24: What happened to the last guys who tried to be like Jack

Yep, it’s official: Freddie Prinze Jr. will be a Jack wanna-be on Day 8.

He’ll play “Davis Cole, a U.S. Marine who wants to follow in the footsteps” of our man Jack. freddie_prinze_jr_by_david_shankbone

Guess what happened to the last guys who tried to be the next Jack:

• Day 3: Chase Edmunds: Dated Kim Bauer. Secretly had a child from a previous relationship. Nearly got shot in the head by Jack, who was trying to prove himself to the Salazars. Jack cut off his hand to remove a vial of a nasty flesh-eating virus. We last saw him being wheeled into the ER, hoping he could get his hand back. At the start of Day 4, we were told he had taken a job with some private consulting firm and was living with Kim. Status: No hand, no girl, no Jack.

• Days 4-6: Curtis Manning: Poor Curtis. He starts Day 4 as the Chief of Staff of CTU Los Angeles. Day 5, he’s promoted to Director of Field Operations (Field Ops, as we say in the biz). In the first hours of Day 6, he’s shot and killed by Jack, because Jack’s trying to protect a former terrorist gone good who was responsible for the death of some of the members of Curtis’ Special Forces Unit after Desert Storm. In between, he’s knocked out by Jack at least twice and handcuffed at least once. Status: No life.

• Day 6: Mike Doyle: Replaces the just-killed Curtis Morgan as Director of Field Ops. Something happened in Denver, and Milo’s pissed off about it. Hottie Nadia Yassir has to decide between the two of them, for some reason. A bomb blows up in Doyle’s face just before the day ends. Status: No sight.

The good news? The actor best known for being the son of Chico and his own roles in “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” “She’s All That” and “Scooby-Doo” probably has the life expectancy of a mayfly.

Photo by David Shankbone, Creative Commons