24 Of 24's Most Memorable Characters - Ranked

You can unequivocally say that the course of true love never did run smooth for Audrey Raines and Jack Bauer. They kept their blossoming relationship a secret from her father, Secretary of Defense James Heller. Their relationship reaches breaking point when Jack ruthlessly orders the CTU medical staff to abandon performing emergency surgery on Audrey’s estranged husband Paul Raines to instead try to save the life of a terrorist suspect, which consequently results in Paul’s death. Poor lass, after barely ending their relationship, she is then devastatingly informed of Jack’s “death”.

The pair’s feelings for each other rekindled during season five. Alas the Chinese scuppered any potential chance of happiness when they kidnapped and carted Jack to China; Audrey, in turn, tries to rescue him, but she gets captured her and in a twisted…erm…twist…fake her death via a car crash. She was then psychologically tortured and on her return to the United States remained in a catatonic state. Jack was determined to look after Audrey and make her better but Heller warned him to stay away from his daughter. How heartbreakingly prophetic when Heller coldly suggests to Jack that he is “cursed” and that “everything he touches, one way or another, ends up dead".