Peter Kingsley

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Peter Kingsley
Gender:	Male
Jobs held:	Head of unnamed company, representative of oil interests in Caspian Sea
Affiliation:	Max
Family:	NA
Spouse:	Eve (Ex-girlfriend) (Deceased)
Current status:	Deceased
Portrayed by:	Tobin Bell
Seasons:	2

Peter Kingsley is a fictional character from the TV series 24. He was portrayed by Tobin Bell.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Kingsley is an American businessman with military and intelligence ties. Prior to Day 2 he learns that the terrorist group Second Wave is planning to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. Kingsley and his European associates decide that if the United States went to war with the terrorists' home country, their oil holdings would skyrocket. Kingsley approaches Sherry Palmer and NSA Director Roger Stanton, the latter being part of a conspiracy to undermine the Presidency of David Palmer, and the former allegedly infiltrating Stanton's conspirators. Kingsley convinces Stanton to withhold the information of the bomb from Palmer, assuring him and Sherry that the bomb would be found after enough damage was done to Palmer's administration. Stanton has the elite military unit, Coral Snake, track the bomb to Norton Airfield. However, the leader of the team, Captain Jonathan Wallace, is bought off by Kingsley. He kills his teammates, allowing the terrorists to prime the bomb. Through the heroism of CTU chief George Mason, the bomb goes off in the desert with no civilian casualties. Kingsley then implements the second phase of his plan: he hires computer hacker Alex Hewitt to forge a document implicating three Middle Eastern nations in the Second Wave attack, which would lead to war. He also orders the death of Captain Wallace, who is deemed a security risk. Wallace is eventually killed, but not before alerting Jack Bauer to the conspiracy. Kingsley spends the rest of the day attempting to track down Jack and any evidence that could expose the conspiracy. He even kills his secretary/girlfriend Eve as a security measure.

During the final hour of Day 2 (7:00am-8:00am), Kingsley is tricked into incriminating himself on tape by Sherry Palmer. They meet at the Los Angeles Coliseum so that Kingsley can learn the whereabouts of Alex Hewitt and kill him before the conspiracy is exposed by the hacker. After Kingsley incriminates himself he realises that Sherry does not in fact have Hewitt, and so her only reason for being kept alive by him is void. Kinglsey orders her to be killed but is thwarted by Jack Bauer; a gunfight ensues between Kingsley's men and Bauer. At one point Kingsley is about to shoot a severely injured Bauer but is shot by a CTU sniper from a helicopter which intervenes just in time.

Kingsley was working for a German man named Max, whose final fate is revealed in 24: The Game.