Noah Daniels

Noah Daniels is a fictional character from the TV series 24, played by Powers Boothe.

He is the Vice President of the United States in Season 6, serving under the recently elected President Wayne Palmer. He is a recurring character so far, having been absent in the early episodes of the season. First mentioned in episode five, Daniels first appears in episode seven aboard Air Force Two. He is seen discussing Thomas Lennox's security measures in a favorable manner and comments that he didn't believe President Palmer to be strong enough to face the challenges of the recent wave of terror. Daniels is visibly agitated by Palmer's unwillingness to authorize Lennox's racial profiling system and other security recommendations.

Later, Daniels calls Palmer again personally to express his displeasure and frustration directly, revealing in the process that Palmer had selected him as his Vice President to counter voters' potential concern over his own lack of political experience and perceived weaknesses on issues of national defense. Daniels ends the call by declaring to Palmer that if he insists on refusing to take the advice of the rest of his cabinet and approve Tom Lennox's internment policies, he will "stand alone".

There appears to be a conspiracy between individuals within the government -- Tom Lennox's subordinate, Reed Pollock, among them -- to forcibly remove Palmer from office (by assassination) in order to allow Daniels to assume the Presidency, but Pollock claims Daniels himself is unaware of this plot.

After President Palmer is critically injured in a bomb blast at about 4:59 p.m. on Day 6, Vice President Daniels assumes the powers of the President of the United States during the episode "5:00 PM - 6:00 PM" (but does not become Acting President as the 25th Amendment is not yet invoked). Daniels believes that Hamri Al-Assad is responsible for the assassination attempt, and accused Lennox of playing a part in it as well. However, Daniels intends to allow Lennox to be pardoned, provided Lennox goes along with the claim to Assad's responsibility. During 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Daniels threatens war toward the ambassador of a (currently unspecified) Middle Eastern country if the attacks continue. Soon, Abu Fayed and Dmitri Gredenko (the masterminds of the day's attacks) launch a drone containing a suitcase nuke at San Francisco. While Jack Bauer is able to stop the drone from exploding, it crash-lands in an industrial park, leaking radioactive material into the area. Though the deaths will be minimal, Daniels decides to launch a nuclear missle in retaliation at an unpopulated section of Fayed's country as a "warning shot", anyway. Both Lennox and National Security Advisor Karen Hayes, as well as CTU Agent Jack Bauer fear this will ignite World War III.

During 8:00PM-9:00 PM, Daniels was still conducting the strike when he learned that Sandra Palmer decided to bring her brother out of his coma in order to stop the nuclear strike. Also, CTU was able to capture Gredenko, but this still didn't stop Daniels. Finally, right when the strike was ordered, it turned out the order was held off by President Palmer, who managed to awaken from his coma is obtimal condition. Daniels expressed his relief of Palmer's health, but after hanging up the phone, he decided the President was still unfit to regain power, and near the end of the hour, decides to evoke the 25 Amendment.