Nina Myers
played by Sarah Clarke
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Myers received a Bachelor of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, and a Master's degree in Criminal Investigative Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She served as a policy analyst for the United Nations Security Council before joining CTU. Myers initially served under Christopher Henderson, and was Division Leader for Operation Proteus, where Bauer was Team Leader. When Henderson was forced to resign amid bribery charges, Bauer became Myers' supervisor, and she in turn became Bauer's closest confederate. Unbeknownst to her co-workers, Nina was "dirty," being involved in several treasonous actions throughout her tenure in CTU.
Day 1
Myers withstood much scrutiny and helped Bauer immensely during the first several hours of Day 1, where Ira Gaines was in charge of the operation. Knowing there was a backup plan, she played along with Bauer in an attempt to maintain her cover. However, things didn't go her way when Gaines, unaware of her double-agent status, ordered Jack to kill her. Bauer saved her life by putting her in a flak jacket before the shot. However, when Plan B (the Drazen plan) went into effect, she was fully in their pay, and sold out CTU.
At the end of the first season, it was revealed that Myers, also known as Yelena, was a traitor, who had been aiding the assassination attempts on (then Senator, later President) David Palmer in conjunction with the Drazen family. After her cover was blown, Myers attempted to run from CTU and flee the United States to a contact in Germany, but Bauer's wife Teri overheard a conversation that would have compromised her escape, so she killed Teri. Jack Bauer identified her as the traitor by tracking video evidence that she murdered Jamey Farrell, who, though a double agent sold to Gaines, did not have a Drazen connection. Myers had previously betrayed herself by telling Bauer that the body of his daughter, Kim, had been recovered by the harbor patrol to incite Bauer to attack the Drazens at the latters' request.
However Bauer took out the Drazens (the complete opposite of the lie's intended result) and Bauer's request for the body (and the realization that there was none found) led him to identify Myers as a traitor. Bauer had his chance for revenge against Myers on Day 1, but restrained himself at the urging of CTU agent George Mason. It was minutes later that Jack discovered Myers had murdered his wife Teri. She also revealed that she was not actually working for the Drazens, but an unknown party who supported them.
Day 2
Myers was tried and convicted, and sent to prison. In the second season, Bauer traced the person who sold the plans about CTU to a group that linked it to her. Bauer developed a plan with two edges; the first a presidential pardon for Myers, and the second his personal vendetta against her, which led her to believe Bauer cared more about killing her for the murder of his wife than anything else. Myers accepted both aspects, to the point where, once she got a drop on Bauer, she demanded a pardon for the murder of Jack Bauer as an additional condition of her cooperation. Under Bauer's urging, President Palmer agreed, though she was captured shortly afterwards, unable to carry out her threat. Palmer lived up to his end of the agreement, though he did place her in custody in Los Angeles, the target of the nuclear bomb, to share in the fate of everybody else.
Day 3
In the third season, Bauer encountered Myers again in Mexico while both were attempting to buy a deadly biological weapon (although for different reasons). While she attempted to back out when it was revealed that Jack was involved, the seller Michael Amador forced her to stay by reminding her that her buyer would kill her if she didn't deliver. She won the auction, but was followed and nearly captured by Jack in hopes of implementing a deal. She turned the cards in her favor, knocking him unconscious. When he awakened, she questioned his motives, and while he tried to tell her that he was working separately from CTU she didn't believe him. Sitting on her knees and running her hands up and down his thighs, she implored him to "Convince me", resulting in a passionate kiss. Her motives for initiating the kiss are unknown, but it is widely speculated that her feelings for him never died away, and that she enjoyed playing such games with him or Bauer was simply trying to distract her while he thought of a plan to escape. She felt him lying, however, and pulled away only to be captured by him and forced to comply with his wishes. She retrieved the virus from Amador, only to have it revealed as a bomb designed to kill her. The true virus was recovered later in the series.
She was taken back to CTU headquarters, on the plane where she manipulated Bauer into unleashing a computer virus into CTU's system. She had designed the virus during her tenure at CTU, and it was meant to reveal information to terrorist cells around the world. In return for killing the virus, she demanded to be taken back to Mexico and let free. Bauer refused, and computer analyst Chloe O'Brian was able to stop it.
At CTU, Myers was interrogated by former lover Tony Almeida. She revealed no information, only making sarcastic references to their previous relationship and his new marriage. He eventually gave in and sent a torture expert in to try to extract information from her. As he worked on her, Tony asked Nina, "How much more of this do you want to endure?" "I think that this is about it," she replied, and pushed back, thus causing the interrogator's needle to pierce her carotid artery. She was rushed to the clinic at CTU, where doctors were able to get a makeshift bandage in place. Bauer was uncomfortable with the idea of her being left unguarded, but barely had time to express his hesitation before an alarm went off, signaling her escape.
She was cornered by Bauer's daughter Kim, who by this time was working for CTU. Myers told Kim to put the gun down and leave, claiming that she didn't want to hurt her. The standoff was interrupted when Jack shot Myers in the shoulder as she was about to shoot Kim.
Though Myers attempted to convince Bauer that she was still of value alive, he did not believe her. Nina then tried to reach for her gun, but it is clear that after being shot, she was immobile and only able to stretch out her fingers toward it. Bauer, standing over her supine body, shot her three times, killing her. He was also standing directly in front of a security camera, which may have been purposeful to block the view of her arm from its view.
Background
Little is known about Nina's history or motives. However, she is multilingual: aside from English, she is seen speaking Serbian, German and Arabic, and it is quite possible she speaks even more languages than that. Myers is also featured extremely briefly in 24: The Game. It is not clear for whom she was working. Some fans speculate that it may have been Max, the main villain of season 2 and 24: The Game, but he is dead before season 3 begins. The most likely analysis of her character is that she was motivated purely by money, and would have sold any information to the highest bidder regardless of his affiliation or beliefs. In Season 3, it is revealed that Nina had a relationship with Marcus Alvers, the degree of which is unknown.
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