Minor CTU agents in 24
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The following are characters who played minor roles at CTU over the course of 24's first five seasons.
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[edit] Scott Baylor
Scott Baylor was a CTU analyst who discovered there was a mole inside CTU who was involved in the assassination attempt on Senator David Palmer. He was portrayed by Scott Denny.
Baylor was instructed by Richard Walsh to analyze the key cards of all CTU employees. He was asked to look for suspicious patterns of movement and computer access, but found something even more incriminating - one of the cards' magnetic strips had been used to store encrypted information. However, the owner of the card had wiped their personal information off it before handing it over, so Baylor did not know whose it was.
Like Walsh, Baylor thought he could trust Jamey Farrell because he had a relationship with one of the people who helped train her how to use the CTU systems. Baylor put his family on a flight to Canada and asked Walsh to meet him secretly at 2350 Dunlop Plaza to hand off the keycard. Baylor met with Walsh there and gave him the keycard. He explained to Walsh that the magnetic strip on the keycard had an embedded file with a great deal of data that, being on the card, could be easily smuggled out of a restricted area. Fearing for his life, Baylor wanted to resign and be with his family, but Walsh convinced him to remain at CTU and help uncover the people responsible for the threat on Senator Palmer. Baylor agreed to help for the next 24 hours, but insisted he would join his family after that. As Walsh and Baylor prepared to leave, unknown assassins shot at them. Walsh was hit in the arm, and Baylor was killed.
[edit] Ted Paulson
Ted Paulson was an agent working for CTU during Day 1 and the novel Veto Power, portrayed by Kevin Ramsey. In the novel, he provided backup for Nina Myers in the field. During Day 1, he was sent with Nina Myers and Agent Breeher to protect Teri and Kim Bauer while they were at a CTU safe house. When Nina Myers left the safehouse, Paulson continued the debriefing of the Bauers. When he realised that one of the other agents at the safe house was not at his position, Paulson grew anxious and decided to hide the Bauers in a bedroom. Paulson then found Jovan Myovic and trained his gun on him. However, another shooter, Mishko Suba, stabbed him from behind.
When the shooters hear the Bauers driving away, they chase after them. Paulson managed to get out of the house and shot Mishko before being shot himself by Myovic. It is revealed in 'The House Special Subcommittee's Findings at CTU' that Paulson died several hours later.
[edit] Teddy Hanlin
Teddy Hanlin was a sniper working for the Counter Terrorism Unit during Day 1, portrayed by Kirk Baltz. He held a grudge against Jack Bauer after Bauer arrested his partner, Seth Campbell, for taking bribes. Hanlin never forgave Bauer for this. During an operation to capture a suspect, Hanlin taunted Jack by telling him of how Campbell's wife killed herself. Not trusting Bauer, Hanlin shot the suspect, Alan Morgan, in the leg, making him fall to his death over a banister. It should also be noted that in season 5, it was revealed the last CTU agent accused of taking bribes was Christopher Henderson.
[edit] Alberta Green
Alberta Green was a CTU division director played by actress Tamara Tunie. After Jack Bauer escaped Secret Service custody, Alberta Green was brought into CTU to assist in the finding of Bauer and to destroy all targets who might attempt a move on Senator David Palmer, an African-American who has strong chances of winning the presidential campaign.
Alberta was ruthless and gave a speech to everyone at CTU that all orders would come from her and that anyone assisting Jack would be punished and suspended. She noticed tension between Nina Myers and Tony Almeida and became suspicious of their contact with Jack. She threatened to suspend them, but a call from Jack made this argument moot. Alberta lost her authority after the arrival of Ryan Chappelle, and was later replaced by George Mason.
[edit] Paula Schaeffer
Paula Schaeffer is a programmer for CTU during Season 2 of 24, played by Sara Gilbert. As a new employee at the beginning of the season, Paula is nervous when she hears a nuclear bomb could go off in Los Angeles that day, and feels she is incapable of carrying out her job efficiently. Tony Almeida and Michelle Dessler — two of Paula's close friends at CTU — assure her that she is the best one for the job, and she shouldn't worry. Additionally, Paula worries about her family while working, but Michelle convinces her that they are all working to save millions of lives — including Paula's family.
Paula performs several data processing and file alterations during the first hours of the day. When Jack is undercover with Eddie Grant, Paula assists him by altering his records to cement Jack's position and deter suspicion amongst Grant's subordinates. Immediately thereafter, NSA learns of a potential attack on CTU Los Angeles, but they withhold the information from CTU to maintain Jack's cover. However, NSA orders Tony to copy their information onto NSA's servers in an attempt to secure any leaked data that the attack would create. Tony sends Paula over to perform this task.
Less than an hour later, CTU is attacked by a bomb while Paula is going through the most sensitive phases of the file transfer. After the explosion, Paula is stuck under a girder, losing consciousness and on the verge of death. Paula had earlier encrypted all of their intelligence on the nuclear threat, but is now unable to decrypt it. George Mason tells Tony to do whatever he can to regain that data. Although she is on the verge of death, Tony needs Paula to decrypt the information — which may save millions of lives at the sacrifice of Paula's. When Paula wakes up, Michelle and Mason ask her for the source decryption key to complete the file transfer. With her last words, Paula gives them the location of where she hid a copy of the decrypt key. Mason tells her that she is responsible for saving many lives. As Paula is rushed to an ambulance, she flatlines.
[edit] Sean Walker
Sean Walker is a character from 24: The Game. He was voiced by Danny Cooksey. Other than being personally trained by Michelle Dessler, no extensive background was given for him. During the course of the game, he helped CTU Agents Jack Bauer and Tony Almeida by giving an address to Robert Daniels's last known address, doing satellite scans for snipers, as well as decrypting a P.D.A. found by Jack. Sean gets executed when the C.T.U. staff is held hostage by Peter Madsen. Adam Kaufman replaces Sean several hours after his death.
[edit] Ronnie Lobell
Ronnie Lobell was the head of Field Ops at CTU at the start of Day 4. He was played by Shawn Doyle.
Lobell led the team that apprehended the terrorist Tomas Sherek who was connected to a train bombing less than an hour earlier. He later accompanied Jack Bauer to locate Kalil Hasan, who was working with the group that had abducted Secretary of Defense James Heller. Jack wanted to follow Hasan, hoping he would lead them to Heller, but Lobell insisted on apprehending Hasan immediately, and handcuffed Jack to a railing to prevent him from interfering. Unfortunately, Hasan spotted him and shot and fatally wounded Lobell. He managed to give Jack the keys to his handcuffs before dying. He was succeeded as head of Field Ops by Curtis Manning.
[edit] Agent Lee Castle
Agent Lee Castle was a field ops agent under Jack Bauer durring Day 4. He is played by Cameron Bancroft. He is known for is aggressiveness and going out of line neglecting orders.
He is first seen after former Agent Tony Almeida returns to work at CTU on a temporary basis. Castle greets Jack and yet does not understand why Tony is with him. Jack answers and says that he wants Tony there to back him up. Castle says that Tony is not authorized. Castle gets Tony a vest and briefs them. When they break into the hotel room with Dina Araz in it he immediately puts pressure on her arm wound. Tony grabs Castle and puts him up against the wall. Jack yells at him to leave the room. Tony holds Castle against the wall to calm him down. In the hallway, Castle says that Tony has no right to give him orders. Jack calms him down and says Tony did the right thing.
Agent Castle is there when CTU raids the nightclub where Habib Marwan is. Marwan and his men escape because of Castle giving away there position. He is shot and killed at about 4:55am by a terrorist named Mandy. She shoots Castle to death and takes Tony hostage.
[edit] Spenser Wolff
Spenser Wolff is CTU analyst and government operative played by Jonah Lotan. He was first seen in the first episode of Season 5 as he woke up in bed with CTU senior Analyst Chloe O'Brian. Chloe is angered at him after they get up and she demands that he leave. Later at CTU, when Chloe doesn't show up to work, he tells Edgar Stiles that he saw her and that she was ok. Edgar becomes angered at him and blames him for Chloe's not showing up on time. Spenser finds out that Chloe was logged in remotely at the Penthouse that former president David Palmer was assassinated at. This led to CTU discovering Jack Bauer's location and having Chloe captured. A few hours after Chloe was reinstated, she saw that Spenser was accessing a server that CTU hadn't given him clearance for (his clearance from CTU was level 3). After it was revealed that he had a level 5 clearance, he was brought into holding for accessing sensitive files. Before he was taken into holding, he admitted a man into the building who claimed he was from Division to put taps on some computers. The man was actually an assassin sent by Walt Cummings and James Nathanson to take out Jack Bauer. Not realizing that this man was a professional assassin, he admitted that he had been working for the White House; specifically Walt Cummings. (Spenser lamented that he thought he "was serving the President" Charles Logan; in an ironic sense it turns out he was correct, as it is later believed he was involved in Walt's conspiracy.)
In episode 7 he was released from holding to help Chloe O'Brian and Edgar Stiles hack the building security of a building owned by terrorist Jacob Rossler so Jack Bauer and Curtis Manning could move in covertly and arrest him. After this was over, Chloe fired him because of his work for Walt Cummings. She remained mad at him throughout the day, even after he left, for crawling in bed with her.
[edit] Carrie Bendis
Carrie Bendis was a CTU agent played by Danielle Burgi, best known for her connection to the death of Edgar Stiles.
Bendis gets in a verbal spat with Lynn McGill shortly after McGill takes control of CTU. McGill attempts to fire Carrie, which becomes one of the events leading Curtis Manning to exercise Section 112 to remove McGill from power. She is reinstated and continues to work for CTU. A couple hours later while doing a routine systems check she discovers an abnormality and reports it to Edgar Stiles. Edgar tells her that if she wants someone to check it out, she should do it herself. When she enters the room where the anomaly was (the ventilation control room), she is murdered by Ostroff, who was planting Sentox nerve gas in CTU for Vladimir Bierko. When Carrie fails to return, Edgar goes looking for her. By the time Edgar returns, the gas has been released and he was trapped inside, leading to his death.
[edit] Shari Rothenberg
Shari Rothenberg was an analyst who worked at CTU late in Day 5. She was played by Kate Mara.
Two years before Day 5, Shari worked with Miles Papazian at CTU, San Francisco. She filed a grievance for sexual harassment, but with no solid evidence to back her claims, Miles was let off with a warning (the "sexual harassment" may not have even occurred, as evidenced by Shari overreacting to Bill Buchanan gently tapping her on the shoulder)
On Day 5, Bill Buchanan reassigned Shari from "section five, downstairs" to take over Edgar Stiles's workload after the Sentox nerve gas attack on CTU. She was only provisionally qualified for Level Three technical work, though her Chemistry expertise led CTU to Wilshire Gas Company, the natural gas distribution center where Vladimir Bierko planned to release the remainder of his Sentox supply.
Knowing that Vladimir Bierko would have to lower the pressure of the gas running through the pipes before releasing the Sentox into the supply, Shari pointed out to Buchanan and Chloe O'Brian that they could find which center Bierko was after by monitoring the PSI at each one. Because of her knowledge, Jack Bauer was able to destroy the center before the Sentox could be released into 90,000 homes.
Between 11:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m., Shari was in charge of checking satellite logs, and noticed that one of the satellites was being used covertly. Shari alerted Chloe, who discovered the satellite was being used by DHS director Karen Hayes (then in charge of CTU Los Angeles) to track Audrey Raines. In collaboration with Hayes, she wore a wire to extract a confession from Chloe that she was collaborating with Audrey and Jack, which led to Chloe being taken into custody. Chloe later blackmailed her with the threat of a recommendation for psychiatric evaluation in order to gain assistance in her escape attempt. Sometime after that Valerie Harris took Shari into custody little after 1:00 a.m. for letting Chloe O'Brian escape.
[edit] Valerie Harris
Valerie Harris was played by Jenny Levine. Valerie Harris works for the Department of Homeland Security. She is brought into CTU Los Angeles to replace Chloe O'Brian when Homeland absorbs CTU during Day 5.
When Karen Hayes and Miles Papazian ask Audrey Raines to sign a statement documenting all of CTU's mistakes under the leadership of Bill Buchanan, Audrey agrees, but demands that Chloe be kept on staff under her supervision. Miles and Karen allow Chloe to stay, so Valerie is assigned to another station.
When Karen and Miles are later searching for Jack Bauer, they instruct Valerie to track Audrey, in hopes that she'll lead them to Jack. She places a transponder under Audrey's car, but Chloe helps Audrey find and remove the tracker and shake the surveillance team. Chloe is taken into custody when Miles realizes that she helped Audrey.
Chloe escaped from the holding area and fled to Bill Buchanan's house. Valerie later discovered that Chloe escaped and alerted Karen Hayes, pointing out a conversation between Chloe and Shari Rothenberg.
She is suspicious when Buchanan is let out of holding and O'Brian returns to CTU, and also interrupts a conversation between Karen and Miles about President Charles Logan.
| Counter Terrorist Unit Staff on 24 |
| Jack Bauer | Kim Bauer | Tony Almeida | Nina Myers | George Mason | Richard Walsh | Jamey Farrell Milo Pressman | Ryan Chappelle | Michelle Dessler | Tom Baker | Brad Hammond | Carrie Turner Chloe O'Brian | Chase Edmunds | Adam Kaufman | Gael Ortega | Erin Driscoll | Curtis Manning Edgar Stiles | Sarah Gavin | Marianne Taylor | Bill Buchanan | Lynn McGill | Karen Hayes Miles Papazian | Morris O'Brian | Nadia Yassir | Mike Doyle | Minor Agents |
