24 Season 2
Season 1 cast
Country	United States
Network	Fox Broadcasting Company
Original runs	November 6, 2001 – May 21, 2002
No. of episodes	24
DVD Release Date	September 17, 2002
DVD Format	Widescreen boxed set
Next season	24 (season 2)

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—Jack Bauer, monologue from 5 a.m. episode until the end of the season.

Season overview

Season One (2001 – 2002) takes place on the day of a fictional presidential primary during modern times in an unspecified year. Due to the hints in the program, most people believe that the season is set in March 2004. 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The series of Presidential primary elections and caucuses is one of the first steps in the process of electing the President of the United States of America. ...

The season's main plot revolves around an assassination attempt on Maryland Senator David Palmer, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, on the day of the California primary. The central character is Jack Bauer, a former Delta Force operator who is the Special Agent in Charge of the fictional Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) in Los Angeles. Bauer becomes professionally as well as personally involved when his wife Teri and daughter Kim are kidnapped by the people behind the assassination. It has been suggested that Selective assassination be merged into this article or section. ... Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Area  Ranked 42nd  - Total 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km²)  - Width 90 miles (145 km)  - Length 249 miles (400 km)  - % water 21  - Latitude 37°53N to 39°43N  - Longitude 75°4W to 79°33... David Palmer is a fictional President of the United States of America played by Dennis Haysbert as part of the television series, 24. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... A primary election is an election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election (nominating primary). ... This article or section on a Television-related subject may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ... The 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1st SFOD-D) —commonly known as Delta in the U.S. Army, Delta Force by civilians, and Combat Applications Group by the Department of Defense— is a Special Operations Force (SOF) and an integral element of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). ... Teri Bauer is a fictional character played by Leslie Hope as part of the television series, 24. ... Kim Bauer is a fictional character played by Elisha Cuthbert on the television series 24. ...

The season is essentially divided into two acts:

1. The first act revolves around a mercenary group's efforts to control Jack Bauer and force him to kill Senator Palmer by kidnapping Bauer's wife and daughter. This culminates in Jack's successful rescue of his family.
2. In the second act, the masterminds behind the plot are revealed and continue with their plans to kill the Senator as well as the Bauer family.

Fox initially ordered half a season of the show to try it out. The successful rescue at the end of the first half of the season was planned as a series finale in the event that 24 was not picked up for the rest of the season. A series finale is the very last installment of a television series, usually a sitcom or drama. ...

Major subplots

The show rotates between the points of view of each of the five main cast members: Jack Bauer, Teri Bauer, Kim Bauer, Nina Myers, and David Palmer, as well as one main villain - Mandy for the first 3 hours, followed by Ira Gaines, Andre Drazen and finally Victor Drazen. The day's situations — both ongoing events and the relationships between these five characters and their associates — form the basis for the season's subplots.

• A mole at CTU is sabotaging efforts to stop the assassination.
• Jack finds himself in situations where he confronts his complex personal definition of compromise.
• The Bauer family is rebuilding their relationships now that Jack has moved home after being separated from Teri for 6 months.
• There are tensions between Jack, his second-in-command and former lover, Nina Myers, and Nina's current boyfriend/rebound relationship and third-in-command, Tony Almeida.
• Political scandals threaten to erupt, centered around Senator Palmer's son having been accused of killing his sister's rapist in the distant past, 7 years before this season.
• Kim has a complicated relationship with her kidnappers, particularly the misguided Rick Allen.
• Teri develops personal problems as a result of the day's stress and revelations.
• Jack is forced to endure intense personal anguish, as his family's safety is compromised at the same time that he is charged with protecting David Palmer and also locating the mole within his agency.

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Summary

The season starts and ends at 12:00 a.m. PST. The first half of the season centers on the efforts of a terrorist cell led by Ira Gaines to assassinate presidential candidate David Palmer. They kidnap Jack Bauer's wife and daughter in order to force him to aid in the assassination and take the fall for Palmer's death. Jack eventually defeats this cell in the process of saving his wife and daughter, but this only leads to information about a second group of terrorists who had employed the first cell. The second cell is led by those ultimately responsible for the day's events: Andre and Alexis Drazen. A covert cell structure is a method for organizing undercover or unconventional fighters against a large and well-established organization. ... Ira Gaines is a fictional character from the television series 24. ...

Two years prior to this day, Jack Bauer was sent as part of a classified team to Kosovo on the orders of a secret Congressional panel headed by David Palmer to kill Victor Drazen, Slobodan Milošević's "shadow." In order to keep Operation Nightfall totally secret, the panel never met nor knew the team of operatives, and vice versa, therefore Palmer and Bauer never knew about each other. The Drazens found out about both Palmer's and Bauer's involvement in their father's death (incidentally, Jack Bauer was believed to be the only operative still alive), and the whole assassination plot had been a means to get back at them -- Palmer would be dead, Jack would be imprisoned for the assassination, and his family would be killed. For uses of the name Kosova, see Kosova (disambiguation). ... Victor Drazen is a fictional character in the TV series 24. ... Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević (Požarevac, Nedićs Serbia, 20 August 1941 – The Hague, 11 March 2006) was President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia. ... Operation Nightfall is an operation. ...

During the last few episodes, the plot twists revealed many surprises. It was revealed that Bauer's team had only killed Drazen's body double. Drazen's wife and daughter, however, were inadvertently killed, prompting the "eye for an eye" aspect of the plot: as Drazen's family died, so would Bauer's wife and daughter. We also discover that the real Victor Drazen was being held in a top secret underground prison later revealed to be under government control, and the Drazens' primary goal was to free Victor Drazen.

Eventually, in order to satisfy the Drazens, Palmer's death is faked. The Drazens recapture Bauer's daughter Kim and offer to exchange her life for Bauer's. However, Kim escapes and the Drazens soon learn that Palmer is still alive. With time running out on his chance to escape before he is recaptured, in desperation, the freed Victor Drazen tells his mole inside CTU, who we discover is Nina Myers, to call Bauer and tell him that his daughter is dead and that the Coast Guard has found her body. Drazen knows that a grieving Jack will attack him, and he believes he, his son Andre Drazen (Alexis was dead already) and their henchmen can kill Jack. Nina is reluctant to do this, knowing full well that if Drazen's plan fails, Jack will very quickly learn that Kim is not dead and Nina lied to him, proof that she must be the mole, but she does indeed tell the lie to Jack. Of course, Drazen's plot backfires rather spectacularly, as an enraged Jack recklessly and ruthlessly massacres Drazen's son and men, then corners an unarmed Victor Drazen (Drazen's pistol is out of ammunition, and he tosses it into the water) and coldly executes him. After that, Jack Bauer called the Coast Guard to arrange to claim his daughter's body. The Coast Guard informs Bauer that they did not find a body that night. Hearing this, Bauer realizes that Nina Myers is the mole. He calls the head of CTU and tells him to detain Myers, but Myers, who heard that Bauer had survived, was already preparing for exfiltration by erasing all the incriminating information on her computer. Bauer's wife, Teri, was confused about the events surrounding Jack's attempt to rescue their daughter, and looked for Myers, whom she trusted. Teri realized that Myers was the mole, however, and Myers tied her up and shot her. Jack came to CTU and let them take Myers into custody (as opposed to killing her). He then discovered his wife's body. Andre Drazen is a fictional character in the first season TV series 24. ...

The season has a dramatic and unexpected ending: the death of Teri Bauer. Many fans were dismayed by this sudden plot twist, while others applauded 24's genre-defying willingness to unexpectedly kill major characters. The producers also filmed an alternate ending in which Teri, Kim, and Jack are reunited, and another in which Teri is shot, but survives. However, they eventually decided to go with the death of Teri Bauer as the climax of season one. The first alternate ending is available on the Season 1 DVD boxed set, although it is noticeably less dramatic than the eventual ending that was aired. DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or, incorrectly, Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...

Series timeframe

Although it is not clear which year it is set in, it is known that it takes place during a presidential election year. Some fans have surmised it is the 2004 election and therefore, the date would be a Tuesday in March of 2004. However, others believe that this year is incorrect (whatever "incorrect" means with respect to a date of a fictional event in a fictional story) since, during Season 1, Jack Bauer states that he took part in a covert operation against a key member of Milošević's government two years before. Since Milošević was ousted from office four years before 2004, there is doubt as to whether this is the actual date. This is also evidence that the fictional story is not intended to be set in any particular actual year. Presidential election results map. ...

However, some fans do argue the possibility that Victor Drazen was not found and attacked by Bauer's group until two years after Milošević was taken down. Another credible argument is the fact that, in Season Two, Gary Matheson states that his credit card expires in 2007. If season 1 takes place in 2004, then season 2 would take place in 2005, giving said credit card a life span of less than 2 years, which is not an unreasonable amount of time. Also in season 2, Aaron Pierce mentions that he joined the Secret Service during Reagan's second term (1985-1989), and Palmer acknowledges that it's been almost twenty years since then, making 2005 a strong possibility. The Cast of Season Two. ...

One other thing to note is that in the third episode of season 1, Nina proves her innocence (the first time) by showing that she could not have been the one who programmed a keycard containing vital information about the assassination plot. The card was created on Nina's computer on January 14th of the same year that season 1 takes place in. Nina then says that she could not have created the card because she and Jack had gone away together on that day. She remembered because it was the 2nd weekend in January. 2000 was a presidential election year and January 14th was on a Friday (technically the 3rd weekend). In 2004, the 14th was on a Wednesday.

In the end, this is a fictional story, and there is no evidence that the writers have made any attempt to have the story be taking place on any particular actual year, or to be consistent with such an attempt.

Plots and twists affecting future seasons

• The death of Teri Bauer.
• The relationship developed between Jack and David Palmer.
• The relationship developed between Jack and Tony Almeida.
• The divorce of David & Sherry Palmer.
• George Mason becoming director of CTU.
• Nina Myers revealed as a mole.
• The future appearance of a man Jack Bauer busted for taking bribes.
• The disclosed events of Operation Nightfall and its aftermath, going beyond the Drazen household.

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Main cast

From left to right: Mandy, Palmer, Nina, Teri, Jack & Kim.

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Starring

• Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer
• Leslie Hope as Teri Bauer
• Elisha Cuthbert as Kim Bauer
• Sarah Clarke as Nina Myers
• Dennis Haysbert as Senator David Palmer

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Recurring

• Mia Kirshner as Mandy
• Jude Ciccolella as Mike Novick
• Xander Berkeley as George Mason
• Glenn Morshower as Aaron Pierce
• Eric Balfour as Milo Pressman
• Željko Ivanek as Andre Drazen
• Michael Massee as Ira Gaines
• Vicellous Shannon as Keith Palmer
• Zach Grenier as Carl Webb
• Misha Collins as Alexis Drazen
• Tamara Tunie as Alberta Green
• Paul Schulze as Ryan Chappelle

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Special Guest Stars

• Penny Johnson Jerald as Sherry Palmer
• Carlos Bernard as Tony Almeida
• Richard Burgi as Kevin Carroll
• Lou Diamond Phillips as Mark DeSalvo
• Dennis Hopper as Victor Drazen

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Trivia

• A scene from the pilot episode depicting a Boeing 747 exploding was re-edited for broadcast, with the image of the plane exploding removed, in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, which had occurred less than two months earlier. ^[1]
• In the pilot episode, the opening titles sound slightly different. When the "24" flashes up on the screen, a gunshot is heard. This is the only time this happens.
• The Drazen Operation to seek revenge of those who were involved in Operation Nightfall did succeed in one aspect: While the murders of Jack Bauer and David Palmer were never successful, they did manage to murder the man who connected the two, Robert Ellis, who was killed in a bar bathroom in New Orleans.
• In the final episode, various pictures could be seen on Nina's laptop. The pictures were of various cast and crew members, including a shot of Kiefer kissing a stuffed animal.
• Ironically, the two people that Jack Bauer trusted in CTU - Jamey Farrell and Nina Myers - were found out to be moles (though Nina was the only real mole; she had framed Jamey, as revealed later in the season).
• All of the "Previously on 24" recaps at the beginning of each episode during the original broadcast were removed on the Season One DVD.
• Until season six, this was the only day in which the action begins and ends at night, because of the irregular filming schedule during Daylight Savings Time.
• During the opening credits, when Bauer is recapping the major plot points to the audience, he states "...and the people I work with may be involved in both". While he is saying that, a shot of Nina Myers is seen looking up at Jack's office at CTU. Nina then indeed turns out to be the person that is indeed involved in both.

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Goofs

• Episode 2 (1:00AM - 2:00AM): While Jack and Richard are trying to dispatch their attackers, upon walking through a particular door, crew members can be see in plain clothes.
• Episode 8 (7:00AM - 8:00AM): 07:13:20: When Nina is in the house right after Jack shot her in the flak jacket, just before she picks up the phone for the second time, one of the cameramen slides into the shot.
• Episode 12 (11:00AM - 12:00PM): While Alberta is interrogating Tony for the first time, a camera is clearly visible on the left in the shot that faces the back of the room.
• Episode 13 (12:00PM - 1:00PM): Kim wants to run to the helicopters because she does not see anyone around, but there is a crew member standing almost next to her. Later, as Teri and Kim first meet the CTU team, Teri drops her pistol in one clip and is clearly holding it in the next 12:33:25.
• Episode 14 (1:00PM - 2:00PM): When Jack is placed in a holding room for questioning he puts his head in his hands, his wrist watch shows the time to be 2:55.
• Episode 15 (2:00PM - 3:00PM): 02:04:08: During one scene of Jack's debrief, the shot changes to a split screen. In the left box, Jack stands up from the table before he does in the right box.
• Episode 24 (11:00PM - 12:00AM): 11:16:10: While Jack is chasing Andre and Victor out on to the docks, there is a split-second shot of a man in a blue mask standing next to Jack as he returns fire on the Drazens.

External links

• TV.com: 24 Season 1 Episode Guide

1. ^ "24 General Trivia". Encyclopedia Vestigatio. Retrieved on 2006-06-01.