Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | 399 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Nuclear Winner
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2007.04.09
And then a small convoy of other vehicles comes rolling up the road. Kiefer pops up into a sitting position. Aaah! Zombie Kiefer! He yells, "We're clear!" Doyle also gets to his feet, as do the "dead" "bad guys" and the unnamed CTU agent. Actually, I wouldn't have been surprised if that last one had really been dead. You know how they are. As Kiefer walks with Doyle to a fresh vehicle (and do try not to crash this one, boys), he reports over his earpiece that "the cover team just picked Fayed up." So this was all just an elaborate ruse to make Fayed think he was being rescued by people who are on his side. Wherever did Kiefer get that idea? I do have to admit that I'm impressed that they were able to set it all up so quickly during the first commercial break, from loading their weapons with blanks to mustering every single Arabic-speaking member of the U.S. intelligence community. All I accomplished during that time was going to the bathroom. It's 10:20:45 as Kiefer hops into a fancy product-placed pickup truck with Doyle at the wheel.
Meanwhile, back at CTU, Chloe's busy setting up a live video feed from a hidden camera in the armored car. Kiefer looks over at Doyle and notices a trickle of blood on the back of his neck. Doyle figures that he cut himself in the fake car crash. If that's the worst that happened, they were all incredibly lucky. It would have served them right if the crash had ended up killing Fayed. Then Kiefer and the other guys would be like, "Should we skip the fake firefight?" "Nah, let's go ahead. We can use the practice." Nadia asks over the comm. system, "Mike, do you need medical assistance?" Doyle says no, but thanks Nadia for her concern. He manages to make even that sound obnoxious. And of course, we now see Milo quietly go insane. By now, Chloe has finished setting up the AV feed from the armored car, and now both CTU and Kiefer (via a handheld video device) are watching live FayedVision.
The leader of Fayed's fake rescuers, Jamal, introduces himself and claims that General Habib sent them. Suspicious, Fayed asks how they found him. Jamal claims that Habib learned of Fayed's route through a CTU mole, which is of course completely credible. I don't know why Fayed doesn't embrace Jamal and call him brother on the spot. Jamal tells Fayed that Habib wants them all to rendezvous with Fayed's men. Before saying anything else, Fayed asks for a gun. Nobody moves. Fayed makes a grab for the sidearm of the man nearest him, and Jamal softly tells the guy to let Fayed have it. Which can't be protocol, but what else is he going to do? Fayed checks the clip (no blanks in this one), and tucks it into his jacket. Fayed says he wants to talk to Habib himself. Jamal lies that it isn't safe to do so right now, but that Habib promised to call later. He asks Fayed where to go. "I'll let you know when I speak to the general," Fayed says. Jamal doesn't have much choice but to let it go for now.