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* UnexpectedCharacter: Absolutely no one in-universe or out expected [[spoiler: Cheng Zhi]] as the final villain.
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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Audrey is killed by Cheng Zhi's men in Episode 12]].
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* Blackmail: {{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.
* DiplomaticImmunity: The CIA London Station has consular status, which prevents British law enforcement from interfering with their investigations.
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* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Mark Bourdreaux, 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]].
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* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Mark Bourdreaux, 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]].
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* SoMuchForStealth: Jack initially tries to enter the US Embassy by posing as a diplomatic courier. When this fails, he resorts to disarming a cop, shooting multiple protesters in the leg and blaming it on the embassy guards to cause a riot. He then runs into the embassy grounds along with the crowd of frightened protesters.
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* BadassBureaucrat: Steve Navarro, the head of the CIA London Station. He personally leads an assault team to try and capture Margot, and later [[spoiler: knocks out and disarms a British soldier when on the run after he is revealed to be a traitorous BadBoss]].
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* DestinationDefenestration: How Jack kills [[spoiler: Margot]].
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* FictionalCounterpart: ''RAF 'RAF Lower Heyford'' Heyford' stands in for the real life ''RAF 'RAF Upper Heyford'', Heyford', which itself was shut down in the early 90's.
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* OnlyOneName: Belcheck, a former member of the Serbian mob and Jacks sidekick.
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* 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.
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* CouncilEstate: Derrick Yates hides out in one after leaving Open Cell, paying the estates resident drug dealers to protect him.
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* ChekhovsGun: In the season premiere, some background character drops a mention about the presence of a Chinese aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea. That carrier is later destroyed when [[spoiler: Cheng Zhi Zhi]] manipulates an American submarine to torpedo it, sending the United States and China to the brink of World War Three.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Adrian DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
**Margot Al-Harazi is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Lewthwaite white British woman who marries a radical Muslim, converts to Islam and becomes an international terrorist.]]Hell, even her nickname 'The Yorkshire Widow' is almost the same.
**Adrian Cross and Open Cell are practically carbon copies of Julian Assange and [=WikiLeaks=].
**Margot Al-Harazi is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Lewthwaite white British woman who marries a radical Muslim, converts to Islam and becomes an international terrorist.]]Hell, even her nickname 'The Yorkshire Widow' is almost the same.
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* BadassBookworm: CIA Analyst Jordan Reed. [[spoiler: He is able to knock out an assassin and disarm him of his main weapon and a hidden one in an ankle holster. Although he later is killed by the same man, he is able to shoot him before succumbing to his wounds]].
* 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'.
* 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'.
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*IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Mark Bourdreaux, 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]].
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* 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.]]
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* 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.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.]]
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* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: James Heller, from the preivous series, is now a President Clueless, though to be fair, he's suffering from the early stages of dementia.
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* 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.]]
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* 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.
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* PunchClockVillain: The Russian officers who are trying to apprehend Bauer in the later episodes.
* 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.
* 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.
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** [[spoiler: Steve Navarro, who framed one of his own agents for treason and had Jordan Reed assassinated.]]
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* [[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.]]
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* 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.]]
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** [[spoiler:Mark Boudreau's efforts to have Jack captured by the Russians results in a US sub getting hacked and a Chinese ship getting nuked.]]
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* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler: "This is for Audrey, you son of a bitch!" - the last words Cheng Zhi hears before Jack chops his head off.]]
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: President Heller walks onto the pitch at Wembley Stadium and calmly waits for Margot Al-Harazi to kill him. [[spoiler: Fortunately, Jack finds a third option.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** [[spoiler:Adrian Cross' alliance with Cheng Zhi results in the liquidation of Open Cell.]]
** [[spoiler:Mark Boudreau's efforts to have Jack captured by the Russians results in a US sub getting hacked and a Chinese ship getting nuked.]]
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** [[spoiler:Adrian Cross' alliance with Cheng Zhi results in the liquidation of Open Cell.]]
** [[spoiler:Mark Boudreau's efforts to have Jack captured by the Russians results in a US sub getting hacked and a Chinese ship getting nuked.]]
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** [[spoiler:Cheng Zhi kills off Adrian Cross and everyone else at Open Cell after Cross hands over the device.]]
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*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.
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->"DAMMIT!"
-->-- Jack Bauer
''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.
!!This mini-series contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: Kate Morgan is practically a female version of Jack.
* VengefulWidow: Margot Al-Harazi seeks revenge on President James Heller for ordering the drone strike that killed her terrorist husband.
* WouldHurtAChild: Margot orders Simone to murder her uninvolved sister-in-law and her niece, just in case the authorities think to pay them a visit.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** [[spoiler:After proving that his drone-hacking device works, Derrick Yates gets fatally stabbed in the ear by Simone Al-Harazi.]]
** [[spoiler:Naveed gets killed after Margot decides that Liam is a much more reliable drone pilot.]]
** [[spoiler:Margot attempts to have Simone killed after the latter ends up in a hospital.]]
-->-- Jack Bauer
''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.
!!This mini-series contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: Kate Morgan is practically a female version of Jack.
* VengefulWidow: Margot Al-Harazi seeks revenge on President James Heller for ordering the drone strike that killed her terrorist husband.
* WouldHurtAChild: Margot orders Simone to murder her uninvolved sister-in-law and her niece, just in case the authorities think to pay them a visit.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** [[spoiler:After proving that his drone-hacking device works, Derrick Yates gets fatally stabbed in the ear by Simone Al-Harazi.]]
** [[spoiler:Naveed gets killed after Margot decides that Liam is a much more reliable drone pilot.]]
** [[spoiler:Margot attempts to have Simone killed after the latter ends up in a hospital.]]
