NEW YORK (AP)—Even if the world had been applauding Jack Bauer at the season’s end of “24,“ he couldn’t hear them. He was last seen hospitalized in a coma. Infected by a bioweapon targeting America, counter-terrorist hero Jack had taken the hit while trying to save his fellow citizens. Then, woozier and sweatier by the hour, he managed to foil the terrorists.

WASHINGTON Early one cold November morning, actress Annie Wersching leads Kiefer Sutherland to an armored SUV with dark windows parked outside the U.S. Department of Agriculture building. After director Brad Turner yells “cut,“ onlookers snap photos of the star. Sutherland spots a participant in a charity run for Lupus on the Washington Mall and comments, “Why is that guy wearing shorts? It’s cold.“