Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT OMFGOTUS
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.09.2009
Ethan shows Kiefer and Walker to a nearby room, and Kiefer asks him for files on POTUS and FGOTUS's Secret Service details, which Ethan promises to send over as he leaves. Kiefer tells Walker that their first step is Agent Gedge, whose phone records they somehow need to access. But how? Who has that kind of clearance and is someone they can trust? "Larry Moss," Walker says immediately. Kiefer's skeptical that Moss will be willing to go off-book, but Walker says, "I think I can persuade him to do what we need." Show a little boob, maybe. She assures Kiefer that she trusts Moss. "We know each other pretty well," she says euphemistically. Conscious of the time, Kiefer tells her to go for it, and she dials the desk phone.
Moss is fixing himself a cup of coffee in the FBI break room at 3:15:05. Oh, Larry, you'll be up all night if you drink that now. His cell rings, and he's obviously pretty blown away when he hears Walker in his ear saying, "Larry, it's Renee. I'm alive but you can't let anyone know, do you understand me?" He goes into the hallway so as to not lose his shit, and Walker says they need his help. "Myself and Jack Bauer," she clarifies, and assures Moss that Kiefer's one of the good guys. Leaning his head against the wall, Moss complains about thinking she was dead, and she tells him that it has to stay that way, since the Bureau's compromised. She explains that Dubaku has kidnapped Henry. This is the first he's heard of it, and she tells him again that this is a super-secret dealio. "If we don't find him by 4:00 p.m., he'll be killed." She asks Moss to trust her, and to help her. Specifically, she wants him to pull Agent Gedge's phone logs and find out who he's been talking to. Suddenly Moss comes over all suspicious, insisting that he see her in person, to make sure she's not under duress or something. Because if she has been taken hostage by the terrorists who have been remotely crashing planes and sabotaging chemical plants, the first thing they're going to use her for is to get the phone records of FGOTUS's Secret Service agent. "Capitol Reflecting Pool, as soon as you can get there," he orders. Despite the time, she reluctantly agrees, and tells Kiefer they need to go. And in the lower splitscreen window, Moss breaks into a run through the hallway. It's 3:17:02. And I was starting to worry that we were going to go commercial-free.
At 3:21:26, the FBI-DC contingent is watching CNB, which is reminding us about what Taylor said before, about the threat being over. Sean's suspicious, and as Erica wanders up, he tells her why: "The president's talking as if the CIP device and Matobo have been recovered, but how could that have happened without us knowing about it?" He's unhappy about being kept out of the loop. Because apparently it's all about Sean. As they return to his desk, she gets all close and flirty, right there in front of God and J. Edgar Hoover and everyone, which he basically shuts down until she leaves. He hasn't seen his wife in a week, Clingy McGee. As soon as she's gone, Janis walks up and snipes at Sean, "Could you be a little less obvious, do you think?" Sean plays innocent, which doesn't fool Janis: "Just hold up a sign that says, 'Hey, world, we're sleepin' together.'" Sean admits that it's not smart, and promises to end it. Janis tells him he better. "If [Moss] finds out about this, he's gonna transfer your ass to Juneau so fast your hair will move." Although she doesn't use those exact words.