Season / Day Six Cast of "24"
Warning: Spoilers in Inviso-text (highlight to reveal).
Season Six overview (thru April 2, 2007)
Season Six (2007) is set 20 months after season five. Show designers acknowledge that it should technically take place in January, 2013, but also that this is partially incorrect, as they avoid the use of dates in order to have the show remain in a "perpetual now".[1] Even though the phones in CTU show this, Wayne Palmer acknowledges that he has been president for a little over three months, and according to years past, the real date should be May, 2011.
After the events in season five and over the last 11 weeks before Day 6, the United States has been targeted coast-to-coast in a series of suicide bombings including a train bombing in Atlanta, casino bombing in Las Vegas, park bombing in Phoenix, hospital bombing in Detroit, a mall bombing in Baltimore, office building bombing in San Jose, hotel bombing in Chicago, a taxi bomb in New York City, bus bombing in Los Angeles, bombing at the airport in St. Louis and street bombs in San Antonio, Milwaukee, and Portland, Oregon. President Wayne Palmer has negotiated the release of Jack Bauer from a Chinese prison, under "high-price" terms that have not been revealed. A man by the name of Hamri Al-Assad is believed to be behind the attacks. A man named Abu Fayed agrees to give the U.S. the location of Assad in exchange for $25 million and Jack Bauer. Jack is turned over, but Fayed tells Jack that he is behind the attacks, not Assad. In fact, Assad is trying to stop them. Jack escapes, and tries to warn the President before Assad is killed, but Palmer refuses to abort the air attack. Jack quickly rescues Assad shortly before the attack.
Assad and Jack then work together, stopping a suicide bombing in the Los Angeles subway and tracking a suspect that they thought would lead them to Fayed, but didn't. Instead, he leads them to a computer that contained information that said that Fayed is planning to detonate nuclear weapons in the U.S. Curtis Manning appears and prepares to take Assad back to CTU. Jack then finds out that Curtis wants revenge against Assad and Jack is forced to kill Curtis to save Assad. Distraught at being forced to kill his friend, Jack collapses and vomits. He calls Bill Buchanan at CTU and quits.
The terrorists detonate a nuclear bomb in Valencia, California. The nuclear explosion is visible to Jack as he is lying on the ground, still sick over being forced to kill Curtis. It isn't long before Jack realizes that he wants to save lives and gets back on the job that would eventually lead him to his brother, Graem Bauer, and his father, Phillip Bauer. Jack would eventually follow more leads and stop another nuclear bomb from going off in Los Angeles. Jack now has the task of locating and disarming the remaining nuclear bombs. As of episode 16, two nuclear bombs are successful intercepted or disarmed by CTU.
[edit] Major Plots
Episodes 1-4: Jack Bauer, after being taken prisoner by China 20 months earlier, is released from China under a deal bargained by President Wayne Palmer. Jack is immediately asked to sacrifice himself to Abu Fayed, who has offered CTU Hamri Al-Assad, who is believed to be the terrorist mastermind behind the suicide bombings of the last 11 weeks, in exchange for Bauer. Bauer finds out however, the Assad is actually trying to stop the attacks, and Fayed is the true mastermind. Bauer escapes, rescues Assad, and then prevents a subway bombing in Los Angeles. Bauer & CTU then find out that the bombings of recent weeks were all designed to deviate the United States from Fayed's true objective: the detonation of 5 nuclear bombs across the United States. At the end of the fourth episode, one bomb is detonated in northern L.A.
Episodes 5-11: Jack discovers that his father, Philip Bauer, and his brother Graem Bauer, are involved in the plot. He also finds out that they were connected to the events that happened 20 months ago. After locating and diffusing one of the remaining bombs, Jack successfully rescues his nephew, Josh, from his father (who killed Graem). Philip escapes, but leaves Jack a lead to call former President Charles Logan. President Logan leads Jack to the Russian Consulate General, Anatoly Markov. Assad manages to lead CTU to Dmitri Gredenko, who provided Fayed with the bombs and is planning to arm RK-2 Arieal Drones with the three remaining bombs to attack the United States.
Assassination attempt on President Wayne Palmer: Back at the White House, President Palmer refuses to implement security measures that would suspend civil liberties, refuses to take military action against countries believed to support the attacks, and allows a former terrorist (Assad) to make a speech to the world asking people to give the U.S. information and move towards peace. As a result, Deputy Chief of Staff Reed Pollock devises a plan to assassinate the President and frame Hamri Al-Assad for the attack. Chief of Staff Tom Lennox tries to prevent the attack, but he is unsuccessful. The President's podium explodes at the end of the 11th hour, killing Assad and leaving Palmer unconscious.
Episodes 12-16: Vice President Noah Daniels assumes the powers of commander-in-chief and immediately implements the security measures and threatens to attack the Middle-Eastern country that Assad & Fayed are residents of. When Logan fails to blackmail Markov successfully into giving up Gredenko, Jack takes Markov hostage inside the Russian consulate and extracts the information himself. Jack is captured soon after discovering Gredenko & Fayed's location. President Logan convinces his ex-wife Martha to call the Russian First Lady, Anna Suvarov, who convinces Russian President Yuri Suvarov to authorize CTU action against the consulate. Jack immediately gives CTU the location of Gredenko, but it is too late, as one drone has already been launched and heads towards San Francisco. CTU manages to locate the drone pilot through a security breach at CTU (for which Nadia Yassir is blamed for, but later cleared), and Jack manages to crash land the drone. However, the bomb's nuclear core is compromised in the crash landing, releasing radiation. Daniels uses this as reasoning to launch a nuclear strike against the Middle-East. Sandra Palmer gives consent to wake President Palmer, who stops the attack and successfully fends off a challenge for the presidency by Daniels, but then, on adrenaline, he orders the attack. Jack Bauer & CTU capture Gredenko (who later apparently dies) and Fayed, but are still looking for the bombs.
[edit] Sub-plots
Abu Fayed tries to get his revenge on Jack Bauer for torturing and killing his brother. He is currently captured by CTU.
The bad relationship between National Security Advisor Karen Hayes and Chief of Staff Thomas Lennox forces Karen to resign. Karen later withdraws her resignation after the assassination attempt on President Palmer. Somewhat ironically, Hayes and Lennox find themselves allied with each other in opposition to Vice President Daniels' plans to launch nuclear weapons, though Hayes' opposition to Daniels' actions is apparently stronger. Their conflict ends when they agree to a truce after teaming up together to keep President Palmer in office.
The bad relationship between Morris O'Brian and Milo Pressman; each had been involved with Chloe O'Brian, and Morris ends up with her.
Former terrorist Hamri Al-Assad is accused of being the one detonating all of the bombs when he is really being framed and trying to create peace. He is later killed during an assassination attempt on President Palmer.
Jack Bauer is emotionally depleted after enduring 20 months of torture in China which ended just hours before Day 6 begins.
Walid Al-Rezani, boyfriend of Sandra Palmer (David and Wayne's sister), spies for the FBI inside a detention center in Washington D.C., only to be beaten and hospitalized for nothing as the suspected inmates are merely spectators.
The mysterious apparent mastermind who was seen - but not previously identified - as being behind the events of Day 5 of 24, turns out to be Jack's brother, Graem Bauer. He is killed later by his father Philip Bauer.
Phillip Bauer, Jack's father, mysteriously - but apparently intentionally - disappeared the day before the nuclear explosion in L.A. Phillip may have maintained ties with BXJ, the company from which the suitcase nukes were garnered. As a result, his affiliation with the terrorists is suspect. After killing his son Graem (to prevent him from breaking under interrogation) and trying to kill Jack, it is later revealed that he was behind Day 5's events. After closing in to kill Jack, Phillip escapes - inexplicably leaving a lead for Jack - and is still at large.
President Wayne Palmer rejects Thomas Lennox's executive orders for federal intervention in suspecting Muslim communities in front of the entire Cabinet.
Marilyn Bauer having mixed feelings when Graem Bauer dies as she has been trying to leave him for years, and appears to still have feelings for Jack, with whom she had a prior relationship.
Morris O'Brian being emotionally depleted and mired in self-pity after being tortured by Abu Fayed and forced to program a device that can arm the remaining nukes, tempting him to start drinking again. When Chloe discovers this, she is angry and horrified, but agrees not to have him relieved of duty. He later suppresses his habit by disposing his drink and focusing back on his work.
President Palmer's Deputy Chief of Staff Reed Pollock and his associate Bruce Carson plot to assassinate President Wayne Palmer using a cassette player bomb and frame Hamri Al-Assad for the deadly act. Pollock claims that Vice President Noah Daniels is not involved with the assassination plot.
Chief of Staff Thomas Lennox pretends to join them, and Pollock discovers him attempting to warn the Secret Service, so he kidnaps Lennox. Lennox pretends again to go along with the plotters and is released after the assassination attempt, but quickly turns in the two political operatives as well as himself. He is later reinstated by Vice President Noah Daniels.
President Palmer survives the blast, but is at least temporarily unable to continue his executive duties, so Vice-President Noah Daniels takes over. He later resumes his presidential duties when he is waken from his coma and stops Daniels from launching a nuclear strike against Assad's country.
Former President Charles Logan claims he has information about Dmitri Gredenko's whereabouts through the Russian Consulate in Los Angeles. With President Wayne Palmer's approval, he is temporarily released in Jack's custody and will help Jack to obtain the information on Gredenko's location. After failing to obtain the information he needs through Anatoly Markov, he turns to his ex-wife Martha Logan for help.
Martha Logan is romantically involved with ex-Secret Service agent Aaron Pierce. She has had some kind of psychological breakdown since her divorce from the former President.
Vice President Noah Daniels attempts to convince Lennox to suppress information about who was behind the assassination attempt and to lie to Hamri Al-Assad's country, telling them that it was Assad who planted the bomb to kill Palmer, in order to further Lennox's homeland security plan. Although hesitant, Lennox listens to Daniels to protect his job and lies to Assad's country's ambassador, causing Daniels to threaten them with a nuclear strike if they don't help with stopping Abu Fayed.
The bad relationship between Milo Pressman and Mike Doyle stems from their previous association in Denver. Nadia says that Doyle enjoys hurting people during her interrogation, which might be the source of their conflict. Their conflict is later resolved, however, when Doyle hands the evidence that prove Nadia's innocence back to CTU.
During the tense reunion between Charles Logan and his ex-wife Martha Logan, she becomes emotionally unstable and stabs Logan in the chest with a kitchen knife, critically injuring him or perhaps killing him.
Jack is told by Marilyn Bauer that Audrey Raines has died in a car accident in China when she was attempting to secure his release. Jack doesn't believe that it was an accident and vows to find out the truth after this crisis is over. Chloe tells him that DNA samples were sent to China to help identify the remains but has no official confirmation of this.
The trust between Abu Fayed and Dmitri Gredenko diminishes after Anatoly Markov's cover was blown, and the drone failed to reach its target. This leads Fayed to pull a gun on Gredenko, but he puts it down after realizing that Gredenko is the only one who can help him detonate the remaining bombs. Gredenko is dead after Fayed amputates his arm to try to avoid CTU detection. Nevertheless, Fayed is captured by CTU.
Though President Palmer is out of the coma, he still appears weak. So he orders Dr. Welton to inject him with adrenaline.
[edit] Preview
A 10-minute preview of Season 6 of 24 is available on the Season 5 DVD. The clip begins with a recap of Jack's capture at the end of season 5 before cutting to him now being held captive by the Chinese, 7 months later at an unidentified location. He is being tortured by several guards who inform Cheng Zhi that they are still unable to extract information from him regarding a Chinese government agent who they believe is working for the United States. Frustrated at his unwillingness to speak, the guards throw him back into his cell.
Shortly thereafter, two American covert-ops soldiers break into the complex, killing a guard, in order to free Bauer from his cell. They lead him through an outdoor complex, to a concealed vehicle nearby. After a brief chase, they come to a dark field where the men tell Jack that they will have a transport ready to pick him up shortly. The two soldiers then summon a man by the name of Hong Wai, who had been concealed in the shadows of the field, to greet Jack. Hong Wai is immediately recognizable as one of the men that Jack had been questioned about earlier, regarding the mole in their government.
As Jack flinches in recognition of Hong, several flood lights come on, and Chinese military vehicles swarm on the scene. Cheng Zhi walks into the field and thanks Bauer for his help in identifying Hong, whom he had apparently suspected all along. Zhi then executes Hong with a single shot to the head, and thanks the covert-ops agents for their role in the set-up, promising them that money will be transferred to their Swiss bank accounts. The guards are then ordered to return Jack to his cell where he will continue to be held prisoner.
Incidentally, this is the only sequence of 24 not exclusively utilizing the real time aspect of the show, with the possible exception of the flashback at the end of Day 1.
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland (Jack Bauer), Tzi Ma (Cheng Zhi), and John Koyoma (Hong Wai).
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