Jonathan Wallace

Captain Jonathan Wallace was the executive officer of the special operations group Coral Snake under Colonel Ron Samuels, which was funded by the NSA.

Before Day 2

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Wallace was an officer in 7th Light Armor Reconnaissance Battalion of the 3rd Marine Division. After he was recruited into Delta Force, he ostensibly commanded a sniper team in the Gulf War and led an assassination detail in Malaysia.

Wallace had been present when Samuels tried to recruit Jack Bauer into the Coral Snake unit.

Day 2
Roger Stanton arranged with Ron Samuels to use Wallace and the Coral Snake commandos to help him carry out his plans of sneaking a nuclear weapon into the United States. Stanton wanted to have Coral Snake intercept the bomb, preventing any casualties, but still forcing the United States to go to war or increase its military posture, which he thought would increase the security of the United States. However, Peter Kingsley wanted the bomb to explode in Los Angeles, forcing David Palmer to go to war, which would increase his oil profits. Kingsley paid off Wallace to murder his own team, which he thought would guarantee the bomb would explode. However, Jack Bauer and George Mason found the bomb and detonated it in the desert, preventing the mass casualties.



Kingsley thought all the evidence of his involvement would be destroyed in the explosion. He changed his plans and decided to kill all the loose ends, including Wallace. Wallace escaped and killed Syed Ali in order to get the attention of Jack, whom he thought would be able to help him escape. He offered to give Jack the Cyprus recording in exchange for Kate Warner. He wanted to use Bob Warner's company connections with the CIA to escape to another country and then kill Kate.

At the meeting place, Wallace summoned an armed accomplice to grab Kate from her car while he distracted Bauer. The gunman was knocked out by Yusef Auda, and Wallace's attempt to kidnap her failed. After Bauer and Wallace re-negotiated, a team of Kingsley's heavily armed shooters arrived and attacked Wallace, Jack, Kate, and Yusuf as they attempted to go to the airport. Wallace was shot in the neck during the firefight, so Jack took him to a local medical clinic. Wallace died before he could give Jack the location of the chip that proved the forging of the Cyprus recording. However, Jack looked at the x-rays and discovered it was implanted into his chest. He then proceeded to cut it out with a surgical knife.

Memorable quotes

 * Jack Bauer: They're gonna be five minutes.
 * Jonathan Wallace: And here we are without a deck of cards.


 * Jonathan Wallace: You know, Jack...you were a real bad-ass back at the warehouse!


 * Jonathan Wallace: (to Clara, in reference to his excessive bleeding) Don't worry beautiful, I've been worse than this.

Day 2
* corpse only