Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT What is it with chicks, man?
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.26.2006
Commercials. Now, if Michael Douglas's part in The Sentinel were being played by Peter Weller, I'd...well, I'm kind of already recapping that, aren't I?
9:14:03. On the CTU floor, a red-haired ingénue -- played by Ennis's daughter in Brokeback Mountain, and I hope that's not a spoiler for anyone, that Ennis ends up with a daughter -- nervously presents herself before Chloe, who gets in one needlessly bitchy crack before the poor girl manages to explain that she's been called up from downstairs to take Edgar's place. Okay, so the nerve gas killed everyone at CTU who wasn't in the Situation Room, the upper offices, Medical, Holding Room Four, and now downstairs? Shari expresses her sympathies over Edgar's loss, and Chloe manages to impersonate a human being long enough to turn away from her monitor and say, "Thanks." She directs the new girl, Shari, to Edgar's old desk, which I guess Slime is done with, and gives her some instructions in technobabble. Shari seems to understand Chloe's bizarre moon lingo, though, and turns back towards Edgar's desk. But the sight of Slime lurking nearby draws her up short. He spots her as well, and freezes. The moment's broken when his cell phone rings and he goes off to answer it. I'd speculate that there's some history between those two, but then, it's Slime. Mutual hatred on sight is probably a perfectly normal reaction.
Audrey's alone in her interrogation room, pacing nervously. Kiefer comes in, and she's so relieved to see him, but that relief is short-lived when all he does is growl at her, "Sit down." Quickly realizing the score, she gets submissive in a hurry and takes a seat at 9:15:46. He's all business as he asks her if she's ever had contact with Collette, which she of course denies. She makes the mistake of telling Kiefer he's wasting time, and he warns her that he's only there because he asked. "I have a job to do. If I don't do it, Burke will, and I promise you, you do not want to see him walk through that door." Yeah, look what happened to the last guy Burke worked on, who is currently free as...a...okay, bad example. Audrey gets cooperative again, but her patience quickly runs out when she learns that her accuser doesn't even know what Audrey is supposed to have sold her. Kiefer warns, "We're not ignoring any leads," and asks how Collette got her name in the first place. Audrey doesn't know, but she points out that she's not exactly low-profile. Which is a good point. Arrest me as a terror suspect and see how fast I roll over on, say, Paul Wolfowitz. But Audrey's referring to her relationship to Secretary of Defense Heller, which prompts Kiefer to ask, "Is he involved?" Obvious trap, and Audrey just gets all sad and disappointed as she says Kiefer knows Heller better than that. "I would never involve him in--God-dammit!" Not really. She denies any involvement by either of them. Kiefer drops a couple of photos in front of her: Henderson and Walt Cummings. She says she'd never heard of Henderson until earlier today, and that she met Walt a couple of times before. She stutters more or less equally through both statements. Kiefer's got his back to her as he asks where Audrey met Walt, and she claims it was only at DoD briefings. Kiefer looks very sad, like he was hoping she was going to make this easy, and now he's going to have to be a gigantic dribbling asshole to her.