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For the most part the attacks have been personal vendettas(day 1, day 3, day 5, day 6) against Jack. So ergo where there's Jack, there is a terrorist attack.

Los Angeles is a large populated county with airforce and military bases, major airport, and other international resources in and around the area, along with ideal "deserted" locations. According to the show, there are other CTU offices located around the United States, so we may never know what other threats there have been. And it's overall a better location production-wise.

After sailing off at the end of season two, Max seemed to have disappeared. The truth is Max was "taken care of" in 24: the Game, which took place roughly 18 months between season 2 and season 3.

In the Game, Max's plot included releasing Ricin into the LA Harbor, an assassination attempt on Acting President Jim Prescott, a phony Sarin gas attack on the subway, kidnapping Kate Warner and Governor James Radford before ultimately conscripting and assassinating the latter, an attack on a U.S. Military base, and smuggling weapons out of the country with the coerced help of Bob Warner.

The Game also followed up on how Chase and Chloe came to work at CTU, as well as delved deeply into Jack's relationship with Kate Warner. The Game also featured a secondary villain from Jack's pre-CTU past named Peter Madsen who targets CTU with an EMP in order to release a prisoner and obtain an important hard drive, kidnaps Kim, and coerces Jack into stealing confidential data from a CIA building.

Alexander Trepkos' wherabouts are unknown at this time.

In episode 3.1 Wayne Palmer reveals it was David Palmer who, in a weakened state, authorized a manhunt for Max that ultimately led to Max's arrest (not death, as in the Game) and the crackdown on most of Max's organization, which implies the continuity from the Game is vastly different from what happened in the actual 24 timeline.

The Special Agent In Charge aka Director of Operations is the person that runs a CTU Field Office. They work primarily inside the building, but is ultimately in charge of all operations and agents. The Special Agent In Charge is the highest-ranking agent in a domestic unit, but is out ranked by agents from Division and District Command.

The Chief of Staff is the second-in-command of a Domestic unit.The Chief of Staff is in charge of all Communications and Logistics personnel in the building. If something should happen to the Special Agent In Charge, then the Chief takes over the Special Agent In Charge's responsibilities.

The Director of Field Operations is the person in charge of all tactical teams at a particular CTU Domestic Unit. The position is below Special Agent in Charge and either equal to or lower than Chief of Staff.

Field offices report to Division which is run by a Divisional Director. Division carries a larger amount of jurisdiction than field offices.

Division reports to District Headquarters which is run by a District Director and handles command over an entire region of CTU field offices. However in season one, it is stated the reverse is true and District reports to Division, so either there must have some restructuring in command between season one and two or it could have been human error failing to correctly remember the complicated command structure.

And finally CTU reports in general to the National Security Council, which the Sec of Defense is apart of explaining how Heller had authority over CTU in Day 4.

It should also be noted that the Director of Field Ops position did not exist until season three, so further restructuring must have been done to lessen the responsibilities of the Special Agent in Charge. Originally in season one the chain of command in the Field Offices went Director/SAC, Second in Command, and Third in Command with an Administrative Director overriding all three. In season two, the Administrative Director position appears to have been eliminated with those responsibilities given to the SAC. Before season three CTU must have further clarified the responsibilities of the Second and Third in Commands thus creating the Chief of Staff and Director of Field Ops positions.

In the script and during most of the rehearsals the line went: "I will hunt you down for the rest of your life." As a last minute change up in order to get an genuine look of shock from Sarah Clarke, Kiefer said this: "Sarah, I love you. Why did you marry Xander (Berkeley)."

It will be like 24 Redemption which was a test if people would like a 24 movie. it would not shorten 24 hrs to fit a 2 hr time frame. Jack will have 2-3.5 hrs to stop a terrorist attack in real time. so the entire movie would be as follows "the following takes place between 8:00 am - 12:00 pm"

Yes, yes it does. Known cities in the 24verse to have a CTU include San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Washington D.C., Miami, New Orleans, Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, San Diego, Boston, Las Vegas, Detroit, St. Louis, and Austin. It was also mentioned that Bill Buchanan and Michelle Dessler worked together at CTU Seattle.

No one really knows. But, it appears to be the regional oversight section(think Internal Affairs) of CTU that carries a large amount of jurisdiction and seems to mainly focus on crime scene investigation type work. Division is run by the Regional Director.

The term "division" can be taken as a double entendre; on the surface, it is the administrative headquarters of CTU (and maybe some other agencies as well). But it is also possible to understand it as the source of excess bureaucracy that creates a rift, or "division," between the people who make decisions from a comfortable office and those who get their hands dirty in the field.

It's not directly based on any one agency.

But it does share similarities with the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which initially was a partnership between the FBI New York Field Office and the NYPD, which has since grown to over 100 task forces with at least one in every FBI field office.

Ultimately it does share similarities to the newly created National Counterterrorism Center in Washington DC, which as of now is the only office for the NCTC. It's been said NCTC was inspired by CTU.

Well there are different answers for this but showrunner and Executive Producer Howard Gordon in an interview with E!Online said Season 7 should take place in 2017 once you take all the Presidential Elections between the seasons into account. You could roll everything back four years and everything would work out the same.

March 2004: Day One (Primary Day of the 2004 election, Super Tuesday)

September/October 2005: Day Two

September/October 2008: Day Three(the tail end of Palmer's administration)

March/April 2010: Day Four (the second year of Keeler's administration)

September/October 2011: Day Five(Third year of the Keeler/Logan administration, right before the reelection cycle starts in Jan)

May/June 2013: Day Six

January 2017: Redemption

April/May 2017: Day Seven

24: Debriefing marks Jack's birthday as February 18th, 1966.

So, if you take the above timeline as accurate Jack was 38 in Day One

39 in day two

42 in day three

44 in day four

45 in day five

47 in Day Six

51 in Day 7.

This also implies that Jack met Teri at age 22 and had Kim at 23.

24 Debrief is a series of five mini-episodes covering events taking place after season six.

Set 15 hours after the end of Day Six, these 'webisodes' were originally made available to American Express cardholders, via www.fox.com/24/amex, and were updated every Monday.

With the release of the season six DVD boxset, these were included on the bonus disc.

Day Zero is an flash-animated webisode series of 24, sponsored by DegreeMen deodorant, viewable at http://www.degreemen.com/men/dayzero.

This covers events taking place prior to the first season of 24.

The official 24 website, at www.fox.com/24 has detailed episode guides for all seven seasons.

Following their broadcast, all episodes of season seven are made available to viewers free-of-charge via Fox on Demand, at www.fox.com/fod/play.php?sh=twentyfour. At present, these episodes can only be accessed by viewers in the US.

In addition, they can be purchased from Amazon's Video on Demand page for $1.99 per episode, at www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001PK5G1C/ref=atv_dp_season_select?ie=UTF8&redirect=true.

There are two non-canon answers to this question, as featured in the deleted scenes on the season four DVD:

a) After he was traded for Jack, Marwan instructed two of his men to kill him. Curtis arrived, killed the terrorists and rescued him.

b) Marwan locked him in a shipping crate, and he was found at the end of the day.

No canonical answer has been given, however...

As of season 7, Jack Bauer has killed 224 people. Season 1: 10 Season 2: 30 Season 3: 14 Season 4: 43 Season 5: 37 Season 6: 49 Redemption: 14 Season 7: 27

These are only the kills shown on the show. There are also kills in between seasons and before season 1 that haven`t been officially counted.

People mainly refer to 24 as "That show where they torture people" because in almost every season Jack Bauer is shown torturing a suspect as a method of obtaining that suspect`s information. However, in the first season Jack only implies torture to one suspect. It seems that every season, Jack tortures more people than the last. Season 6 arguably, had the most torture which led to serious concerns for the show.

David Palmer: Democrat (confirmed by Sherry during season 1)

John Keeler: Republican (He was the opposition during season 3)

Charles Logan: Republican (unconfirmed)

Hal Gardner: Republican (unconfirmed)

Wayne Palmer: Democrat (unconfirmed)

Noah Daniels: Democrat (unconfirmed)

Allison Taylor: Most likely Republican or possibly Libertarian (unconfirmed)

It's impossible to tell how many people have died on the show TOTAL. Jack Bauer's alone kill count is 230 and many other characters have killed before but the most notable death tolls are those in which a bomb or virus has killed a large group of people.

Of all the explosions, gunfights, virus outbreaks, bombings, car accidents, poisonings, plane crashes and any others disasters that have occured over the course of the show I'd have to say close to 50 000 people have been killed on 24.

At the beginning of season 5 President David Palmer was assassinated along with Michelle Dessler because they were the only ones who knew of Jack Bauer's pseudocide (faked death). Tony Almeida was also supposed to die but was injured and put into a coma. During season 5, Tony comes out of his coma only to find that Michelle had been killed. Tony later discovered that Christopher Henderson, a conspirator in the day's events, was in the CTU hospital being tortured. Tony knocks out the CTU torturer and goes at Henderson with a leathal dose of interrogation medication, however, henderson gets a hold of it and stabs Tony with it, supposedly killing him.

In season 7, Tony Almeida is revealed to be alive and involved with a terrorist group that are trying to disrupt President Taylor's invasion of Sangala by blackmailing her with terrorist attacks.FBI and Jack Bauer apprehend Tony and Jack interrogates him. Tony reveals to Jack that he was working with Chloe O'Brain and Bill Buchanan to expose the corrupt dealings of US officials involved with General Juma (the African dictator responsible for Sangala's mass genocide. Jack breaks Tony out of FBI custody and proceeds to work with Chloe and Bill to takedown General Juma and expose the corrupt officials within the US government. During his attack on the White House, General Juma and his men are killed by Jack Bauer. Jack and Tony later rush to secure a bioweapon obtained by Jonas Hodges, the president of Starkwood PMC (Private Military Corp.) Jack and Tony succeed in destroying the bioweapon however Jack is infected. Tony later betrays Jack and kills FBI agent Larry Moss and steals the last canister of the bioweapon. Tony later meets up with Cara Bowden, one of Jonas Hodges' representatives. Tony and Cara plan to use the weapon on a subway and use a fall-guy to plant the weapon. FBI work with Jack to once again, capture Tony and stop the attack. Jack is forced to betray FBI and break Tony out again in exchange for Kim's safety. FBI locate and rescue Kim but Tony and Cara escape with Jack as their hostage and he eventually plans to use Jack's infected blood to re-create the bioweapon. Cara arranges a meeting with Alan Wilson, Jonas Hodges' partner and plans to have Tony officially brought into the group. Tony reveals to Jack that he plans to kill Alan Wilson and Cara using Jack as a suicide bomber to do it. Tony meets Alan Wilson just as Jack frees himself and FBI arrive to takedown everyone. Jack's bomb is taken off and he helps FBI kill Alan Wilson's guards. Tony kills Cara and proceeds to go after Wilson, cornering him and revealing that he was responsible for Tony's son's death and Michelle's death. Jack shoots and wounds Tony and Alan Wilson and Tony are both taken into FBI custody.

Day 5's conspiracy revolved mainly President Charles Logan and his Chief of Staff Walt Cummings, who were involved with defense contractor Christopher Henderson and his associate James Nathanson, all of whom were part of a large conspiracy headed by a group of mysterious men controlling President Logan.

It turns out that Nathanson, Henderson, and Logan were trying to smuggle a bioweapon onto Russian soil and detonate it on a terrorist base in order to form an excuse for the US government to invoke the military clauses of Logan's anti-terrorism treaty, allowing the US government to secure oil interests in Central Asia.

Christopher Henderson is captured by CTU but kills Tony Almeida and escapes; Nathanson and Walt Cummings are both killed, and Charles Logan is exposed at the end of season 5 as the top conspirator and is arrested for treason.

In season 6, Jack Bauer's estranged father, Phillip and his brother Graem are revealed to be part of the Abu Fayed terrorist plot as well as the Charles Logan conspiracy. Graem Bauer is also the man who was controlling Charles Logan in season 5. Phillip Bauer ends up killing his son Graem because he was a liability. Later in the season it is revealed that Phillip was also involved with the Chinese government and Cheng, the man responsible for Jack's torture and imprisonment in China. CTU eventually learns that Phillip is planning on selling a piece of Russian war technology to the Cheng in order to start a war between China, Russia, and USA. CTU tracks Phillip and Cheng to an oil rig that they bomb in order to prevent the device from being found. The bombing seals Phillip Bauer's fate.

In season 7, it is revealed that Alan Wilson, the leader of a mysterious group known only as "Red Dots" is the one who was really behind David Palmer's assassination, Michelle Dessler's death, and Charles Logan's treason. Wilson is apprehended by FBI at the end of season 7.

Because we know that Charles Logan was being controlled by Graem Bauer and his group, we can only assume that Alan Wilson's group (Red Dots) are the same group that Graem Bauer was involved with because in season 7 it is revealed that Wilson was behind Charles Logan, so this is the only possible explaination as to how Alan Wilson could be behind Logan's conspiracy.