24 Of 24's Most Memorable Characters - Ranked

19. Marie Warner (Day 2)

24 David Palmer
Fox

This wholesome, blonde-haired, blue-eyed all-American sweetheart was, as it turned out, a heartlessly ruthless, radicalised psycho-temptress.

When Marie Warner’s dumbfounded, confused father, Bob, confronts his chained-up, zombified daughter from behind a glass partition in the “need to understand” why she lied to him, killed her fiancé Reza, tried to kill her sister Kate and was willing to set off a nuclear bomb in a city of ten million people, Marie just scornfully stonewalls him. And if anything he strengthens her resolve by imploring her to tell him that the terrorists forced, brainwashed and threatened her or that she “didn’t know what she was doing”. However, as Kate enters the room, she points out to him that Marie was “never gonna give you any answers. At least, nothing we could ever understand”.

But as they were about to leave, Marie suddenly calls out Kate’s name. She slowly, creepily gets up from her chair, walks towards Kate with heavy chains scraping behind her, and chillingly warns Kate: “You think you’ll be safe out there. You won’t be.” But Kate dismisses the threat with a simple smile.

Contributor

The name's Colbourn, James - yeah, doesn't quite have the same ring to it.