Audrey Raines

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Audrey Raines
Gender:	Female
Jobs held:	Inter-Agency Liaison, DOD Senior Policy Analyst, DOD
Affiliation:	DOD/CTU
Family:	James Heller (Father) Susan Heller (Mother) (Deceased) Richard Heller (Brother)
Spouse:	Paul Raines (Ex-husband) (Deceased) Jack Bauer (Boyfriend) Walt Cummings (Ex-boyfriend)
Current status:	Active
Portrayed by:	Kim Raver
Seasons:	4, 5, 6

Audrey Raines is a fictional character played by actress Kim Raver on the television show 24 and is currently employed by Direct Partners in Marina Del Rey, California.

1 Biography
2 Day 4
3 Day 5
4 Favorable/Unfavorable Comparison with Kate Warner
5 External links

[edit] Biography

Audrey earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Yale University, and a Master of Arts in Public Policy from Brown University. She is employed as an Inter-Agency Liaison for the United States Department of Defense, where she is currently assigned to the Los Angeles CTU division. Her skill set and expertise involve coordinating between government agencies. Audrey previously served the Defense Department as a Senior Policy Analyst for her father Secretary of Defense James Heller.

Raines has also worked as a consultant for government contracts for Anderson Aerospace Corporation and a government liaison for Ballard Technology, as well as a registered lobbyist. Her first job in government was a legislative assistant (possibly for her father) dealing with the House Armed Services Committee.

On the website Television Without Pity, she is referred to as "DoDder" based on her employment at the Department of Defense and being the daughter of James Heller.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Day 4

She became involved with former CTU agent Jack Bauer after Erin Driscoll fired him from CTU and during Season 4. She does not feel guilty because she thinks her husband, Paul Raines, and herself were "over a long time ago."

Audrey and her father were targeted at 7:59 AM by a group of terrorists. Five hours later, when her father was about to be executed, Jack made a rescue attempt and successfully saved Audrey and her father. In the aftermath, both Secretary Heller and Paul discover Jack and Audrey's love relationships, opening a love triangle, between, Paul, Jack and herself. Later, when Jack and Paul are searching Paul takes a bullet meant for Jack. Later, Jack was forced to choose between saving Paul or saving a man who could help them to diffuse the current crisis, a nuclear missile. Jack chose to save the man, allowing Paul to die. Audrey was heartbroken and pushed Jack away. Later on, when Jack's death was faked to avoid an international incident with China, Audrey took his "death" hard.

[edit] Day 5

Eighteen months later, during season 5, Audrey is still working for the Defense Department. She was sent back to CTU as a DOD liaison to aid in their investigation into the assassination of former U.S. President David Palmer. When Audrey learns that Jack is still alive, it is evident that she still has feelings for him. A power struggle ensues between her and a new CTU chief, Lynn McGill, until the latter is forcibly relieved of command.

Later on, she was implicated in the ongoing terrorist attacks by Collette Stenger, a terrorist collaborator, who said that Audrey supplied her with building schematics to sell to Vladimir Bierko. She was soon cleared of wrongdoing - Christopher Henderson had ordered that Audrey's name be intentionally leaked to CTU in order to throw Jack Bauer off the trail - but not before being subjected to a medical interrogation involving Sodium Pentothal, the same drug used to torture Henderson and murder Tony Almeida. Bauer helped to clear Audrey of any suspicion. She was not immediately put back to work, in order to recover from the effects of the torturing chemical.

Once Audrey was reinstated, Homeland Security agents Karen Hayes and Miles Papazian acted on their orders to absorb CTU. Because of her DOD ties, Audrey was unaffected. However, Miles attempted to force her to sign a confession blaming Bill Buchanan for CTU's failings. Audrey initially refused, but Jack told her of the White House's connection to Henderson, and that she and Chloe O'Brian were the only ones he could trust. In order to keep Chloe at her position, she agreed to sign the confession. Audrey then left CTU, but Homeland Security attempted to track her so that she could lead them to Jack, whom President Logan had now ordered to be arrested for David Palmer's murder. With Chloe's help, Audrey removed a tracking device from her car and escaped satellite detection. She called her father on his private jet and told him that it was urgent she speak to him personally. Jack contacted her shortly after recovering evidence implicating Logan, and she told him to meet Heller at Van Nuys Airport to hand off the evidence to him.

After giving the tape to one of his guards, Secretary Heller had Jack and Audrey detained by his guards while he went off to confront Logan. Jack escaped and managed to recover the tape, but Henderson and his men arrived at the airport, taking Audrey hostage. In an effort to get Jack to hand over the recording, Henderson cut the brachial artery in Audrey's left arm, which would have led to her death in three minutes. Before she bled to death, Jack handed over the tape. After Henderson escaped, Jack put a tourniquet on her arm, saving her life. When Jack later apprehended Henderson (with Audrey at his side), Henderson says that he has his men on standby orders to kill James Heller if he does not contact them every fifteen minutes. Jack informs Heller about the situation, but Heller asks Jack to tell his daughter that he loves her, raising a red flag. When Jack asks over the phone with Chloe O'Brian to see if Heller had driven his car off the road from her satellite visual, it is confirmed that he did. Audrey went into a breakdown of grief, insisting that Jack should shoot Henderson if he would not give Jack the incriminating recording. It is later learned that Henderson had given the recording to another person. Jack claimed he had to stay and wait until Curtis Manning and his team could collect Henderson, but Audrey refutes that if the recording is not recovered, then her father would have died for nothing.

Jack left Audrey alone with the recording, and Henderson's men eventually pinpoint their boss' location, pressuring Audrey to flee the scene. She attempted to assassinate Henderson before his men arrived, but her morals proved otherwise. Audrey was rescued by Curtis Manning and his tactical team as soon as Henderson ordered his men to close in on her. Audrey later discovers at CTU from Curtis that her father survived going over the cliff, but remains in critical condition.

Audrey remains at CTU to aid Jack while he attempts to stop Bierko from firing missiles from a Russian submarine.

At the end of the day, with the crisis seemingly over, she reunites with Jack and the two share a passionate kiss. Jack is notified by a Federal agent that his daughter Kim is calling him. Jack leaves Audrey to take the call. Several minutes later, Audrey goes to check on Jack and is horrified to find him missing. She is unaware that he has been abducted by the Chinese officials who had somehow learned that he was still alive.

[edit] Favorable/Unfavorable Comparison with Kate Warner

Despite the fact that Jack Bauer had an intermediate love interest in Season 3, Claudia Salazar, 24 fans on message boards have taken to comparing Audrey Raines, either favorably or unfavorably, with Bauer's love interest in Season 2, Kate Warner (Sarah Wynter). Fans are split as to whether they think Kate or Audrey was the best woman for Jack. In a poll taken on the official 24 website in Spring of 2006 that asked viewers which of Jack's love interests had the best chemistry with Jack, Nina Myers came in first at approximately 33%, Kate Warner followed at approximately 30%, and Audrey Raines trailed at approximately 18%. (The remaining votes went to Claudia Salazar and Jack's late wife Teri Bauer.) At the end of Season 4, some fans found Kate Warner preferable because she proved to be more helpful to Jack Bauer's mission than was Audrey Raines in their respective seasons. Despite intense debates on fan message boards as to whether or not Kate Warner should return to 24, the producers are steadfast that Audrey Raines will remain Bauer's love interest in Season 6. In fact, some fans took to Audrey more after season five. Her character purportedly became stronger and more proactive during the course of day five. Nevertheless, other fans still prefer Kate Warner because she did not wait a whole season before developing into a strong and proactive character, and are mystified at the enthusiasm expressed by 24's producers and Kiefer Sutherland for Raver/Raines, resulting in one of the more lively ongoing controversies among 24 viewers.