Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 367 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT The Final Countdown
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 24 | Aired on 2009.05.18
No previouslies at all this hour. That never happens! It's almost as though someone knew all along that this would be airing immediately after the previous episode.
Sudden daylight has also reached the area outside the airport parking ramp, and the fire department has finished putting out Bob's car and covering up his crispy corpse. One of these days there's going to be a 24 spin-off, all about the local fire department following Kiefer and his friends around and putting out the stuff they blow up. If anything, they'll be busier than Kiefer. Walker's talking to Chloe back at base over walkie-talkie, about that laptop that Spawn recovered. Chloe says tracing it back to whoever it was communicating with will be harder than it looks; it's "encrypted, with multiple relays." You can totally tell by the cursor bouncing all over an animated world map on the monitor, like in Sneakers but with better graphics. Walker tells Chloe to get back to her when she has something. Overhearing, Spawn asks if there aren't any other leads to where Kiefer is. Walker points out that Spawn's the only reason they have this one. It's a testament to how little Walker knows Spawn that she's able to make this comment without her head exploding. "Except my father's dying, and we don't know how much time he has left," Spawn complains. Like Walker's going to say, "Oh, why didn't you say so?" and conjure Kiefer into their presence. Shut up, Spawn.
Having just escaped from Tony and the Faux-yer's complex, Kiefer finds a not-quite-closed garage door somewhere and squirms underneath it on his back. He finds himself inside a taxi garage and sets about breaking into one of the cabs. But suddenly Tony's there, reaching his gun under the door and shooting at him. Careful, Tony, don't shoot him in the virus! Kiefer dives for cover, but happens to notice the hanging controls for the door. Dodging Tony's shots, he rolls over to it and hits the close button. Unfortunately, Tony ducks back out before he gets squished. Kiefer notices that the cab Tony shot up is now leaking gasoline all over the floor. And a moment later, Tony is trying to force the garage door back open by stabbing through it with the tines of a handy forklift. Realizing he's trapped, Kiefer does what anyone would do in this situation: he wades across the puddle of gas he's standing in to grab a road flare that's conveniently sitting on a workbench. While Tony continues raising the door (He tried to kill him with a forklift!), Kiefer kneels in the fuel and tries to strike the flare, but it's tricky with handcuffs on. Also, I'm not sure he really wants it, if you know what I mean. By the time he gets it lit, Tony's made it inside, and he runs over and kicks it out of Kiefer's hands, sending it arcing through the air to burn out harmlessly on dry concrete. Kiefer tries to crawl to it, but only gets pistol-whipped into unconsciousness and dragged out by the feet for his trouble. Nice escape, Kiefer.