I would have loved to see a show about Jack getting out of China. Even if it involved Audrey (who apparently was in China trying to get Jack out).
The only good thing about this season is that I’ve been able to cheer for the bad guys. Well, not quite, but I hardly felt bad when they nuked LA, or when they tried to blow up the President. I didn’t mind the former President’s problem with his wife either.
And this is the first season when I’ve felt Jack didn’t go far enough questioning people, instead of the other way around.
For me, the show reached a low when, only a few hours after Jack had to kill one of his best friends to save a terrorist who would “help them”, that terrorist was then killed off without ever having provided any help at all, making Curtis’ death meaningless.
Maybe I’m reading too much into the program but from season one, what I took as the underlying theme in all the episodes was corruption. Palmer’s wife is corrupt, two CTU agents were corrupt, Mason is possibly corrupted, and the little things Palmer’s Chief of Staff and others get him to do, are little baby steps leading to corruption.