Starring Kiefer Sutherland as a federal agent named Jack Bauer, 24 is a series covering the 24 hours activity of the life of Jack Bauer. The series uses real time as its method of narration.

Jack Bauer works for the Los Angeles based Counter Terrorist Unit or the CTU, where he is acknowledged to be one of the highly proficient agents of the agency. Bauer is one who would believes in the saying “the ends justify the means” no matter how some of his actions would not be considered as moral acts.

24 is series which unfolds political thrillers. A usual plot of the series is with Jack Bauer racing against time to face and prevent multiple terrorist coupe attempts. This includes assassination attempt to the president, some biological and chemical threats which will be destructive to many and even cyber attacks and conspiracies with regards to a digital clock is event made visible in every episode to show the real time as the show progress.

24 switches from one action to another in different locations which is parallel to the adventures of various characters involved in the story. With this type of series plot, there is more emphasis in each character involved.

Most of the time, Jack’s attempt to stop whatever needs to be stopped, other people gets involved which is out of Jack’s handling. Usually, people close to Jack are the ones being targeted by the terrorists Jack needs to stop.