Blogs4Bauer has ranked the hottest women of 24, now we’re looking at the people (and/or animals) we love to see Jack Bauer hate on. We rank ‘em, Jack breaks ‘em and now we continue our listing of the Top 10 – 24 Villains of all time.
Name: Dina and Behrooz Araz
Season: Four
Occupation: Housewife, high-school student; terrorists
First seen: 7:00am-8:00am
Last Seen: 9:00pm-10:00pm (Dina was last seen 8:00pm-9:00pm)
Status: Dina, deceased; Behrooz, unknown
Yes, there was a third member of the Araz family, the patriarch, Navi. But let’s get serious. Who remembered his name before I just typed it a second ago?
The Araz family emigrated to the United States five years prior to the start of Season 4, but we don’t know from where. A member of their cell is supposedly from Akara and the actor who played Habib Marwan said the show’s writers told him his character was Turkish.
Navi uses Behrooz to transport a suitcase from a train bombing to Marwan’s minions. After Behrooz drops the case off, his perky girlfriend Debbie shows up and they have a heart to heart in the middle of nowhere, with him explaining that his parents don’t want him to see her anymore. She’s really bummed out. Bad guys see them talking and tattle on him to Navi.
Navi wants Debbie killed. Dina invites the lass over, gives her poisoned tea, then tells her son to kill Debbie. He freaks, tries to help Debbie escape, she collapses and Mommy shoots Debbie to make it look as if her son had done it. Daddy comes home, is pleased to see his son did the right thing and they wrap up the body.
Behrooz heads out with Tariq to bury Debbie. I’d forgotten that Behrooz turned badass for a moment, beating Tariq to death with a shovel after getting him to admit that it was Daddy who ordered Tariq to kill him.
This is what turns the tide for Dina and prevents her from being a 9 out of 10 on the meanness scale. Killing her son is a deal-breaker. She takes Behrooz and goes on the run from her husband, even getting shot in the arm.
When his father tries to kill him again later, Behrooz manages to get the gun away and kills his father instead. Hmm. Maybe he’s a little more badass than I’d given him credit for. Naaah. Just lucky.
Dina turns herself and Behrooz over to CTU to gain their protection. Jack has her take him as a “hostage” to Marwan’s compound.
Aha, but Marwan’s no dummy. He orders her to shoot Jack. She knows that if she does that, Behrooz becomes the new little friend of some really big, mean convict in a federal pen, so she turns the gun on Marwan.
Click.
Gun’s not loaded.
Dina fails the test.
Marwan has her killed.
Dina’s best quote:
I am so disappointed in you.
(after Behrooz fails to shoot Debbie, who’s dead anyway from Dina’s poisoned tea)
Jack ends up turning Behrooz over to Marwan’s men with “trackers” on him, but they quickly locate and destroy the devices. What happens to Behrooz? We never — ever — find out.
But the story supposedly was that Marwan was going to ship him off for “re-education.” Two deleted scenes on the Season 4 DVDs offer two options for Behrooz being saved:
• Curtis narrowly saves him from execution
• Behrooz is brought back to CTU, where Edgar comments that he was found at the port “in a shipping container registered to Marwan.”
Extra: In The House of Sand and Fog, Ben Kingsley’s character kills Shohreh Aghdashloo’s character by poisoning her tea so he doesn’t have to tell her their son, played by Jonathan Ahdout, is dead. (Aghdashloo and Ahdout play Dina and Behrooz Araz.) How’s that for irony?
Any character who has since disappeared without any seeming resolution to what happened to him is said to have been “Behroozed.”
Final Rankings (out of 10)
Meanness: Dina 7, Behrooz 0.5
Coolness: Dina 9, Behrooz -5
Reign of Terror: Dina 6, Behrooz -5 (this would have been -10 if he hadn’t killed two people)
Sexiness: Dina 7, Behrooz 0.5
Total Points: Dina 29, Behrooz -9 — for a combined score of 20.
Loading ...