James Harvey
07-25-2002, 12:22 PM
LA Daily News uncovered some great info about 24's next season:
http://u.dailynews.com/tv/articles/0702/24/tv01.asp
In secret private interviews, the cast and creators of Fox's Emmy-nominated "24" revealed its second-season plot line.
Boy, we hope you didn't buy that.
But they did uncork some choice plot points for the show, praised but not always watched everywhere for its radical real-time format in which a single day is played out over an entire season. Contributing to this rough draft were executive producer Howard Gordon, co-creator Robert Cochran and various cast members, many of whom were so afraid of revealing something they weren't supposed to that it was a little chilling and some of whom didn't even know as much as the reporters talking to them.
Note: Given "24's" penchant for secrecy, Gordon, Cochran et al. could've made all this up and fed it to journalists for giggles. You'll have to wait until Oct. 29 to see.
Next season will transpire from 8 a.m. to 8 a.m. a little over a year from this past season. Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), grieving the death of his wife, Teri (Leslie Hope, who, obviously, won't be returning), has quit the Counter Terrorist Unit and is holed up at home. Daughter Kim (Elisha Cuthbert), who holds Jack responsible for her mom's death, is estranged from him, living with another family as its children's au pair.
David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) is now president, in Los Angeles for a visit. (In addition to L.A., the plot will also take place in the Pacific Northwest.) Learning of a brewing terrorist plot - about which all involved were mum - Palmer calls Jack to investigate. Mason (Xander Berkeley), who was Jack's fly in the butter all last season, is now in charge of CTU, awaiting a transfer to Washington; he'll likely not be too thrilled when Jack returns. Meanwhile, Nina (Sarah Clarke) is in prison but will become crucial to the investigation at some point (Cochran even suggested that perhaps she's a double agent who killed Teri as collateral damage for the good of our country, which is either an interesting twist or a sneaky attempt at utter misdirection). Palmer has divorced Sheri (Penny Johnson Jerald), who returns to the fray at the behest of their children -- can she help or further hurt Palmer?
The new cast member, Sarah Wynter, plays the sister of a young woman preparing to marry a man of Middle-Eastern descent about whom Wynter's character has suspicions.
Cochran says the series will explore the tenuous relationship some Americans currently have with citizens from the Middle East. Are the Wynter character's concerns valid? Well, consider that she will be spending some quality time with Jack and draw your own conclusions. She will likely become something of a romantic interest for Jack, his first since Teri's death.
http://u.dailynews.com/tv/articles/0702/24/tv01.asp
In secret private interviews, the cast and creators of Fox's Emmy-nominated "24" revealed its second-season plot line.
Boy, we hope you didn't buy that.
But they did uncork some choice plot points for the show, praised but not always watched everywhere for its radical real-time format in which a single day is played out over an entire season. Contributing to this rough draft were executive producer Howard Gordon, co-creator Robert Cochran and various cast members, many of whom were so afraid of revealing something they weren't supposed to that it was a little chilling and some of whom didn't even know as much as the reporters talking to them.
Note: Given "24's" penchant for secrecy, Gordon, Cochran et al. could've made all this up and fed it to journalists for giggles. You'll have to wait until Oct. 29 to see.
Next season will transpire from 8 a.m. to 8 a.m. a little over a year from this past season. Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), grieving the death of his wife, Teri (Leslie Hope, who, obviously, won't be returning), has quit the Counter Terrorist Unit and is holed up at home. Daughter Kim (Elisha Cuthbert), who holds Jack responsible for her mom's death, is estranged from him, living with another family as its children's au pair.
David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) is now president, in Los Angeles for a visit. (In addition to L.A., the plot will also take place in the Pacific Northwest.) Learning of a brewing terrorist plot - about which all involved were mum - Palmer calls Jack to investigate. Mason (Xander Berkeley), who was Jack's fly in the butter all last season, is now in charge of CTU, awaiting a transfer to Washington; he'll likely not be too thrilled when Jack returns. Meanwhile, Nina (Sarah Clarke) is in prison but will become crucial to the investigation at some point (Cochran even suggested that perhaps she's a double agent who killed Teri as collateral damage for the good of our country, which is either an interesting twist or a sneaky attempt at utter misdirection). Palmer has divorced Sheri (Penny Johnson Jerald), who returns to the fray at the behest of their children -- can she help or further hurt Palmer?
The new cast member, Sarah Wynter, plays the sister of a young woman preparing to marry a man of Middle-Eastern descent about whom Wynter's character has suspicions.
Cochran says the series will explore the tenuous relationship some Americans currently have with citizens from the Middle East. Are the Wynter character's concerns valid? Well, consider that she will be spending some quality time with Jack and draw your own conclusions. She will likely become something of a romantic interest for Jack, his first since Teri's death.