If Keifer Sutherland’s interview with the British newspaper The Observer is to be believed, Jack Bauer could be having a very different day starting in January 2007:
AMERICA will have to save itself.Terrorist fighter Jack Bauer will be too busy trying to save his own butt in the sixth season of “24,” Kiefer Sutherland revealed Sunday in an interview with a British newspaper.
“We’ve had five years of him saving a large thing,” Sutherland, 39, told The Observer. “This one’s much more about him saving his own [expletive deleted]. He’ll go from being the one who hunts people down to the one who’s being hunted, so that in itself turns the show around.”
When Season Five of “24″ ended on Fox May 22, Bauer (Sutherland) was last seen on a freighter bound for Shanghai, a captive of Chinese government agents.
Sutherland’s statements to the Observer indicate that Bauer’s efforts to escape will loom large in the coming season of “24,” which returns in January.
That could make for a very interesting plot. Jack, apparently on the run from the Chinese and largely on his own while his fellow fighters at CTU-Los Angeles deal with a terrorist threat and try to help him at the same time. My only hope is that they find a way to keep Charles and Martha Logan around.
The intreview also revealed two other things:
Jack Bauer has killed 112 people in the five seasons of “24,” including 44 in Season Four – the most of any season.
Only 112 ? It certainly seems like its been more.
Twenty lead characters have been killed off in the five seasons of “24,” the story said, and only four actors have appeared in all five seasons.
Besides Sutherland, they are Carlos Bernard, Dennis Haysbert (both of whose characters – Tony Almeida and President David Palmer, respectively – were killed off in Season Five) and Glenn Morshower, who plays Secret Service agent Aaron Pierce.
And, of those, only Jack and Aaron are left.
