24 (season 6) - Season Overview

Season Overview

Season Six is set 20 months after Season Five. Over the last 11 weeks before Day 6, the United States has been targeted coast-to-coast in a series of suicide bombings. A man named Abu Fayed agrees to give the U.S. the location of Hamri Al-Assad, the supposed terrorist mastermind of these attacks, in exchange for former CTU Agent Jack Bauer with whom he has a personal grudge. As a result, President Wayne Palmer has negotiated the release of Bauer under "high-price" terms, who was illegally captured by Chinese government agents.

Season 6 can be divided into three main acts with the first two overlapping somewhat:

1. Terrorist attacks claim thousands of American lives. Jack struggles to convince authorities that Abu Fayed is responsible and also discovers that his own family is involved.
2. With Fayed in possession of five suitcase nukes, CTU races to find them to prevent another disaster from taking place.
3. After the nukes are recovered, the Chinese manipulate Jack into giving them one of the circuit boards, elevating tensions between the United States and Russia.