Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Check But Not Mate
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 7 | Aired on 02.02.2009
Dubaku is not only eluding his pursuers, he's found the room where he stashed Michael Latham, the tech genius who built the CIP device and made all this possible. And who is still terrified. Dubaku impatiently yells at him to get up. He needs a new CIP device in the next thirty seconds! Get to work! Okay, not really. But thirty seconds wouldn't be much faster than the time it took him to build the first one.
Kiefer meets up once again with Tony and Buchanan as they do their sweep. "They're coming," whispers a surviving henchman to Dubaku after peeking through a cracked-open doorway. "Please don't make me do this," Latham whines. Dubaku threatens to go to Latham's home and kill his wife and daughter. "Save your family," Dubaku advises. Latham just weeps. He's not exactly saving his dignity. Finally, Kiefer bursts into the room with Tony and Buchanan behind him, but by now there's nobody visible but Latham, standing in the middle of the room with his hands tied behind his back. Kiefer yells questions at him until Latham says, "I'm sorry." Which is when Kiefer notices the coil of wires peeking out from the bottom of Latham's jacket. "Cover!" he bellows, and all three commandos dive for some in the hallway. From his hiding place, Dubaku finally triggers the remote in his hand like he should have done ten seconds ago, and the room gets blown to shit. Kiefer leads his friends back into the devastated room, telling a worried Walker what just happened and that they don't have Dubaku. Hearing the approaching sirens, Walker tells him to get out of there, and Kiefer calls an end to the mission at 2:35:56. And Dubaku, apparently having found the back stairs, walks out of the building, blending in with the evacuating office drones. Now I see why he hasn't been wearing his army fatigues.
Sean's in Moss's office, being yelled at because nobody knows why the attack stopped. Sean says everyone's working on it, and speculates that the CIP device malfunctioned, but even that gets him in trouble. "I don't know what else to tell you, sir," Sean says. "I know you're upset about Renee. But getting angry at me's not going to make it go any faster." Ooh, not helping yourself there, Sean. Moss snaps that he's worried about the thousands of lives at stake. Sean mutters, "Sorry, sir" and leaves, but not before Moss gives him another useless order. And then we see that this whole time, Moss's computer monitor is showing the missing-agent notice on Walker. And who could blame him? Her ID photo is smokin'.