TV movie is set between the sixth and seventh seasons of the series. Jack Bauer has been contacted by his Special Forces buddy Carl Benton (Carlyle), who now runs an orphanage in the small (fictional) African nation of Sangala. A local warlord is planning a coup and forcing boys to become child soldiers. Jack comes to their rescue (over the mealy-mouthed objections of the bureaucrats at the U.S. embassy) while back home President-Elect Allison Taylor (Jones) should be watching out for unsavory elements in the Capitol.