...President Charles Logan. At the end of the episode, after Jack rescues Evelyn and her kidnapped 8-year-old daughter Amy, we see Logan talking to Henderson on the phone. That explains the "unexpected twist" referred to in the Episode 5.17 press release; Jack had thought the VP was the mastermind.

Since all of CTU was fired except for Chloe, who was kept around by Audrey, who can Jack trust other than the two of them and Wayne and Aaron? Sorry, but five people aren't enough to bring down the president, even if one of them is Jack Bauer.

Then again, we have Martha Mitchell Logan. Would she turn on her husband if she knew her husband was guilty? The real Martha Mitchell did; she told reporters about the involvement of her husband John (Nixon's Attorney General) in the Watergate cover-up. Would Martha Logan do the same thing?

You can't just arrest the president, though. Or even the VP. Even when AG Elliot Richardson (Mitchell's successor) has incontrovertable evidence that VP Spiro Agnew had been taking bribes during his entire term of office, he agreed to let Agnew resign rather than prosecute him, as long as Agnew pled guilty to a bribery charge in court. But the charges against Logan (conspiracy to commit mass murder, and premeditated murder) are much, much more serious. So serious, in fact, that they're impossible to take seriously -- but we don't need to take them seriously in 24-land. We just need to go with the flow.

So, even if Evelyn has incontrovertable proof of Logan's nefarious activity, and even if Heller agrees to help his daughter and Jack instead of the President, there's a long way to go to get to a resolution -- which wouldn't be reached by 7 AM no matter how good Jack's evidence is.

As for the discussion above, I think this will tie back to the moneyed interests discussed in season 1 that initially supported Palmer.

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