Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | 215 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT A Terrorist Walks into a Bar[ometric Pressure Chamber]
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2010.03.01
Hassan, unable to raise Nabeel, asks the convenient underling in his office where he is now. "Transporting Tarin to the embassy," the underling says. Hassan tells him to keep trying to reach Nabeel, and to send a security team to track him if he doesn't answer. Also, he gives the order for CTU to get access to the intelligence files, so maybe Tarin's ill-timed escape won't screw things up as much as we might have feared.
Back out in the streets, Tarin pulls the cargo cover down over his former colleagues and closes the tailgate without seeming to attract any attention at all from passersby. While still standing right next to the car, he dials his cell phone. He reaches Kayla, who is on her way out of the U.N. building, and confirms that she's going to meet him at the hotel. "I love you, Kayla. See you soon," Tarin says before hanging up. And again, before walking away. He tosses Nabeel's phone into a handy trash can before running around the corner, which will at least make Nabeel easy to find. It's 1:12:52.
1:17:02. Hastings is on the phone with Farhad, whom he's now calling by his first name. He says CTU is at the south entrance, and Farhad needs to stay put until CTU secures the site. But Farhad is beginning to panic at how close the searcher is. Hastings tells him not to move. "Farhad, talk to me!" Hastings says. This is excellent advice: first, remain where you are until the person wanting to kill you is able to locate you. Second, speak out loud in order to accelerate that process. Understandably, Farhad is like, fuck this moron in the ear. But instead of staying low, he struggles to his feet and attempts a limping run. Unfortunately, Ali sees him and fires three times, hitting him at least twice in the torso. Farhad goes down just as the sirens approach and the CTUmobiles come into view. Maybe they should have gone through one of those orange lights on the way. Ali runs off. Soon the place is swarming with CTU agents, and surprisingly it's one of them and not Kiefer who finds Farhad facedown on the ground and rolls him over, calling for a medic. Kiefer sends Owen and his team on a search, and calls Chloe to tell her he needs those intelligence files now.