Another long day for Jack

Two-hour TV movie opens new season of 24 | Rebecca Cusey

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There may come a day in an Obama presidency when the new president wishes for a man like 24's super-agent Jack Bauer. The former CTU agent, with his preternatural stamina and his miraculous aim, always manages to be one half-step ahead of thugs and terrorists. In 24:Redemption, Jack comes back to kick off another intense, very long day in a two-hour TV movie that airs Nov. 23 on Fox, and which sets the stage for season 7. Like previous seasons, the seventh season will cover one day in Bauer's exciting life, with each hour-long episode happening in real time.

The show opens four years after the last time Bauer saved the world, in a mission school in the fictitious African country of Sangala. Bauer's friend Carl Benton (Robert Carlyle) runs the school, and Bauer (Keifer Sutherland) has sought refuge there from a past that haunts him as well as from a subpoena to stand trial in American court.