Galina Ziminova was an SVR operative working with Arkady Bazin to track down and kill Jack Bauer after the events of Day 8. Ziminova met with Bazin after he finished studying his target and told him that his team had arrived. Ziminova later debriefed her other associates, Ekel, Mager, and Dimitri Yolkin, and told them about Bauer's history and how he murdered Pavel Tokarev and Mikhail Novakovich, amongst other Russian officials. Although some of them were apprehensive about going after Bauer, especially considering the rumors surrounding Suvarov's corruption, Bazin managed to convince them all that Bauer was too much of a threat to be left alive. After the operatives left, Ziminova told Bazin that she felt the same way, and that everyone needed to operate as clandestinely as possible to av