Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Not-So-Grandfather
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 9 | Aired on 02.11.2007
But before they can come after him, they have to meet in the Bunker's steam pipe trunk distribution venue, or whatever abandoned utility room Chad Lowe has asked Tom to meet him in. Pacing around each other, Tom asks Chad Lowe what exactly he and his people have planned. Chad Lowe says that he and others think Wayne's decisions will cost many more American lives: "We will not stand idly by and let that happen." Yeah, we covered that last hour. Let's move on. Tom asks what that means. "I think you know," says Chad Lowe. Tom says he needs to hear. "Definitive action," says Chad Lowe, like that's an answer. "He's brought this on himself." Tom turns away and paces the room in distress. Chad Lowe warns Tom not to reconsider and report him, because he'll deny everything. Gosh, how terribly embarrassing that would be for Tom. Tom asks who else is involved, but Chad Lowe says that he doesn't need to know: "Right now you're dealing with me." He denies that the Veep has any knowledge of the conspiracy, even though he's sure the Veep will implement Tom's evil plan once he's in power. All Chad Lowe needs from Tom is Wayne's itinerary, specifically regarding Assad's televised address. Tom asks some more questions, but Chad Lowe doesn't have answers: "I'm just a conduit." Sounds like a thankless role. In any case, Chad Lowe advises Tom to remain as ignorant as possible in order to maintain plausible deniability. Tom doesn't like it, but he agrees to provide the itinerary. It's 2:27:14.
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2:31:42. Kiefer finds Marilyn standing in an empty room at CTU. Marilyn says that Josh is taking the news pretty hard: "He loved his father very much." Good thing you're making him sit in an adjoining empty room by himself, then. Kiefer says he's sorry. Marilyn says that he doesn't owe her an apology, even though she knows the score: "Even if he did die because of your interrogation, I don't blame you. I blame him." She says that she'd been trying to leave Graem for years, but was afraid of losing Josh in the process. Can't blame her; he looks like the kind of kid who would be easy to lose in a supermarket. Marilyn says she never told her son what an asshole Graem was. As far as Graem's death is concerned, she only told Josh he had a heart attack: "That's enough for now." That's all Kiefer has for her right now, and he's about to leave her alone again, but she stops him by asking if there are really more nukes out there, and if CTU is any closer to finding them. Yes and no, says Kiefer. Specifically, they're busy looking for a Russian named Gredenko. Kiefer's in a sharing mood at the moment because it's necessary to advance the plot. And here we go: something about the word "Russian" seems to ring a bell, and Kiefer asks if Marilyn knows him. She says no. But Kiefer sees that there's more to it, so for privacy, he leads her from one private, empty room to another private, empty room. This is so that Dad (still wandering around the building without anyone's noticing, objecting, or asking him if he's there to paint the ceiling) can spot them at 2:33:34 and lurk near a support column. In their new location, Kiefer asks Marilyn to tell him anything she does know, no matter how insignificant it might seem to her. Marilyn says that Graem was going out a lot at night, claiming that his outings were work-related. So Marilyn followed him one night, hoping to get evidence of an affair that she could use in a custody battle. She says that Graem went to a house in west L.A. She went to the window, saw that the blinds were drawn, and heard men speaking with Russian accents inside. Once she realized Graem wasn't cheating, she lost interest and took off. She doesn't even remember the address. But Kiefer asks her if she could find the house by retracing the route. She thinks for a moment, and then says yes. Kiefer tells her to wait, and goes to catch up to Buchanan at 2:35:06. Meanwhile, Dad continues lurking. Presumably, Josh is still sitting and crying all by himself.