8.845 minSeason 9 • Episode 12
LatestThe clock ticks toward the final seconds of Jack Bauer's most heroic day. As the world teeters on a terror plot of mass proportions, Jack and the team reunite one last time to avert an imminent international crisis. With little time left and the fate of the free world on the line, Jack is faced with an unthinkable and grave decision. Lives will be lost and the American administration will grapple with the day's most devastating news as the clock stops.
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
Acting
Kiefer Sutherland's whisper-scream is an art form
Editing
Split-screen suspense invented tension as aesthetic
Writing
Mole reveals hit harder than actual explosions
Creators
Joel Surnow, Robert Cochran
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
24 premiered 2 months after 9/11 and became post-9/11 America's anxiety made television—debates about its torture depictions reached the Supreme Court.
The iconic digital clock sound was created by recording a stopwatch and manipulating it—Kiefer Sutherland refused to know mole identities in advance to preserve genuine suspicion.
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