24 (season 1)

24 season 1
DVD cover art
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	24
Broadcast
Original channel	Fox
Original run	November 6, 2001 (2001-11-06) – May 21, 2002 (2002-05-21)
Home video release
DVD release
Region 1	September 17, 2002 (2002-09-17)[1] May 20, 2008 (2008-05-20) (Special Edition)[2]
Region 2	October 14, 2002 (2002-10-14)[3]
Season chronology
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List of 24 episodes

Season One, also known as Day 1, of the television series 24 was first broadcast from November 6, 2001 to May 21, 2002. The season's storyline starts at 12:00 a.m. on the day of the California Presidential primary.

“

Right now, terrorists are planning to assassinate a presidential candidate. My wife and daughter have been kidnapped... and people that I work with may be involved in both. I'm Federal Agent Jack Bauer, and this is the longest day of my life.

”

—Jack Bauer, introductory monologue for most episodes of the season. Note: This varies slightly between episodes; in some cases Jack says "missing", "in danger" or "targeted" instead of "kidnapped", and did not originally include his wife, Teri. He also uses "today" instead of "this" in some episodes.

Kiefer Sutherland won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and the Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama for his role as Jack Bauer for this season. It also won the Satellite Award for Best Television Series – Drama and the pilot episode won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. Sarah Clarke, who played Nina Meyers, also won the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Television Series. The season finale ("11:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.") was listed in TV Guide's list of the top 100 episodes of all time, at number 10.^[4]

Season overview

Season One takes place on the day of a fictional presidential primary.

The season's main plot revolves around an assassination attempt on Maryland Senator David Palmer, a candidate for the presidential nomination, on the day of the California primary. The central character is Jack Bauer, a former Delta Force operator who is the Director 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 plot.

The season is essentially divided into three 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, a second wave of assassins is discovered, as CTU tracks their activity, Jack learns why he and the Senator are being targeted.
3. The final act reveals the true mastermind of the day's events and he initiates his contingency plan to eliminate Jack and the Senator.

Fox initially ordered only 13 episodes — the successful rescue at the end of the first half of the season was planned as a series finale in the event that the show was not renewed.

Major subplots

The show rotates between the points of view of each of the five main cast members: Jack Bauer, Teri Bauer, Nina Myers, Kim Bauer, 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.
• David Palmer gradually finds out that the relation with his wife is more based on political ambitions from her side and that fact that she lies to him and acts against his principles several times leads finally to their separation
• 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.

Summary

Season 1 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.

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 nor did the team know the panel. 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.

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 wife and daughter died, so would Bauer's wife and daughter. Viewers also discovered that the real Victor Drazen is a top secret, unofficial prisoner of the US government, 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 is revealed to be 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 having been killed earlier) and their henchmen can kill Jack. Nina is reluctant, knowing that if Drazen's plan fails, Jack will very quickly learn that Kim is not dead and that as Nina had lied to him she must be the mole. However Nina does indeed tell the lie to Jack.

Drazen's plot backfires rather spectacularly, as an enraged Jack kills Drazen's son and guards, and in the process corners Victor Drazen before killing him, after both have exchanged fire in a shootout. Afterwards, Jack Bauer speaks with a member of 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. Bauer realizes that Nina Myers is the mole. He calls George Mason 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 of herself on CTU's computer. Bauer's wife, Teri, is confused about the events surrounding Jack's attempt to rescue their daughter, and looks for Myers, whom she trusts. Teri realizes that Myers is the mole, however, and Myers ties her to a chair. Jack comes to CTU and lets the agents take Myers into custody (as opposed to killing her). He then discovers his wife's body in the chair with a fatal gunshot wound in her chest. The season ends with Jack cradling his dying wife in his arms, while he constantly tells her body he is sorry.

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. However, they eventually decided to go with the death of Teri Bauer as the climax of season one. The alternate ending is available on the DVD boxed set for the season.

Series timeframe

Although it is not stated which year the first season takes place, it is stated in subsequent seasons that "Operation Nightfall" takes place in 1999. It is also stated that events of the first season take place on the 2 year anniversary of Operation Nightfall, which in turn means that the events of the first season take place in 2001, the year the series premiered. However, on Alexis Drazen's file at CTU his date of birth is January 1967 and on the secret service file his age is printed as 35. So that would indicate that the first season is set in 2002.

The writers have recently stated that events in the 24 timeline take place in the "perpetual now," where dates are never specified by the show and concepts of the exact date and year are left vague and unconfirmed.^[5]

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 development of relationship problems between Jack and Kim Bauer.
• The development of relationship problems between David & Sherry Palmer.
• The fact that, prior to the day's events, Jack had exposed several other CTU agents for embezzlement, which causes tension between him and other agents at CTU, especially Tony and George.
• George Mason becoming director of CTU.
• Nina Myers revealed as a mole.
• The disclosed events of Operation Nightfall and its aftermath, going beyond the Drazen household.

Characters

The main cast of Season 1.

For a more thorough list, see List of 24 characters#24: Season 1.

Stars

• Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer (24 episodes)
• Leslie Hope as Teri Bauer (24 episodes)
• Sarah Clarke as Nina Myers (24 episodes)
• Elisha Cuthbert as Kim Bauer (24 episodes)
• Dennis Haysbert as Senator David Palmer (24 episodes)

Special Guest Stars

• Carlos Bernard as Tony Almeida (23 episodes)
• Penny Johnson Jerald as Sherry Palmer (22 episodes)
• Richard Burgi as Kevin Carroll (11 episodes)
• Dennis Hopper as Victor Drazen (5 episodes)
• Lou Diamond Phillips as Mark DeSalvo (2 episodes)

Recurring

• Daniel Bess as Rick Allen (18 episodes)
• Željko Ivanek as Andre Drazen (15 episodes)
• Xander Berkeley as George Mason (12 episodes)
• Michael Massee as Ira Gaines (12 episodes)
• Vicellous Shannon as Keith Palmer (12 episodes)
• Jude Ciccolella as Mike Novick (11 episodes)
• Karina Arroyave as Jamey Farrell (10 episodes)
• Zach Grenier as Carl Webb (9 episodes)
• Glenn Morshower as Aaron Pierce (9 episodes)
• Eric Balfour as Milo Pressman (8 episodes)
• Tanya Wright as Patty Brooks (8 episodes)
• Misha Collins as Alexis Drazen (7 episodes)
• Jacqui Maxwell as Janet York (6 episodes)
• Matthew Carey as Dan Mounts (6 episodes)
• Tamara Tunie as Alberta Green (6 episodes)
• Kara Zediker as Elizabeth Nash (4 episodes)
• Mia Kirshner as Mandy (3 episodes)
• Paul Schulze as Ryan Chappelle (3 episodes)
• Michael O'Neill as Richard Walsh (2 episodes)

Episodes

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code
1	1	"12:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m."	Stephen Hopkins	Joel Surnow & Robert Cochran	November 6, 2001 (2001-11-06)	1AFF79
It's the eve of the California Presidential Primary. Jack Bauer's (Kiefer Sutherland) daughter, Kim (Elisha Cuthbert), sneaks out of the house to go out with friends. As Bauer's wife, Teri (Leslie Hope), searches for Kim, Jack is called in for a meeting at CTU Los Angeles in response to a threat on Senator David Palmer's (Dennis Haysbert) life that is believed to take place within the next 24 hours. Bauer discovers that there may be a mole inside CTU. Senator Palmer gets a disturbing phone call at his downtown Los Angeles hotel.
2	2	"1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m."	Stephen Hopkins	Joel Surnow & Michael Loceff	November 13, 2001 (2001-11-13)	1AFF01
Jack's plans to find his daughter are sidetracked when he gets a call from CTU's Richard Walsh (Michael O'Neill), who is being stalked by assassins connected with the David Palmer hit. Walsh meets another CTU agent, Scott Baylor, who is subsequently killed by these assassins and Walsh is wounded. Mandy (Mia Kirshner) passes the ID card of the dead photographer to Ira Gaines (Michael Massee), the man leading the assassination plot. Kim realizes that she and Janet York (Jacqui Maxwell) may be in danger, while Teri and Alan York (Richard Burgi) search for them. As Jack and Walsh escape from the assassins Walsh is gunned down, but manages to throw the keycard containing information about a mole within CTU to Jack.
3	3	"2:00 a.m. – 3:00 a.m."	Stephen Hopkins	Joel Surnow & Michael Loceff	November 20, 2001 (2001-11-20)	1AFF02
The files on Walsh's key card finger Nina Myers (Sarah Clarke) as a dirty agent. Kim and Janet try to escape from their captors while Teri and Alan continue their search.
4	4	"3:00 a.m. – 4:00 a.m."	Winrich Kolbe	Robert Cochran	November 27, 2001 (2001-11-27)	1AFF03
Jack follows a lead from Walsh's card. At CTU, Nina and Jamey Farrell (Karina Arroyave) decide to go against George Mason's (Xander Berkeley) orders and help Jack. Kim is handed off to Gaines' men. Janet is taken to the hospital.
5	5	"4:00 a.m. – 5:00 a.m."	Winrich Kolbe	Chip Johannessen	December 11, 2001 (2001-12-11)	1AFF04
Palmer meets with Maureen Kingsley (Devika Parikh), who explains that she has two separate sources accusing Keith Palmer (Vicellous Reon Shannon) of murdering his sister Nicole's (Megalyn Echikunwoke) rapist. Kim and Rick (Daniel Bess) are taken to Ira Gaines' compound on the outskirts of the city. Jack finds an unidentified body connected to Gaines in the trunk of a car. Alan and Teri wait in the hospital as Janet undergoes surgery.
6	6	"5:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m."	Bryan Spicer	Howard Gordon	December 18, 2001 (2001-12-18)	1AFF05
Jack and Teri are briefly reunited at the hospital, where Jack warns the doctors not to let anyone near Janet. Gaines contacts Jack and tells him that he has kidnapped Kim. Jack must follow Gaines' orders if he wants to ever see his daughter again. Teri leaves the hospital with Alan to continue searching for Kim. Palmer discovers that his entire family has been keeping secrets from him, but he needs them if he is to come clean before Kingsley breaks the story herself. After Jamey helps identify the body from the car, Nina calls Teri to tell her that the cadaver is the real Alan York.
7	7	"6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m."	Bryan Spicer	Andrea Newman	January 8, 2002 (2002-01-08)	1AFF06
Acting on Gaines' orders, Jack returns to CTU to interfere with the decryption of the key card. He then is ordered to shoot Nina, but he makes some bullet-proof protection inside Nina's jacket so that Gaines' men believe that Jack has killed her. Teri escapes from Alan's impostor, but still be captured by more of Gaines' men.
8	8	"7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m."	Stephen Hopkins	Joel Surnow & Michael Loceff	January 15, 2002 (2002-01-15)	1AFF07
Nina and Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard) realize that Jamey is the mole inside CTU and is communicating with Gaines. Using instructions and equipment from Gaines, Jack gets in to see Palmer's appearance at the San Clarita power plant. Jack soon realizes that the terrorists plan to frame him for the assassination.
9	9	"8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m."	Stephen Hopkins	Virgil Williams	January 22, 2002 (2002-01-22)	1AFF08
Sherry Palmer (Penny Johnson Jerald) tries to convince Maureen Kingsley not to run her story. Jack is taken into custody. Kim and Teri encounter more problems at Gaines' compound. Nina and Tony pressure Jamey for information about the assassination plot. After leaving and returning to the room where Jamey is held they find Jamey with her wrist slashed in an apparent suicide attempt.
10	10	"9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m."	Davis Guggenheim	Lawrence Hertzog	February 5, 2002 (2002-02-05)	1AFF09
Teri acquires a cell phone and calls Jack, giving him clues to her whereabouts. An Acting Director, Alberta Green (Tamara Tunie), arrives at CTU and declares Jack a fugitive. Jack follows a lead from Jamey's computer to a Los Angeles businessman named Ted Cofell (Currie Graham).
11	11	"10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m."	Davis Guggenheim	Robert Cochran	February 12, 2002 (2002-02-12)	1AFF10
Jack poses as the driver of Cofell's limo and soon interrogates the businessman on his family's whereabouts. Initially Jack has no success. But after Jack breaks Cofell's wrist, Cofell curses him in Serbian, which Jack recognizes as a link to the day's events. Cofell suffers a heart attack and dies. Jack then runs into Cofell's contact, Kevin Carroll: the man he knew at the hospital as Alan York, taking Carroll hostage and interrogates him. Carroll agrees to take Jack to where Teri and Kim are held in exchange for his life. Nina and Tony grow more concerned about the possibility of another mole inside CTU. Andre Drazen (Zeljko Ivanek), Gaines' superior, orders the deaths of Kim and Teri.
12	12	"11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m."	Stephen Hopkins	Howard Gordon	February 19, 2002 (2002-02-19)	1AFF11
Jack makes it into Gaines' camp and enlists Rick's help to secure a vehicle to escape in. Gaines quickly finds out when Carroll is found unconscious and chaos ensues. Jack manages to escape the compound with his family and Rick until the tire of their van is shot out. Continuing their escape on foot, Teri and Kim make their way to the rendezvous point while Jack and Rick hold off Gaines and his men. Rick is wounded but manages to escape with Jack. When Palmer tries to talk to Dr. George Ferragamo, his son's therapist, he soon discovers that there are men inside his own campaign that are willing to commit murder in order to protect him.
13	13	"12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m."	Stephen Hopkins	Andrea Newman	February 26, 2002 (2002-02-26)	1AFF12
Jack has a final confrontation with Gaines, who fearing retribution from the Drazens chooses death than to help Jack. Jack, Teri and Kim are airlifted back to CTU. Rick manages to escape from the compound, fearing that he will be jailed for his involvement with Gaines if he turned himself in. Palmer plans to talk to the DA about Dr. Ferragamo's murder, but Carl Webb (Zach Grenier) tries to stop him. At CTU, Nina discovers that a second assassin has arrived in Los Angeles, which means that Palmer's life is still in danger.
14	14	"1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m."	Jon Cassar	Joel Surnow & Michael Loceff	March 5, 2002 (2002-03-05)	1AFF13
Kevin Carroll, having escaped the compound with a small group of mercenaries is killed by Alexis Drazen, who is mopping up the remnants of the first team of mercenaries. Jack returns to CTU, but is not authorized to see his family. Tony refuses to tell Alberta and Ryan Chappelle (Paul Schulze) what he knows about Jack's activities. Nina escorts Kim and Teri to a hospital, but comes across evidence that they may still be targets. Palmer discovers a link between himself and Bauer, and decides to take matters into his own hands - demanding to see Jack personally to confront him about the day's events.
15	15	"2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m."	Jon Cassar	Michael S. Chernuchin	March 12, 2002 (2002-03-12)	1AFF14
Jack and Palmer finally meet face to face. Palmer demands to know why Jack has been trying to kill him, believing it is revenge for the Operation Nightfall in Kosovo he authorized two years ago which Jack was the sole survivor. Jack convinces Palmer that he is not out to harm him and fills Palmer in as to what has been happening with his family's capture and Gaines' plot. They decide to work together to track down those who are seeking revenge on them, eventually enlisting the help of Robert Ellis, who helped organize Operation Nightfall. They discover that Victor Drazen, the target in Kosovo, was not the only victim and that his wife and daughter were also in the bomb blast and believe that his son's are seeking revenge. Teri and Nina have a revealing conversation about Jack at the safe house and Nina and Jack's relationship is discovered. Ellis is assassinated.
16	16	"3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m."	Stephen Hopkins	Robert Cochran & Howard Gordon	March 19, 2002 (2002-03-19)	1AFF15
Keith arranges a secret meeting with Carl. Palmer's assistant Elizabeth Nash (Kara Zediker) realizes who Alexis Drazen (Misha Collins) really is and immediately comes forward. Teri and Kim must flee the safe house with Andre's men in pursuit.
17	17	"4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m."	Stephen Hopkins	Michael S. Chernuchin	March 26, 2002 (2002-03-26)	1AFF16
Teri must rely on an old friend for help. Kim goes to Rick's house in hopes of finding a lead. Jack sets Elizabeth up for a sting operation against Alexis but things don't go as planned as in a rage, Elizabeth stabs Alexis in the stomach. As the EMT's work on Alexis, his phone rings and Jack is forced to answer it and pose as Alexis.
18	18	"5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m."	Frederick King Keller	Maurice Hurley	April 2, 2002 (2002-04-02)	1AFF17
David and Sherry clash over the handling of the evidence against. Kim finds herself in a sticky situation with Dan's (Matthew Carey) brother Frank Allard (Edoardo Ballerini). Jack poses as Alexis and arranges to meet with an employee for an energy provider who was to shut down electricity to a grid in Saugus, but an agent with a grudge from Jack's past, Teddy Hanlin picks a bad time to get even. As the employee realizes that Jack is posing as Alexis, he attempts to escape only to be shot by Hanlin. Teri and Dr. Phil Parlow (Vincent Angell) return to the Bauer home, inadvertently putting themselves in further danger.
19	19	"6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m."	Frederick King Keller	Joel Surnow & Michael Loceff	April 9, 2002 (2002-04-09)	1AFF18
Nina tries to warn Jack about his family's disappearance, but Mason hampers her efforts, believing that Jack is an asset and needs to remain focused on the mission. Teri explores her home in hopes of regaining her memory as Drazen's assassin closes in for the kill. Kim finds herself in the middle of a botched drug deal, while Palmer breaks the story about Keith to the press. Jack and Mason investigate the area where the power was to be turned off.
20	20	"7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m."	Stephen Hopkins	Robert Cochran & Howard Gordon	April 16, 2002 (2002-04-16)	1AFF19
Kim is taken to jail when the cops don't believe her story. Jack stumbles onto a secret detention center and is captured by the security team there. Jack convinces the warden that there is a threat to the facility and non-combatant personnel are armed to bolster their numbers fool the Drazens and deter the planned assault during the helicopter transfer of the prisoner to the facility. Jack confronts the prisoner, and is shocked to learn his identity - Victor Drazen. As the warden realizes the extent of the threat he agrees to Jack's request that they all make their way out of the facility before the assault can happen. As they prepare to leave, the facility's power is cut off.
21	21	"8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m."	Stephen Hopkins	Joel Surnow & Michael Loceff	April 23, 2002 (2002-04-23)	1AFF20
David Palmer wins the primary, taking not only California, but all eleven states. Kim realizes she needs Melanie's (Navi Rawat) help in getting out of prison. Jack and Mark DeSalvo (Lou Diamond Phillips) are ambushed by Andre's men and DeSalvo and the rest of the facility personnel are killed. They hold Jack hostage as the CTU TAC teams attempt a rescue but are too late. The Drazens manage to escape via a sewer system and as they prepare to execute Jack, Jack tells them that Alexis is still alive and offers Alexis in exchange for his own freedom.
22	22	"9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m."	Paul Shapiro	Joel Surnow & Michael Loceff	May 7, 2002 (2002-05-07)	1AFF21
Ryan refuses to trade Alexis for Jack, so Nina turns to Palmer for help. Palmer and campaign worker Patty Brooks (Tanya Wright) leave the senator's celebration party – alone. Unbeknownst to Jack, Kim has been re-captured by the terrorists.
23	23	"10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m."	Paul Shapiro	Robert Cochran & Howard Gordon	May 14, 2002 (2002-05-14)	1AFF22
Palmer overrides Chappelle and Alexis is exchanged for Jack. At the docks, Andre and Victor Drazen (Dennis Hopper) try to prevent the critically wounded Alexis from dying. Palmer has a surprise announcement for Patty - firing her as he saw through her and Sherry's plot. The Drazens contact Jack and threaten to kill Kim unless he goes back into the city and assassinates Palmer. Kim manages to escape from the warehouse she is held in and jumps off the dock into the water to evade the Drazens. Andre takes a call from his secret source inside CTU, who fully updates him on the situation. The mole is revealed to be Nina Myers.
24	24	"11:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m."	Stephen Hopkins	Story: Robert Cochran & Howard Gordon Teleplay: Joel Surnow & Michael Loceff	May 21, 2002 (2002-05-21)	1AFF23
Palmer has disturbing news for wife Sherry. Nina, conspiring with the Drazens, calls Jack telling him that Kim is dead and her body was found in the water near the docks. This proceeds to lure him into a trap. Thus, Jack heads to the docks for an emotional, but unnecessary, showdown with the Drazens resulting in their deaths, to avenge his daughter. Teri is held hostage by Nina when she overheard her plans of escaping to Germany. Jack discovers that the information he was given regarding Kim was a lie and that she is still alive, having escaped. Video feed from the holding room where Jamey died reveals that Nina killed Jamey and is the mole. Jack arrives just in time to reunite with Kim and stop Nina but unfortunately she kills Teri before being captured. Jack is crying over his dead wife as the screen slowly fades to black.

References

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External links

• List of 24 episodes at the Internet Movie Database
• List of 24 season 1 episodes at TV.com
• Season 1 on 24 Wiki