Follow 24 more hours in the life of federal agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) in this wildly innovative television series. Consisting of 24 hour-long episodes and employing split screens and a "real-time" clock, the second season picks up months after the first season's tragic end, as Bauer is still mourning the loss of his wife. This 24 hours involves an attempted coup against the new president of the United States, David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert), and a militant terrorist group set to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles.
Jack Bauer, former Federal Agent in charge of the Counter Terrorist Unit, is still grieving for his wife who was murdered eighteen months ago by a foreign undercover agent and his best friend Nina Myers. Estranged from his daughter Kim, who has become a nanny for the Matheson family and their daughter Megan, Jack finds himself called back to duty when a threat to explode a nuclear device in Los Angeles is uncovered. Meanwhile former Senator Palmer, the now President of the United States, relaxes in the country...