Episode Report Card M. Giant: C | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Day 5: 4:00 AM - 5:00 AM
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 22 | Aired on May 14, 2006
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Now that the recording has been erased, Logan thinks he's in the clear: Hayes is authorized to release Kiefer, and Aaron is locked up in the stables at Not Camp David. If only Bierko hadn't escaped, and if only his surviving men hadn't held on to one canister of Sentox nerve gas. In order to find Bierko's target and stop him in time, Kiefer sends Henderson undercover with one of the terrorist's contacts. Meanwhile, FLOTUS stumbles upon the scene where Aaron's about to be murdered, and ends up saving his life by shooting his would-be killer. They make a plan for what to do next, but they don't make out. Following some ultimately irrelevant confusion and drama with Henderson and Bierko's contact, CTU is able to determine the next target: it's a Russian submarine docked at Los Angeles Harbor. Bierko and his men use the gas to fumigate the sub, then board it and log on to its weapons systems. But I think even Bierko's going to have a hard time starting a world war with only two hours left. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Kiefer, Buchanan, and Hayes are striding purposefully through CTU, talking about the impending call with the Attorney General. Hayes tells Kiefer that she hasn't told the AG what the recording's about: "I think he needs to hear it directly from the source." Kiefer doesn't disagree. They walk past Slime, who isn't really doing anything but watching them walk past. And looking evil. And quietly hoping that the little blinking device that the prop department gave him to hold right next to the recording worked.
Kiefer and the bosses join Chloe in the Situation Room, and her technobabble about the call setup segues smoothly into some politicobabble from Buchanan, who explains that they're also patching in someone from the House Judiciary Committee and a Congressional liaison. Apparently Buchanan thinks the AG is too much of a wuss to indict a sitting President, and they'll need an emergency session of Congress to remove Logan from office. Gosh, I hope we get to see that this hour. That should be thrilling. When it comes to real time, 24 has nothing on C-SPAN. Hayes tells Chloe to play back the recording so they can check the sound levels. Chloe complies, but all that comes out of the machine is white noise. Kiefer, the only one in the room who's actually heard the recording, is the first to realize that something's wrong. "Dammit, Chloe!" he bitches, "you were responsible for this recording. What the hell happened?" Chloe sputters that whatever was on the memory card has been erased. Right on cue, the speakerphone rings and an operator notifies the room that the Attorney General is on the line. Hayes looks flustered, but Buchanan calmly offers he'll take the call. "I'll tell them we're having technical difficulties," he understates, leaving the room. Kiefer leans on Chloe to tell him who got into the room. Chloe says no one, but then remembers the visit from Slime. "You sent him in here to check up on me while I was setting up," she says to Hayes. Hayes denies doing any such thing, but Kiefer's already stomping out of the room and onto the floor. I begin to suspect that he's going to choke a bitch.
He quickly spots Slime, despite having never met him as far as we know. Maybe the fact that Slime is the only one getting ready to leave is what tips him off. Realizing what Kiefer's got in what passes for his mind at times like this, Hayes scurries after Kiefer, calling in Security. One guard steps up to stop him, and Kiefer easily knocks him unconscious with one blow...to the chest. Wow, the I'm small but don't fuck with me messages are getting more and more obvious, aren't they?