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*[[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. It is later revealed that he is the true mastermind behind Day 6's events and has Graem Bauer killed in order to prevent him from breaking under interrogation. |
*[[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. It is later revealed that he is the true mastermind behind Day 6's events and has Graem Bauer killed in order to prevent him from breaking under interrogation. |
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*[[Abu Fayed]] trying to get his revenge on [[Jack Bauer]] for torturing and killing his brother. |
*[[Abu Fayed]] trying to get his revenge on [[Jack Bauer]] for torturing and killing his brother. |
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*Walid al-Rezani spying for the FBI inside a detention center. |
*[[Walid al-Rezani]] spying for the FBI inside a detention center. |
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===Prequel=== |
===Prequel=== |
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Revision as of 03:07, 7 February 2007
| 24 Season 6 | |
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| Season 6 | |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fox Broadcasting Company |
| Original release | January 14, 2007 – present |
| Season chronology | |
Season Six, also known as Day 6, of the television series 24 premiered on Sunday, January 14, 2007. It premiered on Sky One in the UK on January 21 2007, with two episodes, then there will be two episodes the following week, and another two the week after, before having only one episode per week. The Australian premiere was on Tuesday January 30, 2007. Subsequent episodes will air at 10:30 on Wednesday night on channel 7. [1]
The season's storyline began and will end at 6:00 a.m. It is set 20 months after the events of the fifth season.
A 10-minute prequel was available exclusively to the American audience with the fifth season DVD.
Season overview
Season Six (2007) is set 20 months after Season Five. Show designers acknowledge that it should technically take place in January, 2012, 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".[2] 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 year should be May 2013.
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. President Wayne Palmer has negotiated the release of Jack Bauer from a Chinese prison. 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 he 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 L.A., and tracking a suspect that they thought would lead them to Fayed, but he didn't. Instead, he lead them to a computer that informed CTU and Jack 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 is forced to shoot and 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. 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 must now figure out the plot behind this day's incredible events if he wants to stop four more nuclear bombs from going off.
Major plots
- Episodes 1-4: Jack Bauer is released from China and is asked to sacrifice himself to Abu Fayed to stop a wave of bombings across the US. Jack escapes and teams up with Hamri Al-Assad only to discover that Fayed has 5 suitcase nukes.
- Episodes 5-7: Jack finds out about the involvement of his family with the nukes. Fayed searches for another scientist to reactivate the triggers on the remaining four nukes.
Sub-plots
- The bad relationship between National Security Advisor Karen Hayes and Chief of Staff Thomas Lennox.
- The bad blood between Morris O'Brian and Milo Pressman after being involved with Chloe O'Brian(Morris ended up with her.)
- 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.
- Jack Bauer is emotionally depleted after enduring 20 months of torture in China.
- Graem Bauer, the apparent mastermind behind the events of Day 5 of 24, turns out to be Jack's brother
- 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. It is later revealed that he is the true mastermind behind Day 6's events and has Graem Bauer killed in order to prevent him from breaking under interrogation.
- Abu Fayed trying to get his revenge on Jack Bauer for torturing and killing his brother.
- Walid al-Rezani spying for the FBI inside a detention center.
Prequel
A 10-minute prequel 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).
Characters of Season 6
See article List of characters in 24.
Season cast
This is a list of the main cast for Season 6.
Stars
- Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer
- Mary Lynn Rajskub as Chloe O'Brian
- D.B. Woodside as President Wayne Palmer
- James Morrison as Bill Buchanan
- Peter MacNicol as Thomas Lennox
- Jayne Atkinson as Karen Hayes
- Carlo Rota as Morris O'Brian
- Eric Balfour as Milo Pressman
- Marisol Nichols as Nadia Yassir
- Regina King as Sandra Palmer
Recurring/guest stars
- Roger Cross as Agent Curtis Manning
- Paul McCrane as Graem Bauer
- Adoni Maropis as Abu Fayed
- Harry Lennix as Walid Al-Rezani
- Alexander Siddig as Hamri Al-Assad
- Kal Penn as Ahmed Amar
- David Hunt as Darren McCarthy
- Tzi Ma as Cheng Zhi
- Shaun Majumder as Hasan Numair
- Raphael Sbarge as Ray Wallace
- Megan Gallagher as Julianne Wallace
- Michael Angarano as Scott Wallace
- Rena Sofer as Marilyn Bauer
- Evan Ellingson as Josh Bauer
- James Cromwell as Phillip Bauer
- Chad Lowe as Reed Pollock
- Powers Boothe as U.S. Vice President Noah Daniels
The following are a list of recurring characters that have yet to appear in Season 6
- Gregory Itzin as Charles Logan[3]
- Jean Smart as Martha Logan[3]
- Glenn Morshower as Aaron Pierce
- Kim Raver as Audrey Raines
- William Devane as James Heller[4]
- Rade Šerbedžija as General Dmitri Gredenko [5]
References
- ^ http://au.blogs.yahoo.com/twentyfour
- ^ "http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2007/01/looking_for_clu.html"
- ^ a b http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/televisionawards/emmys/2006-07-06-emmy-reaction_x.htm
- ^ http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=c7b78531-c168-4f82-9f6d-7863865e6369
- ^ http://www.mtsmondo.com/services/tv/tvStory.php?vest=45454
Episode summaries
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