A lot or nothing can happen in one day. You can get in a car crash with a truck carrying chemicals and go to a hospital with a piece of radioactive shrapnel lodged in your forehead, thus giving you super-human powers, or you can just stay at home eating popcorn……..radioactive popcorn. Or, in the case of CTU field agent and all-around awesome dude Jack Bouer, you can save the world from evil terrorists, all without the use of radioactive materials (or so he would like us to think…) Although bullet-proof, torture-proof, and falling-off-an-exploding-9-story-building-onto-someone’s-strangely-placed-car-and-breaking-his-legs proof, he has to work for a government facility nobody’s heard about in a California that is full of terrorists, explosions, and abandoned factories. Aiding him is his troupe of seedy co-workers that all turn evil at one point or just look evil. In an unrelated note, the show also focuses on the President, who is black for reasons unknown, and Jack’s daughter, Kim, who has horrible, horrible luck. No, I’m serious, she gets into so much trouble that you can’t feel sorry for her, mostly because her exploits are so unbelievable you’d think that she does this on purpose. In the second season, the producers just decided to run with this idea. She has a babysitting job, the father turns out to be a demented child beater, she escapes from the father with the child, she gets help from her boyfriend that looks like a drug addict, they escape in the father’s car, they get stopped by the police discovering that there is a dead body in the trunk, the cop car they’re in crashes, she wanders out into the woods and gets caught in a bear trap, is attacked by a cougar, rescued by some guy, he turns out to be insanely clingy, and she finally gets held hostage at a convenience store. Keep in mind that this is in less than one day, and you can tell she set at least two parts up. I mean, the cougar part makes me imagine that the cougar set up the trap. Take that, natural selection!