Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT What is it with chicks, man?
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.26.2006
Audrey looks bad. And not just bad as in miserable and unhappy, but bad as in sweaty and shaky, like Burke shot her full of some bad acid. He's also doing the verbal questioning, and he's not any better at that than he is at the medical aspect of it. Leaving aside the fact that Audrey probably doesn't know anything, Burke's attempts to be scary and intimidating are severely undermined by the long-sleeved polo he's wearing.
Kiefer runs over to Chloe and she tells him that she's found records that Henderson made eight cell phone calls to Collette in the past three months. Kiefer asks where Collette is now, and Chloe tells her Holding Three. What, it wouldn't have been more effective to stick her in Four with the corpses of Lynn McGill and Harry the Redshirt? Such softies, these people. Kiefer rushes over to Buchanan and tells him this news, saying it means Collette's immunity deal is off. "That's for the President to decide," Buchanan points out. "Then call the President," Kiefer yells over his shoulder, because he's already running toward Holding. "Get 'em to back off Audrey!" Buchanan whips out his cell phone at 9:41:02. "Get me the President!" he barks, following Jack's instructions sequentially. Audrey can wait, I guess.
Collette's sitting in her holding room with only a U.S. Marshal for company, passing the time by fiddling with the chain cuffing her to her bench. But judging by the way the chain jerks when Kiefer walks in, she came thisclose to passing a lot more than that at the sight of him. He immediately asks her connection to Henderson, and she nervously reminds both men, "I have an immunity agreement signed by your President." The Marshal backs this up, but Kiefer doesn't put up with too much of that before he socks the poor guy upside the face and takes the Marshal's gun out of its holster. He holds the weapon on the Marshal, but that quickly proves unnecessary as the Marshal sinks to the ground, unconscious. Kiefer hates Marshals. And then the gun is in Collette's face. "Henderson told you to use [Audrey's] name in case you got in trouble, right?" Collette doesn't say anything, but she looks scared. And guilty. And screwed. Kiefer gets right in her face and gets her to admit it. "Did he tell you why?" he asks, and she says no. Rather than trying to force an explanation for that out of her, he gives her one: "He's using you. He wanted you to get inside my head. It worked. And now I'm...upset." Heh. He gives her three seconds to tell him the target, but he's bluffing, because it's at least five before she blurts, "A natural gas distribution center." Kiefer wants to know which one, but Collette says she doesn't know. Kiefer purposefully cocks the gun, but she still doesn't know. Collette looks down, waiting for the bullet, but Kiefer backs off and leaves the room instead. Wow, how much did Henderson pay her to get her to risk wasting that sweet immunity deal by lying? You'd think either her Swiss lawyer or her Libyan one would have warned her against that.
It's 9:42:52 as Kiefer meets up with Buchanan in the hallway outside and tells him what he's learned. Buchanan's confused about the significance of the target, but Kiefer explains, "He can use it as a delivery system, get it into people's homes." A good idea in theory, but I think that if a bunch of natural gas has gotten into the living spaces of your home, you've probably already left. Unless Sentox is deadly in way lower concentrations than natural gas is, pretty much the only people Bierko's killing are those who have let their pilot lights go out. Kiefer says they need to get Chloe looking for the right distribution center, and Buchanan tells Kiefer that the rescinding order will be there in fifteen minutes. Nice that it takes ten times longer to rescind immunity than to provide it. Kiefer tells Buchanan to give the order to the Marshal in Collette's room. "He'll be looking for this too," he adds, handing over the Marshal's gun butt-first. I swear, Kiefer's like a one-man campaign to keep Federal Marshals from ever wanting to enter this building.