Season 5

The fifth season of 24 follows the 5th day in Jack Bauer's life. The season premiered with 2 episodes in the US on the 15th of January 2006 with 2 more hours being shown on the 16th of January. The rest of the season will air in a regular timeslot of 9 p.m. ET every Monday.

In the United Kingdom, two episodes aired on Sunday 12th Febuary 2006 on Sky One and the rest of the season will air with one epsiode every Sunday night at 9pm on that chennel.

Backstory
Season five of "24" will picks up 18 months after Season 4's end, with the presumed-dead Jack Bauer living under the false identity of Frank Flynn with a woman (Connie Britton) and her son (Brady Corbet).

Season 5 Plot
After Season 4, Jack Bauer will be settling into his new life after having to fake his own death. Bauer returns to the CTU to deal with Season 5's a plot involving Russians and a stockpile of nerve gas. There were rumours that a Main Character would be killed off in the first three episodes. The rumors proved to be true when David Palmer was assassinated in the first five minutes of the first episode, then Michelle Dessler was killed by a car bomb minutes later that also almost killed Tony Almeida.

Main Cast

 * Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer
 * James Morrison as Bill Buchanan
 * Mary Lynn Rajskub as Chloe O'Brian
 * Kim Raver as Audrey Raines
 * Roger R. Cross as Curtis Manning
 * Louis Lombardi as Edgar Stiles
 * Gregory Itzin as President Charles Logan
 * Jean Smart as Martha Logan

Recurring stars:
 * Jude Ciccolella as Mike Novick
 * Glenn Morshower as Aaron Pierce
 * John Allen Nelson as Walt Cummings
 * Peter Weller as Christopher Henderson
 * Julian Sands as Vladimir Bierko
 * Jonah Lotan as Spencer Wolff
 * Connie Britton as Diane Huxley
 * Brady Corbet as Derek Huxley
 * Sandrine Holt as Evelyn
 * Nick Jameson as Yuri Subarov
 * Sean Astin as Lynn McGill
 * Carlos Bernard as Tony Almeida
 * Elisha Cuthbert as Kimberly Bauer
 * Alex Kuznetsov as Ostroff
 * Danielle Burgio as Carrie Bendis
 * Ray Wise as Vice President Hal Gardner
 * C. Thomas Howell as Barry Landes

Episodes

 * 1. 7:00am-8:00am
 * 2. 8:00am-9:00am
 * 3. 9:00am-10:00am
 * 4. 10:00am-11:00am
 * 5. 11:00am-12:00pm
 * 6. 12:00pm-1:00pm
 * 7. 1:00pm-2:00pm
 * 8. 2:00pm-3:00pm
 * 9. 3:00pm-4:00pm
 * 10. 4:00pm-5:00pm
 * 11. 5:00pm-6:00pm
 * 12. 6:00pm-7:00pm
 * 13. 7:00pm-8:00pm
 * 14. 8:00pm-9:00pm
 * 15. 9:00pm-10:00pm
 * 16. 10:00pm-11:00pm
 * 17. 11:00pm-12:00am
 * 18. 12:00am-1:00am
 * 19. 1:00am-2:00am
 * 20. 2:00am-3:00am
 * 21. 3:00am-4:00am
 * 22. 4:00am-5:00am
 * 23. 5:00am-6:00am
 * 24. 6:00am-7:00am