Played By - Jesse Borego, Episode - Day 3: 5.00am-6.00am After Jack Bauer and other CTU operatives, including Gael Ortega, spend much of the beginning of 24's third season in contention with a Mexican drug cartel, the season's primary villain transpires to be Stephen Saunders, a British agent presumed dead after working with Jack on a mission in Serbia in the past. He re-emerges as a buyer for a bio-weapon known as the Cordilla Virus, which Jack and Gael were attempting to purchase and take off the market through their infiltration of the cartel. Planning to hold the United States hostage with this weapon, Saunders has an underling release part of it in an LA hotel, which is attended by several CTU operatives, including Gael. He becomes infected, as do most of the hotel's guests, but whilst all of them are offered suicide pills to avoid suffering the horrible effects of the pathogen, Gael refuses the offer, believing (as a Catholic) that suicide is a sin and dying in a slow and painful fashion as a result.
23. Pavel Tokarev
Played By - Joel Bissonnette, Episode - Day 8: 1.00pm-2.00pm Though he can be an amicable man, Jack Bauer is the last person on Earth that you'd want to get on the wrong side of, as his vengefulness knows no limits. Russian operative Pavel Tokarev learns this the hard way during the show's eighth season. Having killed somebody close to Jack's heart (who we'll get to in due course) merely for the possibility that she might've recognised him, Pavel finds himself captured and chained to a post. He resists conventional torture methods with an alarming level of effectiveness, before Jack realises that the information he needs (regarding his captive's superiors) is on a SIM card that he has swallowed. Mercilessly, Pavel is then disembowelled, and the card is retrieved from his stomach as he is left to bleed out and die in a gruesome fashion.
