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About Prodigal Son
Why do we love Keith so much? Because he represents the internal struggle we all identify with to reconcile familial duty with our own independence, sense of morality and freedom. He did everything in his power to protect his father from his own mistakes, at great detriment to his own personal conscience and sense of duty. Perhaps Keith said it best himself when he said "My father is his own man and so am I." Keith is every inch the Prodigal Son, the son whose father felt betrayed by him, but ultimately came to reconcile with him and move forward in life supportive of him.

Keith proved himself to be just as upstanding and courageous of a man as his esteemed father when he was willing to sacrifice his own freedom and reputation to protect the truth and expose the evil deeds of the money men behind his father's Presidential campaign. Keith defines what it means to stand up for what one believes is right.

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A Brief History of Keith
When we first meet Keith, he is on top of the world. Along with his sister Nicole, he is on the campaign trail to get his father, Senator David Palmer, elected President and is in charge of pumping up the youth vote. However, Keith's world is about to come crashing down on him when a dark secret from his past comes back to haunt him.

A reporter named Maureen Kingsley informs David Palmer that she has evidence implicating Keith as being responsible for the death of the man accused of raping his sister Nicole seven years earlier, but it was covered up, and she is planning on reporting the story the next morning. At first, David Palmer doesn't believe Maureen, but she produces incontravertible evidence that Keith was somehow involved in Gibson's death -- evidence that also proves that David's wife Sherry, daughter Nicole and one of his advisors, Carl Webb, were involved in the cover-up.

At first Keith refuses to talk about the events, saying it's better they leave it buried. Then David talks to his closest advisor, Mike Novick, who tells him that the only way to salvage his campaign and protect his son is for the Palmer family to reveal the story to the public before Maureen Kingsley does. Both Keith and David's wife Sherry feel this is a huge mistake. Keith is angry because he feels that his father is willing to sacrifice him to protect his political career. Sherry is concerned that if the story comes out, Keith will go to prison. Sherry believes their only option is to try and stop Maureen from reporting the story by blackmailing her.

Nonetheless, David is adamant about coming out with the story. Keith feels his father has betrayed him and wants nothing to do with the whole thing. Sherry stands by David at the public appearance where he plans to reveal the truth, but she does not agree with his decision. Palmer's plan to reveal the truth is thwarted at the last moment, however, when an assassination attempt forces him to vacate the premesis before he can deliver the news. Sherry takes advantage of this development, and convinces Maureen Kingsley to hold off on the story about Keith in exchange for information on the assassination attempt.

Over the next three hours, Sherry contacts Carl Webb, the man who helped cover up the death of Lyle Gibson in the first place. She tells him to try and find out some way to blackmail Maureen into dropping the story, but Carl informs her that he "is already taking care of the evidence against Keith." He refuses to tell her any more than that. After David receives an alarming call from a campaign contributor suggesting that Carl Webb and two other contributors are planning to murder Keith's former psychiatrist, the source of Kingsley's story, he is alarmed and confronts Carl. Carl denies everything, but little over an hour later, there is a fire at Dr. George Ferragamo's office, and David is convinced he was murdered.

He tries to keep this from Keith for as long as possible, but Keith walks in on his father and Mike Novick discussing Ferragamo's death, and questions what they are talking about. David admits that Ferragamo was killed in a fire. Keith immediately assumes that foul play is involved, and that Ferragamo was silenced because he was the source of the allegation against him. David tries to tell Keith that it was an accident, but Keith already knows the truth. Keith says that even though Ferragamo betrayed him, he owes him his life, and Keith wants to go to the police. David decides to take his story to the DA, despite Sherry's protests. When David gets to the DA's office, he finds Carl waiting for him. Carl tells him that there is evidence against Keith planted at the crime scene, and that if there is any investigation, Keith will be implicated in Ferragamo's murder. David is forced to back off.

Over the next couple of hours, Keith questions David's decision not to go to the police but David is unable to tell him about Carl's blackmail. Finally, Keith decides to take things into his own hands. He contacts Carl and demands to meet him face to face. They arrange a meet at the Griffith Park Observatory. During the meet, Keith gets Carl to admit that not only was he responsible for Ferragamo's murder, but also that he planted evidence at the crime scene to frame Keith. Carl is confident now Keith knows about the planted evidence, he will back off. What Carl doesn't know, however, is that Keith was recording their entire conversation using a micro-cassette recorder hidden in his jacket. Keith returns to the Palmer hotel suite with the evidence they need to go to the DA.

When Keith shows the tape to his father, David is happy that they have the evidence, but concerned that his son put himself in such a dangerous situation. At the time, David is in the thick of an investigation into who is trying to assassinate him, and has to put the whole Ferragamo situation on the back burner. After thinking on it for awhile and discussing it with Sherry and Mike, he has a heart to heart with Keith, reminding him that going to the DA will mean bringing his involvement in Lyle Gibson's death into the spotlight. Keith says he is prepared to face whatever consequences he has to.

Despite some interference from his wife, David Palmer does deliver the tape to the DA and holds a press conference, where he reveals everything to the media, starting with Keith's involvement in Gibson's death seven years earlier and finishing with the murder of George Ferragamo. He meets Keith offstage at the end of the conference, and father and son have never been closer or prouder of one another.

In the second season of 24, Keith does make a brief cameo appearance on a fishing trip with his father in the premiere, however is never seen again after this. We do learn through conversations between David and Sherry that Keith was cleared of all criminal charges related to Gibson's death.

Unfortunately, this is the last we've seen of Keith Palmer, but we hope very much for him to make an appearance in Season 4, especially in the aftermath of his mother's death.