Season Overview
Season Six is set 20 months after Season Five. Over the last 11 weeks before Day 6, the United States has been targeted coast-to-coast in a series of suicide bombings. A man named Abu Fayed agrees to give the U.S. the location of Hamri Al-Assad, the supposed terrorist mastermind of these attacks, in exchange for former CTU Agent Jack Bauer with whom he has a personal grudge. As a result, President Wayne Palmer has negotiated the release of Bauer under "high-price" terms, who was illegally captured by Chinese government agents.
Season 6 can be divided into three main acts with the first two overlapping somewhat:
- Terrorist attacks claim thousands of American lives. Jack struggles to convince authorities that Abu Fayed is responsible and also discovers that his own family is involved.
- With Fayed in possession of five suitcase nukes, CTU races to find them to prevent another disaster from taking place.
- After the nukes are recovered, the Chinese manipulate Jack into giving them one of the circuit boards, elevating tensions between the United States and Russia.
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