Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 291 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Small Consulation
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2007.03.05
Buchanan's watching the Veep's address up in his office, but he mutes the TV to take the call from Nadia reporting Morris's news. Buchanan doesn't have a response to that. Nadia suggests that they notify the Veep, but Buchanan wants to hold off, since the Veep's already in trouble with Suvarov and doesn't need this grief on top of everything else. Instead, Buchanan tells Nadia to have Special Ops put together an attack plan: "I want to give the Vice-President the option to take the Consulate by force, and hopefully rescue Jack." And I want to see how excited the Veep gets when he has a real, honest-to-God chance to order an attack on some actual Russians during his first two hours in office.
At the Consulate, Kiefer is coming around to find himself tied to a chair in a different room, alone with the blond Consulate Cop. He's being treated pretty well, in the sense that nobody's beating him up or cutting off his fingers. Maybe Markov took one look at Kiefer's scabby meathooks and decided against dulling his cigar cutter. It's 5:56:45 as Kiefer tries to address Blondsky in Russian, then English. Blondsky says that they're not allowed to talk to each other, and Kiefer says that's because the Consul has a secret to keep. Kiefer reveals Markov's connection to Gredenko: "Markov's working with him against the orders of your government." Blondsky says that Kiefer can make these allegations official later, but of course Kiefer says that there's no time, since three more nukes are going to be launched via unmanned drones within hours. "With the Consul's knowledge?" Blondsky asks, shocked. "That's a ridiculous accusation." Kiefer says that Markov confessed, and gave Kiefer Gredenko's location and time frame. Blondsky heads for the door, but stops when Kiefer says, "I know you believe me! You know about Markov's connection to Gredenko." I don't know how Kiefer knows this, but he's clearly getting to Blondsky. He asks him to call CTU and relay the information that Gredenko is in the Shadow Valley, which is going to be tricky because the number he gives is the same one that goes through to Logan's and Chloe's cell phones. "You need to tell them you have a message for Bill Buchanan from me. My name is Jack Bauer." Blondsky threatens that Kiefer had better not be lying. Kiefer says that if Blondsky didn't already know he wasn't, he wouldn't even think about doing this. He tells Blondsky to hurry. The clock is ticking. See? It's right there at the bottom of the screen, saying 5:58:33 through 5:58:36.