Jamey Farrell

Jamey Farrell was a programmer at CTU Los Angeles until her death on Day 1.

Before Day 1

 * Main article: Jamey Farrell before Day 1

As a teenager, Farrell attended youth group sessions mentored by CTU administrator Richard Walsh, who grew close to her and helped her enter college at the age of sixteen. Jamey earned a bachelor's degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics from the University of California, Riverside. She was also a member of the University of California's Linux user group. She had expertise in Infoserve technologies; a detailed understanding of network security; and a proficiency in Python, Java, C/C++, Perl, LISP and HTML. At some point, Jamey married and had a son, Kyle, before her husband left the two of them "with nothing."

Jamey had worked for Microsoft as a Security Specialist and before that she worked a brief stint as a staff hacker at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab. She was recruited by CTU Los Angeles after being fired from Microsoft for creating open source software for intelligence gathering.

In the years leading up to Day 1, Jamey was a reliable and loyal intelligence agent, present during numerous terrorist crises.

During the planning stages of his hit on Senator David Palmer, Ira Gaines hired Jamey as a contact inside CTU for $300,000.

Day 1


Shortly after midnight on Day 1, Jamey was called into CTU along with the rest of the staff. She arrived heavily made up and asked Nina Myers how long she had to stay, implying her social activities were being interrupted. She waited in the Conference Room until Richard Walsh arrived and briefed everyone on a threat on the life of Senator David Palmer. She left to run background checks on Palmer's staff.

Later Jack approached her and asked her to find all the internet passwords associated with his daughter's number. She asked for a warrant, but he explained it was important so she hacked in and found the password "LIFESUCKS".

Jamey listened as Tony Almeida questioned Jack about George Mason and Nina came to his rescue. Later, just before 2am, Jack called Jamey from the road and had her phone Division to pick up the bodies of 2 agents from 2350 Dunlop Plaza. He then sent her some data from a key card after she explained he could use the scanner in his car. She traced the electronic signature to work out that the card was encoded by Nina Myers, and sent this information to Jack.

At around 2:20am Jack returned to the office and informed Jamey that Richard Walsh was one of the agents killed. She was upset, but Jack explained that there was a traitor at CTU and Walsh said she was the only one he could trust. He gave her the key card to decrypt and asked her to be sure Nina was the author, as it would confirm her as the dirty agent. While Jack distracted Nina, Jamey went to her workstation to verify her involvement in the key card, before phoning Jack to let him know. She then went to Jack's office to ask if she could shut down Nina's access. Jack was reluctant at first, but Jamey asked about his relationship with Nina and he agreed to it. She promised not to tell others in the office about the relationship, then left to shut off Nina's channels. Just after 2:50am, Tony noticed a memorandum for Walsh and asked Jamey, so she brought up the profile of Brahim Mohammed to hide what she was doing. She pretended she knew nothing of Walsh's death, so Tony asked her to open up a socket on his computer so he could investigate. Jack then phoned her and asked her to come to his office once she had collected the evidence against Nina. She presented her findings to Nina, but once Jack saw the date he asked her to leave, as Nina had been away then.

Nina, having been cleared, then came and worked the card with Jamey. After isolating sectors, Jamey managed to find an address, 18166 San Fernando Road, which she passed onto Jack. The address was apparently unconnected to Palmer, and Jamey tried peeling off more information, but found nothing. Jack left to check it out, just as George Mason arrived and set up a lockdown of CTU. Jamey hid the key card, and Mason began questioning CTU workers. Nina told Jamey that she couldn't tell him anything, so she refused to give Jack's location when questioned. Mason offered to help her in exchange for information, but he was interrupted by a call that Jack had been found. Mason left and the lockdown was lifted.

Jamey continued to work on the card until 5:40am, when Nina told her she needed her help in forensics. Jamey initially refused to go, not wanting to be replaced by the outside contractor Milo Pressman, but Nina told her Jack asked for her help identifying a body. She went and they found a custom made surgical pin in the deceased's ankle, and Jamey searched the AMA database for the surgeon who implanted it. Milo arrived just before 6am and asked her if she had tried using an S-box inversion on the key card, as it was the fastest way to decrypt the file. She ignored him and Nina came over to tell her work had paid off as the body was identified as Alan York.

Later she found Milo struggling with the key card decryption after Jack had switched the card for a fake. She pointed him in the right direction for it to work again, and he begrudgingly complimented her for it. Later, she received a call from Teri Bauer who told her her daughter had been kidnapped and someone was trying to get her too. She gave her location on Mulholland Drive to Jamey, who then passed it to Ira Gaines, who sent men to kidnap Teri. Jamey destroyed her note of the address as Tony came over to ask about a Division meeting. She attempted to cover for Jack, but Tony ordered her to give him the CCTV footage of Jack's office, which she did.

A short while after that, Gaines contacted her using a Remote Network on her computer and her PDA. She went to the bathroom to communicate with him, and on the way bumped into Milo who asked about the key card. She told him to format files until Nina got back, then went into the bathroom where Gaines asked if Milo knew if he was working with the wrong card. She told him that he did, but it wouldn't be a problem. Gaines then told her Nina was dead and she was to make up a reason for her absence.

Jamey worked at Milo's station, and when he asked about Nina she told him she wouldn't be back for a couple of hours. Tony questioned her, and she claimed she had just talked to Nina, who could be at Division all day. Later Jamey heard Tony telling Milo that they knew the key card was fake, and the real one was being backed up in the archives. Jamey went to the bathroom again to inform Gaines, but was interrupted by Tony who had looped the cameras. He grabbed her at gunpoint and took her to the ITS room, where Nina was waiting.

Nina then questioned Jamey, saying they knew she was working against them. She told them she didn't know anyone would get hurt, as she was just supposed to tap into the surveillance. She said she had also passed messages from inside CTU, but refused to say anymore until she got agency counsel. Tony handcuffed her to a table. Just before 8am, they saw Palmer being shielded from a gunman at Santa Clarita Power Plant, and they made Jamey call Gaines and tell him Division went to pick Bauer up at the power plant due his protocal violations.

When Jack found out, he told Nina and Tony to bring in her son, Kyle. Nina and Tony told her, and she was distraught and asked for a few minutes alone to think for herself. When they came back, she was unconscious with blood spurting from her arm. She died shortly after in an apparent suicide.

Later that night, after Jack learned that Nina was the mole for the Drazens, he called Paul Wilson, who gave him the video footage of Jamey's alleged suicide. It turned out that Jamey was killed by Nina after she tazed her and slit her wrist with a broken coffee mug.

Memorable quotes

 * Jamey Farrell: How long is this going to take?
 * Nina Myers: Why, are we interrupting your social life?
 * Jamey Farrell: At least I have one.
 * Nina Myers: Funny. ("Day 1: 12:00am-1:00am")

Background information and notes

 * Jamey went through 3 different hairstyles during Day 1: sides pulled up, then all down, and finally braided.
 * Karina Arroyave is credited for appearing in "Day 1: 4:00am-5:00am," though she did not, in fact, appear in the episode.
 * Arroyave returned for the season finale, appearing in archive footage of Jamey's death.