Sherry Palmer

== Day 3 ==

[[Image:SherryandDavid.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Sherry and Palmer converse in his office]]

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. When she returned to Kelly's trailer, she discovered he had vanished and noticed blood stains on the wall. 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.

[[Image:SherryAndJulia.jpg|thumb|210px|right|Sherry yells at Alan just before his fatal heart attack]]

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 physically prevented her from doing so. Within moments, Alan was dead.

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 at [[District|District Headquarters]] to take a nap.  However, Alan's dead body was discovered by their housekeeper. Julia soon broke under questioning from [[Norris|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, David was enraged. He reluctantly lied to Chief [[Hendricks]], the Chief of Police of Los Angeles, stating that Sherry was with him at the time of Alan's death. He then told Sherry that he despised her and ordered her out of his sight. 

Furious at David's casual dismissal, Sherry went to his election opponent, [[John Keeler|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.
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[[Image:Sherry3x22.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Sherry receives a call from David to arrange the meeting]]

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, stating that Keeler would be the next President.

[[Image:SherryDead.jpg|thumb|215px|right|Wayne witnesses Julia murdering Sherry]]

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. 

Unfortunately, Sherry's plan backfired horribly, for before just as Wayne was about to leave, 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 Milliken|Julia]] shot and killed Sherry before turning the gun on herself. With Sherry dead and the incriminating evidence in his possession, David was now in the clear. However, affected by Sherry's death, he decided not to seek re-election.