Kim Bauer
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| Kim Bauer | |
|---|---|
| 24 character | |
 Elisha Cuthbert as Kim Bauer | |
| Portrayed by | Elisha Cuthbert |
| Appearances | 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 |
| Other Appearances | 24: The Game |
Kim Bauer is a fictional character played by Elisha Cuthbert on the television series 24. She is portrayed as the only daughter of the show's main character, Jack Bauer. She was a main cast member for the show's first three seasons and has made guest appearances in other seasons.
Within the 24 storyline, Kim Bauer is on multiple occasions brought into perilous situations, causing Jack Bauer's motives to shift from professional to personal. She has also worked under her father at the Counter Terrorist Unit.
Characterization
Kim Bauer was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1985,[1] to Jack and Teri Bauer. She dropped out of Santa Monica High School but obtained an associates degree in Computer Programming at Santa Monica College. She then pursues a career at the Counter Terrorist Unit in Los Angeles.[2]
Appearances
Kim and her friend, Janet York, sneak out of their homes to meet college men Dan and Rick, who eventually kidnap the girls. Although both girls escape, Kim is re-captured and taken to Ira Gaines, who holds her in an attempt to control Jack Bauer. Soon Teri Bauer is also captured. However, Rick and Jack Bauer assist them in an escape.
Once freed, Kim and Teri are sent to a safe house. They flee when it is attacked by one of Victor Drazen's thugs, but split up after a car crash. While seeking refuge, Kim is arrested, but released after her identity is confirmed. As Kim is being driven to CTU in a police car, the car is attacked and Kim is recaptured. She is taken to Victor Drazen who is also holding her father. Kim's father is allowed to leave but Kim stays with the Drazens. Jack later makes a deal with the Drazens to trade himself for Kim, to which they agree. Kim escapes and returns, safe, to CTU, and embraces her father at the end of the day. Moments after the reunion, Jack finds Kim's mother, Teri Bauer, dead.
Kim is working as an au pair with a family in Los Angeles. When Jack discovers a plot to detonate a nuclear bomb, he tries to get Kim out of Los Angeles.
Kim discovers Megan Matheson, her charge, is being physically abused by her father Gary. Kim takes Megan with her out of Los Angeles with her boyfriend Miguel, stealing Gary's car. When they are pulled over for speeding, the highway patrol officer discovers blood dripping from the trunk. Inside is Megan's mother. Kim and Miguel are arrested on suspicion of murder, but Kim escapes from police custody after learning that she is being transported back into Los Angeles where the bomb is located.
Kim is later put in contact with Jack, who is flying the bomb to the desert to minimize casualties when it detonates. Kim breaks down, believing her father won't be coming back, and profusely apologizes for her behavior, though Jack later manages to survive the encounter. Gary Matheson reappears to confront Kim, but with her father's guidance over the phone she kills him in self-defense. She ends the season in the arms of her father.
Kim starts her internship for CTU in the middle of an assassination attempt targeting Vice President Prescott. Peter Madsen and a large number of thugs take over CTU. Michelle escorts Kim to a panic room designed for the event of a hostile take-over, but Michelle herself is captured. After Jack and Tony arrive back at CTU's perimeter, Tony calls Kim and instructs her to leave the panic room to perform a dangerous mission, though Jack objects.
In order to save Michelle's life, Kim turns herself in, planting a tracking device on the files the terrorists are after and another tracking device on herself. Madsen and Sin-Chung take Kim hostage when CTU tactical teams storm the building to regain their base. After Jack destroys Madsen and Sin-Chung's helicopter, Madsen uses Kim as his human shield to escape. The terrorists call a driver to extract them, who is none other than undercover C.T.U. operative Chase Edmunds. Kim is eventually taken to the abandoned water facility in Burbank, being used as Madsen's bargaining chip. Chase tells Kim his identity and instructs her to warn CTU, covering for her while she sneaks away.
An hour after the call, Jack rescues Kim and tells Chase to stay undercover to recover the stolen files. Kim is taken to Jack's office in CTU in order to keep her safe from further harm for the rest of the day.
Kim has obtained a GED and an A.A. in computer science, and is working for CTU. Unbeknown to Jack, she is dating Chase Edmunds, another CTU agent who is partnered with Jack. During day 3, Kim tells Jack about their relationship, and Kim discovers that Chase has a daughter, Angela. Kim is eventually brought into the field, as Jane Saunder's double. Chase ends the series being wheeled into surgery for surgery on his hand; Kim chooses a life with him, and is last mentioned to be living with him in Valencia, California, and helping raise his daughter in Day 4.
After Jack's "death", Chase leaves Kim. She is reunited with Jack after arriving at CTU with Barry Landes, a clinical psychologist. She is romantically involved with Landes, whom Jack instantly dislikes, believing he, being much older, is taking advantage of Kim in her troubled mental state. She survives a Sentox nerve gas attack at CTU and is locked inside the situation room. She initially resents her father for not "trusting her enough" to let her know he was still alive, but Chloe O'Brian reveals to Kim that of the four people who did know Jack had faked his death, all had been targeted for assassination that very morning; two were now dead and one critically injured.
After the threat of the nerve gas is eliminated, Kim leaves CTU. Though she still loves him, she tells her father that she cannot deal with the fact that every time she is near him, she is surrounded by death and disaster. Jack and Kim have no further contact during Day 5, although the Chinese fake a call from Kim as a ruse to get to Jack at the end of the day.
Kim makes her first appearance in episode 18 of the season. Kim is brought to the FBI by Renee Walker after trying to reach Jack. Kim wants to donate stem cells in an attempt to save Jack's life from the effects of his exposure to the bio-weapon, but Jack refuses to put her at risk for his own life, and asks her to leave.[3] She returns to her husband Stephen, and it is revealed that they have a daughter.
While Kim is waiting for a flight, terrorists take her hostage at the airport. Kim stabs one terrorist in the leg with a pen, allowing a security guard to shoot the other. Kim then follows the surviving terrorist down the stairs, risking her life to recover a laptop the terrorist was using. Kim gives the laptop to the FBI so they can learn where Tony Almeida is hiding.
As Jack slowly falls into a morphine induced coma, Kim arrives at the hospital and tells the doctors that she wants to donate stem cells to try to save her dying father. Season 7 ends with her telling Jack, "I'm sorry, Daddy, but I'm not ready to let you go."
At the beginning of Season 8, Kim is staying in New York. Jack comes over frequently and visits with his granddaughter Teri. Jack is going to move with Kim back to L.A. Once the day's events start, Kim encourages him to help CTU. Jack is reluctant to return to his old kind of life, but Kim tells him that if something bad happened that he could have stopped, he wouldn't be able to live with himself. Kim tells Jack to be careful as he heads back inside CTU. Kim dies moths later giving birth to a cow alien
External links
- Kim Bauer on 24 Wiki
- Kim Bauer Photos Kim Bauer Photo Gallery on the 24-Archive [dead link]
References
- ^ Cerasini, Marc (2003). 24: The House Special Subcommittee's Findings at CTU (First ed.). Harper Collins. p. 61. ISBN 0-06-053550-4.
- ^ "FOX Broadcasting Company: 24". FOX 24. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
- ^ Ben Rawson-Jones (2008-09-04). "Report: Elisha Cuthbert returns to '24'". Digital Spy. Retrieved 2008-09-06.
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