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24 Season 6
Season 6
No. of episodes24
Release
Original networkFox Broadcasting Company
Original releaseJanuary 14, 2007 –
present
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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 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

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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 2012.

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 including a train bombing in Atlanta, Casino bombing in Las Vegas, park bombing in Phoenix, Hospital bombing in Detroit, a Mall bombing in Baltimore, Office building bombing in San Jose, a taxi bombing in New York City, bombing at the airport in St Louis and a street bomb in San Antonio, Milwaukee, and Portland, Oregon . 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 former terrorist Hamri Al-Assad only to discover that Fayed has 5 suitcase nukes. One of the nukes is detonated prematurely, but still kills over 12,000 people.
  • Episodes 5-7: Jack finds out about the involvement of his family with the nukes. Fayed pays original seller Darren McCarthy to search for another scientist to reactivate the triggers on the remaining four suitcase nukes. Fayed works closely with General Dmitri Gredenko. Jack finds 1 of the 4 remaining nukes and disarms it.
  • Episode 8-: The nation continues to reel from the terrorist attacks and Agent Bauer battles unthinkable circumstances. Savvy politico Reed Pollock and Vice President Noah Daniels become increasingly involved while Gredenko and Fayed maneuver the threat.
  • Episode 9-: Philip Bauer kidnaps his grandson, and forces Graem's wife to lead Jack away from Gredenko's location in an attempt to capture him. Gredenko and his Russian associates manipulate Fayed for revenge against America for the Cold War.

Sub-plots

  • The bad relationship between National Security Advisor Karen Hayes and Chief of Staff Thomas Lennox forces Karen to resign.
  • 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 possibly the mastermind behind Day 6's events and killed his son, Graem Bauer in order to prevent him from breaking under interrogation.
  • Abu Fayed tries to get his revenge on Jack Bauer for torturing and killing his brother.
  • Walid Al-Rezani spies 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

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Promotional image of Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer on Season 6

This is a list of the main cast for Season 6.

Stars

Recurring/guest stars

Special guest stars

The following are a list of recurring characters that have yet to appear in Season 6

References

  1. ^ http://au.blogs.yahoo.com/twentyfour
  2. ^ "http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2007/01/looking_for_clu.html"
  3. ^ a b http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/televisionawards/emmys/2006-07-06-emmy-reaction_x.htm
  4. ^ http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=c7b78531-c168-4f82-9f6d-7863865e6369

Episode summaries

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