Sherry Palmer

Sherry Palmer was the wife of David Palmer until their divorce. She had two children, Keith Palmer and Nicole Palmer.

Experience

 * President of the Congressional Spouses Club
 * Appointee of the USO World Board
 * Fundraising Chairwoman for the Congressional Wives for Human Rights
 * Chairman of the Board of the Maryland Hunger Fund

Education

 * B.A. in Sociology from Georgetown University

Family

 * Husband David Palmer, divorced after Day 1
 * Brother-in-law Wayne Palmer
 * Son Keith Palmer
 * Daughter Nicole Palmer
 * Sister-in-law Sandra Palmer

Before Day 1
Before they were married, Sherry and David Palmer had known each other all their lives, even going to the same schools. They were eventually married and had remained so for 25 years, until the events of Day 1.

Two years prior to Day 1, Sherry is seen at a fundraiser for her husband's potential presidential candidacy. Even then, she was very confident that David was going to be "the next President of the United States."

Shortly after, Mike Novick asks David to step outside for a moment, which leads to a small altercation between the two. Nevertheless, Sherry allows David to leave the fundraiser with Mike, if for a very brief moment.

David, however, did not heed her advice, and she did not see him again until 7:15 AM the following morning. She reprimanded her husband for walking out of the fundraiser, noting the seriousness of a Presidential run.

David told her that while the fundraiser was important, it would look worse if he began "shirking the duties" he already had as a Senator. Soon after, David received a call from Mike urging him to return to his office, and he left.

Day 1


While she and David were finishing up preparing for the morning's breakfast gathering, David received a phonecall from Maureen Kingsley. The call angered him, but when Sherry asked what it was about, he brushed it off as "media nonsense".

Sherry Palmer was determined to do anything to get her husband into the White House. Over the course of the day, it was revealed that she had participated in a cover-up to protect her son, Keith, an action which David opposed.

She disagreed with many decisions David made throughout the day, while being unpleasant to other people in the process, including Patty Brooks. When Keith managed to get a recording of Carl admitting that he set him up for the murder of Dr. George Ferragamo, Sherry believed tha the tape should be destroyed, and after talking to Jerry she destroyed the fake tape Patty had hidden. During a party near the end of the day, Sherry scolded her husband for making phone calls, then hurried away to greet a patron, Steven.

Concerned that David no longer trusted her, Sherry encouraged campaign staffer Patty Brooks to get close to him, sleeping with him if need be, and report back to Sherry. Patty was hesitant, but proceeded, and was eventualy fired by David. David called Sherry's plan "sick."

Later in the day, David agreed to let the press believe he had been assassinated in order to buy Jack Bauer time to rescue his daughter, Kim. Putting David's campaign first, Sherry went against her husband's wishes and leaked to the press that he was, in fact, alive.

At the end of the day, David informed Sherry that he intended to file for divorce.

Day 2


Sherry turned up unexpectedly at President David Palmer's Oregon bunker (Northwest Regional Operations) during Day 2 to tell him of a conspiracy in his administration. David initially did not trust her or want to hear anything she had to say, but she tipped him off that Roger Stanton was evacuating Los Angeles behind his back. He agreed to let her stay, hoping her sources would help him root out the conspiracy and help find the nuclear weapon.

Lynne Kresge and Mike Novick were suspicious of her, and Lynne discovered evidence that Sherry had been conspiring with Roger Stanton for the past 6 months. Stanton had recruited her to find the weaknesses in Palmer's administration. Sherry told Stanton to keep quiet so she could stay in position as an advisor to David, but he gave up her name after being tortured. She claimed that she was actually spying on Stanton, in order to protect David, but he decided he had had enough and kicked her out.

Later in the day, Sherry showed up at the apartment of Alex Hewitt to find Jack Bauer looking for him, too. Jack knocked out her security guard, and forced Sherry to help him prove the Cyprus recording was fabricated. After Hewitt was killed, Sherry set up a meeting with Peter Kingsley, where she would wear a wire and elicit a confession from him. Sherry expressed remorse about the events of the day, and asked Jack to tell David she had done it for him, if she didn't make it through alive.

When Kingsley became suspicious of Sherry during their meeting, Jack fought off several of Kingsley's men to allow Sherry time to escape. After the final altercation, Sherry was taken into custody by Agent Baker.

After Day 2
Despite her betrayal, David ultimately pardoned Sherry for her role in the Kingsley conspiracy, and helped her avoid a sentence of life in prison.

Day 3


President David Palmer invited Sherry back into his inner circle when he was threatened by Alan Milliken. David wanted to counter Alan's extortion with blackmail, so he asked Sherry to find some information that could help him.

Sherry knew that Alan had paid off Kevin Kelly 12 years prior, after killing his daughter in a drunk driving accident. She went to see Kelly, and offered him a chance to tell his story and set the record straight. Kelly asked instead for a presidential pardon for his son, who was on death row. Sherry left Kelly for a moment, to arrange the pardon with David. While she was gone, Kelly was killed. Sherry ran back to her car as a car came up the hill. Sherry believed herself to be in danger until she noticed it was just an elderly couple driving by.

She went next to see Julia Milliken, hoping to get Julia's help in finding evidence linking Alan to Kelly's murder. While Sherry was snooping around the Milliken estate, Alan found her and Julia together and accused them of conspiring against him. Caught, Sherry turned Alan's anger against him, shouting at him until he had a heart attack. Julia tried to give him his nitroglycerin pills, but Sherry convinced her not to.

With Alan dead, Sherry had completed her task for Palmer. She told Julia to call the police and keep quiet about their roles in Alan's death, then returned to David's command center to take a nap. However, Julia broke under questioning from Detective Norris, and the police showed up to ask about Sherry's whereabouts. When Sherry explained to David the extent of her complicity in Alan's death, he agreed to give her an alibi to keep them both safe. Then he told her he despised her and sent her home.

Furious at David's casual dismissal, Sherry went to his election opponent, Senator John Keeler, and told him about Alan's death and President Palmer's part in covering it up. She had kept the bottle of nitroglycerin with her fingerprints on it as proof of her story. She knew she would have to go to jail, but said it was worth it if David went, too. In return for her information, Sherry wanted a place in Keeler's administration. Keeler contacted Palmer and demanded that he drop out of the presidential race, sending a photocopied image of the medicine bottle.

Wayne Palmer, blaming himself because the whole problem stemmed from his affair with Julia Milliken, asked David to allow him to recover the medicine bottle from Sherry. David agreed and arranged a meeting with Sherry to get her out of the house. While meeting with David, Sherry revealed that what she really wanted was a place in his administration - as the First Lady. When he agreed, she became suspicious and withdrew her offer.



Wayne and his hired gun, Bruce Foxton, observed that Sherry "believes in better living through chemistry," but were unable to locate Alan Milliken's medicine bottle among hers. When she returned to find them in her home, Foxton knocked her out and found the medicine bottle taped to her back.

Before he and Wayne left, Julia Milliken arrived to confront Sherry, who had just regained consciousness. Wayne followed her inside, where she pulled a gun on Sherry. Sherry promised her a presidential pardon, claiming that she was going to be the First Lady and David would do anything she said. Telling Sherry that she couldn't lie her way out of the situation, Julia shot Sherry twice in the chest before turning the gun on herself.

Memorable Quotes

 * Sherry Palmer: I will do anything to protect my family, David. Anything.  Does that make me a bad person?


 * Sherry Palmer: You are your father's son. You cover up your weakness with a bunch of bleeding heart sentimentality.


 * David Palmer: Putting another woman in my bed - do you realize how sick that is?
 * Sherry Palmer: Oh, come on. We chose a certain life, and we chose that a long time ago. It's not about a house in the suburbs and PTA meetings. And whether you're willing to accept it or not, we serve a higher purpose.


 * Sherry Palmer: When I say I can make something happen, you better believe I can.


 * David Palmer: What did Keeler offer you, Sherry?
 * Sherry Palmer: Exactly what you should have offered me - respect. And a seat at the table.

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Trivia

 * Sherry apparently likes to drink orange juice in the morning, as she has a glass in two different episodes: Day 1 7:00am-8:00am and Day 3 10:00am-11:00am.


 * It is considered by many that Sherry Palmer was, in fact, a villainess. Sherry was a prominent Femme Fatale during 24.

Appearances

 * Nightfall