Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT O Brother, Where Art Thou?
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 5 | Aired on January 21, 2007
At 10:38:14, Kiefer's finally gotten around to calling Graham himself, and you can tell from his sour expression that it's not a conversation he's looking forward to. Graham gets the call on his Bluetooth as he's getting out of his fancy car in the fancy driveway of his fancy house. Graham acts all amazed and mind-blown to hear from his brother (almost as mind-blown as me!), assuring him that he and their dad called in a lot of favors to try to get Kiefer sprung from China. He asks how Kiefer got out, and Kiefer either doesn't know or isn't saying. "Must have been one hell of an exchange," Graham marvels, now loitering out on his front walk. Kiefer says that he's looking for their dad on behalf of CTU, and Graham says Philip left the day before, probably to visit one of his girlfriends. "One of them's kinda hot, if you can believe that," he laughs nervously. Kiefer's not playing though, and asks Graham if he can help find Philip. Graham readily agrees, and says that he'll get back to Kiefer. Kiefer mutters a terse thanks and hangs up. I'm starting to suspect that Kiefer and his brother aren't exactly close.
At 10:39:36, his next call is to Chloe at CTU so he can ask her for his brother's address. Graham's moved since they last saw each other, but Chloe has the new address. She gives it to Kiefer, but wonders why he didn't ask Graham himself when he was on the phone with him. "I'll get back to you," Kiefer says as he hangs up. In other words, he doesn't want Graham to know he's coming.
Graham walks into the house and finds his family watching the news reports. Guess what the headline is: "Los Angeles freeways jammed." National news, people! Although it probably has something to do with the mushroom cloud in the background. Graham hugs his son, a blank-eyed teenager with a blond Beatle haircut, and assures him that they're probably safer now, because the terrorists will probably try to nuke another city next. With that out of the way, Graham says he needs a private moment with the kid's mom, Marilyn, who hasn't said a word yet. Maybe it's because she's so completely out of his league. She's being played by the striking Rena Sofer, who I'm sure will be striking Graham at some point in the next few episodes. Once the parents are alone, at 10:40:54, Graham tells his wife, all casual-like, who he was just on the phone with. Marilyn is suspiciously interested in the news, and asks if Kiefer's coming over. "Why? Are you hoping he will?" Graham asks faux-pleasantly. Marilyn tells him not to go there. "We're already there," Graham says. "I'm just looking for a little honesty." And speaking of digging things up, he thinks she wasn't over Kiefer when they got married, and still isn't. So she drops a little honesty on him: "Insecurity in a grown man is not attractive." With that, she stomps upstairs.