First off, props to Amazon for getting 24 Season 4 to me the day of release, and with free USPS shipping at that. I got Season 3 as well.
I got the box open and there was a big red sticker on it indicating a Season 5 prequel. I ripped off the plastic and watched it immediately.
It's the first seven minutes or so prior to the start of the new season. Jack is sporting a mullet and in Chicago, driving a Toyota (because they sponsored the prequel). He pulls off into this warehouse area, where another car, a Prius pulls up. Out comes Chloe, warning Jack that she's pretty sure someone figured out she messed with his autopsy results, which would obviously mean that he's not dead.
Chloe leaves, and a shadowy figure on a motorcycle shows up, and someone in a BMW gives chase. There's a car chase, with one of the best endings of a car chase I've seen in awhile. Thus, the next season is set up. Season 4 ended with Jack faking his own death (with help) because he led a clandestine mission into a Chinese embassy where one of the guards was killed (not by the American team, but his own contemporary). Naturally since it wasn't officially sanctioned he had to be turned over to the Chinese, and so he "died" instead.
This is one of the best shows on TV. Hard to believe I have to wait more than a month for it to start again!
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