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Jack Bauer, and the Torture “24,” Jack Bauer, and the Torture Lie – by Frank Deese In the late spring of the year 2000, TV writer and show creator Joel Surnow was standing in his bathroom dreading the upcoming television season. He had just finished supervising 22 episodes of the series La Femme Nikita and was thinking about the inevitability of the next 22 episodes. It was an immutable number that he wished was smaller – so he could do other things in his life – but his mind went instead to a larger number: 24. 24 episodes – like 24 hours. What if there was a 24-episode season of a TV show covering only one day in real time? Each episode was an hour… Whoa! He called his friend and fellow TV writer Robert Cochran who dampened his enthusiasm with all the ways a real-time series couldn’t work or shouldn’t work. But Surnow didn’t give up and insisted they meet halfway between their San Fernando Valley homes at the International House of Pancakes. Fueled by coffee and imitation maple syrup, they brainstormed how a real-time one-day show could be realized. What if it were like the 1970 comedy film Lovers and Other Strangers and took place around the planning of a wedding? You could cut back and forth between the various characters in real time. But… In order for this to be truly real time in 24 hours, the characters would have to stay awake and active for 24 hours; and who does that except TV writers under deadline? There has to be something big at stake to keep the characters out of bed. Their minds drifted to films like The Day of the Jackal and In the Line of Fire and imagined the show’s 24 hours was about stopping something awful like a political assassination. That was their lightbulb moment in the IHOP. Soon they developed the character of Jack Bauer, an ambitious agent for the fictitious United States “Counter Terrorism Unit,” or C.T.U. whose daughter was also kidnapped, giving them everything they needed to fill 24 hours and justification for keeping characters awake. The 24-hour day would be the day of the California Presidential Primary and the target of the assassination would be a U.S. Senator running for President. They also decided to make the character black because, as Joel Surnow later recounted, “If Los Angeles (following Rodney King) had a black Presidential candidate assassinated, it could cause a race riot in the city – so let’s keep the stakes up.” With a fully-realized concept, they pitched 24 to Fox Network executive David Nevins who bought it the same day. But when Surnow and Cochran began outlining the series and pilot episode, they quickly discovered the challenges of real-time scripting. Any time Jack Bauer needed to go somewhere, they had to take into account the travel time – especially in traffic- clogged Los Angeles – and cut away to other stories to accommodate that time. But the writers met the challenge with a variety of concurrent story lines and the show was set to premiere September, 2001. When the 11th of that month happened, Surnow and Cochran feared that was the end for their terrorism-themed show. Five episodes had already been shot, but who would want to spend an hour every week with Jack Bauer and his fictitious “Counter Terrorism Unit” after live- witnessing human beings jumping to their deaths, the second plane hitting the south tower, both towers individually collapsing simultaneous to scenes of the Pentagon burning and news Page 1 of 5 “24,” Jack Bauer, and the Torture Lie – by Frank Deese that passengers had seized control of a fourth plane and crashed it into the fields of central Pennsylvania? Apparently, a lot of people would. In addition to the horrors of that day, envelopes filled with deadly anthrax powder soon arrived at the offices of prominent senators and news people with the message “Death to America! Death to Israel! Allah is great!” – killing five postal and office workers. This turned out to be of domestic non-al-Qaeda origin, but at the time it seemed like America was under a sustained foreign attack. On September 14th, President Bush stood on the rubble of the World Trade Center promising payback for the devastation and on the same day both houses of Congress nearly unanimously voted to give Bush authorization to pretty much do whatever he wanted to achieve that payback. The United States’s October 7th attack on the al-Qaeda-harboring Taliban regime in Afghanistan began with a bang from the air, but soon whimpered along on the ground as cities methodically but slowly fell to the U.S.-backed proxy while al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden slipped through U.S. Army fingers into Pakistan. The hunger for fast success and quick action Americans sought in the news could now, however, be better satisfied on TV as the rescheduled and re-edited 24 finally premiered on November 6th – delayed, in part, due to a need to remove an exploding passenger jet from the pilot episode. Airing Tuesday nights at 9pm on the Fox Network, 24 was an immediate success with high ratings and rave reviews like Tom Shales in the Washington Post: “Jack Bauer is in for a helluva day, and you may well want to be there with him for every agonizing twist and turn.” And Time Magazine: “Forget sleeping through this one--you won't even want to blink. 24 is the most distinctive, addictive new TV series this season.” And: “It's relentless, tense and deliciously paranoiac, with more twists than a Twizzler. But it's also boldly different. Most notably, there's its clever visual signature: picture-in-picture screens that show two, three and even four different scenes simultaneously.” Counter Terrorism Unit’s Jack Bauer was always moving, always pushing, never patient, never compromising both in finding his kidnapped wife and daughter and thwarting a political assassination. On the10th episode (depicting 10am to 11am) he finally resorts to torturing two different well-deserving scoundrels to extract information on the whereabouts of his loved ones. Of course, the torture is immediately effective and quickly gets him to where he needs to be for the 11th episode. Split screen to the actual White House where President Bush and Vice President Cheney are having a more complex real-world dilemma: what do they do with all the prisoners American forces in Afghanistan had rounded up and detained? Some were likely al-Qaeda operatives, so… wouldn’t it be nice to extract more than just names, ranks, and serial numbers agreed to by the Geneva Conventions of 1949? With Jack Bauer presently finding success with torture, President Bush signed the secret and Orwellian-titled "Humane Treatment of Taliban and al Qaeda Detainees," a formal abandonment of the most inconvenient provisions of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Split screen again to Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran now Page 2 of 5 “24,” Jack Bauer, and the Torture Lie – by Frank Deese conceiving the second season of 24, fully embracing post-9/11 anger, dread, and paranoia. “The first season lived in the world of fiction, and the second season lived in the world of post-9/11 America; and it has ever since,” Surnow recounted. “The world of terrorism has invaded our lives.” The first episode of the second season opens in South Korea with an unknow man getting tortured with electricity, the first spoken line being “talk and the pain will stop.” He does talk after a few more shocks and screams and reveals that a nuclear bomb is set to explode in Los Angeles that day. This is enough to bring Jack Bauer out of retirement and his first action is shooting a detainee in the chest (on screen) and cutting off his head (off screen) with a hacksaw. The whole basis for the second season is, basically: information extracted by torture moves the story forward towards more torture and more useful information. The independent media watchdog Parents Television Council counted 67 instances of torture in five seasons, more than one every other episode. Highlights from Season Two include a man repeatedly shocked with defibrillator paddles while his bare feet soak in a tub of water and Jack Bauer staging the remote execution of a detainee’s entire family until he gives up the location of the nuclear bomb in L.A. (It worked. Only one child needed to be pretend murdered.) While the Fox Network was airing Season Two in 2002, with its regular delivery of do- what’s-necessary interrogation torture, prisoners from the war captured in Afghanistan were being subjected to mock burials, water boarding, sleep deprivation, hypothermia, and death at secret “black sites” around the world, as well as at Guantanamo Bay by Army and C.I.A. interrogators with much less success than Jack Bauer on TV – in fact, not much success at all. (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the actual architect of 9/11 attack, was water-boarded 183 times and did not reveal anything that was at all useful.) The United States resorting to torture was not, however, caused by a television show. Jack Bauer did not lead America to abandon its long-held principles about the treatment of prisoners. That was President Bush immediately playing to the crowd on the hot rubble of the twin towers and acquiescing to Vice President Dick Cheney’s resorting to the “dark side” which he explained to journalist Tim Russert on Meet the Press: “A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies..
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