10 Huge Unexplained TV Mysteries (That Were Totally Solved)
1. What Happened To President Wayne Palmer? - 24
The Mystery
24 dropped plotlines like crazy throughout its run, with the showrunners using the real-time formula as an excuse for occasional sloppy storytelling. We still don’t know what happened to Behrooz from Season 4, and the fate of other major characters has been left in the air.
A major one from the sixth season is Wayne Palmer, the serving U.S. President. David Palmer’s brother survived an assassination attempt midway through, and despite bravely trying to push through his injuries he eventually suffered a brain haemorrhage. He’s then rushed to the hospital and his fate was never revealed.
The Answer
Expect it was, in a sneaky way.
In the TV movie 24: Redemption a newspaper clipping about his successor revealed Wayne died of his injuries shortly after season six. This wasn’t revealed on the show since the network was nervous about killing off a serving president character, so they implanted the outcome as an easter egg instead.
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