The Stephen Saunders Theory

I'd put this in hidden text, but it's only theory and if you've been reading everything else, this won't hurt you (plus it'd take a few minutes to look up how to do hidden text again).

Jack and Stephen Saunders have history together. Stephen Saunders was a highly-trained British Intelligence Operative for MI:6. The U.S. informed it's greatest ally Britain that a covert mission called "Operation Nightfall" was taking place and the U.S. wanted a British operative because of the high stake target and for the two country's relations. Stephen Saunders was selected and was flown to the U.S and met with team leader Jack Bauer and was briefed on Nightfall. Jack and Saunders and the rest of the team shipped out soon after and were soon in Kosovo. Saunders saw this as a way out because he was on an unofficial mission and neither country would acknowledge his death. Saunders sold Victor Drazen's men the radio codes for Jack's mission but Saunders didn't tell Drazen's men what the mission was or when to expect it.

Jack and Saunders and the special ops team landed in Kosovo and split up. Saunders went with 3 other men and Jack went with the others. Saunders eventually killed the men he was with and faked his own death. He knew that Jack had to see his body with the others because Britain would have had some suspicions if he had just vanished without a trace. Saunders left the Drazen compound with a new identity and a clean slate. He no longer could be chased by his enemies if they thought he was dead.

Saunders lived off the money he saved up and the money he got from selling Drazen the radio codes for Nightfall. Saunders worked part-time as a mercenary and he was involved in Season One. He was the 3rd shooter at Dunlap Plaza and he killed Richard Walsh and tried to kill Jack Bauer. He worked off and on the past few years but when Season Three started he got a chance for a final score and revenge on Jack Bauer for killing his men in Los Angeles at Dunlap Plaza. Saunders is being financed by an un-known man and his objective is to unleash the virus in the U.S. and eventually the U.S. will pay a huge sum to stop the spread and Saunders missions will be over. But for Saunders things get personal when Jane Saunders gets thrown into the plot. The man financing has bigger plans and even Saunders doesn't know what the U.S. is up against. America won the Revolutionary War against Britain and a few British businessmen want to return there homeland to the world's modern superpower at all costs.

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