Character: Audrey Heller Raines 

Summary: Audrey begs Jack not to tell her father about their secret relationship. She accompanies Heller to her brother’s house. Jack gets news that Heller is the real target for the terrorists, but it is too late -- Audrey and Heller are kidnapped.
Audrey and her father are taken to a warehouse compound. Audrey is panicked, but Heller assures her that they will be rescued. The terrorists decide against killing her right away in case she becomes useful.
Heller tells Audrey to try to escape once his trial begins. She is afraid to leave her father.
Audrey notices that her father is having trouble breathing, and she asks one of the guards to get him his heart medication. Heller fakes a heart attack to knock out the guard. Audrey punches the guy with a hammer. She and Heller try to escape, but are caught by Omar.
Audrey convinces her father that his signing the confession papers was not traitorous to his country. She refuses to take his life, and instead decides to end both of their lives together. As they slowly inhale toxic fumes from a gas leak, Omar removes them from the cell to save them. Audrey recognizes one of the terrorists.
After Jack saves her, Audrey tries to identify the man she recognized in the compound. She remembers that she met him at a political function. Audrey’s husband Paul comes to Los Angeles to get back together, but she tells him that she is in love with someone else. Heller figures out that Audrey and Jack are a couple.
Paul attempts to make amends with Audrey, but she asks for a divorce. Audrey goes with Jack to ID the man from the compound who she had met at a party. When they are attacked by terrorists at the security company, Audrey is forced to take a weapon and fire back. Tony Almeida saves Jack and Audrey’s lives.
Audrey is shaken after another attempt on her life, and she rests at Tony’s house. After Jack goes to find the suspect, Audrey is brought back to CTU by the Secret Service and is reunited with her father.
With CTU low on manpower, Audrey intervenes to coordinate the police effort. She makes an attempt to help Edgar rescue his mother but is unsuccessful. Audrey gets word that the radiation cloud emitted from the reactor is headed for the area over where citizens are trapped in a clogged evacuation route.
Jack tells Audrey that her husband Paul is connected to the terrorists. She calls Paul and pretends that she wants to talk about reconciliation. Audrey goes alone to Paul’s hotel and tries to stall until Jack can meet her there. Paul is suspicious of her motives and he becomes violent. Jack arrives just in time to apprehend Paul.
Audrey is horrified when Jack uses shock treatment to get Paul to talk. She doesn’t believe that Paul was aligned with the terrorists. When Paul apologizes for putting her in harm’s way, she reaches out to him. Jack notices the warmth between them.
Audrey returns to CTU as Paul accompanies Jack to the company with the Override device because Paul knows their computer system. She asks Jack to take care of her husband.
After seeing Jack in the field, Audrey questions her feelings for him. She tells Tony that she is sure Jack will want to return to his desk job, but Tony isn’t convinced.
Audrey is upset about Paul’s dire condition, and she confesses to her father that she didn’t realize how much she cared for him until he was harmed.
As Audrey waits for Paul to be released from surgery, Tony lets her know about Jack’s status. She vehemently demands that Michelle bring Jack back alive.
Jack tells Audrey that they need to talk about what has happened today, and he promises to call back. After Paul comes out of surgery paralyzed, Audrey is emotional when she says that what he did for Jack was brave.
Audrey informs Jack that Heller wants him to focus on recovering the Nuclear Football. When Audrey seems distracted, Jack tells her to focus on the work instead of worrying about Paul. She says she can’t separate herself like he does. Jack later apologizes for sounding like he doesn’t care.
Audrey tearfully tells Jack that Paul’s condition is not stable. When Jack returns to CTU, she tries to speak to him. Yet Jack leaves in a hurry without divulging to Audrey what he is doing.
When Audrey finds out that Jack went against the President’s orders and tortured the suspect, she lashes out at him. Jack has no time to argue, so Audrey confronts Buchanan. He says that she doesn’t know what it’s like in the field.
Audrey gets approval for Paul to be moved to a special hospital and she is going with him. However, she doesn’t tell Jack about her plans. When Paul has trouble breathing, the doctor performs an emergency surgery to fix his heart. Jack forces the doctor to stop the operation in order to save a suspect in the terrorist plot. Paul dies, and Audrey accuses Jack of killing her husband. She screams at Jack that she hates him.
When Jack tries to console Audrey, she wants nothing to do with him. CTU falsifies the hourly reports to make it appear that Jack had been working with Audrey during the time of the raid on the Consul. Although she is angry that she is being forced to lie, Audrey does not tell the Chinese official anything to implicate Jack or the U.S. government.
Jack permits Audrey to speak to her brother before he starts the interrogation. Heller returns, and is able to get Richard to admit that he was seduced by a man whose partner may have used his phone to call Marwan. Jack says that he was reluctant to tell Audrey about what he’s done for CTU in fear that she wouldn’t love him anymore. Audrey is exhausted and doesn’t want to talk. Jack promises to hash it all out later.
Audrey searches the satellite for the missile, but comes up empty-handed. Palmer asks her to compile disaster scenarios for all the possibly threatened cities.
As Audrey prepares to transport Paul’s body, she speaks with Jack one last time. Although Jack professes his love to her, Audrey cannot live with his CTU lifestyle because this is where he belongs. She ends their relationship, kissing him goodbye. When Audrey finds out that Jack has died, she breaks down in tears.

Actor: Nestor Serrano

Character: Navi Araz 

Summary: Navi is a Middle-Eastern business man. His business is a front for his terrorist activities. The briefcase obtained in the train bomb is brought to Navi, who will use his son Behrooz to deliver it to their accomplice. Navi believes that Behrooz is still seeing his American girlfriend even though he told him to no longer have contact with her.
Navi instructs his henchman to kill Andrew Paige, who tapped into their web server. When Behrooz returns home from delivering the device, Navi slaps him for allowing his girlfriend to compromise the mission.
When Dina calls him about Behrooz’s situation with the girlfriend, Navi asks her help in making a decision. Dina says that she will handle it herself.Dina calls Navi to let him know that she is sure Behrooz’s girlfriend didn’t tell anyone about the warehouse compound. Navi feels that his son must kill the girl because he created the problem.
Navi returns home to find Debbie dead, and he tells his son that what he did was necessary. When Debbie’s mother goes looking for her, Navi sends Dina out to follow the woman.
Navi sends Behrooz with one of the henchman to dispose of Debbie’s body. Yet he admits to Dina that their leader Marwan wants Behrooz killed. Navi thinks that Behrooz never believed in their cause.
Navi is shocked to hear that Behrooz killed their hit man. He orders Dina to meet up with Behrooz, and he will follow. Navi has his men fire at Dina and Behrooz, and they hit Dina in the arm. Dina and Behrooz escape. Navi is forced to tell Marwan the news. Marwan threatens Navi that he will pay for what he has caused today.
After being chided for not controlling his family on such an important day, Navi assures Marwan that he will make sure both Dina and Behrooz are killed.
Navi goes to the hospital where Behrooz has been spotted. Navi captures him and escapes from the CTU agents, threatening to kill his son.
With Behrooz as hostage, Navi lets Marwan know that government agents have captured Dina and are surrounding him. He plans to use his son as leverage. Navi gets distracted by Jack, and Behrooz kills Navi when his back is turned.

Actor: Shohreh Aghadashloo

Character: Dina Araz

Summary: Dina is Navi's wife. She is involved in her husband's business. Dina explains to her son Behrooz that their family’s mission is a difficult one.
Dina offers to take Behrooz’s place in delivering the device. But Navi insists that their son do the job.
Dina agrees to talk to her husband on Behrooz’s behalf to save the girlfriend Debbie. Yet when Dina calls Navi, she tells him that she will handle it. Dina assures Behrooz that he doesn’t need to bring the girl over. Instead, Dina summons Debbie to the house herself.
Dina graciously offers Debbie tea and inquires about who she told about Behrooz’s earlier delivery. Debbie hasn’t spoken to anyone, and Dina calls her husband. They agree that Behrooz should kill the girl himself. Dina gives her son a gun. Knowing that Behrooz won’t kill Debbie, Dina poisons Debbie’s tea.
Dina plugs a bullet into Debbie’s body to make it seem like Behrooz killed her. When Debbie’s mother grows suspicious over her daughter’s disappearance, Dina goes to follow the woman.
Dina is upset when she learns that Behrooz is going to be killed on Marwan’s orders.
Dina is surprised when she gets a call from Behrooz, and she promises to pick him up. Dina lashes out at her husband for trying to kill their son and says she will never forgive him. She agrees to let Navi follow her to the meeting point, but instead of taking Behrooz to face retribution, Dina urges him to run away. Navi and his men shoot Dina. Behrooz jumps in her car and they escape.
Dina tries to convince Behrooz to leave her so that he can save himself, but he takes her to the emergency room. A suspicious doctor notifies the police when he sees her gunshot wound. Dina and Behrooz escape the hospital before she can be treated.
Dina attempts to shoot herself when CTU raids her hotel room, but Jack pulls the gun away. She refuses to give any answers until Jack says that he can grant clemency for Behrooz and protect him from Navi. Fearing for her son’s life, Dina leads the agents to the hospital where Behrooz went. She is horrified when she sees Navi escape with Behrooz at gunpoint. Knowing that it is too late to save her son, Dina tells Jack that she is glad the plan is moving forward to cause a nuclear meltdown.
Jack has Dina phone her husband so that they can distract him. After Behrooz kills Navi, Dina is relieved that her son is alive. The only information that she can give to Jack is an address where most of their operations took place. Dina and Behrooz are taken back to CTU for questioning.
At first, Dina doesn’t give up any important information to Tony. He then threatens to send Behrooz to prison where he will be so tortured that he will want to kill himself. Dina finally relents, and tells Tony that Marwan is the cell leader who has the Override device.
Jack convinces Dina that he will allow her to be with her son if she cooperates with an undercover operation to find Marwan. Dina assures Behrooz that she is only doing this to let them reunite, but Behrooz is still afraid for her. When Marwan asks her to prove her loyalty by shooting Jack, Dina instead turns the gun on Marwan. The chamber is empty. Marwan has her killed.

Actor: Jonathan Ahdout

Character: Behrooz Araz

Summary: Behrooz is angry that his father, Navi, has been listening to his phone calls and reading his emails to see if he is still dating his American girlfriend. His role in the mission is to deliver a briefcase from the train explosion.
After his girlfriend Debbie follows him to the compound, Behrooz must tell her that his parents don’t want him seeing her because she isn’t Muslim. He promises to meet her later. When Behrooz returns home, his father slaps him for what happened. Navi orders him to summon Debbie to the house.
Behrooz asks his mother for help in convincing Navi not to kill Debbie. He is pleased when Dina assures him that he doesn’t have to bring Debbie over. Yet Behrooz is horrified when Dina summons Debbie herself.
Behrooz is wary of his mother’s kindness to Debbie. Yet Dina hands him a gun, saying that both she and her husband feel he has to be the one to kill his girlfriend. Behrooz can’t do it, and he warns Debbie to leave. Yet Debbie falls down, drugged by Dina’s tea. Behrooz weeps over her death.
Behrooz goes along with Dina’s plan to convince Navi that he was the one who killed Debbie. When Debbie’s mother shows up looking for her daughter, Behrooz says that he hasn’t seen her.
Behrooz is sent to bury Debbie’s body with one of the henchmen, but he realizes that he is the one who will be killed. Behrooz learns that his father put the hit out on him, so he murders the henchman instead.
Behrooz calls Dina and tells her that he killed Tariq. He asks her to come get him. When Dina arrives, she tells him that Navi has followed them. Navi’s men fire and hit Dina. Behrooz jumps in her car and they manage to escape.
Behrooz convinces his mother that she needs to get medical attention on her gunshot wound. Although Dina wants him to save himself, he insists that they stay together. At the hospital, a doctor notifies the authorities when he sees the ailment. Dina and Behrooz flee before the police can question them.
With his mother’s condition worsening, Behrooz goes to a nearby hospital where his uncle works to get some medicine. Navi has the uncle stall Behrooz under the pretense that he is a drug-user. Dina calls Behrooz and says that she has been captured by the police. She has made a deal to ensure he won’t be sent to prison and has arranged for the authorities to pick him up. Behrooz learns that Navi is coming there too, and he tries to flee. Navi captures Behrooz and kills the uncle. With Behrooz as hostage, Navi avoids Jack’s gunfire to escape into the hospital garage basement.
Navi hides Behrooz in the hospital laundry room. Jack raids the room and when he is about to apprehend Navi, Behrooz shoots his father in the back. Behrooz is reunited with Dina and they are taken back to CTU.
Dina is brought to Behrooz’s holding cell, and she tells him that she will help CTU find Marwan in order for them to be together. Behrooz knows this is dangerous, and he begs his mother not to do it.
Behrooz undergoes torture, but still maintains that he doesn’t know anything about Marwan. Curtis takes him from CTU in order to make a trade for Jack. He tells Behrooz that Dina is aware of this. Behrooz is terrified, knowing that Marwan will kill him. When Behrooz is handed over, the terrorists remove the tracking device that CTU planted in his head. They also tell him that his mother is dead. Behrooz doesn’t believe it.

Actress: Alberta Watson

Character: Erin Driscoll

Summary: Erin is the new Director of CTU. She fired Jack because of his drug addiction and generally cleaned up CTU. Cutting short a budget meeting with Jack, Driscoll watches a feed of a raid. Jack gives her advice on how to nab the guy, and Driscoll is annoyed by his interference even when it proves successful. She watches in horror as Jack shoots the captured suspect. Yet Jack gets the guy to admit that Heller is the real target.
Driscoll has Jack apprehended for torturing a suspect. After he threatens her credibility, she allows him to assist her field ops in chasing a lead on Heller.
Driscoll is frustrated when her staff can’t locate Jack or the terrorists. She orders Curtis to use torture on Richard Heller to get information, but Curtis refuses. Driscoll brings in a consultant, Marianne, who makes Curtis uncomfortable because they once had an affair.
Driscoll’s neighbor calls the police with a complaint about Driscoll’s schizophrenic teenage daughter, Maya. Driscoll has Sarah illegally send an agent in place of the LAPD to pick up the girl. Driscoll confirms her suspicions that Chloe has been helping Jack, and she has her arrested. Driscoll wants to apprehend Kalil despite Jack’s wishes not to. Yet they have Kalil’s call traced and she realizes that he is going to where Heller is being held.
Driscoll’s daughter Maya is safely brought to the CTU clinic. With Jack’s information proving credible, Driscoll allows him to take the lead in the field. Yet when the White House orders a strike on the compound before the trial can convict Heller, Driscoll warns Jack to abandon the raid. He disobeys her warnings and goes in alone.
Driscoll makes every attempt to protect Jack from the missile attack. Heller commends Driscoll for her judgment calls that resulted in his being saved. Yet she knows that Jack was the one who was right all along.
Driscoll notices that her daughter was given the wrong medication, and she panics when Maya can’t be revived. Driscoll is summoned back to work, where the CTU techs have narrowed the at-risk nuclear reactors down to six.
After Heller’s trap names Sarah as the mole in CTU, Driscoll interrogates her but finds nothing. Driscoll believes that Sarah doesn’t match the profile. Edgar reveals to Driscoll that it was Marianne who was using Sarah’s computer to send transmissions.
Driscoll and Curtis agree to cover themselves if questioned about Marianne’s CTU breach. When Edgar’s mother is trapped in the evacuation, Driscoll must convince him to remain at work.
Driscoll reinstates Tony at CTU. She asks Sarah, who has just recovered from being tortured, to spy on Tony. Sarah knows that Driscoll feels her power is threatened by Jack and Tony, and Sarah agrees to help if Driscoll gives her a promotion. Driscoll agrees.
Amidst trying to lead her team in nabbing the Override device, Driscoll is sidetracked when her daughter Maya becomes violent in the clinic. Driscoll is not able to calm her down, and Maya is angry that her mother won’t take her home. When Maya commits suicide, Driscoll is distraught.
After Maya’s body is taken from CTU, Driscoll becomes distracted and falls faint in a meeting. At Heller’s urging, she agrees to take time off. She passes her command to Tony.

Actor: Mary Lynn Rajskub

Character: Chloe O'Brian

Summary: Chloe is still an analyst at CTU. Chloe is proven correct when she figures out that the bombing of the train is not the same as a rumored threat an hour later. She is even more sure when her programmer friend finds a code that could bring down the entire internet. Although Driscoll refuses to take Chloe’s conclusions seriously, Jack does. Chloe helps him discover the terrorists’ real intentions.
Chloe sneaks into Jack’s holding room to tell him about her friend’s findings on the web. They call Andrew and assure him that Jack will pick him up. Driscoll questions Chloe’s loyalty and she admits that she trusts Jack more.
Chloe secretly accesses the CTU satellite to help Jack track the suspect. She is horrified when she sees her friend Andrew tortured and about to be slain. She breaks down in tears.
Knowing that Driscoll is on to her, Chloe asks Edgar to help her track the satellite for Jack because her system is being monitored. She gets the satellite up for Jack just as she is caught by Driscoll, who has her arrested.
Driscoll allows Chloe the chance to save face and avoid jail by signing her own resignation. Chloe takes the offer. As she is walking out, Chloe assures Edgar that she didn’t name him as an accomplice.
Chloe is called back to CTU by Michelle in order to help Jack. Chloe agrees, and immediately takes charge when she returns. Chloe arranges the satellite feed to monitor Jack and she is able to keep Edgar in check.
Chloe finds out that she now has to report to Edgar and is annoyed by this. She tells Edgar to prioritize his new responsibilities, and the overworked Edgar ignores an important piece of evidence about the terrorist plot.
After Edgar screws up a task because he is upset about his mother, Chloe takes the rap for him. She does this even though telling the truth would have given her back her old job.
Chloe breaks the news that Air Force One has crashed.
After Edgar gets worked up about the suspect being released, Chloe urges him to get back to his job.
Edgar gives Chloe attitude, but she is vindicated when she takes a call from a woman whose boyfriend has suspicious files on his laptop. Chloe verifies that the information is a diagram of the trigger on the missing nuclear warhead. Buchanan orders Chloe to go to the woman’s house to decrypt the other files, and Chloe is nervous about being in the field. Her fears are warranted when one of Marwan’s men raids the house and shoots the accompanying agents. Chloe and the woman escape, and Chloe uses a CTU weapon to kill the gunman.
Chloe is strangely unfazed by the fact that she just killed a man, and she continues to work on decrypting the laptop. She returns to CTU and admits to Edgar that she doesn’t know why it has not affected her.
In a moment of attempted normalcy, Chloe offers to be a sounding board for Jack’s troubles. Unfortunately, Chloe picks the worst time to try to be friendly. When the Chinese official tricks Edgar into giving up information that would incriminate CTU, Chloe pulls Edgar away and calls him an idiot.
When Marwan escapes, Chloe loses him on the satellite. Yet she is able to track down the location where a cab drove the suspects from Richard’s house.
Chloe and Buchanan trade looks when Michelle loses her cool about Tony’s capture.
With Edgar’s help, Chloe is able to decipher what was left on Marwan’s PDA as a flight plan for the missile. They get the information to the Air Force in time to intercept the missile. When Jack fakes his own death, Chloe is one of the few people at CTU who are in the loop. She arranges to intercept the coroner to switch the bodies.

Actor: William Devane

Character: Secretary of Defense James Heller

Summary: Heller dispatches Jack to CTU to find out more about the train bomb, but he won’t grant Jack authority over the investigation. Heller visits his son Richard to try to convince him not to protest against the President. While at Richard’s, Heller and daughter Audrey are abducted.
Heller tries to comfort his daughter when they are imprisoned. The terrorists strip him of his suit and parade him on a web-streamed video. He is tied up in front of masked men who threaten to submit him to a trial for war crimes where the sentence is death.
Heller is upset that his daughter is being subjected to this torture when it was only meant for him. He refuses to sign the terrorists list of offenses until they threaten Audrey.
When Audrey inquires about his heart medicine Heller gets an idea to fake a heart attack. The guard comes into the cell, and Heller takes him down and grabs his gun. He and Audrey make their way of the compound, and he kills a few guards. Omar captures them and threatens to kill Audrey if any more of his men are dead.
Embarrassed by signing the confession statement, Heller wants Audrey to kill him so that the terrorists’ plan is foiled. She would rather end both their lives. They break open a gas pipe, but Omar revives them before they die. Heller is brought to the video broadcast for the start of his trial.
Just as Heller is to be executed, Jack rescues him. Heller and Jack shoot down the other guards and are saved by the Marines. Heller realizes that Audrey and Jack are together. He reunites with his son, but then allows CTU to continue subjecting Richard to sensory disorientation. Heller suspects that Richard is still hiding something.
Heller advises Paul to let Audrey make up her own mind about their marriage. Heller sees Richard, who is furious at his father for allowing CTU to torture him. CTU manages to regain control of some of the nuclear reactors, but six are still at risk. Heller must alert the President.
After learning there is a mole within CTU, Heller has his assistant plant phony information on Jack’s location to see who transmits it. Their lead points to Sarah, but Driscoll gets nothing when she interrogates her.
Heller reports to the President that one of the reactors is already in meltdown. He is alarmed when Audrey gives him the news that the radiation cloud emitted from the reactor is blowing towards the clogged evacuation route.
Heller allows Audrey to go to the local Defense Department office to help out. He learns that his son-in-law Paul has connections to the terrorists. Heller is furious when he finds out that Audrey went by herself to meet up with Paul.
Heller is wary of Audrey’s safety at the building where Jack has located the terrorists. After Edgar is able to thwart the meltdowns on the nuclear reactors, Heller congratulates Driscoll and her staff.
Heller encourages Driscoll to take leave from her position. He appoints Tony as interim director and asks District to send a permanent replacement.
Audrey tells her father that her feelings for Jack might have changed since she saw him in the field.
With the potential for more attacks looming, the President orders Heller to work with a general to lay out options for martial law. Heller leaves CTU for this secretive meeting.
Heller returns to CTU when his son is connected to Marwan. He gets Richard to confess that he had an affair with a man whose female partner may have used his cell phone to call Marwan. This is how the terrorists found out about Heller’s unscheduled visit. Although Richard thinks his father is ashamed of his lifestyle, Heller is more disappointed that he didn’t come clean in the first place to stop the terrorist threat.

Supporting Cast:

Arnold Vosloo as Habib Marwan
Roger Cross as Curtis Manning
Mia Kirshner as Mandy
Lana Parrilla as Sarah Gavin
Louis Lombardi as Edgar Stiles
James Frain as Paul Raines
James Morrison as Bill Buchanan
Geoff Pierson as President John Keeler
Gregory Itzin as Vice-President/President Charles Logan
Jude Ciccolella as Mike Novick
Glenn Morshower as Agent Aaron Pierce
John Allen Nelson as Walt Cummings
Logan Marshall-Green as Richard Heller
Cameron Bancroft as Lee Castle
Shawn Doyle as Director Of Field Ops Ronnie Lobell
Aisha Tyler as Marianne Taylor
Ned Vaughn as Mitch Anderson
Tony Plana as Omar
Anil Kumar as Kalil Hasan
Robertson Dean as Henry Powell
Faran Tahir as Tomas Sherek
Tzi Ma as Cheng Zhi
Peter Chin as Lee Jong
Dagmara Dominczyk as Nicole
Joseph Hodge as Dar
Robert Cicchini as Howard Bern
Leighton Meester as Debbie Cutler

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