Curtis Manning was the Director of Field Operations of CTU Los Angeles, who joined it sometime in-between Days 3 and 4. Prior to this position, he was head of Tactical and Assistant Director of Field Operations in CTU Los Angeles. Manning played important roles in many of CTU LA's field operations during Days 4 and 5. Roughly four hours into Day 6, he took Hamri Al-Assad hostage and Jack Bauer was forced to kill Curtis.