Follow 24 hours in the life of federal agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) in the thrilling first season of this innovative, Emmy Award-winning television series. Taken together, the 24 hourlong episodes track one full day (from midnight to midnight), using split screens and a real-time clock to tell a tense, interweaving story about Bauer, his wife and daughter and a presidential candidate targeted for assassination, among others.