Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT End of the Line
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.11.2009
At 5:57:16, the longhaired "husband" returns with a couple of paper coffee cups, claiming to have had to trek to the other end of the terminal. "But I want you to know...I got it," he says significantly to the woman. She thanks him, and they smile evilly at each other. He adjusts his open laptop computer, centering Spawn on the live feed from its webcam, a fact to which she is of course oblivious. As she is to everything, except what she ought to be.
Kiefer's phone rings, and it's the Faux-yer, driving along and saying she's sending his phone a link. "Something I think you should see." Kiefer asks what it is, but the only answer is "Open the link, Mr. Bauer." Kiefer does, and instead of an error message or disconnected call like what would happen in real life, there on his screen is the live video of Spawn, reading a magazine. Or, more likely, just looking at the pictures. "Who the hell is this?" Kiefer demands again. All she says is, "Your daughter is in the company of our operatives. Agent Franks has already been neutralized. You will help Tony Almeida escape or my people will murder your daughter. Any effort to contact her or warn anybody about this will have the same result." Kiefer says that's impossible. "Tony Almeida's already been secured. He's under heavy guard." "That's your problem," she says. She wants him to put her on his earpiece and keep the line open so she can listen. He obeys, as other split screen windows show Tony being escorted to an armored van, Ethan on the way back to the White House, and Spawn in her usual combined modes of deadly peril and utter ignorance.
Walker gets into the back of the van with a couple of other agents and sitting across from Tony, at whom she's glaring death-beams. "You're gonna pay for what you did to Larry," she vows. Tony all but rolls his eyes at her. Kiefer jumps in the back with them, and Walker says, "I thought you were going with Moran?" "Changed my mind," Kiefer "explains." "I want to see this through." As the van pulls out, he hears the Faux-yer say in his ear, "You're going to make your move to break Almeida out soon. I'm gonna tell you what to do and when to do it. Oh, and Mr. Bauer? If any of those agents in that van get in the way, you will have to eliminate them or your daughter will die." Even Walker? How many times is he going to have to kill that poor woman anyway? Tony just looks between them knowingly. It's 6:00:00.
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