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 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

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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Season 2: What happened

Set 18 months after season 1, season 2 begins and ends at 8:00 AM. Jack must stop a nuclear bomb from detonating in Los Angeles, then assist President David Palmer in proving who is responsible for the threat.

The first fifteen hours deal with finding and disposing of the nuclear bomb. After the bomb is disposed of safely, the story focuses on the United States’ response to the thwarted attack, and in particular the nation’s retaliation against the people responsible for planning it. A recorded conversation between a terrorist involved with the bomb and high-ranking officials of three Middle Eastern countries (which are never specified) is used to implicate those countries in the plot. However, due to Jack Bauer’s doubts, Palmer is reluctant to order military action against them until he has absolute proof that the recording is genuine. A majority of his Cabinet then vote to relieve Palmer of his position as President under Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment, believing his hesitation to be a sign of indecision and weakness, and inability to lead the country effectively. New President James Prescott then orders military strikes against the three countries to continue.

Jack, Michelle and Tony race to find the evidence that the recording is a forgery, resulting in the discovery that a group of European and American businessmen fabricated it in order to wage war with the Middle East, and who planned to benefit from rocketing oil prices caused by the conflict. Once the evidence is produced, the strikes are called off and Palmer is reinstated as President, thanks largely to his ex-wife Sherry Palmer (who risks her life for the evidence, and who also had an indirect hand in the day’s events). The eight cabinet members and Vice President tender their resignations (Palmer does not accept them), and Palmer then tells his staff that he believes that the strictest evidence of hostile intent is required before waging war. The President does however, relieve his Chief of Staff Mike Novick, who did not support him until the eleventh hour, despite being his most trusted confidante.

Like in Season One, Season Two ends with a surprise twist. The nuclear bomb situation is resolved without massive loss of life, but President Palmer collapses after giving a speech, having been attacked with a biological weapon by Mandy in an assassination attempt. Viewers were forced to wait until the third season to see whether Palmer survived the attack. The sudden shift from a nuclear to biological threat also foreshadows the third season, which initially centers on the threat of an engineered virus being set loose on the public.