Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Undercover Brothers
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 4 | Aired on 01.12.2009
Meanwhile, Janis comes around a corner at 1:49:32, sees Tanner's lawyers, and ducks back into hiding as she realizes that she has no idea how she's going to do this. But after a moment's thought, she pops out again, calling, "Excuse me, gentlemen!" Think she's going to give them her Weight Watchers pitch?
Walker returns to Tanner's bedside and tells him he's out of time. Tanner groans that whatever Walker does, he's not going to tell her anything. So Walker draws her replacement gun and presses the muzzle against one of the bandages on his abdomen, demanding, "Who do you work for?" Wow, she really has turned into a female Kiefer. This is kind of terrifying. As Tanner grunts and sweats in pain, and fresh blood starts spreading under the spot where she's applying pressure, she keeps asking about Tony and the CIP device. "Lawyers," is all Tanner will say. Walker steps back in dismay, looking like she knows she's going too far, as though she's already regretting what she's become. But then Tanner makes the fatal mistake of cackling at her from his bed, and she grabs his air hose in her hands. "You can't do this," he pants. "You're FBI. This is illegal. I have rights." She looks completely grief-stricken at what she's about to do, but she Kiefers, "I suggest you use your last breath wisely." Tanner uses it to say, "Go to hell." Since that wasn't what Walker had in mind, she kinks the hose between her palms. Tanner starts suffocating. It's 11:51:06. You know, while recapping the first couple of hours, I Twittered that Agent Walker is, like, the first female character on this show who isn't stupid, evil, ineffectual, crazy, slutty, or Chloe. And now, instead, she's Kiefer. But would Kiefer himself approve of her actions right now? Well, since she's doing this in pursuit of Kiefer, I think maybe that gets into kind of a gray area.
At 11:55:32, Janis is leading Tanner's lawyers on a runaround through the hospital corridors. "I assure you, I'm taking this very seriously," she lies, cracking me up with her earnest bumbling dork act. She claims that Tanner was moved for security reasons, and pretends to be just as confused about his location as they are. By now they've had enough of her bullshit, and they approach the nurses' station to ask for Tanner. The nurse pulls up a screen on her computer to find him, and it alerts her to a "ventilator malfunction." Which no one has noticed for the last five minutes. Well, if Walker doesn't kill him, the hospital will. The nurse jumps to her feet and rushes to Tanner's door, calling for codes and crash carts. As the lawyers watch the nurses struggle to open the door that Walker jammed behind herself, one of them asks Janis, "Is somebody in there with her?" Janis is about to swallow her tongue in panic, until Walker comes out jauntily toting Janis's laptop case and chirping, "He's all yours, counselors." They try to stop her, but she's already striding away down the corridor with Janis, whom she tells, "You don't want to know, Janis, don't ask." She hands Janis her laptop bag -- and how awkward would it have been for Janis to have to go back for that? -- and tells her to have the other agent drive her back to the office. So I guess Tanner doesn't need an FBI presence outside his door any more. After all, what are the chances that someone else will make an attempt on his life?