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How can I cooperate if I have no idea what you're talking about? ... Whatever this conspiracy is that you think that I'm a part of, I guarantee you won't find a shred of material evidence connecting me to it. In the eyes of the law, I'm an innocent man. ... Anything else you need to say, you can say to my attorneys.
~ Alan Wilson denying his role as mastermind of the conspiracy to FBI Agent Renee Walker.

Alan Wilson is the main antagonist of Season 7 of the TV Series 24.

Wilson is an extremely powerful and secretive businessman who uses his position as one to profit on terrorist attacks against the United States. In doing so, he made enemies with Tony Almeida and spearheaded a cabal to unleash a deadly brain prion disease on the country.

He was portrayed by Will Patton, who also played Wayne Nolan in Desperately Seeking Susan, Quentin Glass in The Punisher, General Bethlehem in The Postman and Garrett Randall in Yellowstone.

Personality[]

Different from his associate Jonas Hodges, who is well-intentioned and, in the end, truly believes in an ideology, Wilson is simply greedy and doesn't have any other goals but to earn even more money. Wilson could be considered the opposite of Hodges despite their cooperating, when looking at their personalities. Hodges is short-tempered and delusional, yet he is also surprisingly well-intentioned as mentioned above. Wilson on the other hand never shows any emotion outside of boredom and barely seems capable of empathy, for example at the end of the season he doesn't react at all when his right-hand Cara is shot by Tony Almeida and shows no emotion when Almeida holds him at gunpoint and rants about how Wilson ordered the death of Almeida's wife and child. Wilson is also shown to be extremely intelligent, being able to hide in the shadows for multiple seasons while orchestrating events and remaining unknown to the authorities. In a deleted scene, an FBI agent tells Renee Walker that Wilson owns a "controlling interest in a dozen private military firms, but, he's gone from low profile to no profile. No recorded address, hasn't been seen in public for years." The agent then confirms that Wilson's electronics deleted their own contents, making his data irretrievable.

Biography[]

Before he even appears in-person, Wilson is behind most of the events from the past seasons, for example being involved in multiple poison gas conspiracies. One notable act of his was cooperating with Phillip Bauer, who assassinated David Palmer and attempted multiple other targets as well, nearly leading to World War III and multiple deaths due to the chaos it started. However, what set up the events of season 7 was Wilson ordering the deaths of Almeida's family, leading to him going insane and wanting revenge on Wilson, thus setting Wilson and Almeida as the two main antagonists, though interestingly they aren't working with each other, but very much against each other.

Sending his right-hand Cara to kill Jonas Hodges' attorney after Hodges was arrested, Cara takes the attorney's clothes and impersonates her, getting access to Hodges and giving him a pill, which he can commit suicide with. Wilson and his associates talk in a private chat room, and due to how their attacks have been badly planned out, they change the dates of the attacks and come to a final consensus. Wilson now ordered Cara to kidnap Jibran, a completely innocent man who they would frame for said terrorist attack, blowing up the Washington Centre subway station, killing ten thousand people. Fortunately, the plot was foiled and Jibran wasn't framed. Unfortunately, none of the conspirators were found, including Wilson.

After the attack fails, Wilson is disappointed at Tony and considering he is the organization's mole, he asks Cara to kill him due to the amount of information he has, but she declines, saying that it is unnecessary. Wilson and Cara kidnap Jack Bauer and are fully intending on pulling his organs out of his body in order to create a poisonous gas, which Wilson would later use on other attacks. Cara brings up Tony's important position in the organization and that he probably should get a higher position in it, though Wilson is at first skeptical, he is convinced after a while and starts a meeting with Tony. It is revealed however that their goals actually mean nothing to Tony, and he is merely part of the organization so that he could eventually get revenge on Wilson. Tony murders Cara before holding Wilson at gunpoint and intending on murdering him, before Bauer and the FBI come, putting both of them in interrogation. Wilson is interrogated by Bauer's colleague Reneé Walker, but they have a lack of evidence and aren't able to arrest him because of it. Although his final fate is left ambiguous, Wilson was apparently brutally tortured by Walker during the interrogation, which ruined her career. His fate afterwards is left unknown.

Trivia[]

  • Alan Wilson can be argued to be the overarching main antagonist of 24 as a whole. He was the mastermind of at least two conspiracies (Seasons 5 and 7) and was indirectly responsible for another (Season 6). Because Wilson seditiously mastermind terrorist plots so he could gain control of the country's defense, it is entirely possible that Wilson was responsible for other conspiracies as well. Most 24 fans generally believe Wilson was behind everything on 24. This is supported by an article from Vulture: "24 Season Finale: Meet Alan Wilson". In the article, Vulture writes: "not only was Wilson responsible for the majority of the world’s terrorism, he was actually responsible for everything on 24."
    • In Season 1, Nina Myers was working for a German terrorist syndicate. She was speaking German on a phone call to an unidentified woman who somehow connected her to Victor and Andre Drazen. The head of the syndicate that Nina was working for must have been a German terrorist named Max, who was the overarching main antagonist of Season 2. Nina claimed in Season 1 that her employer was not the Drazens, and this means that she must have given the CTU floorplan to the Germans she was working with, which allowed Max to facilitate the bombing that occurred that season. Furthermore, a deleted scene from the Season 2 finale showed that Max and Nina were romantically involved.
    • Furthermore, the motives for the Max and Peter Kingsley nuclear conspiracy in Season 2 were virtually identical to the Sentox nerve gas conspiracy that Wilson spearheaded in Season 5. Kingsley and Max were planning to detonate a nuclear weapon in Los Angeles and use it to start a war they could profit from enormously, supplying Syed Ali and his terrorist organization, Second Wave, with the necessary materials. Prior to Season 5, Wilson facilitated the sale of nerve gas to Vladimir Bierko and his terrorist organization, the Dawn Brigade. Furthermore, since a deleted scene showed that the Germans Nina were working with in Season 1 were affiliated with Max, this would be another link between Wilson and Kingsley.
    • After Season 2, Max is either killed (as we see in 24: The Game) or incarcerated (as Wayne Palmer seems to indicate). However, Nina is still involved with terrorist activity, attempting to buy the weaponized Cordilla Virus from Michael Amador in Mexico on behalf of an unspecified buyer. It has been theorized by many that this buyer was Alan Wilson. Nina won the auction for the virus, but quickly learned that Amador was running a scam and had already sold the virus to another buyer. If Wilson did unsuccessfully attempt to buy the virus, this would explain why he had to resort to creating his own virus in Season 7.
    • In Season 5, Graem Bauer (later revealed to have been working for Alan Wilson) tells his cabal "We need to remember the strength we had 18 months ago when we started this thing". Season 5 began exactly 18 months after the events of Season 4, so it is a virtual certainty that Alan Wilson was involved in the terrorist attacks of that day. This makes sense, because it is never explained how Habib Marwan obtained the funding, resources and connections to pull off the attacks of day 4. If what Graem said is true, then it would also explain how Marwan was set up with Mandy, who was involved in terrorist plots in the first two seasons as well, which would be yet another link between Wilson and the early seasons. Marwan's actions in Season 4 resulted in Charles Logan becoming president, and he almost immediately agreed to work with Wilson's group to sell nerve gas to terrorists. Needless to say, Wilson had something to gain by funding Marwan.
  • Despite being such a major threat in the 24 universe, Alan Wilson's fate is never revealed. It is unclear if he faces justice for his many crimes, was killed by other conspirators or escaped persecution.
    • However, 24 creator Howard Gordon seemed to imply that Wilson was stopped. Gordon stated in an interview: "I think you got a sense that Renee broke him and broke the back of the conspiracy at a tremendous personal and professional price". This heavily implies that Renee managed to finally bring Wilson and his 11 co-conspirators to justice despite sacrificing her own career.
  • Wilson is arguably the most influential antagonist in the entire series. Wilson's actions caused the deaths of over 200 individuals (including President David Palmer and Michelle Dessler) in season 5 alone. His partnership with Phillip Bauer led to the deaths of well over 12,000 people during season 6. All told, Wilson was directly or indirectly behind the events of at least three seasons of 24. He either cooperated with or gave orders to other main antagonists, such as President Charles Logan and Phillip Bauer. However, Wilson has very little screen time.
  • Some consider Alan Wilson and Tony Almeida the two main antagonists of Season 7. However, Wilson was definitely the sole main antagonist, since Almeida's role in the season centered around finding Wilson to get revenge on him. Wilson was also the head of the prion variant conspiracy, which was the main conflict of the season.
  • Both Wilson and Stephen Saunders are introduced on-screen by name before that name was spoken in audible dialogue.

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           24 Logo Villains

Day 1
Victor Drazen | Andre Drazen | Ira Gaines | Nina Myers | Jamey Farrell | Mandy

Day 2
Peter Kingsley | Max | Syed Ali | Nina Myers | Joseph Wald | Mandy

Day 3
Stephen Saunders | Ramon Salazar | Michael Amador | Nina Myers | Hector Salazar

Day 4
Habib Marwan | Navi Araz | Dina Araz | Mitch Anderson | Walt Cummings | Cheng Zhi | Kalil Hasan | Mandy

Day 5
Charles Logan | Christopher Henderson | Vladimir Bierko | Graem Bauer | Walt Cummings | Cheng Zhi

Day 6
Abu Fayed | Phillip Bauer | Cheng Zhi | Dmitri Gredenko | Graem Bauer | Reed Pollock

Redemption
Benjamin Juma | Iké Dubaku | Youssou Dubaku | Jonas Hodges

Day 7
Alan Wilson | Jonas Hodges | Tony Almeida | Benjamin Juma | Iké Dubaku | Cara Bowden | John Quinn

Day 8
Yuri Suvarov | Charles Logan | Mikhail Novakovich | Jason Pillar | Dana Walsh | Pavel Tokarev | Samir Mehran

Live Another Day
Margot Al-Harazi | Cheng Zhi | Adrian Cross | Anatol Stolnavich | Steve Navarro

Legacy
Ibrahim Bin-Khalid | Jadalla Bin-Khalid | Asim Naseri | Tony Almeida

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