Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT How To Disarm A Terrorist
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 16 | Aired on 04.01.2007
At the House of Hauser, Gredenko gets off the phone with his attorney, who's satisfied with the immunity agreement. Well, he should be; it took long enough. Normally those suckers get cranked out in five or ten minutes. I blame the Attorney General's being distracted. Over his earpiece, Kiefer tells Buchanan that Gredenko's ready to make the call to Fayed. By the way, Buchanan got from his office to the Situation Room and donned his headset in only twenty seconds. I don't think he made the reverse trip that quickly when the building was filling with nerve gas. Buchanan responds that Doyle's ready to head out to whatever meeting-place Fayed specifies. Kiefer acknowledges that and tells Gredenko that he'll kill him if he tries to warn Fayed in any way. Wisely, Gredenko believes him. He dials the phone at 9:29:34.
Fayed's panel truck -- with the two poor, sad, pathetic little suitcase nukes right behind the passenger seat -- is on the move. In the shotgun seat, Fayed answers his cell phone and asks if Gredenko got the security protocols that he left to retrieve over an hour ago. After asking if Gredenko's sure he isn't being watched (and Gredenko skillfully lies that he isn't) and getting in another dig at Gredenko's poor track record today, Fayed asks where Gredenko is now. Upon hearing that Gredenko is in Culver City, Fayed tells Gredenko to meet him at the Santa Monica Pier in ten minutes. Listening on a headset, Buchanan points at Doyle and sends him from the CTU Situation Room. Doyle couldn't have been waiting with his team in an idling SWAT van in the parking lot? Not that it'll make a difference, as we'll see. Gredenko asks for more time, but Fayed refuses to wait. Gredenko asks how he'll find Fayed. "Just be there," says Fayed. "I'll find you." End of call. Kiefer asks how long it'll take Doyle to get there, and when Buchanan tells him thirty minutes, he decides to go with the team he has with him, under an Agent Ryan.
Karen joins Wayne and Sandra in the Battle Bridge anteroom with instructions from the Supreme Court to have their arguments submitted in writing in ten minutes. I'd love to see the actual note. "Write fast, you liberal fuckers! Love, Nino." Wayne says that Sandra's working on their brief now. Hey, wouldn't it be cool if there were already lawyer in the building? Like a White House Counsel or something? Wayne should look into that. Right now, he just smiles proudly at his sister and asks how it's going. Sandra looks up from her legal pad and says that they have a good case. She tells Karen, "You resigned, and [Vice President] Daniels was in charge when you returned. So the legal question is, did he consent to your reinstatement?" Karen says that the Veep did, and never objected to Karen's return or her attendance at a Cabinet meeting. "His own actions prove our case," says Sandra. Open and shut. Hell, this could have been decided in traffic court. Wayne thanks Sandra for everything. Hey, do you think Walid's dead yet?