'24'
DOUBLE TAP
The following takes place approximately 13 months after the events of 24: Day/Season 3 . The story assumes that Day 1 occurred 4 and a half years earlier, Day 2, 3 years earlier. Further, though the timing isn't exactly accurate, it is just before the electoral primaries are set to begin again, with President David Palmer having decided not to run for re-election. Palmer is a lame-duck, just filling time and his place as President, trying to stay out of the limelight, and to avoid any further scandal.
Unfortunately, there may still be factions of power-people in and around the government who hold a grudge or believe that Palmer still serves a purpose, as a martyr or a puppet..
At the same time, in Los Angeles, California, ex-CTU Field Ops Leader, Jack Bauer is enjoying his freedom for the first time in many, many years. He has successfully gone through drug rehab for his job-related heroin-addiction that started 2 years earlier, and allowed him to get close to the Salazars, a family of Mexican drug czars who became intent on acquiring a deadly virus to sell to the highest terrorist bidder. Life is finally back to normal for Jack and his 22-year old daughter, Kim; Jack has reconnected with Kate Warner, a dear friend Jack met during Day 2, only to lose her to his heroin addiction before Day 3. Second chances, reclaiming a life thought lost will be a recurring theme of this story..
Meanwhile, Kim Bauer is busy planning her wedding to Jack's fellow agent and partner, Chase Edmunds. Chase has had some trials of his own over the last year, after the events of Day 3, having undergone serious limb-reattachment surgery, to regain use of his left hand, the limb which was severed (by Jack) in order to free Chase from the container filled with the last remaining active vial of the deadly virus. Chase and Kim have had to deal with the recovery process together, and it hasn't been easy, especially as Kim has also had to get used to becoming an 'instant Mommy' to Chase's 1 year-old daughter, Angela, from a previous relationship.
Kate Warner returns to Jack and Kim's life, even as her sister Marie is facing death by execution for her part in the events of Day 3. Sinister forces have a plot in mind for Kate, Marie, and their father, Bob Warner, President and CEO of Warner Industries, an international trade company with ties to many foreign countries around the world.
At CTU, things have changed as well, following George Mason's heroic death near the end of Day 2, then Ryan Chappelle's assassination, again at the hands of Jack Bauer, during Day 3, and finally, interim CTU Director Tony Almeida's arrest and imprisonment for treason, due to his blatant disregard for protocol and public safety, putting the life of his wife, fellow CTU agent Michelle Dessler, over the lives of hundreds, possibly thousands, of innocent Californian citizens.
Relationships will be tested, promises made and broken, life will take twists and turns in unimaginable ways, never to be quite the same again, after the events of this day..
Settle in, pop the corn, turnout the lights and prepare to be blown away.. '24' Day 4: DOUBLE TAP is about to begin!!