Curtis Manning (24)

{{24 character| |image=File:Curtis Manning Season 6 Preview.jpg |bgcolor=#039 |fgcolor=#fff |name=Curtis Manning |portrayed=Roger Cross |gender=Male |days=4, 5, 6 |family=NA |spouse=[[Marianne Taylor (Ex-girlfriend) (Deceased) |jobs=Acting Director, CTU LA
Chief of Staff, CTU LA
Dir. of Field Ops, CTU LA
Asst. Dir. of Field Ops, CTU LA
CTU – Assistant Director of Field Operations Boston Domestic Unit
CTU – Field Agent, Boston Domestic Unit |affiliation=CTU |status=Active }} Curtis Manning is a fictional character played by Canadian actor Roger Cross as part of the television series, 24. He was one of many characters introduced in the fourth season and is confirmed to be returning for day 6.

Bio

Template:Spoiler Manning is currently the Chief of Staff and Director of Field Operations of the Los Angeles Domestic Unit of the Counter Terrorist Unit under Special Agent in Charge Bill Buchanan. He previously was Head of Tactical and Assistant Director of Field Operations in that same unit. He came to Los Angeles from the Boston Domestic Unit, where he was a field agent and later that unit's Assistant Director of Field Operations.

In Day 4, Curtis was serving under Ronnie Lobell, who had replaced Jack Bauer as Director of Field Operations. When Lobell was killed in the line of duty, Curtis replaced him, and worked alongside Jack for much of the day. He was briefly involved with CTU analyst Marianne Taylor, who was revealed to be a traitor. Throughout the day, he heads or takes part in many of the operations to capture Habib Marwan. During the final attempt to capture Marwan, Curtis is wounded in the leg by Marwan himself, but survives.

During Day 5, Curtis initially suspects that Jack may be involved in the murders of David Palmer and Michelle Dessler, but Jack regains his trust during a hostage crisis at Ontario National Airport. This coincides with the arrival of a Division bureaucrat Lynn McGill, who is placed in charge of CTU to coordinate their efforts to find 20 canisters of Sentox nerve gas stolen by Vladimir Bierko. When Lynn begins to exhibit signs of mental instability, Curtis relieves him of command by invoking Article 112 (which allows a ranking agent to remove a mentally unfit director), shortly after which he reinstates Bill Buchanan, thus making him the shortest acting Director of CTU next to Alberta Green from season 1.

Curtis later prevents a nerve gas attack on Tyler Memorial Hospital, meaning that he was away from CTU during a nerve gas attack that killed 40% of its staff. Afterwards, he again becomes Jack's partner in the field for the remainder of the crisis. Curtis helps Jack and other CTU agents infiltrate and destroy a Gas Refinery being used as a distribution center for the Sentox nerve gas. Curtis survives and shortly thereafter Jack appears out of the smoke with Bierko. Curtis is told to take Bierko back to CTU Medical. During this time, Homeland Security have taken over CTU and removed all major staff, excluding Chloe O'Brian. Curtis was not present for several hours after CTU was absorbed, but later leads a team that apprehends Christopher Henderson and kills his men.

Later, Curtis meets Jack at a Los Angeles Highway. He is able to avoid the U.S. Marine's swarming the area and brings Jack to CTU safely. His last action in Day 5 comes in a sting operation to discover Bierko's last target, in which Curtis is non-critically injured. Apart from Jack Bauer, Manning is the only person to take a bullet twice and not die on 24.

Before joining CTU, he was a member of the Boston Police Department's SWAT unit and had previously served in the United States Army's 2nd Infantry Brigade.

Manning has B.A. degree in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts.