Day 6: 6:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m. (14 Jan. 2007)

A new U.S. President has negotiated Jack's release from a Chinese prison so Jack can stop a series of terror attacks... with his life.

Director:

Jon Cassar

Writers:

Joel Surnow (creator), Robert Cochran (creator),

Stars:

Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, D.B. Woodside

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Kiefer Sutherland	...	Jack Bauer
Mary Lynn Rajskub	...	Chloe O'Brian
D.B. Woodside	...	President Wayne Palmer (as DB Woodside)
James Morrison	...	Bill Buchanan
Peter MacNicol	...	Tom Lennox
Jayne Atkinson	...	Karen Hayes
Carlo Rota	...	Morris O'Brian
Eric Balfour	...	Milo Pressman
Marisol Nichols	...	Nadia Yassir
Roger R. Cross	...	Curtis Manning (as Roger Cross)
Michael Angarano	...	Scott Wallace
Megan Gallagher	...	Jillian Wallace
Tzi Ma	...	Cheng Zhi
Adoni Maropis	...	Abu Fayed
Kal Penn	...	Ahmed Amar

Storyline

Season Six picks up 20 months after last season's shocking season finale, when Jack Bauer was captured by Chinese government agents battered, bloodied and headed for points unknown. As a series of horrific terrorist attacks rocks the nation, President Wayne Palmer, the strong-minded brother of the late President David Palmer, and his team of advisors, Karen Hayes and Thomas Lennox as well as CTU colleagues Chloe O'Brian, Curtis Manning and Bill Buchanan begin an unthinkable, nail-biting day.

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 January 2007 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

20th Century Fox Television, Real Time Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

When the man is refused entry to the bus, the passengers inside the bus are seen and there is a women sitting behind the man with the newspaper. In the next shot inside the bus this seat is empty and she cannot be seen anywhere even though it is "real time" and little more than ten seconds has passed.

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Quotes

Jack Bauer: Do you understand the difference between dying for something and dying for nothing? Today I can die for something. My way. My choice

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Connections

Featured in Screenwipe: Episode #3.2 (2007)

User Reviews

This season starts in a hurry

When compared to all the previous seasons, this one seems to start in a hurry. In the previous seasons, the new characters were introduced in a way that the viewer gets time to sink them inside. But the things start at a pace in this season. They must be counting on the maturity of the viewer of 24, which must have increased with all these passing seasons.

Needless to say, the character of Jack Bauer has grown with time and the piece of acting we get to see in this first episode says it all.

But the plot does leaves me with questions. How come Jack Bauer could not escape from the Chinese? The fact that he remained in the Chinese capture does not do justice with the level of intelligence he has.

Maybe, they have kept a answer for this in the coming episodes!