Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Edgar, Dead! Grr.
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 12 | Aired on 03.05.2006
It's Chloe who picks up the call out on the floor, and Buchanan urgently orders her to check the gate logs to see if anyone used McGill's key card. "Isn't Lynn standing right next to you?" Chloe wonders, and Buchanan snaps, "Chloe, do it!" Chloe's efficiency doesn't seem to be hurt by being talked to the way she talks to everyone else, and she quickly discovers that McGill's card was indeed used at the "executive entrance" less than an hour ago. "Lock down CTU, now!" Buchanan barks, and leaves Holding with one last dirty look at McGill. Chloe calls someone to initiate a lockdown. Because when deadly nerve gas is swirling around, you'd hate to have somebody be able to crack a window or something.
Henderson is still in his interrogation chair, but he's not talking; all he's doing is twitching and panting and sweating. Burke calls to Kiefer in the observation room, saying Henderson should be talking by now. Kiefer hurries into the interrogation room, again demanding that Henderson talk. Henderson's only got one word: "Can't." Well, sure, he's probably in too much pain. Alarms start going off -- first the ones on the EKG monitors attached to Henderson, and then in CTU at large, and then on Kiefer's cell phone. Okay, the phone is just a regular ring, but he answers it anyway. It's Buchanan, saying that someone unauthorized has gotten in, but hasn't yet left. Hence the lockdown. Kiefer says he's on his way, and tells Burke to get Henderson to the clinic and stabilize him. "Don't let anyone near him," he adds on his way out. It's 6:48:33.
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6:52:40. One of the splitscreen windows shows Fucked-up Accent Guy just standing there in the ventilation room, holding his timer. You know what would have been more useful to him than a timer? A gas mask. But back in the show proper, it's taken Kiefer the full five minutes to get from Holding to the main floor. Must have stopped off for a slash along the way. Over the blaring klaxons, Buchanan says they haven't yet found the intruder, but security's going room to room. Kiefer asks for a comm unit -- I didn't know he'd taken the other one out -- so he can join the search himself. He asks Audrey if Spawn is still up in Field Ops, and Audrey confirms that she's there with Barry. Kiefer wants her brought down to the floor and put under guard. I don't blame him. You just know she'll figure out a way to make this worse if she's left alone. Meanwhile, Buchanan and Edgar have narrowed down Fucked-up Accent Guy's location to a specific area, and Buchanan directs Kiefer to enter from one angle while he's sending a whole team to go in from another angle. Fucked-up Accent Guy had better hope he meets the team first. Edgar finds Fucked-up Accent Guy on CTU's surveillance video system, and Buchanan tells him to run the dude's mug through facial recognition software. Because if they call him by name he'll stop what he's doing? Buchanan asks where Carrie is, since he needs her for some technobabble. Edgar says that McGill fired her again. No, not really; he says Carrie went to check out a warning signal. Why that's not taken as a warning signal itself under the circumstances is anyone's guess, but Chloe dives over to Carrie's terminal to take care of whatever Buchanan wanted.