Top 10 24 hotties: 10-7

10. Michelle Dessler (Reiko Aylesworth)

Reiko Aylesworth

Michelle appeared in four series of the show before being killed off in a dramatic first episode in season 5.

She first appeared in season 2, working with Chief of Staff Tony Almeida at Counter Terrorist Unit Los Angeles (CTU) who later marry, which we find out in season 3.

Michelle does not appear at first in season 4 but comes in later as director of CTU after she has split from Tony, but the stresses and strains of the day pull the pair back together.

But their future looks bleak when Tony is held hostage after Mandy demands to let her escape, otherwise Tony dies.

But Jack figures out Mandy’s ploy and manages to save Tony.

9. Audrey Raines (Kim Raver)

Kim Raver

Audrey is the daughter of Secretary of State James Heller and first appears in season 4 as his Senior Policy Analyst.

She becomes romantically involved with Jack, in what becomes a love triangle with her husband Paul.

But after Jack’s faked death, which she takes hard, she feels guilty about finishing the relationship.

Season 5 reignites her feelings for Jack after she finds out he is still alive.

At the end of the day the pair share a passionate kiss, but Jack has ‘received’ a call from his daughter Kim but Chinese officials carry him away.

In season 6 Jack is told by Marilyn Bauer that she had died in a car accident in China trying to find him, but later in the day a phone comes in and it is Audrey, before Cheng Zhi takes the phone off of her and tells Jack if he doesn’t get a component Audrey dies!

Jack gets the component and launches a special mission to keep the component and get Audrey back but Cheng ends up with the component although Audrey is with CTU.

Her father takes her home before Jack tracks them down and insists on taking her with him but once he saw her he decided they can no longer be together.

8. Samantha Roth (Carly Pope)

Carly Pope

Plays the girlfriend of Roger Taylor in 24: Redemption and season 7 before he is killed.

Roger’s father Henry feels she is hiding something from her about his death but after telling Henry documents had been forged to say Roger had committed suicide she is killed in her apartment by Agent Brian Gedge with Henry trying to warn her despite being paralyzed by Gedge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. Marilyn Bauer (Rena Sofer)

Rena Sofer

Marilyn is the wife of Graem Bauer and appears in season 6.

She is shocked to find out about his involvement in the nuclear explosion that happened earlier in the day.

She was then threatened by Jack’s dad Phillip and ordered to take Jack to a false address where they was an explosion.

Just as she feels it is over her son Josh is captured by the Chinese who have infiltrated CTU with Phillip Bauer still involved.

Phillip had taken Josh now as an ultimatum between her son and a circuit board would ultimately lead to a war between the US and Russia.

CTU track down where Phillip has taken Josh and the government order an air strike to prevent the war.

And just in the nick of time Bill Buchanan and Jack saved Josh much to Marilyn’s relief.

Find out nummbers 3-6 later today!

Season 6 as it happened

Main cast of Season 6 of 24

Season 6 deals with terrorist Abu Fayed, and his intention to detonate a series of nuclear bombs across the United States.

Jack has been under Chinese arrest since the end of season 5 but he is released after now President, Wayne Palmer, former President David’s brother agrees with Fayed to exchange Bauer for Hamri-Al-Assad who CTU believe to be the main person behind these threats.

But Jack finds out Al-Assad is actually trying to stop the attacks and after escaping he rescues Assad before stopping a subway bombing.

CTU then realise that these previous attacks before are just there to distract them from his main objective of the nuclear bombs.

Manning feels Assad still has something to do with the attacks, and Jack ends up killing him otherwise they will lose their only real chance of catching Fayed.

But one bomb is detonated, killing an initial 12,000 in Valencia, north of Los Angeles.

Phillip Bauer

Former President, Charles Logan is then brought into the day’s events after Bauer realised his dad and brother Phillip and Graem are behind the attacks.

Logan insists his links with the Russians can lead them to Dmitri Gredenko, a name given by Al-Assad.

Many are not pleased by President Palmer’s reaction after asking Assad to make a speech to his people, and his deputy Chief Head of Staff plans to assassinate the President and frame Al-Assad.

But Chief of Staff Tom Lennox tries to stop the attempt but fails and President Palmer is left in a bad state, with Assad dead as well.

Vice President Noah Daniels steps in with Palmer unable to continue.

Logan’s contact fails to give him Gredenko so Jack resorts to breaking into the Russian Consulate and forces Anatoly Markov to reveal Gredenko’s whereabouts

However Jack is then arrested as he tries to tell CTU, but when he does tell them he is too late and a drone is released, but fortunately a breach in CTU enables them to locate the drone and Jack crash lands it.

Jack then learns the shocking truth about Audrey Raines and Palmer’s sister Sandra gives her consent to bring President Palmer out of his coma.

Gredenko then dies after originally planning to help CTU, but warns Fayed about their involvement, although he is killed by Bauer who then finds two of the remaining nukes.

The Chinese then call with news that Audrey is alive and Jack is forced to nick a Russian circuit board, but is soon captured.  Bauer asks for assistance from President Palmer who agrees but then collapses, allowing Daniels charge again, and reversing Palmer’s decision forcing Jack to go dark.

The exchange of the circuit board and Audrey does not go to plan as although Audrey is handed off to CTU, Cheng Zhi makes off with the circuit board.

Nadia watches over Milo after he has just been shot

CTU is then infiltrated by the Chinese who kill Milo after he sticks up for Nadir and Josh is taken hostage by them.

Phillip Bauer has a deal to trade in the circuit board for Josh but Jack manages to kill all the Chinese and save the kid.

But Phillip then decides to offer the same deal to the White House which they agree to.

Jack finds out about the deal and realises his dad will never give up the board for Josh and persuades Karen Hayes for help, from her husband Bill Buchanan.

Phillip passes a bomb off as a decoy and manages to get Josh, whilst a strike is ordered on the oil rig he and Josh are on.

Jack and Bill get to the oil rig and manage to save Josh after he has shot Phillip, as well as capturing Cheng.

Jack does not go back to CTU as he talks to Audrey, resting at home with her dad James and tries to persuade himself and her father he is able to look after her, but after some thinking time he realise he is unable to offer her stability and kisses her goodbye for one last time.

Jack who? : Day 4 as it happened

Season 4 is set 18 months after Season 3 and sees Jack no longer working for CTU after he was fired for his heroin addiction.

Jack's new love: Audrey Raines

At the start of the series Bauer is working for Secretary of Defence James Heller, alongside Heller’s daughter Audrey Raines with doubles up as Jack’s lover and her father’s chief policy assistant.

The first action sees Heller abducted by terrorists when he attempts to visit his son Richard.  It later turns out that his phone was tampered with which allowed the terrorists to learn his father’s every move.  Their execution was planned to be shown live on the internet but CTU are able to rescue them before it takes place.

Jack enlists the help of former colleague Tony Almeida who his split from wife Michelle Dessler.  Almeida helps Jack find the Araz’s, who form part of a splinter cell and feature heavily in the days events.  Once captured Tony takes charge of Dina and Behrooz Araz.

Erin Driscoll is the head of CTU, but her personal life gets in the way of the job as her terminally-ill daughter takes a turn for the worse whilst the operation to stop the terrorists is continuing, and after her daughter dies, Secretary Heller calls for  Michelle Dessler to take charge, much to Tony’s anger.

Unusually the series only deals with one villain, Habib Marwan, who has used an alias to work at a defence contractor McLennan-Forester, and before Jack and Audrey’s husband Paul Raines can get to the cause of it employees for the contractor activate an EMP which completely losses vital data they need on Marwan.

This allows Marwan to steal a stealth fighter which shoots down Air Force One which is carrying President Keeler, who is too badly injured to continue in office, with Vice President Charles Logan elevated.

Marwan is able to get hold off the nuclear football which is normally secured on Air Force One.  The football is usually used by the President to authorise a nuclear attack but now Marwan has these details he will be able to use it against America.

Bauer then decides to leave CTU to pursue a witness but whilst he gets the details he needs he is then ordered to be arrested after President Logan is outraged at Jack for taking it into his own hands.

Jack again risks everything by going to the Chinese consulate and although he gets his informant he is injured in the process, as well as the Chinese consul being killed in friendly fire. He faces a difficult choice to keep him alive, but it is at the expense of Paul Raines much to Audrey’s anger.

The Chinese grow every more suspicious about the raid on their consul and launch an investigation which in the end leads back to Jack.

A villain from series 1 and 2 Mandy appears to be working with Marwan and takes Tony hostage as they try to capture her, but Jack ends up catching her, before being promised immunity if she divulges Marwan’s location.

Jack chases after Marwan, but rather than be captured he decides to commit suicide.  But CTU are able to locate a missile on course for Los Angeles via Marwan’s PDA.

To escape arrest from the Chinese Jack is helped by his old faithful, Tony, Michelle, Chloe to fake his own death before assuming a new identity and beginning a new life.

Bauer leaves for a new life