Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT We still have Logan to kick around
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.07.2006
Kiefer hops the freeway barrier and a chain-link fence like a man twice his height (which, for all I know, his stunt double is twice his height) and jumps into the back of a CTUmobile pulled over on the frontage road. Still riding in the shotgun seat, Curtis orders the driver to get them out of there. They're moving almost instantly, but you just know by the ominous way the cinematographer shoots the blind T-junction ahead of them that their exit will not go smoothly. And indeed, a whole convoy of Marine Humvees pulls into view; instant roadblock. "You're going to have to try to talk your way through the roadblock," Kiefer tells Curtis, cocking his weapon in a way that demonstrates that "try" is the operative word here. Marines jump out of their vehicles and approach the CTUmobile, weapons drawn. Their leader comes to the open driver's side window, and Curtis carefully hands over his CTU ID. The commander says they have orders to detain everyone, and Curtis claims that they too are looking for the hijacker. "Jack Bauer?" the commander asks, while the gentleman with that name sits in the back seat looking down nervously. "I wouldn't call it a hijacking, per se," he refrains from saying. The commander demands IDs from everyone in the car, but Curtis puts the kibosh on that, saying they don't have time. "Now we're moving out." he declares. "If you really want to fire on Federal agents, that's your call." His bluff called, the commander orders his men to stand down, and the CTUmobile is on its way. There's a long silence in the vehicle, which Kiefer completely fails to break by telling Curtis what a good job he just did. Curtis calls CTU and tells Buchanan that they're on their way back with Kiefer, and that with all the Marines around (whom Buchanan assumes are taking their orders directly from Logan), they're taking back streets. Wow, it's going to take them forever to get back.
Once that call's finished, Hayes gets a call of her own on her cell phone. "I want to know what's going on," says Slime's petulant voice in her ear. Hayes tries to blow him off again, but he's not having it: "I'm sitting here watching you work with two people who are under arrest for aiding and abetting a federal fugitive. If you don't talk to me, I'll have to get my answers somewhere else." Hayes says she's on her way, and tells Buchanan and Chloe -- who have been looking at her worriedly since they realized who was calling -- that "He's been nothing but loyal. I probably shouldn't have kept him in the dark this long." That second part may well be true, but not for the reasons she thinks.