Nina Myers 
Intelligent, witty, and beautiful when she pleases
to be, Nina Myers used to be one of the most helpful, caring,
and exceptional agents at CTU. It was 4 years ago, on the day
of the California presidential primary, that changed her life
forever and made her and Jack sworn enemies.
When the day began, Nina was seen merely as a “helper”
and friend of Jack’s. However, as the day tick-boomed its way
forward, Nina’s character began to become more and more apparent.
At 2 AM, Jack thought that she was a mole inside the agency assisting
in the assassination attempt on David Palmer. “Who are you working
for!?“ Jack screamed at her. “I work for you,” Nina replied with
fear in her eyes. At 7 AM, Jack was forced to shoot Nina. Even
then, Nina, who was given a bullet-proof vest by Jack, continued
to help out Jack in every way possible. Not only was she able
to assist Jack while he was working against CTU’s authority, but
she also found key information leading to the Drazens as the tiring
day pressed on.
Nina was also notorious at the time for being caught
in the middle of love and its repercussions. Nina’s affair with
Jack led to complications between her and Teri, and perhaps a
bit with Tony as well. However, even through all the accusations,
Nina continued to help Jack and his family. She helped Jack perform
two sting operations, one with Alexis Drazen and another with
Alan Morgan. She comforted Teri when she found out that Jack and
Kim were in danger. She even made a call to David Palmer, asking
for his special assistance in getting Jack back from the Drazens.
All of these traits made Nina the ideal CTU agent…until one moment
in time that changed everything:
“Da?”
“Yada Yelena.”
At 11 PM, Nina was revealed to be a mole in CTU,
just as Jack suspected earlier in the day. Her attitude toward
Jack and his family completed shifted as we were able to see her
point of view in the final, thrilling hour of the day: “You’ll
have to kill him. No mistakes,” she said to Victor Drazen in reference
to Jack as she strode carefully through the vacant CTU halls.
Upon finding out that Jack survived Drazen’s onslaught, Nina began
to make her daring escape from CTU and into Germany. Yet her trip
was impeded by Teri Bauer, who found out too much about Nina’s
future plans. “Hands on your knees…DO IT!” Nina yelled to the
fearful, yet quiet Teri. Upon completing the transferring of files
from CTU, Nina was told by her superior to not let anything compromise
her. With a regretful look on her face, Nina shot Teri in the
abdomen and let her die. After a grand showdown with Jack in the
CTU parking garage, Jack was left the victor and Nina the loser.
“I was just trying to do my job,” Nina said to Jack with blood
running down her face. “Your JOB?! My wife and daughter almost
died today!“ Jack protested. As she was taken away by the CTU
guards, Nina couldn’t help but give a smirk…
1 year later, Nina is revealed to have given the
plans to CTU to a terrorist while working at CTU, and she is brought
back to the building to help assist Jack in the search for a nuclear
bomb. Jack’s interrogation with Nina proves to be most splendid,
and both begin to play a cat-and-mouse game that continues even
to this very day. Jack begins the game by drugging a CTU agent
in order to prove that he has the power to leave them alone together
and make her quiver with fear. Nina makes her first move when
she attempts to escape into the world, or rather Visalia, California.
Jack counters this maneuver and puts a gun to her head for trying
to escape…but his conscience kicks in and decides to spare her.
In the next round, while on an airplane, Nina slashes terrorist
Mahmud Faheen with an infamous gift card and demands to be taken
to San Diego. However, Nina’s plans are ruined when the plane
that Jack and her are traveling on is shot down by a government
unit known as the Coral Snake team. Surprisingly, both Jack and
Nina survive the plane crash and the ground attack launched by
the Coral Snake team, whom they defeat by working together. However,
once the attack is over, Nina corners Jack with an Uzi and puts
him in the position she’s wanted him in for a long time. Demanding
a pardon from President Palmer, Nina plans to shoot Jack and finally
move on with her life. As she prepares to do so, Jack once again
tries to tell Nina that she has no cause and no soul, and that
no whatever what she thinks, she still killed people. “Shut up,
Jack! Shut up! Now we are through TALKING!” Nina furiously responded
to Jack. Just before she is able to get the chance to shoot him,
a CTU sniper is able to hit Nina in the shoulder and neutralize
her. As she is about to be taken away, Jack whispers something
into Nina’s ear, something that even to this day, remains a mystery.
Nina’s eyes dilate and her face runs cold as she is taken back
to Los Angeles…
Because of President Palmer’s promise to Nina of
a pardon for the attempted murder on Jack Bauer and for the successful
interception of the nuclear device, Nina was freed from prison
and thrust into exile. 3 years after the attempted bombing on
Los Angeles, Nina returns yet again, and has emerged from the
Northern regions of Africa to make her triumphant return to the
world of bio-terrorism. Still working for her nameless client,
Nina wins an auction for the deadly Cordilla virus at a price
of over $200,000. Before she could obtain the virus from its dealer,
Michael Amador, Jack was able to enter the picture, and offered
Nina 10 times the amount of money for the virus from the Salazar
brothers, claiming that he had gone rogue and turned his back
on CTU. Nina didn’t believe him. “Convince me,” she said with
a grin. And he did via a kiss and probably some sex. Yet Nina
was still not convinced. So naturally, Jack got the best of her
and tied her up, claiming that he would do whatever it takes to
get the virus. And thus, their game of cat-and-mouse resumed once
again. Soon, Nina tries to convince Ramon Salazar that Jack has
been working against them the whole time. This fails, and Nina
obtains the virus from Amador in an abandoned mine. She gives
it to Ramon, and she runs off after CTU units begin to attack
from the perimeters of the area. Luckily, Jack is able to find
her before she escapes and before she is able to kill his partner,
Chase Edmunds. Back on a plane once again, Nina decides to reveal
her ultimate trump card by tricking Jack into dialing a number
which would trigger a worm in CTU’s computer system. To the dismay
of Nina, this plan fails thanks to Chloe O’ Brian, CTU’s new tech
whiz. As they begin their descent to CTU, Jack can’t help but
smile, while Nina cowers in her place.
They say that the third time’s the charm, and well…it
looks like they were right. As Nina enters CTU for her third and
final time, Kim sees her for the first time in 4 years since that
unforgettable day. The same, presumably, goes for Tony, who finally
gets to interrogate his evil ex-girlfriend. Throughout the interrogation,
Nina makes use of her dry wit with classic lines such as making
“the same mistake twice,” “very incisive,” and “your neck’s bleeding.”
Also in the interrogation, a startling discovery is made, implying
that Nina has AIDS. This however, does not stop Nina from withholding
information. It also doesn’t stop her from playing her final and
most daring game yet. Instead of being injected with truth serum,
Nina decides to inject herself into the serum, causing her to
burst a vein in the neck and prompting her to have surgery immediately.
Jack knows though, that this is just another one of her brilliant
schemes. Nothing can take down Nina Myers so easily…but Nina sure
can. In an instant, Nina begins her second grand escape from CTU,
killing several medical technicians and a guard in the process.
The alarms go off, and both Kim and Jack watch in horror as the
same thing that happened 4 years ago happens once more. Nina is
routing her escape route once more, in a room that looks eerily
similar to that of the one where she killed Teri…with a gun. Kim
arrives with a gun. “Kim, you don’t want to be involved in this,”
Nina says in her compassionate, yet psychotic tone of voice. Kim
swears to God that she will kill Nina if she doesn’t drop her
gun. Nina raises her gun…and down she goes, shot in the arm once
again by an unseen sniper: Jack Bauer.
Jack tells Kim to go, leaving the two alone finally,
both in their true, vulnerable states, after so long. Jack asks
Nina if she has anymore information. As she lunges for her gun,
Nina claims that she does. It is at that very moment, that Jack
realizes that she has no more useful information. “No you don’t.”
He shoots her several times in chest. Nina Myers…is finally dead.
Nina Myers became but a shadow of the compassionate,
helpful, model CTU employee that she once tried to play for several
years at CTU. As the minutes ticked on past 11 PM on that day
4 years ago, Nina became less and less of a person, and more and
more of the very kind of person that CTU protects the world from.
Although there have been times when Nina subtly hinted some regret
for her actions, unfortunately redemp-tion for her is too late
and she’ll never be apologize for her “inappropriate behavior”
and return to “the side of the angels” once more. It is this that
leaves the viewer both sad, puzzled, and even a little disturbed.
Even though Jack has killed the one person that has been plaguing
his existence, he tried his very best to not kill her. Did Nina
win that final game in CTU? We will most likely find out as the
show proceeds, but some-thing that we know right now, is that
Nina Myers most certainly won our hearts throughout these past
few years, whether for her goodness…or for her evilness.
You will be sorely missed.
RIP Nina.
