 Season Six picks up 20 months after last season s shocking season finale, when Jack Bauer was captured by Chinese government agents battered, bloodied and headed for points unknown. As a series of horrific terrorist attacks rocks the nation, President Wayne Palmer, the strong-minded brother of the late President David Palmer, and his team of advisors, Karen Hayes and Thomas Lennox as well as CTU colleagues Chloe O Brian, Curtis Manning and Bill Buchanan begin an unthinkable, nail-biting day.