Jack's back for a fifth season of '24'
Fast-paced show starts new year Sunday
Thursday, January 12, 2006; Posted: 3:42 p.m. EST (20:42 GMT)
Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland, as Jack Bauer, is about to go through another wringer in "24."
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Jack Bauer has been through hell and it's starting to show.
Over the last four years -- one day at a time -- the superhero of Fox's "24" has saved humanity from terrorists, beaten confessions out of close friends, battled heroin addiction, discovered his murdered wife's body, and, last year, even faked his own death. All with little regard for himself.
But now, as the hit series starts up its fifth season with a two-night, four-part marathon (Sunday and Monday, 8 o'clock, EST) , the stress on Bauer, an agent for the fictional federal Counter-Terrorist Unit (CTU), is finally taking its toll.
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