Top 10 villains 10-7

Follow my search for the top 10 24 villains ever to have graced our screens,  here is numbers 10 to 7.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Blackthorne

10. Stephen Saunders (Paul Blackthorne)

Saunders was responsible for releasing the Cordilla virus in the Chandler Plaza Hotel in Season 3, which led to the death of many guests as well as Gael Ortega, a CTU agent who tried to stop it spreading through the hotel.

Saunders gave President Palmer a series of demands but he refused to on one occasion, after Saunders wanted a list of all undercover agents abroad.

 He rescinded his order to release the virus in San Francisco after he received a call from his daughter Jane, who had been captured by CTU.

Although captured he said if there was no communication between him and his men the virus would still be released.

That was until Jack Bauer threatened him with putting Jane into the hotel infected.

Whilst identifying the final courier of the virus he was shot dead by the widow of Gael Ortega.

But Bauer and Chase Edmunds found a lead with  Arthur Rabens, who was at school and after being found Chase beat down Rabens, but only after he had attached the virus to his hand, leaving Jack the task of cutting it off and putting it in fridge where the virus was released without any casualties.

9. Ira Gaines (Michael Massee)

Michael Massee

Gaines was put in charge by Andre Drazen to oversee the assassination of Presidential Candidate David Palmer and frame Jack Bauer for the murder in the first season of 24.

He had a lot of hired help throughout the day’s events which started with the capture of Kim Bauer as well as Mandy who captured Martin Belkin’s ID card and Jonathan Matijevich, who was to become Martin Belkin after plastic surgery.

Gaines used Kim as leverage over Jack who he forced to switch a key-card for one which contained incorrect data, and “kill” Nina Myers after she became alert to the switch of cards.

He then forced Bauer to go to President’s Breakfast with members of the press to frame him for the murder of Palmer, but he diverted the attack after firing a pistol causing a riot.

Kim and Teri were supposed to be killed but he changed his mind when mole Jamey Russell, In CTU rang saying it had been caused by division agents.

The Drazen’s then arrived on the scene ordering Kim and Teri again but Jack who had ambushed Kevin Carroll  came to help his family as well as Rick Allen who had betrayed Gaines.

They all escaped  and Jack was able to kill Gaines, after he decided he was no going to co-operate with CTU due to his fear of the Drazen’s capturing him.

8. General Benjamin Juma (Tony Todd)

Tony Todd

Juma was first involved in Redemption before appearing in Day 7.

He had tested a biological nerve agent on his own country before bombing the village to cover it up

Juma  with the help of Jonas Hodges was able to get any amount of weapons he wanted from the Starkwood head  and started to train up young boys in his homeland, Sangala.

And his second in command, Ike Debaku went out for revenge on Jack Bauer after his brother Youssou

For day 7 he remained behind closed doors allowing Debaku to take control of matters.

His first plan to hold the US to ransom failed after the CIP firewall was restored and Debaku had revealed co-conspirators by a chip under his skin, so he was forced into his second plan, which was to terrorize the US government.

Senator Blaine Mayer was at the head of Bauer’s trial but his chief of staff Ryan Burnett was conspiring with Juma.

Renee Walker learnt about Juma being in the country after one of his men made sure Debaku was dead, then she learnt the attack was on The White House.

He laid siege on the house and took control of it, but not before Bauer and President Taylor got to the lockdown where she could not be reached as Bill Buchanan took her GPS bracelet to divert them away from the President.

But her daughter Olivia was held hostage and Juma threatened to kill her unless she came out and was ordered to make a speech to her nation, which would be her last.

Bill and Jack discussed plans to trigger an explosion in the vault.

Buchanan sacrificed his life and blew Juma and his men to the floor.

Realising he had little options he asked his remaining men to kill the hostages but just before he was able to shoot down Blaine Mayer Bauer killed his final man Ngozi.

Juma decided to go for his weapon and attempt to shoot down Jack but Bauer was able to shoot him in the chest and his body slumped to the floor.

7. Jonas Hodges (Jon Voight)

Jon Voight

Again Hodges first appeared in Redemption before appearing in Season 7.

Hodges links with Juma was found by colleague Chris Whitley so Hodges ordered his mole, secret agent Henry Vossler and John Quinn to kill him and get rid of the evidence.

Hodges wasn’t involved in season 7 until Juma called him after President Taylor and Bauer had secured themselves in the lockdown.  Hodges alerted Juma to the fact that Olivia Taylor was not accounted for.

Bauer out of federal custody chased after Ryan Burnett who had vital information but Hodges assistant, Greg Seaton had ordered John Quinn to make sure Burnett stayed quiet, and frame Bauer for his murder.

Quinn then set about getting Bauer but he was unable to and was killed by Bauer.

After finding out where they thought the weapon was on his site through Seaton they stormed it only to find it empty and Hodges ordered them off the Starkwood estate.

Hodges then got suspicious of Chairman of the Board Doug Knowles who was working with CTU to help them, and he killed Knowles by throwing him off a balcony.

Hodges threatened President Taylor with releasing them if he was not allowed a meeting with her at The Oval Office, which she agreed reluctantly to and called off the air strike at the last minute.

During the meeting their missiles has been destroyed and he and Seaton were then arrested.

Hodges was then offered a pill by Cara Bowden who was impersonating his lawyer otherwise his family wasn’t safe.

He done so but his driver noticed him taking it and managed to make sure he did not die.

Bauer then interrogated him, assuring Hodges that to the world he was dead if he gave them names, but as he did not know any of them, the  only one he knew was the one that impersonated his attorney.

Olivia Taylor, the President’s daughter ordered him to be killed because he was responsible for the death of her brother and the fact that he was still free.

But upon gaining his new name from witness protection, his was blown up as he entered a transport van, after already sounding like he was plotting a way out of it.

Find out tomorrow which villains have made the top spots

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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.

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

The ins and outs of Season 3

Day 3 sees CTU deal with a deadly virus threat that would be released in Los Angeles.  We again see the return of Jack’s nemesis Nina Myers just as he is trying to overcome a heroin addiction after his undercover operation with the Salazar’s, as others feel he still has not got over the death of wife Teri at the end of the first day. Jack has a new partner in Chase Edmunds, but things take a turn for the worst when it is revealed Chase is seeing his daughter Kim, and it causes tension between the three of them.

President Palmer is seeking re-election against Senator John Keeler, but his campaign turns sour after one of his major backers Alan Milliken discovers Palmer’s brother, Wayne has been sleeping with his wife, Julia.  As well as this controversy his campaign suffers a major blow when revelations come out about his girlfriend, and personal physician Anne Packard.   So the president turns to  his ex-wife Sherry to deal with Milliken. But she takes it all a step too far as she kills Milliken, not allowing him his medication he needs to stay alive. Despite his best to cover this up Keeler uses it as leverage in the campaign and basically forces Palmer to abandon his re-election bid. Towards the end of the day, Julia kills Sherry before taking her own life.

Back at CTU, it turns out that Tony Almeida. Gael Ortega and Jack have been working undercover on a sting operation but Chase is totally unaware of the situation and goes to “rescue” Jack after he has been held captive by the Salazar’s.  Tony recovers from gun shot wounds to return as head of CTU, with many doubting his ability at head of CTU.

Nina comes in just as Jack and the Salazar’s are trying to get hold of the virus from Michael Amador, but he plays them all for fools. After Nina is captured by CTU and interrogated she then tries to commit suicide but fails. She then escapes CTU only to be found by Kim, before Jack comes in and finally gets revenge for the death of Teri.

Amador meets with his accomplish Marcus Alvers, who has planted some of the virus in a hotel ventilation system and the man behind the terrorist strike, Stephen Saunders.  Gael is killed trying to prevent the virus from entering the system and Michelle has to deal with the threat at the hotel.

Saunders contacts President Palmer and gives him a series of assignments, one he carries out successfully but the other is to kill Regional Division Director Ryan Chappelle as Jack and Chase try desperately to capture Saunders, but in the end Jack is forced to kill Chappelle and hand over his body as proof.

Once Saunders is captured by CTU Jack uses all means possible to stop the threat of the remaining vials which eventually leads to Chase making an incredible sacrifice, his hand as he makes sure the vial is not released.

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