 Season 5: 18 Months have passed since Jack Bauer stole away across the train tracks after faking his own death. He s now living a quiet life in Bakersfield California, with a new love interest and her teenage son. But when a terrorist sniper s bullet kills one of his dearest friends, Jack Bauer cocks his gun and heads back to Los Angeles, and another day of work as America s most dangerous counter-terrorist agent.