5 Characters Who Should Come Back For 24: Live Another Day

4. Allison Taylor

Once described by a critic as Hilary Clinton without Obama, Taylor was 24€™s first female president, and in my opinion one of the most memorable. Although David Palmer will always win as best president on 24, Taylor was just as charismatic and idealistic as Palmer was. Inaugurated into office in 24: Redemption, we could tell by her conversation with outgoing president Noah Daniels that she was going to be quite different from her predecessor. In season 7, she was planning to send U.S. troops into the African nation of Sangala to stop General Benjamin Juma€™s genocide of his own people when the terrorist attacks of the day began. Threatened by Juma€™s right-hand man Iké Dubaku to withdraw her troops, he utilized the CIP device in several attacks, most notably crashing two commercial airliner into each other within sight of the White House. Even with these attacks, Taylor refuses to withdraw the troops, and her perseverance pays off after Dubaku is captured. Later in the day, she had to contend with Juma himself invading the White House, but even that paled in comparison after she was forced to send her own daughter Olivia to jail when she found out Olivia had arranged the assassination of Jonas Hodges, the man who assisted Juma and had her brother Roger killed. Citing her duty to protect the Constitution, her daughter was arrested and her husband Henry (who had been through a lot that day as well) divorced her before season 8, as he believed Allison should have covered up the assassination. By season 8, Taylor has been working on arranging a peace treaty with President Omar Hassan of the Islamic Republic of Kamistan, an alliance which would shape a peace the world had never seen before. After Hassan is killed by IRK terrorists, Taylor is worried that the negotiations will fall through since there were many countries in the United Nations who only supported the bill because of Hassan. When Hassan€™s wife Dalia takes over the negotiations and draws the dissenters back in, it looks like everything will be okay. However, shortly thereafter Taylor discovers that members of the Russian government had been funding the IRK terrorists. Wanting to keep the peace treaty alive, Taylor tries to hide Russia€™s involvement and personally tells Jack to stop trying to uncover the conspiracy. Of course we all know Jack€™s moral obligations, and coupled with the fact that his girlfriend Renee was killed after she recognized one of the Russian conspirators, he goes on a personal manhunt to take down everyone involved. By the last hour of the day, Taylor realizes the peace treaty isn€™t worth the blood that had been spilled over it, and that she had betrayed her principles. Revealing her involvement and well as what the Russians had done to the rest of the U.N. delegates, Taylor surrendered herself to the authorities, but not before buying Jack some more time to get out of the country. Presumably when she was taken into custody, vice-president Mitchell Hayworth assumed the office, so with Live Another Day, he either was reelected or a new president is in office. Still, I€™d like to see what happened to Taylor after she was arrested. She wasn€™t like Charles Logan, who tried to get everyone to believe he wanted redemption in season 6 but was back to his scheming, manipulative ways in season 8. she truly felt guilt and shame for the actions she took that day, and I€™d like to see where she ended up after she left office. She€™s either under house-arrest like Logan was, or she was granted a pardon and is now a civilian. Perhaps she felt she couldn€™t live in the United States anymore and decided to move to England, which might allow her to run into Jack while he€™s running around London shouting €œDammit!€