Karen Hayes is a fictional character portrayed by Jayne Atkinson in the TV series 24.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Day 5: 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. (season 5), they were 47 years old.
They appear in 30 episodes out of a total of 204 aired and have accumulated 470 positive votes.
Episodes30
Day 5: 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
episode S5.E13 march 2006While CTU itself deals with an attack, the Vice President tries to convince the President to declare martial law in Los Angeles.
Day 5: 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
episode S5.E14 march 2006Homeland Security takes control of CTU. President Logan orders martial law. Wayne Palmer goes to meet with Aaron Pierce. Jack interferes with a German spy's undercover operation while searching for Bierko.
Day 5: 9:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
episode S5.E15 march 2006Audrey faces custody and torture. Bierko moves nerve gas canisters to the Wilshire Gas Company. Aaron Pierce goes looking for Wayne Palmer.
Day 5: 10:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
episode S5.E16 april 2006CTU makes Christopher Henderson their priority while dealing with the restructuring into Homeland Security. Jack and Wayne must save Evelyn Martin's daughter in order to get crucial information about the conspiracy.
Day 5: 11:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.
episode S5.E17 april 2006Jack and Wayne must retrieve a digital recording from a safety deposit box before Henderson's men get to it. President Logan starts to cover his tracks when he orders Homeland Security to issue an arrest warrant for Jack.
Day 5: 12:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m.
episode S5.E18 april 2006Jack and Audrey show Secretary Heller the recording, but are shocked by the actions he decides to take in handling it. Karen Hayes works to cut off Jack's support inside CTU. Mike Novick begins to become suspicious of President Logan's actions.
Day 5: 1:00 a.m.-2:00 a.m.
episode S5.E19 april 2006Jack and Buchanan work outside the chain of command by recruiting Curtis for help. Homeland Director, Karen Hayes, begins to see discrepancies in the President's actions and begins to suspect his motives.
Day 5: 2:00 a.m.-3:00 a.m.
episode S5.E20 may 2006Jack's search for the recording takes him to an airport in the Valley. Bill Buchanan helps covertly.
Day 5: 3:00 a.m.-4:00 a.m.
episode S5.E21 may 2006When President Logan realizes he is backed into a corner, he resorts to a drastic solution. While Karen becomes an ally in Jack's quest to expose Logan, Miles changes allegiances, and a villain from the past returns.
Day 5: 4:00 a.m.-5:00 a.m.
episode S5.E22 may 2006Vladimir Bierko manages to escape custody and take control of a submarine, the Natalia, bent on getting his revenge against the US. Jack reluctantly teams up with Henderson in hopes of getting a lead on Bierko, while Martha helps Aaron.
Day 5: 5:00 a.m.-6:00 a.m.
episode S5.E23 may 2006Jack Bauer teams up with Christopher Henderson to put an end to Vladimir Bierko's terrorism.
Day 5: 6:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m.
episode S5.E24 may 2006Jack Bauer works with Martha Logan to get a confession out of President Logan and an old antagonist returns to settle a score with Jack.
Day 6: 6:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m.
episode S6.E1 january 2007A new U.S. President has negotiated Jack's release from a Chinese prison so Jack can stop a series of terror attacks... with his life.
Day 6: 7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m.
episode S6.E2 january 2007Can Jack and an unlikely ally stop a suicide bomber and track the architect of these acts of terror?
Day 6: 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
episode S6.E3 january 2007Jack and former terrorist leader turned peacemaker, Hamri Al-Assad, track a suspicious man to a self-storage facility.
Day 6: 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
episode S6.E4 january 2007While Jack has problems with Curtis, CTU discovers a nuclear threat and raids a terrorist warehouse, and a shocking explosion shakes LA.
Day 6: 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
episode S6.E5 january 2007Four more "suitcase nukes" are out there, and Jack's only lead takes him to the home of his brother.
Day 6: 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
episode S6.E6 january 2007Jack finds himself confronting his father while the lead terrorist needs help if he's to explode the remaining bombs.
Day 6: 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
episode S6.E7 february 2007Family troubles: Jack with his brother and father while Morris worries about his own brother.
Day 6: 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
episode S6.E12 march 2007Jack's search takes him to the Russian Consulate, while the Vice President contemplates a sweeping executive order.
Day 6: 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
episode S6.E14 march 2007CTU's satellite tracking system is compromised as a bomb-carrying drone heads toward an unknown city. Meanwhile, US forces prepare for a nuclear retaliation on the Middle East.
Day 6: 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
episode S6.E15 march 2007Jack enlists the help of an autistic man in the search for Gredenko, and Sandra Palmer makes a fateful decision.
Day 6: 9:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
episode S6.E16 april 2007Jack baits Fayed with Gredenko, while the President faces a challenge to his office.
Day 6: 10:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
episode S6.E17 april 2007To find the remaining suitcase bombs, both Jack and the President set up bluffs.
Day 6: 11:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.
episode S6.E18 april 2007The Chinese want Jack to give them Russian nuclear technology, and the President wants the Vice President's resignation.
Day 6: 12:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m.
episode S6.E19 april 2007Jack goes rogue to save a woman, and the White House needs a fall guy for Fayed's success.
Day 6: 1:00 a.m.-2:00 a.m.
episode S6.E20 april 2007A missing computer circuit board: the Russians get wind of Chinese espionage, the White House must find a leak, and CTU interrogates an unlikely witness.
Day 6: 3:00 a.m.-4:00 a.m.
episode S6.E22 may 2007Russia presses the White House, while Jack must try to thwart the Chinese and his oldest antagonist simultaneously.
Day 6: 4:00 a.m.-5:00 a.m.
episode S6.E23 may 2007In order to prevent a war with Russia, the White House orders a trade of Jack's nephew for the circuit board, and puts Jack in custody so he cannot stop the exchange.
Day 6: 5:00 a.m.-6:00 a.m.
episode S6.E24 may 2007Jack rushes toward his nephew and his oldest antagonist, as a Chinese sub and F-18s race for the same destination. Chloe faints. Can Jack find any peace?
- Day 5: 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
- Day 5: 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
- Day 5: 9:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
- Day 5: 10:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
- Day 5: 11:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.
- Day 5: 12:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m.
- Day 5: 1:00 a.m.-2:00 a.m.
- Day 5: 2:00 a.m.-3:00 a.m.
- Day 5: 3:00 a.m.-4:00 a.m.
- Day 5: 4:00 a.m.-5:00 a.m.
- Day 5: 5:00 a.m.-6:00 a.m.
- Day 5: 6:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m.
- Day 6: 6:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m.
- Day 6: 7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m.
- Day 6: 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
- Day 6: 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
- Day 6: 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
- Day 6: 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
- Day 6: 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
- Day 6: 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
- Day 6: 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
- Day 6: 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
- Day 6: 9:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
- Day 6: 10:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
- Day 6: 11:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.
- Day 6: 12:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m.
- Day 6: 1:00 a.m.-2:00 a.m.
- Day 6: 3:00 a.m.-4:00 a.m.
- Day 6: 4:00 a.m.-5:00 a.m.
- Day 6: 5:00 a.m.-6:00 a.m.
Best moments10
- Russia presses the White House, while Jack must try to thwart the Chinese and his oldest antagonist simultaneously.
- Four more "suitcase nukes" are out there, and Jack's only lead takes him to the home of his brother.
- Jack and Buchanan work outside the chain of command by recruiting Curtis for help. Homeland Director, Karen Hayes, begins to see discrepancies in the President's actions and begins to suspect his motives.
- Jack and Audrey show Secretary Heller the recording, but are shocked by the actions he decides to take in handling it. Karen Hayes works to cut off Jack's support inside CTU. Mike Novick begins to become suspicious of President Logan's actions.
- Jack's search for the recording takes him to an airport in the Valley. Bill Buchanan helps covertly.
- Jack and former terrorist leader turned peacemaker, Hamri Al-Assad, track a suspicious man to a self-storage facility.
- CTU's satellite tracking system is compromised as a bomb-carrying drone heads toward an unknown city. Meanwhile, US forces prepare for a nuclear retaliation on the Middle East.
- Jack enlists the help of an autistic man in the search for Gredenko, and Sandra Palmer makes a fateful decision.
- Jack baits Fayed with Gredenko, while the President faces a challenge to his office.
- Jack's search takes him to the Russian Consulate, while the Vice President contemplates a sweeping executive order.
- Day 6: 3:00 a.m.-4:00 a.m.
- Day 6: 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
- Day 5: 1:00 a.m.-2:00 a.m.
- Day 5: 12:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m.
- Day 5: 2:00 a.m.-3:00 a.m.
- Day 6: 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
- Day 6: 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
- Day 6: 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
- Day 6: 9:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
- Day 6: 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.