Season 1
🎬 24 Episodes 📅 2001 ⏱ 45 min
Every second counts when a federal agent discovers interconnected threats that could shatter thousands of lives in a single day. In 24, Jack Bauer races through Los Angeles hunting terrorists, saboteurs, and hidden enemies within his own government, forced to choose between protocol and survival. What begins as a routine investigation spirals into a desperate mission where trust becomes a luxury and every choice carries irreversible consequences. Bauer's greatest enemy isn't always external—sometimes it's the system he's sworn to protect.
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📊 Season Stats
24
Episodes
2001
Year
45
min / ep
18
Watch Hours
1/9
Season No.
⭐ 8.4
Best Episode
Ep. 12 · 11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M.
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🎬 Episodes 24 episodes
1
⭐ 7.6
12:00 A.M.-1:00 A.M.
Moments after discovering his daughter, Kimberly, has snuck out of the house, Jack Bauer is called into work. As head of the CIA's Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit office he's told that an assassination attempt will be made within the next 24 hours on the life of presidential candidate David Palme…
🎬 Stephen Hopkins ✍️ Robert Cochran
2
⭐ 7.9
1:00 A.M.-2:00 A.M.
Teri receives a phone call from Alan York who says his daughter, Janet, is a friend of Kimberly's and is also missing, so the two parents join forces to try and find the girls. Even as Jack is secretly called out of the office and given an encrypted key card containing information on the Palmer hit …
🎬 Stephen Hopkins ✍️ Michael Loceff
3
⭐ 7.5
2:00 A.M.-3:00 A.M.
Kimberly and Janet realize they are in danger after it becomes clear that their two dates have kidnapped them. Despite the threat on his life, Senator Palmer sneaks out of his hotel to meet a reporter who has damaging information that could affect his campaign. Back at the office, Jack has Jamey, a …
🎬 Stephen Hopkins ✍️ Michael Loceff
4
⭐ 8.1
3:00 A.M.-4:00 A.M.
Convinced Jack needs to be relieved of his command, one of his team members, Tony, calls George Mason who arrives and puts the CTU under lock-down. With the help of his second-in-command, Nina, Jack slips out and heads for an address listed on the key card. Once there he encounters a shooter who hin…
🎬 Winrich Kolbe ✍️ Robert Cochran
5
⭐ 8.0
4:00 A.M.-5:00 A.M.
Jack follows the arrested shooter to the police station in hopes of interrogating him only to find that Mason has arrived and taken control of the situation. But when the shooter says he will talk only to Jack, Jack learns he must break the shooter out of jail in order to learn who has kidnapped Kim…
🎬 Winrich Kolbe ✍️ Chip Johannessen
6
⭐ 8.1
5:00 A.M.-6:00 A.M.
Jack meets Teri and Alan York at the hospital where Janet has been admitted. But their reunion is cut short when Jack receives a phone call from Gaines telling him to follow his instructions if he ever wants to see his daughter again. Back at CTU, a dead body found in a car trunk is identified as th…
🎬 Bryan Spicer ✍️ Howard Gordon
7
⭐ 8.1
6:00 A.M.-7:00 A.M.
Now, under constant surveillance from Gaines, Jack goes back to CTU where Nina inadvertently gets in the way of Gains' plan. Teri tries to escape from York, but her call to CTU only brings more help for York. Meanwhile, Palmer tries to convince his family that they need to tell the press about a sec…
🎬 Bryan Spicer ✍️ Andrea Newman
8
⭐ 8.2
7:00 A.M.-8:00 A.M.
In order to save his wife and daughter, Jack is ordered to deliver a briefcase to a man at Senator Palmer's rally. Realizing this man must be the assassin, Jack struggles to find a way to protect both Palmer and his family. Back at the CTU, Nina and Tony think they have found the traitor within the …
🎬 Stephen Hopkins ✍️ Michael Loceff
9
⭐ 8.1
8:00 A.M.-9:00 A.M.
Although he prevents Palmer's assassination, Jack is taken into custody where his story of his kidnapped wife and daughter is not believed. Knowing his family will only be kept alive if he is free to help Gaines, Jack knows he must escape. Back at Gaines' compound, Teri and Kimberly struggle to stay…
🎬 Stephen Hopkins ✍️ Virgil Williams
10
⭐ 8.1
9:00 A.M.-10:00 A.M.
When a new boss, Alberta Green, takes over the CTU, Nina secretly continues to help Jack locate Teri and Kim while Jack tracks down investment banker Ted Cofell, a man who is mentioned on the decrypted key card. A shocked Senator Palmer learns that one of his associates may be willing to commit murd…
🎬 Davis Guggenheim ✍️ Lawrence Hertzog
11
⭐ 8.2
10:00 A.M.-11:00 A.M.
A man named Andre Drazen contacts Gaines. Clearly disappointed that the morning's events did not go as planned he threatens to relieve Gaines of his assignment. Across town, Jack kidnaps Cofell and, after hearing Cofell's Serbian accent, has Nina break into an old case file profiling a secret missio…
🎬 Davis Guggenheim ✍️ Robert Cochran
12
⭐ 8.4
11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M.
While Green pressures Nina and Tony to reveal Jack's whereabouts, York leads Jack to Gaines' compound where Jack attempts to rescue Teri and Kim without backup from CTU. Meanwhile, Senator Palmer's plan to prevent a murder fails and he begins to suspect his wife may have a hand in the conspiracy.
🎬 Stephen Hopkins ✍️ Howard Gordon
13
⭐ 8.3
12:00 P.M.-1:00 P.M.
Jack confronts Gaines who, realizing he has failed Drazen's assignment, chooses death over helping Jack. Back at CTU, Nina and Tony interrogate the mother of the traitor and learn of a secret bank account containing deposits from Belgrade. They also learn that additional assassins may be making thei…
🎬 Stephen Hopkins ✍️ Andrea Newman
14
⭐ 8.2
1:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M.
While Jack is questioned at the CTU, Teri and Kim are taken to the clinic to be examined. Meanwhile, certain he recognizes the name Jack Bauer, Palmer has Jack's background investigated. When he discovers that Jack was the sole survivor of a secret mission that he authorized two years ago, Palmer be…
🎬 Jon Cassar ✍️ Michael Loceff
15
⭐ 7.6
2:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M.
After Jack convinces Palmer he is not trying to kill him, they go over the "Operation Nightfall" file. The goal of the operation was killing a man named Victor Drazen, and a startling piece of information in the file convinces Jack and Palmer that they are both being targeted. Meanwhile, a scare at …
🎬 Jon Cassar ✍️ Michael S. Chernuchin
16
⭐ 7.8
3:00 P.M.-4:00 P.M.
Jack learns that one of the assassins, Alexis Mecir, is actually Victor Drazen's son and has become intimate with one of Palmer's aides. In an attempt to find the man ordering the assassinations, the aide agrees to plant a tracking device in Alexis' wallet. Back at the safe house, Teri and Kim disco…
🎬 Stephen Hopkins ✍️ Robert Cochran
17
⭐ 8.1
4:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M.
During their escape from the safe house Teri and Kim become separated, and the traumatic events of the day result in Teri passing out and then awakening with amnesia. Assuming her mother has been re-kidnapped, Kim conducts her own search for information concerning her mother's abductors. When the pl…
🎬 Stephen Hopkins ✍️ Michael S. Chernuchin
18
⭐ 8.0
5:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M.
Against his family's wishes, Senator Palmer decides to go public about the secret scandal surrounding his family. Even as Alexis' brother, Andre, sends another assassin to the Bauer residence in hopes of finding Teri and Kim, a confused and scared Teri meets Dr. Parslow, a man who says they are good…
🎬 Frederick King Keller ✍️ Maurice Hurley
19
⭐ 8.1
6:00 P.M.-7:00 P.M.
Alexis' contact turns out to be a power company worker who was being paid to shut off the electricity to a power grid out in the middle of an empty field. As Jack and Mason follow up on that lead, Kim's search for information lands her in jail, even as Palmer's press conference disclosure could ulti…
🎬 Frederick King Keller ✍️ Michael Loceff
20
⭐ 8.3
7:00 P.M.-8:00 P.M.
As Kim tries to get the police to call CTU, Jack discovers that the empty field where the power grid is located actually houses a secret underground government prison and that night's scheduled arrival is none other than Victor Drazen, the man Jack supposedly killed two years ago. Now Jack's convinc…
🎬 Stephen Hopkins ✍️ Robert Cochran
21
⭐ 8.2
8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M.
Jack's fears are proven true when Andre Drazen breaks into the underground facility to rescue his father. With Jack as his prisoner Victor calls CTU, but Mason tells him he doesn't negotiate with terrorists. Desperate to buy some time, Jack tells Victor that his son, Alexis, is still alive. Back at …
🎬 Stephen Hopkins ✍️ Michael Loceff
22
⭐ 8.2
9:00 P.M.-10:00 P.M.
Jack has Nina connect Victor Drazen to a hospital phone so he can talk directly to Alexis. Nina then advises Palmer of the situation. Palmer urges Mason to arrange the exchange Drazen proposed: the return of Jack for the return of Alexis. Although Alexis is delivered, Drazen holds onto Kim and tells…
🎬 Paul Shapiro ✍️ Michael Loceff
23
⭐ 8.3
10:00 P.M.-11:00 P.M.
Jack arrives at Palmer's hotel with a phone on which Drazen will call and ask Palmer to unfreeze $200,000,000 of his assets. When Palmer tells Jack that Drazen knows that's impossible, Jack grabs the phone and throws it off the balcony. It explodes seconds later. Realizing Drazen will never give up,…
🎬 Paul Shapiro ✍️ Robert Cochran
24
⭐ 8.3
11:00 P.M.-12:00 A.M.
When Jack arrives at Drazen's location, he calls and asks to speak to Kim. Andre angrily refuses and says that they known Palmer is not really dead. Stunned, Jack hangs up and immediately calls Nina to tell her there's still a traitor inside CTU. Momentarily uncertain how to proceed, Jack is suddenl…
🎬 Stephen Hopkins ✍️ Howard Gordon