Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Closers
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 01.16.2005
POTUS and his staff are also watching on Air Force One, as the guy from the Washington Post comes up behind Keeler and whispers that a missile is programmed and prepped. Keeler asks how long between his order and impact. WAPO dude says no more than ten minutes for the fighter plane to get into range. Keeler stares into the eyes of his friend on the screen, but even that isn't enough to convince him to stand there listening to PMRD chatter on for more than another couple of seconds. "Do it," he says. He shrinks up into the upper half of the screen while TerrorTeen double-bags Deaddie in the lower half. Keeler is replaced by DoDder. She looks sad, which makes sense. And not dead, which doesn't. Can't think why she's still being kept alive. Driscoll appears in the lower right corner, having just been told something over the phone.
Kiefer's lurking in the woods just outside the TerrorDome and cocking his weapon. That's not a euphemism. The voice of Lispy Skip comes through in his earpiece with the news that Driscoll wants to talk to him. "Kiefer, stand down," Driscoll orders. She keeps telling him to do that, and then he always falls back up again. Kiefer asks her to explain. Driscoll says that since the Marines won't get there in time, the president has ordered a missile strike that's already on its way. "With DaD and DoDder still inside?" Kiefer says. Driscoll confirms it. "Let me speak to the president," Kiefer snaps, as though it's still the Palmer Administration. Driscoll says she's been trying to get through to POTUS herself. Kiefer looks at the TerrorDome's fortified entrance. Hey, what's that expression on his face? Is that…resolve? Driscoll is telling Kiefer to clear the area and not to go in alone. She doesn't know he's banging one of the hostages, of course, but she knows what he's like. Kiefer's done talking in any case. He gets up and starts moving toward the TerrorDome. It's 12:00:00.
Next week on 24: Kiefer invades the TerrorDome single-handedly. Oops, did I give too much away?