Teddy Sears cast in 24: Legacy

That’s funny because I’m so excited that CTU exists again. It’s basically the first old character to come back in Legacy, after years of various paralleling units. CTU is as integral to the series as the character of Jack is– it’d be like setting The X-Files somewhere other than the FBI or a Star Trek series without any spaceships or space stations.

CTU’s various states of existence go along with the plot of the series, so that even when it’s not dominant, it’s still at the core of the plot. It goes from being the home base of the main characters to being absorbed by Homeland Security, to being literally broken (smashed glass everywhere/hostage situation) by Cheng’s men on Day 6 (paralleling Jack’s China experience), to being split into two separate identities that masqueraded as one unit on Day 7 (paralleling Tony’s undercover work, CTU became the Rogue CTU and the FBI unit, which then collided into one), to Day 8’s CTU: NY– a revived zombie of an unit designed to be reminiscent of the original but hollow, lacking in everything but the surface (paralleling Day 8 Jack Bauer). Live Another Day strips the story back to the start, almost as if going back in time– we get a CIA unit, which goes along with major characters in the series from Jack to Tony to Henderson to Chappelle being formerly CIA and with CTU being an agency born out of the CIA. So, to come back to the idea of CTU itself for the first time in awhile to me doesn’t feel stale– it actually makes me interested to see how getting back to this idea relates to the themes of the plot of Legacy.

He seems legit, but its hard to tell!