Jack Bauer was a Federal Agent
working for the Los Angeles Counter
Terrorist Unit. Bauer has been known
for his non-compromising, erratic
behavior but also as a highly effective
operative, being responsible for preventing numerous major terrorist
attacks on U.S. soil. Jack has obtained a Bachelor's Degree
in English from the University of
California at Los Angeles and a
Master's Degree in Criminology and
Law from the University of California at
Berkeley. He entered the U.S. Army completing basic training then went
onto Airborne School, which upon
completion he served with the 82nd
Airborne for 9 months until entering
Ranger School at Fort Benning,
Georgia. Bauer served with the 75th Ranger Regiment, seeing combat in
Panama (Operation Just Cause). Upon
return from Panama where he
displayed superior leadership and
combat skills, Bauer was selected for
Special Forces training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He was assigned to 1st
Special Forces Operational
Detachment-Delta (Delta Force), where
with his unit he saw combat in the first
Gulf War, Somalia, and other countries
where the missions are classified. He left the Army at the rank of Captain.
Following his military career, Jack
worked for both the Los Angeles
Police Department's Special Weapons
and Tactics unit and for the Central
Intelligence Agency as a case officer in the clandestine service. He was later
recruited into the Counter Terrorist
Unit (CTU) by Christopher Henderson. Bauer was the Special Agent In Charge
of CTU during the attempted
assassination of Senator David Palmer.
Jack's wife and daughter were
kidnapped in order to force Jack to kill
the Senator himself (a plan orchestrated by the Drazen family). On
this fateful day, Jack's wife was
murdered by a traitor with whom he
had a previous sexual relationship
with... Nina Myers. Jack was so
distraught over the murder that he resigned from CTU. Eighteen months later, Bauer is called
back to duty by President Palmer to
help CTU stop a terrorist group known
as Second Wave from detonating a
nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. Shortly
after Jack was appointed Director of Field Operations by new CTU Los
Angeles Special Agent in Charge Tony
Almeida. A year later, Jack goes undercover for
a sting operation on a Mexican Drug
Lord. Jack returns to LA, two and a half
years later, with Salazar in custody but
also with a drug addiction (in order to
infiltrate Salazar's organization, he had to make them believe he was a
junkie). Ramon's brother, Hector,
insists that Bauer be kept alive to buy
the Cordilla virus and resell them to
underground organizations
worldwide for a one billion dollar profit. Eventually Bauer wins the trust
of Ramon Salazar but learns that
another buyer is in play, headed by
Nina Myers. The sale of the virus goes
bad, but Nina Myers is taken into
custody and is eventually executed by Bauer after he deems her useless. He
then learns that the man behind the
distribution of the virus and the
attacks is Stephen Saunders, one of
Jack's former team members
presumed dead from Operation: Nightfall in Kosovo. Eventually Jack
and Chase capture Saunders and
retrieve the vials of virus. On their last
retrival, Jack is forced to make a
decision to cut the hand of Chase to
gain the final virus device. After leaving the hospital following Chase's
decision, Jack takes a moment in his
parked SUV. For the last remaining
minutes in the 24 hours since the day
began, Jack cries. Jack is fired three
months later by the new Special Agent In Charge, Erin Driscoll due to his
heroin addiction. He finds employment with the
Department of Defense. Bauer
becomes involved in a relationship
with the daughter of the Secretary of
Defense, Audrey Raines. However,
after Jack is called back to CTU to help them stop a terrorist mastermind
named Habib Marwan (who has
planned several attacks on the United
States for this day), Audrey witnesses
Jack's "dark side," which makes her
reassess weather she can be with him or not. What pushes Audrey over the
line is when Jack is forced to make a
grave choice...save the life of a man
that can help Jack and CTU find a
stolen nuclear war head, or the life of
Audrey's ex-husband (who was severally injured after saving Jack's life
earlier this day). Jack chooses National
Security and the result is Audrey
hating Jack. At the end of the day Jack
is faced with a grave dilema. He had
stop the nuclear attack by extracting a Chinese man with ties to Marwan. In
the process a Consulate member is
killed and the Chinese believe the
Americans were involved (mainly
Jack). President Logan is forced with
Bauer's life...or going into War with the Chinese. Logan ops for Bauer's life.
Jack, Tony, Michelle, Chloe and
President Palmer all help Jack fake his
own death, forcing Jack to cut off ties
with everyone he has ever known
(especially his daughter Kim). In Day 5 Jack is framed for killing ex-
President David Palmer. Friends
Michelle Dessler, and Tony Almeida are
targeted by assassins in an attempt to
further the belief that Jack was the
killer (resulting in Michelle's assassination). Chloe O'Brian is saved
by Jack as assassins attempt to kill her
as well. Jack interrogates the assassin
and retrieves information that they
were setting him up. As Jack and
Chloe escape from the terrorists, Jack is followed by Derek Huxley, son of
Diane Huxley (who Jack lived with
during his 'death'). Jack goes to the
Palmer apartment, where he is found
by Wayne Palmer, and after a brief
explanation, Wayne agrees to assist Jack in his pursuit of the truth.
Following up a lead on something
named Chevensky, Jack returns Derek
to his mother outside Ontario Airport,
but when suspicious men go into the
terminal, Derek follows them in an attempt to warn Jack. The men are
actually terrorists who take control of
the Terminal with Jack and Derek
inside, with a number of other
hostages. Jack provides direct tactical
assessment to the CTU teams outside. When the terrorists discover that Jack
is inside the terminal, they threaten to
kill Derek. Jack surrenders and is
forced to feed false information to the
CTU teams outside. At the last minute,
CTU detects a distress code that Jack sent covertly in a conversation with
agent Curtis Manning. The entry was
changed and the teams successfully
rescued the hostages. However,
before the teams entered, Jack noticed
one of the terrorist handing a 'hostage' a keycard. He looks for that
hostage after the rescue attempt, but
he is forced back to CTU as he is still a
leading suspect in the Palmer
assassination. As CTU learns that the
terminal operation was a decoy to obtain military-grade Sentox VX1
nerve gas, Jack receives a call from a
man named James Nathanson, who
said he supplied the gas to the
terrorists, but intended to use it
against them. Nathanson is killed when Jack tries to rescue him, but
Nathanson gave Jack a computer chip
before he dies. The chip contained
information about the nerve gas
which directly led to Christopher
Henderson, a man Jack used to work under at CTU. During the interrogation
Henderson becomes ill and is placed in
CTU medical, at this same time Tony
awakes to discover Henderson (who
he also worked under) had been the
one to target them and murdered his wife. Tony distraught attempts to
murder Henderson (Jack persuades
him not too) and in the process is
supposedly killed by Henderson. Jack
held Tony in his arms for a few
minutes and cried. CTU follows another lead by a programmer who
was paid to reset the detonators on
the terrorist's nerve gas, Jack and
Curtis raid the penthouse and capture
the programmer. Jack goes
undercover when the terrorists try to release a canister at the Sunrise Hills
shopping mall, and Jack stops the
attempt against the orders of the
President. Later on Jack discovers that
everything that occurred today was
President Logan's doing (he was betraying his country and had Palmer
assassinated because Palmer was
aware of this.). Jack, Martha Logan,
Mike Novick and Aaron Pierce all try to
bring Logan down. All the attempts fail
until the end when Jack plants a bug on Logan and Martha gets him to
confess. At the end Audrey and Jack
are trying to get back together when
Jack is informed that his daughter is
on the phone. Jack goes to answer it
to discover no one is on the line... the Chinese kidnap Jack and take him
back to China. Over the last 5 weeks, the United States
has been a target of non-stop terrorist
attacks and bombings, in public
buildings and transportation. Jack is
released from China 18 months after
his capture at the end of Day 5. It's revealed that he is being released only
to be handed over to Abu Fayed.
Fayed has a deep grudge for Jack
Bauer who had killed his brother in a
sting operation in 1999. Fayed is a
known leader in a terrorist cell who apparently knows information about
Assad, the man identified as the one
behind the attacks. After the "sacrificial
lamb" is handed over, Abu Fayed
reveals to Jack Bauer before his
execution that he is the man responsible for the attacks. Soon Jack
is able to escape, trying to warn
President Palmer of Assad's innocence
before an airstrike is called on Assad's
location. Despite the execution of the
President's order, Jack is able to rescue Assad and discovers the former
terrorist leader was here to make
amends and stop Fayed. The two are
able to thwart a bombing attempt on a
subway and rescue a civilian family
held hostage. As the events unfold, painful memories of his murdered
squadron leads Curtis Manning to
attempt to kill Assad, leaving Jack no
choice but to shoot Curtis dead in
order to get more of the information
they need from Assad. This sends Jack into a emotional state of
overwhelming grief. With a call from
the White House, he tells the President,
"I can't do this any more." However, a
mechanic working for Fayed
detonates a nuke, prematurely decimating Valencia, California. Jack
watches in horror as the mushroom
cloud fills the sky. At this point, Jack
realizes he can't stop what he's doing
until he stops Fayed once and for all.
New leads point to a shocking involvement with a company run by
his father Phillip Bauer and brother
Graem. When Jack digs too close for
comfort, Graem's guards are sent to
dispose of Jack and his father. Jack
and Phillip are able to blindside the guards and escape, but this turns out
to be an entire setup constructed by
Phillip and Graem to hide his father's
involvement. Jack interrogates Graem
as hard as he can for information.
Graem Bauer nearly breaks and reveals his involvement in and
orchestration of the events in Day 5,
including supplying the Russian
terrorists and the assassinations of
Jack's personal friends, Tony Almeida,
Michelle Dessler and David Palmer. Later, Phillip Bauer sees his son as too
much of a risk to reveal his
involvement and kills Graem himself
(under the impression Graem had a
heart attack from the drugs). Jack
discovers his father's involvement and trails him to a hotel, where he is
holding his grandson Josh Bauer
hostage. Phillip escapes but leaves a
number to follow. This number turns
out to be former President Charles
Logan's contact. Jack and CTU find out their best bet of finding Fayed is
through an official in the Russian
Consulate who's had dealings with
Fayed. After attempted negotiations
fail, CTU invades the consulate to
capture the suspect. Later Jack discovers his father was involved and
is involved with today's attacks as well
and is working with the Chinese
(mainly the man who kidnapped
Jack). At the end Jack kills his father
but feels no remorse. The show ends with a silent ticker as Jack feels he has
lost everything he has ever loved. 24: Redemption: Looking for a place
where he can be at peace, Jack finds
himself traveling the world and
eventually winds up in the African
nation of Sangala. Here, he stays with
his old friend and former special forces colleague Carl Benton, who runs a
school for rescued war orphans.
During his stay in Sangala, Bauer is
found and subpoenaed by a state
department official, Frank Tramell, to
appear before a senate hearing to answer questions concerning his
activities with CTU, for which he has
been trying to avoid for over a year.
When a sudden military coup takes
place in the country, Jack helps
Benton bring the orphans to the U.S. embassy so that they can leave the
country and escape rebels who plan
to turn them into child soldiers. After
Benton is killed, Jack allows himself to
be arrested at the embassy in order to
let the children be evacuated to the U.S. During Day 7 (4 years after Day 6),
Jack is on trial for torture. During the
hearing, he is approached by FBI
Agent Renee Walker, who informs him
of a possible threat to the country that
is being forwarded by Jack's old friend, Tony Almeida, who has been
presumed dead for around 5 years
after Day 5. CTU will apparently not
play a role on the show for the first
time ever as it appears to have been
disbanded, although both Chloe O'Brian and Bill Buchanan will make
appearances in Jack's aid.