Teri Bauer
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| Teri Bauer | |
| Season | 1 |
| First Seen | Veto Power |
| Last Seen | Day 1 11:00pm-12:00am |
| Status | Deceased |
| Played By | Leslie Hope |
Teri Bauer was the wife of Jack Bauer and mother of Kim Bauer. She was killed during Day 1.
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[edit] Before Day 1
- View Teri Bauer's profile at Character profiles.
Teri was born thirty-four years before Day 1. She had a sister named Carol.
Teri obtained her B.A. in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and went on to gain a Master of Fine Arts in Art Practice from University of California, Berkeley.
Her first place of employment was as a restorative assistant at the Offizi Galleria in Florence, Italy. That was followed by a time as an art conservator at the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston, and later as a colorist for Dark Horse Comics. Teri then went on to work for the Greenpeace organization as an advertising art director before becoming employed by the Santa Monica Gallery as an assistant to the director, and later a consultant to the director at the Los Angeles County Museum. Teri was later an installation assistant curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, followed by a graphic artist for Chiat/Day Advertising and L.A. Design, and the creative director for Click California Design. Her last job was as partner and head designer for her own company, Graphic Eye, working with her friend Kitty.
Teri married Jack Bauer and the couple had a daughter named Kimberly. She also had a friend named Yvonne, whose birthday was marked in her planner.
Jack was a federal agent who eventually began working for the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit. The secretive nature of Jack's job put a lot of stress on their marriage, leading to a break-up. Teri eventually asked Jack to move out, which put her at odds with Kim.
During the events of Day Zero, Teri called Jack at CTU, telling him that some of his bills were still being sent to her house. Jack protested, saying that he wanted to talk to her before he started changing his address. He asked to speak to Kim, but she said she did not want to speak to him. Jack had to hang up when a new threat arose.
Even when Jack moved back in six months later to try to repair their marriage, Kim was still resentful towards Teri. During the separation, Teri dated Dr. Phil Parslow, a close friend, but decided not to enter a relationship with him for the sake of her marriage and her family.
On the Sunday before Day 1, Teri and Jack spent an evening at a boardwalk in Venice. Jack watched her have a friendly chat with a stranger, amazed at her ability to be friendly like that, and knowing that it was something he could never do.
[edit] Day 1
Shortly after midnight, Kim snuck out of the house. Immediately afterwards, Jack was called into a meeting at CTU, leaving Teri to try to figure out where Kim went. Alan York, the father of Kim's friend Janet, called and told her his daughter was also missing. Teri had Jack acquire Kim's email password, where she learned that Kim and Janet were meeting some college boys at Paladio Furniture. Alan drove by to pick her up to go to the store, but by the time they got there, the girls were gone, having left Janet's car behind. Alan found an empty condom wrapper inside, and the two began searching the store for clues to where the girls might be.
Jack called Teri and she informed him that the girls weren't at the store. She asked him to help her look for them, but he said he was busy with other bad things that were happening. Teri told him she and Alan were going to wait for the girls to return for the car. Finding the name of the store owner, Teri called Nina Myers and coaxed her into finding her Mr. Nowrasteh's phone number. He wasn't home, so she left a message on his machine.
Teri and Alan tidied the store up a bit until Kim called and told Teri she was at a party and would be home as soon as she could get a ride. Kim ended her conversation by telling her she loved her, which left Teri feeling suspicious, as she never said that to her.
Later, Teri was kidnapped and held with her daughter. When Eli Stram threatened to rape Kim, Teri offered herself instead. Before being rescued by her husband, Teri was forced to shoot two people.
Resting at a CTU safe house, Teri discovered that she was pregnant with her husband's baby and also found out that Jack had been involved with Nina Myers while they were separated. Teri was almost kidnapped again from the safe house, but was able to escape with her daughter. Whilst seeing if the people chasing them were behind them, the car which Kim was in fell down the side of a hill and Teri assumed that she was dead.
After that, Teri experienced Dissociative Amnesia (due to the traumatic event that just occurred) and was unable to remember anything about her life. She retraced her steps and heard about her past during the separation. After another attack by the Drazens' men, she regained her memory and was taken to CTU Los Angeles after Tony convinced her that Kim was alive.
She badgered Nina and Tony and George Mason about the whereabouts of Jack, until Mason handed her over to his assistant, Rebecca. Rebecca couldn't handle her for long, as she continued to inquire everyone about Jack. When Jack called her before leaving to sacrifice himself to save Kim, she told him that she was pregnant.
Teri went looking for Nina in the course of her exfiltration from CTU, and Nina confirmed that Jack and Kim were safe. When Teri noticed the body of a CTU worker Nina had killed, Nina tied her up and shot her. Jack found her body later after capturing Myers.
[edit] Background information and notes
- Teri is one of four characters to appear in every episode of their only seasons. The others are Chase Edmunds (Season 3), Tom Lennox (Season 6), and Nadia Yassir (Season 6). However, unlike Chase, Tom and Nadia, Teri is deceased.
- Teri is the first character in the main cast to die.
- In addition to influencing many of Jack's decisions in the following seasons, Teri's death has been mentioned in every season of 24.
- In a non-canonical alternate ending, Jack finds Teri tied up but unhurt. She tells him that Nina is the mole, but he reassures her that Nina has been arrested, and Kim reunites with her parents.
[edit] Appearances
[edit] Before Day 1
| Operation Hell Gate | Veto Power | Trojan Horse |
| Cat's Claw | Vanishing Point | Chaos Theory |
| Storm Force | Collateral Damage | Trinity |
