24 Season 6 Starring Kiefer Sutherland
Jack is Turned Over to a Terrorist to Stop Suicide Bombings
Sep 22, 2009 Christopher Sharman
The United States is being plagued by a series of suicide bombings, and one of the terrorists involved will surrender his leader is he is given Jack Bauer. New President Wayne Palmer has no choice but to sacrifice one of his brother’s most trusted friends for the greater good of the country.
24 Season 6's Plot and Cast
Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) has just endured almost 2 years of hell at the hands of the Chinese. President Palmer has secured his release after a ‘high-price’ and he has now been brought back to the United States only to be offered to a terrorist Abu Fayed (Adoni Maropis) in exchange for the man behind the suicide bombings Hamri Al-Assad (Alexander Siddig).
Willing to surrender his life Jack discovers that Fayed is the mastermind behind the suicide bombings and is setting up Assad who is trying to stop the attacks. Together Jack and Assad discover that Fayed is planning on detonating a nuclear weapon on US soil.
CTU works to find Fayed and the bomb before it can be detonated.
Meanwhile President Wayne Palmer (DB Woodside) is under mounting pressure to do anything and everything to find those responsible for the bombings. His problems are made worse by his sister who deletes some information the FBI are trying to get hold of because she believes it is an invasion of privacy.
Palmer is also hindered by those working against him within his own administration and his opportunistic Vice President Noah Daniels (Powers Boothe) who seems determined to seize power from Palmer.
World Weary Jack
Jack Bauer has spent almost 2 years being tortured at the hands of the Chinese during which time he has not given anything away about the United States. He has also barely spoken. His return home is far from happy as he is met by Curtis Manning (Roger Cross) and Bill Buchanan (James Morrison) and almost immediately handed over to Fayed to be tortured and executed.
During the first few hours he struggles to do what needs to be done, and it falls to Assad to gain information from a suspect. Jack hesitates claiming that he does not know how to do the job anymore, and Assad tells him that he will remember.
As before there are numerous story threads connected to the terrorist threat and people within the government are involved. It makes a refreshing change for a former terrorist to have turned over a new leaf, however, in the past Assad was a very nasty piece of work who executed two men that Curtis worked with. This creates a heart breaking decision for Jack when Curtis confronts Assad over the incident and must choose whether to save Assad or allow his friend to take revenge.
Wayne Palmer’s sister crops up in the early hours (and again later on), but she causes problems when she deletes some sensitive files the FBI are trying to get hold of because she believes the FBI has no right to see people’s personal records. She then hides behind the fact that she is the President’s sister. It turns out there was nothing incriminating in the files, and the audience may be left wondering why she created trouble for everyone by deleting the files instead of handing them over in the first place.
24 remains an excellent series and the writers have become experts at telling a multi layered story that keeps the audience guessing right up to the end.
8/10
Jack is the tragic hero who is needed by the government because of his ability to do whatever is necessary even if that means doing the unthinkable.
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