Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 248 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Framed in Vain
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2009.05.04
At 4:55:53, Walker's SUV pulls up outside Jibraan's building, where a discreet FBI cordon has been set up. That FBI Field Ops guy from last hour is in charge. Video surveillance is already in place, showing one guy and a hostage -- Hamid -- in the back room. No Tony. Kiefer tells the camera guy -- some dude who's getting live video by inserting a laparoscopy camera directly into the building and all the way into Jibraan's apartment somehow -- to zoom in on the hostage, whom Gohar recognizes as Jibraan's brother Hamid. "They're using him as leverage to make Jibraan do what they want," Kiefer realizes. "That's what I would have done." Kiefer says they need to take the goon alive, and asks Walker to let him take point. She nods, but when she goes to follow him to the entrance, Gohar voices his doubts to Walker about Kiefer's condition. "Maybe you should be in charge." Walker says she is, but even though Kiefer's dying he's the right man for the job. Kiefer returns with a platoon of armored agents, and Gohar begs him to save Hamid. The Field Ops guy says they have a clear path inside.
So Kiefer and Walker lead the men up into the building and right outside Jibraan's door. Kiefer counts down, and the guys with the battering ram break the door open, and another agent tosses in a flash grenade that flattens the goon. He's barely hit the ground before Hamid uses his cuffed hands to smash the wall mirror behind him, grab a big shard of glass, and thrust it into the man's throat. Wow, Hamid's speed and effectiveness would be pretty impressive if that wasn't such a stupid thing he just did. Rushing in at the head of the FBI column with his gun leveled, Kiefer tells Hamid to stop and to put down the glass. "We're FBI, we need him alive." "He made my brother into a terrorist!" Hamid complains. Kiefer says they know Jibraan is being set up. "The only one who can tell us where your brother is, is that man right there. Now put it down." Hamid obeys, and Kiefer yells at him to put his hands behind his head. Walker manhandles him over to the bed while Kiefer bends over the goon and says he's bleeding out. He screams for a medic. The field ops guy relays the order into his walkie-talkie while Kiefer rips a bandage. Really, field-ops guy? You had to wait until Kiefer told you before you called for a medic for the dude you just saw getting stabbed in the throat? Way to be proactive. No wonder you're on the graveyard shift.