Every Season Of 24 - Ranked From Worst To Best

Plot: After learning the love of his life, Audrey Raines, was tortured into a coma, Jack ends Season 6 standing at the top of a cliff, ready to jump. Redemption finds a wayward Bauer in the fictional African nation of Sangala, helping an old war buddy (Robert Carlyle) at a missionary school. As the new President (Cherry Jones) is being sworn in stateside, the head of a secret private security firm (Jon Voight) conspires with a genocidal Senegalese General (Tony Todd) to seize power in his country.

There was always talk of a movie. After it won the Emmy for Best New Drama, Sutherland and producer Brian Grazer were talking it up in the media. Eventually, a PS2 game answering some minor plot-holes between Seasons 2 and 3 was released, but no feature came about. Instead, between a disastrous Season 6 and the improved 7, a TV movie served the same purpose as the game.

While not the most exciting two-part episode, it's not without its merits.

Though the action is fairly tame, Redemption does a lot of heavy lifting, giving Jack a good reason to return to the U.S., and the next season's villains are set up quite well. Like the game, it also answers a few lingering questions such as the state of former president Wayne Palmer. It's hard to catch, but a newspaper clipping reveals he eventually succumbs to his wounds.

Interestingly, Todd had appeared as a cop in Season 3.