Season 7

Cast of Season 7

Season 7 sees Jack staring the day being questioned for his actions of torture to stop the terrorist attacks. With CTU disbanded, the FBI become the focus of the series as they firstly attempt to locate Tony Almeida, who is thought to be one of the terrorists.

But it turns out Tony is working undercover with Bill Buchanan and Chloe O’Brian to expose a government conspiracy involving the CIP device.

Tony and Jack now work together with David Emerson and are given the task of kidnapping Sangala Prime Minister Motobo, whilst elsewhere the President’s husband Henry Taylor finds out from that his son, Roger was actually killed after meeting with his girlfriend Samantha Roth, but it killed by Agent Brian Gedge before she reveals anything, whilst Henry has been paralysed by Gedge, before he manages to kill Gedge.

Renee is then captured by Emerson’s team, before Emerson pulls a gun on Bauer, forcing Tony to kill Emerson. Jack then manages to rescue the Matobos and damage the CIP device as well as killing all of Ike Debaku’s men.

Henry Taylor

But Debaku captures Henry Taylor and before being able to rescue him he is shot by one of Debaku’s men.

The president now calls for her daughter and Renee learns about the planned attack on The White House with General Juma. President Taylor is then escorted to the safe room in the White House with Bill diverting Juma’s men given them enough time to get to the room. Juma forces President Taylor to come out with the threat on Olivia’s life.

Buchanan sacrifices his own life for the cause and Juma is soon killed after the explosion by Bauer.

Then in Jack’s hopes of tracking down the real people behind the attack he is framed for the murder of Senator Blaine Mayer and Ryan Burnett.

Olivia forced Ethan Kanin to resign and she becomes temporary Chief of Staff before leaking information to the press who force Olivia to divulge more than she wants to , forcing her to protect herself after having sex with a news reporter only in it for his own gain.

Whilst trying to find the bio weapon Jack is exposed before Starkwood gain control of it, pretending to help Tony with Jonas Hodges’ assistant Greg Seaton giving him a location of the bio weapon, which turns out to be false and diverts CTU’s attention.

They end up finding the bio weapon and President Taylor orders an air strike on Starkwood but Hodges bribes his way into a meeting with Taylor after threatening to release them on his own country.

Larry Moss

Hodges and Seaton are arrested after Tony manages to destroy the missiles and pathogen, but we find out Tony is again bad after he allows Galvez to leave the area with one remaining canister of the pathogen , and ultimately kills Larry Moss.

Kim Bauer comes back into the series after learning about her dad’s exposure to the pathogen and offers to help but he refuses.

Tony uses the country’s weakness to offer the people behind the attack the opportunity to release it today whilst the country is struggling.

Hodges is then killed, after his failed attempt to commit suicide and his witness protection turns into a disaster when he is killed ultimately by Olivia Taylor who wants revenge for the death of her brother.

Jack and Renee then learn of Tony’s connections with a Muslim who he has coerced into taking the blame for the proposed attack. They are able to stop the attack but after arresting Tony Jack is forced to help release Tony otherwise Kim will be killed. But Kim manages to survive the attack and gains information to locate the conspirators. Jack is recaptured by Tony and forced to wear a bomb when Almeida meets up Alan Wilson, the man behind the attack today, and behind his wife Michelle Dessler’s death, and his unborn son.

At the White House Olivia is forced to admit all to her mother after Ethan Kanin and Aaron Pierce find information about her connections with killing Hodges. Jack then deteriorates and is induced into a coma, before Kim comes into the hospital and decides she cannot allow him to die and volunteers to undergo a stem cell procedure that could save her father’s life.

All in a day for Frank Flynn: 24 Season 5

David Palmer

Bang! You hardly get yourselves going in season five, and two of the characters you have watched on screen are dead.  Former President David Palmer is dead, as well as Michelle Dessler.  This forces Jack back into action, after taking up the name of Frank Flynn working as a day-to-day labourer.

The day starts off with President Charles Logan set to sign anti-terrorism alliance treaty with Russian President Yuri Suvarov. The motive for the days events seem to hang on this as Russian rebels feel this will increase the suffering of their people.

Bauer is framed for these murders but also the attempted murders of close pal Tony Almeida and his trustworthy CTU analyst Chloe O’Brian.

Whilst under the alias of Frank Flynn he boards with a mother and her son, Derek, who gets involved in the days events at the Ontario Airport as he and 39 other are held hostage.

But this plot is only a diversion for the terrorists lead by Vladimir Bierko to steal 20 canisters of Sentox Nerve gas with it being deployed in several locations, namely killing 40% of CTU including the death of a loveable old chap called Edgar Styles, how could they kill off Edgar? Oh and CTU director Lynn McGill (not loved as much!).  The other targets included Sunrises Hill Shopping Centre, Tyler Memorial Hospital and the Wilshire Gas Company, but deaths are kept to a low by CTU and the efforts of Curtis Manning with Bierko captures in the end.

The nerve gas is traced back to a company called Omicron International to a former ally of Jack’s and CTU agent Christopher Henderson and Bauer managed to capture him.

But whilst CTU is still struggling in the aftermath of the Sentox gas attack Henderson is able to escape and ‘kill’ Tony Almeida.

Jack now goes on the rampage to try and find out who is responsible and after help from Wayne Palmer, President David’s brother and First Lady Martha Logan’s special assistant it leads to President Logan, who has a private group following his every move and led by a person known as “Graem” , who later turn out to be Bauer’s brother.

Bauer finds a recording that will nail Logan but it gets into the wrong hands and a Homeland Security member of staff, who have taken over CTU due to the attack, uses it for his own personal gain and hands it back to President Logan.

Bierko escapes CTU and uses a last remaining nerve gas cylinder on a submarine with 12 missiles capable of destroying seven blocks.

Henderson works with Bauer to capture the vessel and manages to kill Bierko and his men on board the submarine, and in the end kills Henderson.

Jack now sets his sights on Logan and after kidnapping the president he tries to force the truth out of him, little does Logan know that Bauer had placed a recording device on his pen and he later confesses to his wife Martha and is then arrested.

But this is not all!  The Chinese have learnt Jack is still alive after the killing of the consul in season four and they capture him in the hope he reveals U.S Government and military tactics to the Chinese. Will he? Wont he? You’ll soon find out!

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