Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Do-Over
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 10 | Aired on 02.23.2009
He's about to leave, so he can get a good night's sleep before having to get up and go back to the Senate subcommittee in the morning, when she says, "It's not over for Rosa!" Yeah, but Rosa's annoying. Kiefer's not about to let Walker have the last word, so he says, "What happened to Marika was a tragedy. But I'm not going to stand here and tell you what we did was wrong because we weren't. She made a choice -- a brave one -- to get involved, but she made it." Walker is not convinced, and is wondering if Kiefer even feels anything. He again brings up the hundreds or thousands of lives they might have saved from a terror attack. Which, for once, there wasn't actually any immediate threat of at the time, but I guess that's kind of his default setting. "What we did wasn't wrong," he insists. "It was necessary." As he starts to walk away again, she calls out, "I read your file. When your wife was killed, did you feel that, or did you just tell yourself that that was necessary?" Ooh, foul. "What do you want from me?" he demands. She says she wants to know that he feels the same pain she does. She smacks him across the face, yelling ,"Do you feel that?" And then she does it again. On the third swing he catches her arm, and ends up hugging her as she cries. "You're gonna be all right," he whispers into her scalp. "It's gonna take a while. But you will learn to live with it." Wrong thing to say, because she pulls away, saying she's not sure she wants to. "Then quit," Kiefer says, turning away again. Then he stops and says, "By the way, that stunt you pulled by the car? You ever pull your weapon on me again, you better intend to use it." "I did," she says. Kiefer huffs and nods, and finally leaves. He is so not asking her out now. It's 5:47:53.
At 5:52:12, Olivia Taylor is waiting in a book-lined room of the White House, looking at a framed photo of her parents. Her mom enters, and she asks how her dad is. Taylor says he's still in surgery, since the bullet went through his lung. Olivia's about to break down, because she clearly likes her dad a lot more than she does her mom, and Taylor hugs her. "Who did this?" Olivia asks, pulling away. Taylor says it's complicated, but it has to do with the conspiracy Henry discovered. Olivia wants to go to the hospital to be with him, but Taylor shoots that idea right down, saying it's not safe. Although it's safe enough for Henry, and look at the afternoon he had. Olivia looks like she's planning a retort, but the speakerphone chirps and says that Bill Buchanan's waiting outside. "There's a lot we need to talk about, Olivia," Taylor says. "We've been ignoring things for far too long." Yes, and I can't wait to find out what those things might be. Except I totally can. "It took dad getting shot for you to finally want to talk?" Olivia spits. Taylor takes off rather than getting into an old argument. "Not again, and not today," she says, telling Olivia that a guard will take her to the residence. As soon as they finish dummying up some family photos with her in them.