Tony it a fit over having been betrayed. Everyone thinks Tony and the terrorist are dead but Jack has doubts. He refuses to pull out, contrary to While House orders, and does manage to rescue Tony and take down the terrorist. It seems they will finally get the clue they need but the Chinese have other ideas. They are still hacked about the death of their consul and manage to kidnap the CTU agent who was identified but they want bigger fish. Under threat, they get him to talk and implicate Jack.
6-7 AM Jack does the impossible. He captures the mastermind, gets the information that lets the nuclear missile be destroyed and actually survives to tell the tale. His survival is inconvenient for the acting president, though. To placate the Chinese, he agrees to hand Jack over to them. Some are worried that puts sensitive information at risk but the president forbids any assassination attempt, he just doesn't do so very convincingly. One of his aides decides to take matters into his own hands and the former president, Palmer, gets wind of the situation. The only way out for everyone is for Jack to cease to exist. Jack agrees and, conveniently dies.
Season 5 Prequel Jack has been dead for a year. Now somebody has hacked into Chloe's files and learned that he is alive. That same person wants him dead. It's a long car chase as Jack leaves a clandestine meeting with Chloe meant to inform him of what is going on.
Description of 24: Season Four
Twenty-four hours of an agent's attempt to stop a terrorist plot while caught up in a conflict between government agencies.Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 6-DEC-2005
Media Type: DVD
Oh boy. Here we go again! Just another exciting day in the life of 24 super-agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland). The season kicks off with a deadly terrorist strike resulting in the kidnapping of his new boss, the U.S. Secretary of Defense James Heller (William Devane). Although a fired, ex-employee of the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU), it is no surprise who is going to shift into full gear to bring the terrorists to justice. However, it doesn't take the super-agent long to discover the kidnapping of his boss is part of a much larger plan, master-minded by Habib Marvan (Arnold Vosloh) the middle eastern terrorist cell leader the US government has been trying to track down for years. Considered by many to be the best season of the first four, 24 - Season 4 is a definite departure from the first three seasons. First, the cast is almost entirely new. Second, the pacing of each episode does not seem as frantic. There appears to be a shift from the reliance on plot-shifting cliff hangers (which in some ways dragged down the quality of Season 3), to a focus on complex, over-arcing, multiple storylines, albeit very violent. What may be missing in superficial action clichés is definitely compensated for in a richer plot. That's not to say the show has slowed down; it's still amped up beyond anything else on TV, but compared to the previous seasons, 24 has gotten a lot smarter, and in turn, better. --Rob Bracco
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