Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 367 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT The Final Countdown
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 24 | Aired on 2009.05.18
In any case, Tony says that was just a ruse, "to get the man who's coming here right now. Took me three years to find him. Took me another year to get him to meet me face to face." And how lucky for us that today is the day he gets to meet him! Tony's talking about Alan Wilson, of course, to whom he says had to prove himself. "He was the man behind Charles Logan. He's the one who ordered the hit on David Palmer. And he had Michelle killed to cover his tracks. This is the man who murdered my wife, Jack." Kiefer's not impressed that Tony's been doing freelance deep-cover work all these years for personal revenge. "You killed innocent people, Tony!" Tony says ten times more would have died without him, pointing out that he came up with the plan to bring the bad guys down. "I enlisted Bill and Chloe to help me track all the elements of this Group. And when I finally got what I wanted, they would turn them in and shut them down. But you screwed that all up, didn't you, Jack?" Must be the Bauer genes. Tony claims that on top of everything else, he saved more lives than Kiefer today. "I'm the one who helped you recover the CIP device. I'm the one who warned you about the White House attacks. I'm the one who stopped Jonas Hodges from launching those missiles!" Kiefer is not convinced that this all makes Tony a good guy, angrily pointing out that whole Washington Center Station attack that they barely prevented that would have killed thousands. Tony says he did what he had to do. "You kill him, and no one will ever know the full extent of this conspiracy," Kiefer points out. Which is the weakest argument he could have come up with. These conspiracies never have a full extent; there's always more to it. If there weren't, this show would be called 6, at best. Tony says he's not going to kill Wilson; Kiefer is. With that, Tony wraps an explosive belt around Kiefer's waist, saying he's sorry it has to be this way, but he'll never get within fifty feet of Wilson himself. "You're the one he's coming for," he says. "You're not honoring Michelle's life," Kiefer hisses. "You are reveling in her death and she would despise you for this." Rather than bothering to respond, Tony turns to one of the monitors, which shows the Faux-yer coming back, and programs his cell phone to become Kiefer's detonator. He then puts a strip of duct tape over Kiefer's mouth (because he can't have Kiefer blabbing his plans to the Faux-yer) and zips up Kiefer's jacket over the belt (because he wants to preserve Kiefer's trim silhouette). The Faux-yer suspects nothing when she returns. It's 7:09:28.