Chase Edmunds

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Chase Edmunds
Gender:	Male
Jobs held:	Security Officer in Valencia CTU Field Operations agent CTU: LA UnderCover Field Agent CTU: DC
Affiliation:	CTU Kim Bauer
Family:	Angela (Daughter)
Spouse:	Kim Bauer (Ex-girlfriend)
Current status:	Inactive
Portrayed by:	James Badge Dale
Seasons:	3

Chase Edmunds is a fictional character (played by James Badge Dale) who was a high-ranking agent in the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit on Fox's 24.

Contents 1 Bio 1.1 Pre-CTU 1.2 CTU Career 1.3 24: The Game 1.4 Between The Game & Day 3 1.5 Day 3 1.6 Post CTU 2 Trivia

[edit] Bio

[edit] Pre-CTU

Edmunds was a police officer with the Metro Police Department's Emergency Response Team before joining the CTU Washington/Baltimore Domestic Unit. He has won honors in the MPDC SWAT Competition Tactical Shooting events and commendations in weapons knowledge and field reconnaissance. He is also a graduate of the Special Forces Operations Training Course.

[edit] CTU Career

After working at CTU Washington/Baltimore for a time, Chase worked undercover for D.C. CTU prior to being assigned to the CTU Los Angeles Domestic Unit as a Field Operations agent under CTU Field Ops Director Jack Bauer.

[edit] 24: The Game

Chase Edmunds is a playable character in 24: The Game. The game, taking place within the period between seasons two and three of the series, is slated to explain how Chase first met and became involved with both Kim and Jack Bauer.

Chase Edmunds was working undercover with terrorists Carr and Tarket for the Washington D.C. Branch of C.T.U. for a year and a half. It is speculated that his assignment started sometime during Day 2. During the game's event, Chase got fed up about the low-level courier jobs he was stuck doing for Tarket. His frustration was genuine, and it made Carr open up the agent giving him information about the assassination of Vice-President Prescott. A local henchman named Robert Daniels was going to carry out the deed in L.A. . As Chase relays the information to fellow CTU: DC agent Chloe O'Brian and CTU: LA, Tarket and Carr caught on that Chase was a federal agent since he was calling from a land-line in a decommissioned bunker. Chase locks down the base and takes out the terrorists to maintain his cover. Shortly after evacuating the bunker, Chase goes rogue and heads to an airport in order to continue his assignment.

Shortly after arriving in LA, Chase was given a phone call by Joseph Sin-Chung to evacuate him, former CTU operative Peter Madsen, and a hostage from CTU: LA The hostage turned out to be none other than Kim Bauer. Being pressured by Madsen, Chase managed to evade pursuing L.A.P.D. officers and was eventually taken to an abandoned factory in Burbank.

While Madsen argues with Jack Bauer, it is hinted that Chase started to show some interest in Kim "One of my men has taken a shining to her." While Jack was busy with finding his own way to locate his daughter, the base was under attack by a rival terrorist group headed by Sid Wilson, whose leader was shot by Madsen during the CTU raid. Chase, Madsen, and a handful of their men took out the attackers, but at the expense of damaging a critical synchronizer device.

Madsen takes Chase to a technology science lab and had the undercover agent infiltrate it in order to retrieve the device. Chase succeeded, but was held up by two guards. Madsen shows up and kills the guards. As Madsen and Chase evacuate, Chase asked Madsen what their plan was, and Madsen stated that L.A. will fall via artificial earthquakes.

After returning to the base, a nearby guard decides to use the restroom, and Chase used the opportunity to have Kim warn CTU for a very limited time. During the ordeal, Jack will have tracked Kim in Burbank. As Jack meets up with Kim at the incinerator building, Chase meets up with his soon-to-be partner and was told by Jack that he'll need to stay undercover in order to grab a hard-drive containing data about all undercover CTU agents. Chase obeys the order to stay behind while Jack and Kim escape.

Chase eventually overhears about a hidden boss during a conversation between Sin-Chung and Madsen, not knowing it would be later referenced that Max had a hand in the events. He was eventually called by Madsen to pick him up in the wrecked city of L.A. The call shows the beginning of how Chase knew about Kate Warner during Day 3. Chase was forced to maintain his cover by making convincing shots that Jack was his enemy. As Madsen evacuates with Kate, Chase was given the order to kill Jack. Jack and Chase have a small stand-off, with Chase telling Jack that he couldn't save Kate without blowing his cover. Jack told Chase that he did the right thing. Chase gives a genuine radio transmission that he killed Jack Bauer. Chase was told to head to a new address and meet Madsen at that location.

Chase drove off to the new address, which was an old train yard. Jack hid himself while Chase showed Madsen Bauer's dogtags. Jack and Chase infiltrate one of the buildings in order to recover the CTU hard-drive. Jack stayed inside an elevator to stay hidden from the guards while Chase stalked one of Sin-Chung's hackers and killed him to take his key-card. Chase covertly hands Jack the key-card and heads over to the security room to disable the cameras. Upon completing his task, Jack moves in to recover the hard-drive. Unfortunately, the removal of the hard-drive triggered the alarms. Jack and Chase were forced to blast their way out.

Jack gives the hard-drive to Chase and tells him to bring it back to C.T.U. Chase second-guessed himself, but followed the order willingly while Jack tries to find Kate. Jack eventually found Kate, but had to blow her off in order to save Chase from a sniper. Jack kills the sniper and provides cover-fire for Chase. Chase eventually enters a car and heads on a long drive back to CTU.

As Chase drove away, Joseph Sin-Chung was in pursuit and eventually had Chase drive off the road. Chase was seriously injured and evacuated the wrecked car while Sin-Chung's men try to kill him. Chase calls CTU and was guided by Michelle Dessler to head to an old saw mill to find first-aid. Using stealth, Chase silently kills the isolated guards and eventually finds the saw mill. After patching up, Chase wins an all-out firefight with Sin-Chung and his men. Chase recovers a message on Sin-Chung's cell phone to send a driver over to the desert to pick up some important cargo. Chase heads back to CTU.

As Chase arrives, he is confronted by an irritated Ryan Chappelle knowing that Chase went rogue. Jack intervenes telling Chappelle that Chase knows how Madsen's side works and that his efforts to return the hard-drive to CTU have to count for something. Chappelle reluctantly complies but tells Jack that he wants Chase on a plane back to Washington DC after the ordeal is over. Chase thanks Jack, and was told by his mentor that he's a good agent. Chase goes undercover again posing as the requested truck driver.

Chase covertly calls Jack on his cell phone in order to have CTU track him. Jack trails the truck to Fort Lesker and eventually sneaks on board in the cargo portion of the truck. Chase covertly hands Jack a radio. While Jack enters a locker room to get information, Chase enters one of the loading areas. Chase was given an order by Jack to head to the main control room to lock down the base even if it meant that Chase had to blow his cover. Chase blasted his way into the control room. Chase held up a low-ranking henchman to start the lock-down, but was greeted with another alarm. Chase knocks the guard out. Chase was given the order for the consoles to deactivate: Yellow, Blue, Green, Red. Chase succeeds, but tells Jack to evacuate the base since there is only one way out for him. Jack goes out of his way to regroup with his partner.

Jack and Chase blast their way out of Fort Lesker and evacuate in a helicopter. The two land in the L.A. docks. With support from CTU S.W.A.T. teams, Jack and Chase sweep the docks to find the cargo shipments and Madsen. Jack eventually gives the order for Chase to stay with the tactical teams while Jack looks for Madsen. While a wounded Jack chases Madsen, Chase finishes the task and ends up hitching a ride in Tony Almeida's chopper. Tony debriefs Chase on the recently acquired info about Max.

After Jack kills Madsen, he is pinned down by Madsen's remaining henchmen. A CTU chopper comes by with Chase shooting the gunmen. The three CTU agents head to Max's Yacht, with Tony and Chase debriefing Jack about Max. It also turned out that Kate was on the yacht as well. Before boarding the ship, Chase obliterates the defending guards with a mounted machine gun. The recently cleared deck allowed Jack to abseil to the ship while Chase covers Jack from any possible gunmen. Jack blasts his way through any surviving gunmen and eventually gets in a stand-off with Max. Jack succeeds in shooting Max three times, at the expense of taking a second gunshot. Everything was over for now, with a deteriorating Jack losing consciousness. Chase helps Jack to the helicopter telling Tony that they need to get Jack to a hospital. Tony acknowledges it and lets Chase fly the chopper to a nearby hospital while Tony stays with Kate on the yacht.

[edit] Between The Game & Day 3

Before meeting Kim, Chase was involved with another woman who became pregnant with his child. Approximately a month before the events of Day 3, Chase learned about his daughter, Angela. After their daughter was born, Chase's girlfriend left Angela in his custody to raise. Due to his fieldwork, Chase recruited fellow CTU agent and friend Chloe O'Brian to help him take care of his daughter.

[edit] Day 3

By Day 3, the relationship between Kim & Chase began to become serious, yet still they had not mentioned anything to Jack, mainly because of fears that her father would disapprove of their relationship. The two kept their relationship quiet up until the second episode of the season when the truth came out. When Bauer discovered this, he was extremely displeased but as the season wore on, Bauer ultimately accepted the relationship between the two. The relationship came into stormy waters when Kim discovered Angela, as well as Chloe's involvement. Kim was shocked and assumed the worst about Chloe and Chase, but Chloe assured Kim that she had zero romantic interest in Chase and was simply helping her friend deal with single-fatherhood by taking care of the child.

At the beginning of Day 3, Edmunds was Jack Bauer's partner, and hunted the Cordilla virus throughout the season. During the course of action, Edmunds suffered greatly as the season progressed:

• Was beaten up by Jack as part of an elaborate plot to gain the trust of narco-terrorist Ramon Salazar, who was involved in the plot to obtain the Cordilla virus

• Tortured and shot in the hand by Salazar's henchmen. That same hand was latered cauterized.

• Forced Jack to chop off his same wounded hand after he attached a container containing the Cordilla virus to his hand to keep a terrorist from activating it, so that Jack could dispose of it before it could detonate.

In his last appearance on the show, Chase was being wheeled into surgery with hopes to have his hand surgically re-attached. Originally the plan was for the surgery to take a tragic turn and have Chase die from complications from the operation, but the scene cut at the last minute and never filmed when rumors leaked onto the internet that the character was slated to die in the season three finale.

[edit] Post CTU

In the season premiere of the fourth season of 24, Jack Bauer mentions that Chase quit CTU (the details are never stated, nor are the details given towards whether or not the hand re-attachment surgery was successful or not) and joined a private security firm. Kim and Chase live together in Valencia, California and are raising Chase's daughter, Angela.

Unfortunately, this happy ending does not last long. In Season 5, Kim reveals that Chase could no longer stand Kim after Jack "died" and subsequently left her. Kim then began dating her clinical psychologist Barry Landes.

Preceded by: Tom Baker	Jack Bauer's backup Season Three	Succeeded by: Tony Almeida/Curtis Manning
Preceded by: Miguel	Kim Bauer's love interest Season Three	Succeeded by: Barry Landes

[edit] Trivia

• Due to his seemingly superfluous "partner" role at the beginning of Day 3 (Jack Bauer seems to take him along regardless of whether or not he will be needed), some fans have used "handbag" as a nickname for Chase...a nickname that proved ironic at the conclusion of the season.

• The very same hand (his left) that was shot at earlier in the season, was the same one Jack had to chop off.

• According to a message board Q & A session with 24 writer Manny Coto, James Badge Dale's agent stated that the actor had no wish to return for Season 5, which was the reason why it was written that Chase left Kim.

• His character nickname on the website Television Without Pity was "Special Agent Charlie Brown," due to his likeness to the comic strip character.

• Chase is one of two characters in 24 to be in the entirety of his only season. Teri Bauer in Season One was the other character.