Wayne Palmer

Wayne Palmer is the brother of David Palmer. He serves as his second chief of staff following Mike Novick.

Background
Before being employed by the President, Palmer worked for Alan Milliken, a high powered businessman backer of his father. While Milliken was in hospital, recovering from a stroke, Wayne embarked upon an affair with Milliken's wife, Julia.

Day 3
During Day Three, Milliken found out about the affair, presented the information to President Palmer, and ordered him to fire his brother as Chief of Staff; Palmer did not comply. In response to Milliken's threats, and against Wayne's arguments that he should resign, Palmer called in his ex-wife, Sherry to dig up the dirt on Milliken. In doing so, implicating evidence had been recovered, but Sherry failed to deliever. After causing Milliken's death and President Palmer provided an alibi for Sherry to the police, she had attempted to expose the truth. Wayne had brought in a specialist to obtain evidence linking Sherry to Milliken's death. As they did so and the evidence was obtained, Milliken's wife, Julia, facing jail time, arrived at Sherry's house with the intent to kill her. Wayne attempted to stop the murder, but failed to do so. Julia later committed suicide. The events of this day led to President Palmer deciding not to seek his second term.

Day 5
On Day Five, Wayne had been helping his brother with his memoirs at Wayne's apartment. It was then that he had witness his brother's assassination. Later, as the FBI combed the crime scene, Jack Bauer quietly infiltrated the apartment but had been caught by Wayne, who had been under the assumption that Bauer had assassinated Palmer. After Bauer convinced him otherwise, Wayne helped to uncover information essential to the impending events of the day.

Later in the evening on the night of Day Five, Wayne contacts Secret Service Head Aaron Pierce and indicates that he has information that he must share with Pierce. Pierce agrees to meant Wayne. Wayne is stopped at a military checkpoint after a curfew had been announced for the city of Los Angeles. Vice President Hal Gardner is contacted and he is told that Wayne requested to come to the compound where President Charles Logan was staying. After being allowed through the checkpoint, Wayne's car is fired upon and run off the road by a dark, unmarked van. Wayne's car is flipped over, but he is able to escape into a rain duct.