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Civilians & Jack's Allies
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Day 1
Patty Brooks
Patricia 'Patty' Brooks
Played By: Tanya Wright
David Palmer's campaign staffer played by Tanya Wright. She is sexually attracted to David through the day, but remains reticent. Sensing this, David's wife Sherry Palmer decides to utilize Patty as a spy with the incentive of giving her tacit approval for Patty to pursue an affair with David. However, when Patty begins to make sexual advances toward David he realizes what the scheme is and fires Patty.
- Honey Pot: Sherry uses her as one to try and trap David. It doesn't work, however.
- Put on a Bus: Appears to be useful and relatively loyal to David throughout the season, but Sherry's influence leads to her working against him, however reluctantly. He dismisses her coldly.
Melanie
Janet York
Janet York
Played By: Jacqui Maxwell
One of Kim Bauer's high school friends. She and Kim sneak out of their houses to meet with two guys, Dan Mounts (Janet's boyfriend) and Rick Allen, who are actually kidnappers. They drug Janet with rohypnol (after which Dan has sex with her), break her arm, and eventually leave her for dead after she is hit by a car. She is eventually murdered in her hospital bed by Kevin Carroll, the man who impersonates her father.
- Butt-Monkey: Roofied, date-raped, kidnapped, arm broken, unwillingly injected with heroin, hit by a car, and finally smothered in hospital.
- Chew Toy: Anything too horrible to happen to Kim happens to Janet.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Kevin Carroll smothers her with her own oxygen mask by forcing it to her face and cutting off the air supply to it.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: Despite being Kim's best friend, she never gets mentioned again after her murder. Heck, the last she knew Kim saw her being hit by a car, but she never even asks anyone what happened after that!
- Hidden Depths: In the show, Janet comes across as a ditzy party girl, but according to the prequel novel Cat's Claw, she's part of an environmentalist club.
- Mauve Shirt: Janet exists mostly to endure horrible punishment and eventually die to show how serious the kidnappers are, not to mention expose 'Alan York' as Kevin Carroll.
- Missing Mom: Janet's mother divorced her father several years ago, moved to a different continent, and makes little to no effort to maintain contact with her.
- Wham Line: "Who are you? Where's my father?" This is what exposes the man we thought was her father as an imposter, but only to the audience, as the imposter, later revealed to be named Kevin Carroll and The Dragon to Ira Gaines, smothers her to death and nobody can stop him.
Elizabeth Nash
Elizabeth Nash
Played By: Kara Zediker
A member of David Palmer's campaign team. She's also in a relationship with Alexis Drazen, while ignorant of who he really is.
- Freak Out: Which leads to her killing Alexis Drazen.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her murder of Alexis Drazen causes more problems than it fixes.
- Wild Card: Because she's so astonished by the reality of who Alexis is, everyone is more worried about her breaking under pressure. She begins the 24 tradition of civilians in high-tension situations suddenly doing something unexpected — in this case, taking justice into her own hands. That being said, she gets away with it, either because everyone knows she was waaaay out of her depth or because Alexis Drazen WAS one of the villains.
Mark DeSalvo
Mark DeSalvo
Played By: Lou Diamond Phillips
The warden of Saugus Detention Center, a government black site under the purview of The Department of Defense.
- Death by Pragmatism: Justified, as even though he follows just about all of Jack's advice, it ultimately just isn't enough in the end.
- Mauve Shirt: He doesn't make it very far, though his death actually has a fair bit of effect on Jack.
- Nice Guy: Jack and him start getting along almost immediately.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Jack pegs him as a straight-shooter, and he takes most of what Jack says on faith despite having little info about the situation at hand.
- Sacrificial Lamb: When the Drazen Syndicate storm Sangus and Jack takes Victor Drazen at gunpoint, Andre Drazen takes DeSalvo hostage and tells him he will kill him if he does not let Victor go. Despite DeSalvo telling Jack not to do it, Jack relents, only for Andre to murder DeSalvo anyways.
Day 2
Kate Warner
Kate Warner
Played By: Sarah Wynter
A young woman who gets caught up in the events of Day 2 after she begins to suspect her sister's fiance might be connected to terrorists.
- Action Survivor: One of only three of Jack's romantic partners to survive the show (the other two being Diane Huxley, and Marilyn Bauer), and the only one aside from Audrey and Nina Myers to appear in multiple seasons.
- Amicable Exes: While the conversation between her and Jack in Day 3's opening is awkward, there isn't too much acrimony. The two still project some care for each other, with Jack apologizing for how he ended things and Kate revealing that she missed him. It's strongly implied that it was Jack's obsession with his work, more than anything, that led to their breakup.
- Cain and Abel: The Abel to Marie's Cain.
- Demoted to Extra: After appearing prominently in season 2, she makes one brief appearance in the 3rd season and is never seen again.
- Properly Paranoid: She was right to think that there were strange dealings going on in her family's business, she just guessed they were coming from the wrong person.
- Took a Level in Badass: Like most of the people around Jack Bauer, she's forced to deal with some pretty crazy shit, and rise to the challenge.
Bob Warner
Bob Warner
Played By: John Terry
Kate and Marie's father, a businessman whose assets are supposedly being used to fund terrorists.
- Red Herring: His (would-be) son-in-law suspects him, but neither of them knows that his daughter Marie is responsible.
Reza Naiyeer
Reza Naiyeer
Played By: Phillip Rhys
The fiance of Marie Warner.
- Character Death: Reza is murdered by his own fiance.
- He Knows Too Much: He finds out who moved the funds just as Marie bursts in, killing the agent with him. He then gets killed shortly afterward.
- Red Herring: He and his would-be father-in-law were this.
- Was It All a Lie?: His last words.
Carla Matheson
Carla Matheson
Played By: Tracy Middendorf
- Domestic Abuse: On the receiving end.
- Killed Offscreen: Gary killed her and stuffed her in the trunk of his car.
- What the Hell, Hero?: She calls Kim out for trying to take Megan the first time... in spite of being the one to tell her to take Megan and scram before her father did something in the first place, thanks to Gary's abuse leaving her in an unstable frame of mind.
Megan Matheson
Yusuf Auda
Yusuf Auda
Played By: Donnie Keshawarz
An intelligence agent from a Middle Eastern country during Day 2.
- Nice Guy: Once they get over the distrust, Jack and him work perfectly together.
- Character Death: He's beaten to death by racists.
- Made of Iron: He grabbed to life long enough to tell Jack about what happened.
Alex Hewitt
Alex Hewitt
-.Played By: Rick D. WassermanThe computer hacker who created the Cyprus recording. He highly nervous.—-
- Character Death: Fell and hit his head on a protruding pipe.
- Spanner in the Works: Knowledge of his involvement in the terrorist plot is what draws Peter Kingsley out into the open.
Day 3
Julia Milliken
Julia Milliken
Played By: Gina Torres
The wife of Alan Milliken, one of President David Palmer's most important and influential backers.
- Character Death: Julia kills herself rather than go to jail.
- Despair Event Horizon: Sherry leaving her to take the full rap for her husband's death drives her over the edge, as does Wayne's minimal communication with her shortly thereafter. Unfortunate in the latter case, in that Wayne was avoiding conversation because he was too busy attempting to confront Sherry at the time.
- Driven to Suicide: After killing Sherry, Julia shoots herself.
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Jerkass Woobie: While she is a Social climber and a trophy wife, she did not want Alan to die, and ends up confessing (first to Wayne, then to the police) her part. All and all, she ends up wrecked with guilt, fear, and feeling completely alone. No wonder she despairs and kills Sherry, and then kills herself. - May–December Romance: With the much older Alan Milliken.
- Taking You with Me: Refuses to let Sherry talk her way out of the situation, this time.
Bruce Foxton
Bruce Foxton
Played By: Mark Rolston
A private investigator who assisted Wayne Palmer in breaking into Sherry Palmer's home to look for the medicine prescription bottle that would incriminate her in the death of Alan Milliken during Day 3.
- Determinator: He refuses to leave until they recover the bottle of medicines.
- Odd Friendship: With Wayne Palmer. He honestly seems to like and trust him.
- Sociopathic Hero: He is so nonchalant about some of his criminals actions it becomes hilarious. Not that Sherry did not have that punch coming.
Day 4
Paul Raines
Paul Raines
Played By: James Frain
Audrey's ex-husband, a British businessman.
- Butt-Monkey: Tortured by the man his wife left him for, discovers he is Marwan's Unwitting Pawn, tortured again by the bad guys, gets shot and paralyzed and finally dies because Jack forces the medical staff to save a man with critical info instead of him.
- Death of the Hypotenuse: Subverted; his death ends the love triangle involving him, Audrey, and Jack, but doesn't happen until after Audrey had by all indications decided to break things off with Jack and give her marriage with Paul another go, meaning that Jack was technically the hypotenuse.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Briefly becomes this with Jack. They start off antagonistic (mostly on his end, as he's still registering the notion that his wife is moving on with someone else in her life), but they develop a bond as they attempt to retrieve Marwan's files and are forced to fight back against the Mc Lennen-Forster mercenaries.
- Heroic Sacrifice/Taking the Bullet: He takes a bullet that was meant for Jack, which eventually contributes to his death later on.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He saves Jack from being shot, and several hours later, Jack repays the favor by forcing the doctors working on him to instead save the life of someone with important information. To his credit, Jack does try to keep Paul alive long enough for the doctors to get back to him, but the severity of Paul's condition renders this impossible.
- The Needs of the Many: The final factor leading to his death. Jack needs an informant to survive a gunshot wound to discover Marwan's location from him, since if Marwan succeeds it means the deaths of millions. Sadly, this means forcing the doctors to work on the informant instead of Paul, and despite Jack's best attempts to stabilize him on his own, he fails and Paul flatlines.
- Took a Level in Kindness: He's not necessarily a bad guy when we first see him, but he does come off as short-sighted in his view of his and Audrey's marriage and antagonistic toward Jack (though that's justified in that he had only just found out that Audrey was seeing someone else). Whatever the case, he seems to become a lot more receptive to Audrey's needs during the day's events, and he develops a great admiration for Jack after they work together.
- Unwitting Pawn: To Marwan.
- Working with the Ex: Though he hadn't realized that Audrey considered them "finished" by this point, instead assuming they were taking a break to work things out.
Debbie Pendleton
Debbie Pendleton
Played By: Leighton Meester
Behrooz's girlfriend.
- Character Death: She's poisoned by Dina Araz.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Behrooz's parents disapprove of his relationship with Debbie because they worry about her breaking this. When they fear that she witnessed something critical to their plans, they have her killed before Behrooz can move her to safety.
- Maligned Mixed Relationship: With Behrooz.
- Sacrificial Lamb: Her death serves two purposes. The first is to show that Behrooz's parents aren't screwing around. The second is for her death to cement Behrooz's decision in not wanting aid Marwan's cause.
- She Knows Too Much: Due to following Behrooz, she's killed under the suspicion that she may have seen something she wasn't supposed to.
- Starcrossed Lovers: With Behrooz, although she doesn't exactly realize it.
Andrew Paige
Andrew Paige
Played By: Lukas Haas
An old classmate of Chloe O'Brian and computer programmer working in Los Angeles during Day 4.
- Butt-Monkey: Things do not fare well for this guy. His coworkers are all killed, his mother is murdered as well, he spends a whole episode being held hostage by Kalil Hasan before his associates beat him half to death, and Jack barely saves him in time, but even then he's last seen in critical condition. Worse, the reason Jack let him remain a hostage, to trail Hasan back to where Audrey and her father were being held, ended up being pointless as Hasan realized he was being followed and killed himself, so Jack let Andrew remain prisoner and almost let him die all for nothing.
Day 5
Barry Landes
Barry Landes
Played By: C. Thomas Howell
The older, psychiatrist boyfriend of Kim.
- May–December Romance: He's much older than Kim.
Diane Huxley
Diane Huxley
Played By: Connie Britton
Jack's girlfriend at the beginning of Day 5.
- Mama Bear: For her son.
Derek Huxley
Derek Huxley
Played By: Brady Corbet
The teenage son of Diane Huxley.
- It's All About Me: He's mostly concerned with how Diane dating Jack affects him.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sure, he's an enormous prick but he does love his mother and is only really guilty of being a teenage dickhead.
- The Load: Derek only seems capable of being a detriment to everyone around him.
- Mama's Boy: He's very close to his mother, and resents Jack for dating her.
Day 6
Walid Al-Rezani
Walid Al-Rezani
Played By: Harry Lennix
The regional director of the Islamic-American Alliance, an advocacy group for Muslims living in the United States, during Day 6.
- The Mole: For the FBI, within the detention centre.
Ray Wallace
Ray Wallace
Played By: Raphael Sbarge
Neighbor of Ahmed Amar, who eventually is forced to a make a deliver in his place when his family is held hostage.
- Big "NO!": His last words.
- Butt-Monkey: Spends most of his screen time getting pushed and ordered around by terrorists against his will just to protect his family. And then he finds himself at ground zero of a nuclear explosion.
- Character Death: He's killed when the nuclear bomb detonates.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Ray helps his seemingly harmless neighbor Ahmed, understanding that not everyone with a vaguely Middle-Eastern name is a terrorist. Unfortunately, Ahmed is a terrorist who takes his entire family hostage and forces Ray to carry out acts of terrorism for him, ultimately culminating in Ray's death.
Hamri Al-Assad
Hamri Al-Assad
Assad is a well-known terrorist with a history of hate of the West spanning 20 years but by Day 6, he has decided to renounce violence and open negotiations.
- Good Is Not Nice: Assad's Heel–Face Turn did not diminish his ruthlessness.
- Guile Hero: For a definition of hero, but Assad is clever, experienced, and very observant.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: Assad dies saving Wayne Palmer from a bomb but he is blamed for it rather than risk the administration getting humiliated by the fact that this was plotted from within. His people will see him as a great hero who pretended to surrender to the West as part of his plan to assassinate the President.
- Heel–Face Turn: In an attempt to achieve peace.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He puts himself between the bomb and Wayne, saving his life in the process.
- Off with His Head!: Assad personally decapitated two of Curtis' comrades.
- Reformed, but Rejected: Assad isn't trusted despite turning over a new leaf.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He appears for few chapters, but thanks to his collaboration, he manages to unravel the entire plot of Gredenko and Fayed, expose Philip and Graem Bauer, and avoid a war with the Middle East.
- Spanner in the Works: For all the vilains in day 6.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Assad is one of the best characters on the 6th season...and sadly underused.
- Tragic Hero: Assad's pursuit of peace comes to nothing after he is killed saving someone who is supposed to be his enemy.
- Turn Coat: How he is seen by his people.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
- Victorious Loser: Very harshly played, but still, in a way, fitting. He dies, but his efforts manage to help to stop all the plots in Day 6.
Day 7
Carl Benton
Carlton 'Carl' Benton
Played By: Robert Carlyle
An ex-special forces friend of Jack.
- The Atoner: For torturing an innocent civilian to death due to bad intel.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Carl steps off a landmine when Dubaku gets near, killing himself in the process.
- Retired Badass: He's given up his life in the Special Forces to take care of children in Sangala.
- Taking You with Me: He attempts to do this with Dubaku, but Dubaku survives.
Ule Matobo
Ule Matobo
Played By: Isaach de Bankolé
The former prime minister of the African nation Sangala who helps Jack to find Dubaku.
Marika Donoso
Marika Donoso
Played By: Enuka Okuma
Dubaku's innocent girlfriend who is unaware of his true identity.
- Broken Masquerade: Learns the true nature of her boyfriend, "Samuel Aboa," from Jack and Renee.
- Car Chase: is in one as Dubaku attempts to flee the country.
- Heroic Sacrifice: when the FBI lose the trail of herself and Dubaku, she grabs the driver's steering wheel and engineers the crash. She has to unbuckle her seatbelt and lean over the front seat to do this, implying she has accepted that her odds of survival are slim. Which they are.
- The Infiltration: One of a number of civilians Jack convinces to help him apprehend the villains.
- Parental Abandonment: Implied. She and her wheelchair-bound sister Rosa indicate that they have no one else but each other.
Samantha Roth
Samantha Roth
Played By: Carly Pope
The girlfriend of Roger Taylor.
- Character Death: She's killed by Brian Gedge.
- She Knows Too Much: Is aware that Roger was beginning to discover the Government Conspiracy within his mother's administration, and — like him — was killed for that knowledge.
Jibraan Al-Zarian
Jibraan Al-Zarian
Played by: Omid Abtahi
An innocent man who has the poor luck to be a Muslim, getting him swept up into Tony Almeida's plans.
- Action Survivor: When put in a dangerous situation, he shows nerve, creativity under pressure, and an impressive penchant for acting.
- Dark and Troubled Past: A Pakistani national, his parents were slain in a bombing when he was 11.
- Fall Guy: Positioned deliberately by Tony.
- Frame-Up: In addition to his past, which is typical of radicalized extremists, Tony and Cara Bowden manufacture a great deal of false narrative, including bank transfers, to implicate him.
- Guile Hero: His ability to think outside the box is instrumental in getting him out of trouble.
- I Have Your Wife: Tony is able to manipulate him into staging a terrorist attack by taking his brother hostage.
- Nice Guy: His interactions with his younger brother Hamid depict a man who is kind, caring and not particularly violent.
- Meta Twist: He, Hamid and their Imam, Muhtadi Gohar, are the first (and, in the end, only) Muslim characters to be unambiguously portrayed as one of the good guys.
- Promotion to Parent: he has been raising Hamid for 15 years.
- Refuge in Audacity: Forced to carry a bomb for a terrorist attack, how does he get that bomb out to the authorities? By holding it up and shouting, "I've got a bomb!!!" Simultaneously heroic and side-splittingly funny.
Day 8
Jim Ricker
James 'Jim' Ricker
Played By: Michael Madsen
Bill Prady
Bill Prady
Played By: Stephen Root
The parole officer for Kevin Wade.
- Character Death: He's murdered by Dana Walsh.
- Determinator: Very little gets in his way, and it's his determination that leads to Dana deciding to kill him.
- Hero Antagonist: Prady is just doing his job, he just has the misfortune of tangling with Dana.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Played with; he immediately works out how untrustworthy Dana is, but the entire reason he comes into contact with her is because he believes that Kevin is a reformed character who's been led astray by Nick. From what we see of them, while Nick is clearly the worse of the two in every regard, Kevin is no saint, and in all likelihood never was.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: All Prady wants is to do his job correctly, and he's not out to ruin anyone's life.
Day 9
Belcheck
Belcheck
Played By: Branko Tomovic
A member of the Serbian mob who assisted Jack Bauer's personal mission to stop the assassination of President James Heller during Day 9.
- Friendly Sniper: Belcheck is a very efficient and deadly sniper, but also a loyal, trustworthy friend.
- I Owe You My Life: It's implied that Belcheck's loyalty to Jack is because Jack saved Belcheck's life at one point.
- Only One Name: In his own words:Heller: So what's your name?Belcheck: Belcheck.Heller: 'Belcheck' what?Belcheck: Just one word. Like Madonna.
- Private Military Contractors: Recruited by Jack when he was hiding in mainland Europe.
