Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 170 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Day 8: 4:00 PM -- 5:00 PM
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2010.01.17
Rob enters the council chamber to tell Taylor that Hassan is on his way, and he can tell from her abashed demeanor that she's not planning to bring him into the loop. Rob tries to push it, but Taylor is adamant, for reasons that are unclear, probably because they make no sense and are completely at odds with her character. Before they can discuss it further, Hassan and his family enter. Everyone greets each other politely. Rob waits for Taylor to do the right thing, but when its clear that it isn't going to happen, he does his job and starts telling them the plan for the upcoming press conference. Clearly Rob is a team player.
Kiefer's still doing field surgery on a screaming Victor, and as he finishes and drags him to his feet, suddenly their path out of the alley is blocked by a couple of uniformed cops with their weapons drawn, and a squad car that they pulled into position without a sound. Must have a Prius engine in there. "Got a call that you two were havin' a problem down here. What's up?" the speaking cop says in the best New York accent ever. Kiefer, his hands spread wide, tries to explain, and the speaking cop tells his partner to call it in. But how can he do that if he doesn't have any lines? As he goes, Kiefer warns that the bad guys are monitoring the emergency frequencies. "Shut up and get against the dumpster, now!" the speaking cop insists. Kiefer asks to be taken into the precinct so they can sort it out there, and that's when he sees the bad guys walking into the alley, drawing their guns. He drags Victor behind the dumpster as the bad guys open fire. Kiefer helps the cops return fire from behind the Dumpster, and it's three against two, until the bad guys kill both of the badly outgunned cops. Seeing that this is rapidly becoming a hostile work environment, Kiefer aims his gun across the alley and pops the padlock off a door. He tells Victor to run for it while he covers them, and they dash across and inside. "Keep moving. I'm out of bullets," Kiefer tells Victor. I'm stunned that he went out so lightly armed, and with his granddaughter to the zoo, no less.
While the bad guys run after them, Kiefer gets Chloe on his cell phone to ask where their helicopter is already. He does not ask why they couldn't have just sent a goddamn car service. Chloe tells him it'll be two minutes and asks what's wrong. Kiefer has her patch him through to the unit's leader. "That's Agent Ortiz, he's the head of field ops," Chloe tells him. Dana materializes at Chloe's elbow to ask what's up, and when Chloe tells her something's wrong, she's immediately on her headset, calmly saying, "Mr. Hastings, we have a situation with the pickup." And we already know that Hastings loves situations.