History Series / TwentyFourLiveAnotherDay

** [[spoiler:Cheng Zhi kills off Adrian Cross and everyone else at Open Cell after Cross hands over the override device.]]

''24: Live Another Day'' is a 12-part ''Series/TwentyFour'' miniseries that continues the saga of Jack Bauer, former CTU operative and all-around badass. Taking place four years after the previous series ended, it features Jack, now considered a traitor to the US and an enemy to Russia, attempting to once more prevent a terrorist attack, this time in London, England.

* {{Blackmail}}: Kate does this to her informant in the London Metropolitan Police. She threatens to tell his DCI that he has been on the CIA's payroll for a number of years, unless he gives her information regarding Jack.

* UnexpectedCharacter: Absolutely no one in-universe or out expected [[spoiler: Cheng Zhi]] as the final villain.
* VengefulWidow: Margot Al-Harazi seeks revenge on President James Heller for ordering the drone strike that killed her terrorist husband.

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* ArtisticLicenceGeography: The notion that Jack could have made it from Knightsbridge to Southampton in less than a hour, driving a SUV - whilst also stopping to pick up Chloe - is comical. The distance is about 80 miles, and 10 of those miles are spent navigating London's urban streets.
* BadBoss: Margot, whose quest for vengeance means she'll kill pretty much anybody, up to and including members of her own family. Chopping her own daughter's finger off is nothing to her. One by one, everyone working for her (''most'' of them family) realizes how insane she is and tries to pull a ScrewThisImOuttaHere. However, surviving her wrath while doing that is ''not'' easy.

* BavarianFireDrill: Upon [[spoiler: instigating a panicked crowd to barrage the US Embassy so he can enter it]], Jack knocks out a DSS Agent and steals his jacket. He then attempts to evacuate Lt. Tanner in order to obtain his flight key. Tanners superior remains suspicious of Jack, who knocks him out when he attempts to make a call to confirm Jacks 'orders'.

** The demonstrations against President Heller and his administrations use of drones are reminiscent of the protests on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

* {{Fingore}}: Margot has one of her goons ''chisel off her own daughters finger'' simply as a threat to her daughters husband who is having second thoughts about the mission.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Mark Boudreau, Audrey's new husband threatens Jack with this. His over protectiveness of Audrey is further shown when he [[spoiler: ''commits treason'' by forging the presidents signature on an agreement with the Russians to hand Jack over to them]].

* SequelHook: The short ''24: Solitary'' that is included on the Blu-Ray release serves as one. [[spoiler: Tony is given plans by a shadowy organization to escape the prison he's being held in, but their motives are unclear. Tony also seemingly claims that he wants to atone for his actions during the seventh season. Additionally, the operative who gave Tony the plans the is seen contacting her unseen boss who's voiced by Creator/XanderBerkeley, who played George Mason in the first two seasons, with it being left up on the air if it's just some huge coincidence or if he actually does have some relation to Mason.]]

* RealityEnsues:
** You do not murder a foreign government official without having his countrymen actively pursue you. Bauer, tired of running, needing to ensure Chloe's safety, decides to surrender himself to the Russians and have done with their feud.
** [[spoiler:Cheng Zhi's]] motivation is the result of this. [[spoiler:After all his actions during Day 6 such as kidnapping, faking the death of, and torturing Audrey or working with Jack's terrorist father which would be seen as war crimes, his government now wants nothing to do with him and he was abandoned to life imprisonment, contrary to his previous belief that they'd do everything in their power to save him. Being [[TheSociopath the type of person]] he is, it seems to completely fly over his head that his actions were what led to his being declared a traitor and he breaks out of prison for revenge.]]

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Would hardly be 24 without one. Cheng Zhi is killed and America and China narrowly avoid going to war with each other, but unfortunately Audrey is killed, Kate leaves the CIA out of shame for failing to protect her (with some guilt over the revelation of her late husband's innocence to boot), President Heller has Alzheimer's and will most likely not even remember that he had a daughter that was killed, and Jack is forced to hand himself over to the Russians in exchange for Chloe.]]

** [[spoiler:Cheng Zhi's]] motivation is the result of this. [[spoiler:After all his actions during Day 6 such as kidnapping, faking the death of, and torturing Audrey or working with Jack's terrorist father which would be seen as war crimes, his government now wants nothing to do with him and he was abandoned to life imprisonment, contrary to his previous belief that they'd do everything in their power to save him. Being the type of person he is, he breaks out of prison for revenge.]]

* GenreSavvy: Aron "Basher" Bashir. When he and his gang are captured by Morgan and the CIA, he continues to mouth off at them, knowing that as Americans operating on foreign soil, they have no legal authority to arrest him.
-->'''Basher:''' I don't know exactly who you are, but I know you're not police. So why don't you do us all a favour and ''piss off''.
** WrongGenreSavvy: Kate has no interest in arresting him.

* OnlyOneName: Belcheck, a former member of the Serbian mob and Jacks sidekick.
--> "Belcheck. Just one word. Like Madonna".

* SerialEscalation: taken to extremes by the 200th episode of the show (''Live Another Day'', 6-7 PM), in which the show does something WordOfGod claims they were never allowed to before: kill a sitting President. ([[spoiler:Don't worry, he actually survives.]]) It's also the first season to have a genuinely crooked Head of Station; previous CTU / FBI leaders may have been {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s, but their integrity has been impeccable. Finally, the last episode has ''two'' [[SilentCredits Silent Clocks]] in one episode ([[spoiler:once when Audrey dies, and at the very end when Jack surrenders himself to the Russians]]); previous maximum density was twice in two consecutive episodes.

** [[spoiler:Cheng Zhi's]] motivation is the result of this. [[spoiler:After all his actions during Day 6 such as kidnapping, faking the death of, and torturing Audrey or working with Jack's terrorist father which would be seen his war crimes, his government now wants nothing to do with him and he was abandoned to life imprisonment, contrary to his previous belief that they'd do everything in their power to save him. Being the type of person he is, he breaks out of prison for revenge.]]

* RealityEnsues: You do not murder a foreign government official without having his countrymen actively pursue you. Bauer, tired of running, needing to ensure Chloe's safety, decides to surrender himself to the Russians and have done with their feud.

* TortureIsIneffective: A first in the 24 universe. Despite the brutality [[spoiler: Chloe]] faces at the hands of the CIA, she does not reveal the location of Open Cell. On top of that, Jack more than once rejects the idea of torturing someone straight away because he knows it won't work. On top of ''that,'' one time he squeezes Simone's finger near the place where it's severed when ''not'' asking her questions, and responds to the WhatTheHellHero reaction by responding that he has simply run out of patience with the kind of people who participates in plots like this. This miniseries really serves to turn past seasons' glorification of torture on its head: torture ''isn't'' the perfect magical solution to all your information needs, and part of why Jack so readily resorts to it is because he is ''pissed.'' However, Jack does get his 'dark hero' points in in this season - from his executions of the {{Big Bad}}s.

-->--'''Jack Bauer.'''

* CouncilEstate: Derrick Yates hides out in one after leaving Open Cell, paying the estates resident drug dealers to protect him.

-->-- '''Jack Bauer'''

->"DAMMIT!"
-->-- Jack Bauer

* [[spoiler: BitterSweetEnding: Would hardly be 24 without one. Cheng Zhi is killed and America and China narrowly avoid going to war with each other, but unfortunately Audrey is killed, Kate leaves the CIA out of shame for failing to protect her (with some guilt over the revelation of her late husband's innocence to boot), President Heller has Alzheimer's and will most likely not even remember that he had a daughter that was killed, and Jack is forced to hand himself over to the Russians in exchange for Chloe.]]

* InterfaceSpoiler: Longtime fans of the show immediately knew that [[spoiler:Jack had somehow found a way to save President Heller]] despite absolutely ''no'' evidence of this due to the fact that [[spoiler:the episode that allegedly ended with him being killed by a drone strike didn't use a "silent clock" or even mute the signature beeping but leave the background sounds on like they did when Tony seemingly died but actually didn't.]]

* TortureIsIneffective: A first in the 24 universe. Despite the brutality [[spoiler: Chloe]] faces at the hands of the CIA, she does not reveal the location of Open Cell.