Paul Raines

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24 character
Paul Raines
Gender:	Male
Jobs held:	CFO Galaxy Financial Services
Affiliation:	CTU
Family:	NA
Spouse:	Audrey Raines (Ex-wife)
Current status:	Deceased
Portrayed by:	James Frain
Seasons:	4

Paul Raines, a fictional character on the television series 24, was the estranged husband of Audrey Raines. He was a British businessman who got involved in the events of Day 4 after Audrey and her father, Secretary of Defense James Heller were kidnapped.

[edit] Before Day Four

• One of Paul's companies, Galaxy Financial Services, purchased a building and rented it out to a man named Harris Barnes.

• Another company that Paul worked for sold IT software to McLennan-Forster, the defense contractor that manufactured the Dobson Override Device.

• Paul and Audrey decided to separate.

[edit] Day Four

As Secretary Heller visited with his son, Richard, Audrey called Paul and told him that she was ready to file for divorce. He asked her to reconsider, and she told him that they would discuss it upon her return to Washington, DC.

Later in the day, Paul flew to Los Angeles after learning about Audrey's kidnapping. He told her that he wanted to get back together and work on their marriage, and Audrey revealed that she was in love with someone else. When Paul saw Jack and Audrey talking in another room, he suspected that Jack was the other man in Audrey's life.

After CTU discovered Paul's name on the lease of the building where the terrorist attacks had been planned, Jack suspected that Paul might be involved with the terrorists, even if he didn't realize it. He interrogated Paul in his hotel room after setting a trap through a meeting with Audrey. Jack memorably tortured Paul with the wires from a lamp, and Paul found the name of the renter on his laptop... Habib Marwan.

Thanks to Paul's intel, Jack and Curtis Manning were able to track Habib Marwan to the Rockland Building, where Marwan was using the Dobson Override to melt down nuclear power plants. They recovered the override, but Marwan escaped. They decided to visit Marwan's employer, McLennan-Forster.

Despite the fact that Jack was romantically involved with Audrey, Paul offered to accompany Jack to McLennan-Forster to help retrieve any useful files on Marwan's computer. After Paul began to uncover information that McLennan-Forster executives were trying to hide, the company detonated an EMP to prevent CTU from finding any incriminating evidence.

Before the blackout, Paul printed an encrypted file and hid it in one of the offices at McLennan-Forster. He was captured and assaulted by the head of security, Dave Conlon, and two other men. Jack saved Paul and the two escaped into the dark streets with the printout.

Paul and Jack took shelter at a sporting goods store and managed to fight off the mercenaries sent by McLennan-Forster to retrieve the document and eliminate them. After a prolonged shootout, CTU arrived and rescued Paul and Jack. As Jack was handing off the document, Conlon, who was thought to be dead, shot at Jack. Paul pushed Jack out of the way and was shot instead.

In the middle of the night, Paul was in emergency surgery in the CTU medical clinic when Jack rushed in with a suspect, Lee Jong, from the Chinese Consulate who had been shot.

At gunpoint, Jack forced the doctors to abandon Paul and operate on Lee Jong instead. Knowing that Paul would die, Audrey blamed Jack. Even though he believed he made the right decision, Jack was wracked with guilt and anguish and immediately resorted to emergency measures to keep Paul alive. His efforts finally failed, and Curtis had to hold Jack to the reality that Paul was dead.

While Audrey did forgive Jack by the end of the day, the incident did serve to drive them apart, and Audrey opted to end her relationship with Jack just before the end of Day 4.