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About Politics of Love
If ever there was an epic, Shakespearean love affair on 24, it is the one between David and Sherry Palmer. They have often been compared to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, and the comparisons aren't in vain. This relationship is frought with the pitfalls of power, including trecherous secrets, unfathomable betrayal, monumental manipulation and gutwrenching reconciliations. Yet despite all this, the decades-long history and lifelong love between David and Sherry is so painfully undeniable.

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The History of David and Sherry
Acquainted since they were children and married for over 25 years, David and Sherry appear, on the surface, to have the perfect relationship when we first meet them. Palmer is the seemingly impossible ideal politician, ethical, honest and benevolent. Sherry is his equally savvy, ambitious and motivating wife, standing by her man at every turn. However, their relationship is about to be torn apart by an unimaginable secret.

Things begin to unravel when Maureen Kingsley, a respected TV journalist, informs David that she has evidence implicating his son Keith in the 7-year old death of Lyle Gibson, the man accused of raping the Palmers' daughter Nicole. Palmer vehemently believes that his son had nothing to do with Gibson's death and employs Carl Webb, a backroom political player, to put a lid on the story. However, after talking with Maureen, Palmer quickly realizes that Keith was indeed involved in Gibson's death, and that the only person who could have covered it up at the time was Carl himself. When Palmer confronts Carl, Carl admits his involvement, but not without implicating Sherry in the coverup as well. At first, Palmer can't believe that his wife could have kept such a secret from him, but after thinking about it, he realizes that Sherry had to have been involved. He confronts her and she admits to having kept this information from him in order to protect his career. David is furious, but Sherry reminds him that if the story gets out, Keith could face prison.

After speaking with his closest advisor, Mike Novick, David believes the only way to salvage his career and reputation is to go public with the story before Maureen does. Sherry is dead set against this, believing that they should find a way to stop Maureen from reporting the story. However, David is set on his course and prepares to reveal the truth about Gibson's death during his speech at a campaign breakfast. However, an assassination attempt at the breakfast thwarts his plan. Shortly thereafter, the prime witness against Keith, his former psychiatrist, is killed in an explosion at his office. Both Keith and David Palmer are convinced that the men funding his campaign murdered the doctor to keep the story from coming out. Sherry, however, remains convinced that they should bury the story at any cost. She goes so far as to destroy evidence implicating Carl in George Ferragamo's murder. However, David called her betrayal, replacing the incriminating audio tape she thought she destroyed with a fake. It is at this moment he realizes what his wife is capable of in the name of power.

When Palmer, with Keith's support, reveals the truth about Ferragamo's death to the press, Sherry refuses to support the decision -- that is, until polls show that coming clean on national television may actually have helped his campaign rather than hurt it. However, by now the damage is done and Palmer no longer trusts his wife. Sensing that David is cutting her out, Sherry coerces Patty Brooks, Palmer's campaign manager, to try to seduce him in an effort to gain information. Palmer sees right through Patty and confronts her. Patty admits Sherry put her up to it. David is furious with her, but when Jack Bauer narrowly manages to save Palmer from an exploding cellphone he himself brought into Palmer's hotel, there are bigger fish to fry than the Patty debacle.

Jack Bauer implores Palmer to leak a lie to the press that he was killed in the explosion, because Jack's daughter will be killed if the assassins find out the attempt on his life was unsuccessful. Palmer wants to help save Kim's life, but Sherry is more concerned with the effect it will have on the campaign if her husband continues to play games with the press. David orders her to keep quiet and instructs his staff to leak the story. Half an hour later, Mike Novick receives a call alerting him to a media crisis. The press has learned that he is, in fact, alive and are wondering why he would mislead them over something like this. David is livid, knowing it could only have been Sherry. He storms into their hotel room and demands to know how she could have put his career ahead of Kim Bauer's life. After the dust settles and the people trying to kill Palmer have been eliminated, he meets with Sherry privately in the ballroom of the hotel. He tells her that he never wants to see her again, and that he doesn't care what the end of their relationship will do to his campaignn. He wants to be President, but doesn't feel she is fit to be the First Lady. Sherry is stunned and angry.

Fast forward 18 months. Palmer is President, and Sherry is now his ex-wife. In the middle of a major mational crisis, with terrorists threatening to detonate a nuclear bomb in LA, Sherry shows up at his retreat in Oregon uninvited with stories of how people in his own administration are working against him. Despite his inherent mistrust in Sherry, her story appears to be credible, and he allows her to stay on, giving her temporary security clearance to make inquiries and figure out who is working against him. When a plane transporting Jack Bauer and a key witness is shot down by the American military, Sherry fingers Roger Stanton, head of the National Security Alliance, as the one who is not loyal to Palmer. Evidence supports this and David has Roger arrested, He is interrogated, and eventually reveals that he knew about the bomb and hired a covert ops unit called Coral Snake to track it and intercept it at the last moment. He also reveals the last known location of the bomb. When the Coral Snake Unit turns up dead at the site, David asks Roger if there is anything he still hasn't told him. Stanton tells him to "ask Sherry." David is stunned.

He confronts Sherry, who claims she was working covertly undercover, pretending to ally with Roger against him in order to protect him and find out who was not loyal to him. She provides evidence to support this, but Palmer is fed up with the whole thing and kicks her out of the Operations Complex and his life, once again.It appears as though Sherry is left out in the cold until she turns up at the loft of a crucial witness just as Jack Bauer arrives to apprehend him. Jack demands to know how Sherry is involved. Sherry admits that she was secretly working with Roger Stanton and Peter Kingsley, the man Jack believes to be responsible for the nuclear threat, in order to ruin David's presidency, but that she was assured the bomb would never go off. Jack forces her to help him get Alex Hewitt to co-operate with them. However, Hewitt stabs Sherry and bolts, and Jack is forced to shoot him. Hewitt falls and sustains a serious head injury and subsequently dies. Jack's only hope is to get Sherry to lure Kingsley to a meet and get him to admit he was behind the nuke.

En route to the meeting, Jack and Sherry get into a car accident and Sherry tries to run. Jack implores her that the only way she can save save David, who by now has been unseated by his cabinet, is to help him. At first Sherry starts to bolt, but in the end her love for David is the stronger force, and she agrees to help Jack. She risks her life to help David get his presidency back, and despite David's anger and disgust, he knows she did it out of love.

Fast forward three years. David is running for re-election, but is having problems with one of his mentors and biggest supporters, Alan Milliken. Alan is angry that Wayne Palmer, David's brother and Chief of Staff, had an affair with his wife Julia. Milliken wants revenge and has threatened to screw with David politically unless Wayne resigns. Wayne is more than happy to comply but David won't hear of it. He refuses to be blackmailed. Instead, he decides that if Milliken wants to fight dirty, two can play at that game. He calls Sherry, knowing that if anyone can shut Milliken up, it's her. We learn that Palmer used his influence to keep her out of prison for her involvement with Peter Kingsley. It appears as though they have reached some kind of uneasy peace in their relationship. Sherry reveals that she has the kind of dirt on Milliken that could make David's problems disappear, but that if he uses it, he and Milliken will be enemies for life. David says rhat as far as he's concerned, their friendship is over. He gives Sherry permission to pursue her plan.

Sherry reveals that many years ago, Alan committed a hit and run while driving drunk and killed a young girl. The girl's father witnessed the accident, but was paid off to keep quiet. Sherry convinces this man to come forward, however before he can, he disappears. Sherry is sure that Alan Milliken is responsible for this man's disappearance, but now she needs proof. She coerces Julia Milliken into helping her with promises that Alan will go to prison and she will be free of him. Julia lets her into the house and Sherry steals Alan's cell phone, looking for previously made calls that could connect him to the disappearing witness. However, Alan interrupts Sherry and Julia just as Sherry is leaving and a confrontation ensues. Sherry is like a rabid dog, tearing into the frail and high-strung Milliken, and he has a heart attack. Julia tries to give him his medication,l but Sherry stops her. Sherry convinces Julia that everyone will be free if Alan dies. While the women are arguing, Milliken dies. Sherry tells Julia that they are in the clear, as long as she keeps her mouth shut. Sherry returns to David's office and informs him that she didn't end up going to the Millikens' because Julia refused to help her. David is suspicious, but takes Sherry at her word. Unfortunately, Julia doesn't understand the concept of keeping her mouth shut, and spills the whole story to a detective. This detective calls Sherry and questions her. Shortly thereafter, Wayne and David learn of Milliken's death. David demands of Sherry to know what is going on, and for once she actually tells him the truth. She tells him everything. She asks him to provide her an alibi, and that if he refuses, she promises to drag him down with her. In an insane compromisation of his every last moral fibre, David lies to the chief of police and tells him Sherry was at his office with him all night. He then tells Sherry that he absolutely despises her for what she's done, and to get out of his office because he can't stand the sight of her.

Obviously, Sherry is not going to take this well. She is angry and hurt that David called her in to do his dirty work and then cast her out the minute he no longer needed her help. She decides that she is willing to risk going to prison to ruin her ex-husband's career, so she goes to his opponent in the Presidential race, Senator John Keeler, and offers him a proposition. She tells him she has physical evidence linking her to Alan Milliken's death - a prescription bottle with her fingerprints on it. She tells Keeler that she wants David to go down and that she is willing to do whatever it takes to make sure that happens, including going to jail. She suggests that Keeler blackmail David with this information and force him to resign to keep the story quiet. She wants one thing in return - a place on Keeler's staff. She also implies she would like a place in his bed.

After Keeler confronts David with Sherry's evidence, David feels he has no choice but to resign from the race. However Wayne comes up with another suggestion - if they can find the prescription bottle, the whole thing disappears. Wayne meets a shady character named Foxton in a parking garage. Shortly, David calls Sherry and tells her he's had some time to think. If she drops the whole thing and takes away Keeler's leverage, he will offer her "a seat at the table". She wants details, but David tells her he needs to see her in person. Once she has left her house, Wayne and Foxton go in to tear the place apart until they find the evidence.

Meanwhile, Sherry meets David in a park. David offers her a place on his staff as a high-ranking consultant. David is shocked when Sherry rejects his offer without a second thought. He is even more shocked when she tells him the only thing he can do to make this go away is to remarry her, or she's done, for good. David is speechless at this request. Sherry starts to leave, but David knows he has to do anything he can to keep her there as long as possible. He grabs her wrist and tells her that yes, he will marry her again. At first, Sherry is ecstatic that she is finally getting the one thing she wanted more than anything else in the world - to be with David as the First Lady of the United States. She embraces David, tears of joy streaming down her face. However, she knows David better than anyone, and when she embraces him, she can hear the lie in his heartbeat. She tells him she he's making it all too easy, and that she doesn't know what he's up to, but he can consider her offer recinded. She leaves. David calls Wayne to warn him of Sherry's impending return. Foxton, however, refuses to leave until he finds the evidence.

Sherry returns to her house to find Wayne there and immediately realizes what David was up to. Suddenly, Foxton springs up behind her and punches her out. He searches her and rips the incriminating medicine bottle from where it was taped to her back. As they are leaving, Wayne sees Julia approaching the house. He can't just leave her there, so follows her into Sherry's house to find Julia with a gun on Sherry. Sherry and Wayne try to convince Julia to put the gun down and listen to reason, but by this point Julia is completely blinded by the mess her life has become, and she shoots Sherry, followed by turning the gun herself, committing 24's first-ever murder-suicide!

Although Sherry dies as a result of her injuries, the David/Sherry relationship gets one last hurrah as Wayne Palmer returns to his brother's office to tell him how it all went horribly wrong. Wayne tries to convince David that despite his pain and regret, they are now politically free of all their problems, and should cover up the truth. However, after all the compromises he's made in the name of power, the very thing he despised Sherry for when he divorced her in the first place, he cannot face stepping over the body of his ex-wife and the mother of his children and into a second term as President. So in her death, Sherry got what she wanted - her revenge and the end of her husband's presidency.

David himself admits that Sherry knows him better than anyone, and it is fitting that their relationship and complicated love of one another despite themselves is what ended up destroying the both of them.