24 season 6

24 Season 6
24 Season 6
Season 6
	File:24 S6 Cast.jpg Season 6 cast
No. of episodes	14 (of 24)
Release
Original network	Fox Broadcasting Company
Original release	January 14, 2007 –; present
Season chronology
	← Previous; Season 5 Next →; Season 7
	List of episodes

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 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.

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 preview was available exclusively to the American audience with the fifth season DVD.

Template:Spoiler

Season overview

Season Six (2007) is set 20 months after season five. Show designers acknowledge that it should technically take place in January, 2013, 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".^[1] 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 date 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 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, hotel bombing in Chicago, a taxi bomb in New York City, bus bombing in Los Angeles, bombing at the airport in St. Louis and street bombs in San Antonio, Milwaukee, and Portland, Oregon. President Wayne Palmer has negotiated the release of Jack Bauer from a Chinese prison, under "high-price" terms that have not been revealed. 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 Palmer 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 the Los Angeles subway and tracking a suspect that they thought would lead them to Fayed, but didn't. Instead, he leads them to a computer that contained information that said 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 Jack is forced to 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. The nuclear explosion is visible to Jack as he is lying on the ground, still sick over being forced to kill Curtis. It isn't long before 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 would eventually follow more leads and stop another nuclear bomb from going off in Los Angeles. Jack now has the task of locating and disarming the remaining nuclear bombs.

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 learns that Fayed is the mastermind of the bombings. Unwilling to die for nothing, he escapes and teams up with former terrorist leader Hamri Al-Assad to stop a suicide bombing in LA. They later discover that Fayed has 5 suitcase nukes. One of the nukes is detonated prematurely in Valencia, killing over 12,000 people.

Episodes 5-10: Jack finds out about the involvement of his own family with the suitcase nukes, specifically his father Phillip and brother Graem (who were also involved in the conspiracy in Day 5). Fayed pays contractor Darren McCarthy to find another scientist to reactivate the triggers on the remaining four suitcase nukes. McCarthy captures CTU analyst Morris O'Brian, who soon breaks under Fayed's torture and reprograms the trigger. Jack rescues O'Brian with CTU's help, finds one of the four remaining nukes and disarms it. Phillip then attempts to cover his own involvement in the day's events, killing Graem and kidnapping his grandson Josh, forcing Graem's wife Marilyn to lead Jack away from alleged mastermind Dmitri Gredenko's location. Jack recovers and confronts his father, who releases Josh and leaves Jack with instructions to call his contact: ex-President Charles Logan.

Episodes 11-14: A plot inside the White House to assassinate President Palmer is revealed, and Hamri Al-Assad is killed and falsely implicated by the actual assassins; Palmer is in critical condition and Vice President Daniels assumes control of the crisis. Meanwhile, former President Logan, allegedly a reformed character, is at the Russian Consulate attempting to blackmail Consul Anatoly Markov into revealing Gredenko's location, but is unsuccessful. It is revealed that Gredenko and his Russian associates are using Fayed as a scapegoat to exact revenge against America for the Cold War and make Russia a superpower again after America and the Middle East destroy each other in a nuclear war. Jack breaks into the consulate and tortures Markov who gives up Gredenko's whereabouts, but Jack is captured before passing that information to CTU. CTU sends a strike team force led by new Director of Field Operations Mike Doyle to prepare an assault on the Russian consulate and attempt to rescue Jack, while Logan asks his ex-wife Martha Logan to help gain diplomatic support through Russian President Yuri Suvarov, and his wife, Anya. Martha successfully convinces the Russian leader that CTU action against Russian Consulate is not an act of war. After Markov's refusal to stand down under Suvarov's order, CTU is authorized to take down the Consulate, with assurances from the Russian government that they will not object. Markov is possibly killed during the assault. After being freed, Jack immediately tells CTU about Gredenko's location. Meanwhile, Gredenko and Fayed finish arming the nuclear weapons and prepare to launch them via drones. When one of the drones is launched, CTU immediately tracks the movement of the drone. After discovering Nadia Yassir as a potential mole in CTU who has been feeding information to the terrorists, CTU is able to locate the drone's location and Jack crash lands it in San Francisco, avoiding its detonation but unfortunately leaking radioactive material. Vice President Noah Daniels orders the general to go ahead with his plan to launch a nuclear strike against Fayed's country, ignoring Karen Hayes' and Tom Lennox's objections. Karen wants to have President Palmer awoken from his induced coma, presumably to overrule the Vice President. The Joint Chiefs of Staff announce that the nuclear strike will take place on Fayed's country within the hour.

Sub-plots

Abu Fayed tries to get his revenge on Jack Bauer for torturing and killing his brother. He is currently still at large.
The bad relationship between National Security Advisor Karen Hayes and Chief of Staff Thomas Lennox forces Karen to resign. Karen is eventually reinstated after Palmer's assassination attempt.
The bad relationship between Morris O'Brian and Milo Pressman; each had been involved with Chloe O'Brian, and Morris ends up with her.
Former terrorist 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. He is later killed during an assassination attempt on President Palmer.
Jack Bauer is emotionally depleted after enduring 20 months of torture in China which ended just hours before Day 6 begins.
Walid Al-Rezani, boyfriend of Sandra Palmer (David and Wayne's sister), spies for the FBI inside a detention center in Washington D.C., only to be beaten and hospitalized for nothing as the suspected inmates are merely spectators.
The mysterious apparent mastermind who was seen - but not previously identified - as being behind the events of Day 5 of 24, turns out to be Jack's brother, Graem Bauer. He is killed later by his father Philip Bauer.
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. After killing his son Graem (to prevent him from breaking under interrogation) and trying to kill Jack, it is later revealed that he was behind Day 5's events. After closing in to kill Jack, Phillip escapes - inexplicably leaving a lead for Jack - and is still at large.
President Wayne Palmer rejects Thomas Lennox's executive orders for federal intervention in suspecting Muslim communities in front of the entire Cabinet.
Marilyn Bauer having mixed feelings when Graem Bauer dies as she has been trying to leave him for years, and appears to still have feelings for Jack, with whom she had a prior relationship.
Morris O'Brian being emotionally depleted and mired in self-pity after being tortured by Abu Fayed and forced to program a device that can arm the remaining nukes, tempting him to start drinking again. When Chloe discovers this, she is angry and horrified, but agrees not to have him relieved of duty. He later suppresses his habit by disposing his drink and focusing back on his work.
President Palmer's Deputy Chief of Staff Reed Pollock and his associate Bruce Carson plot to assassinate President Wayne Palmer using a cassette player bomb and frame Hamri Al-Assad for the deadly act. Pollock claims that Vice President Noah Daniels is not involved with the assassination plot.
Chief of Staff Thomas Lennox pretends to join them, and Pollock discovers him attempting to warn the Secret Service, so he kidnaps Lennox. Lennox pretends again to go along with the plotters and is released after the assassination attempt, but quickly turns in the two political operatives as well as himself.
President Palmer survives the blast, but is at least temporarily unable to continue his executive duties, so Vice-President Noah Daniels takes over.
Former President Charles Logan claims he has information about Dmitri Gredenko's whereabouts through the Russian Consulate in Los Angeles. With President Wayne Palmer's approval, he is temporarily released in Jack's custody and will help Jack to obtain the information on Gredenko's location. After failing to obtain the information he needs through Markov, he turns to his ex-wife Martha Logan for help.
Martha Logan is romantically involved with ex-Secret Service agent Aaron Pierce. She has had some kind of psychological breakdown since her divorce from the former President.
Vice President Noah Daniels attempts to convince Lennox to suppress information about who was behind the assassination attempt and to lie to Hamri Al-Assad's country, telling them that it was Assad who planted the bomb to kill Palmer, in order to further Lennox's homeland security plan. Although hesitant, Lennox listens to Daniels to protect his job and lies to Assad's country's ambassador, causing Daniels to threaten them with a nuclear strike if they don't help with stopping Abu Fayed.
The bad relationship between Milo Pressman and Mike Doyle stems from their previous association in Denver. Nadia says that Doyle enjoys hurting people during her interrogation, which might be the source of their conflict.
During the tense reunion between Charles Logan and his ex-wife Martha Logan, she becomes emotionally unstable and stabs Logan in the chest with a kitchen knife, critically injuring him or perhaps killing him.
Jack is told by Marilyn Bauer that Audrey Raines has died in a car accident in China when she was attempting to secure his release. Jack doesn't believe that it was an accident and vows to find out the truth after this crisis is over. Chloe tells him that DNA samples were sent to China to help identify the remains but has no official confirmation of this.

Preview

A 10-minute preview 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).