Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dead Kiefer Walking
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.30.2009
At 11:44:22, Janis totes her laptop back into the bullpen, where tactical boss Peter Onorati and a whole lot of FBI agents in combat fatigues are assembled. Moss tells Seaton to go ahead with the weapons' location, and Seaton says, with everyone listening, "The weapons are in a warehouse in the northeast quadrant of the compound, 32-44.23 north, 11-710.42 west." Because apparently he knows the precise GPS coordinates of each of the 259 structures on the grounds. The digital map up on the FBI big screen lights up the building in question. Moss asks Seaton to get Tony to the warehouse to provide ground recon, and get a radio while they're at it, and Seaton agrees. Peter Onorati points out a spot 50 yards from the warehouse where they can land, and Moss points out support drops. As they get moving, leaving only Moss and Walker behind, Kiefer rushes in to ask Moss what's going on. Moss tell him they're going in, and Kiefer says he wants to come along. "I can understand why, but I'm sorry, I can't allow it," Moss says flatly. Kiefer tries to claim he's the only one who's seen the canisters, but Moss says it's all in the description he gave Walker earlier. Besides, it's not like the FBI is going to rush out there and accidentally liberate a soda machine. "Larry, please, I've earned this," Kiefer begs. Moss says he'd normally want Kiefer out there with them (at least as of this hour), "But you're sick. We have no idea when you're going to start showing symptoms. I can not risk that happening in the field. I need my best men for this operation. I hope you can understand that." I don't know why he had to add that last part. Kiefer sits down, huffs bitterly, and finally tells Moss he's right, not once but twice. "I always knew eventually we'd agree on something," he even chuckles, as though he's known Moss for months instead of less than a day. Moss says he's so sorry, and leaves Walker to watch over him. And then Kiefer wanders off, so Walker doesn't even have that to do any more. It's 11:46:33.
At 11:51:02, Seaton drives a Starkwood jeep up to a chain link fence somewhere on the compound. He starts talking to the guard there, until suddenly Tony clubs the guard down from behind, having teleported onto the scene at an opportune moment. He takes the unconscious guard's gun (quite an arsenal he must be amassing there), and Seaton takes his key card, and in a moment they're inside the fence. Seaton leads Tony around behind the nearest building, and from there they peek out at the warehouse where Seaton says the weapons are, along with Hodges and at least a dozen men, in addition to the two armed guards posted outside. Security within security within security, all within Starkwood's main perimeter. The real question about Starkwood is how such a paranoid organization ever admitted to its own existence in the first place.