Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fed Sematary
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 6 | Aired on 01.26.2009
Sam has just finished expiring when Gedge's cell phone rings. Rolling his eyes, Gedge answers, "Yes, Mr. Kanin?" Ethan wants to talk to Henry, and he's pretty pissed off when Gedge tells him that they're at Samantha Roth's apartment. Or, rather, that Henry's in the apartment and Gedge is waiting outside. "Just pull him out of there and have him phone me as soon as possible," Ethan snaps before hanging up. Imagine how much more pissed Ethan's going to be when Henry turns up dead. But Gedge gets right back to work, pulling the knife out of Sam's chest and putting the handle between Henry's limp fingers long enough to leave nice, clear prints. "Don't try to speak, sir," Gedge tells his former protectee. "Nothing left to say." As Gedge steps away with the knife, Henry's eyes widen as he realizes he can almost -- almost -- make a fist. The paralytic must be wearing off. At this rate, by the end of the episode he might actually be able to challenge Gedge to a duel to the pain. It's 1:48:38.
At 1:52:53, Tony is reinstalling the Matobos back into the prisoner van. From a vantage point near a window in the hangar's top level, Buchanan sees a black SUV approaching over the tarmac and reports, "They're coming. One car from the service road." Although he can't tell how many people are in it, since the windows are tinted. "Copy that," Tony responds through his own comm unit, sounding pretty relaxed. Meanwhile, inside that black van that's now been moved outside the building, Chloe operates her laptop while Walker looks over her shoulder. Good call, keeping the ladies away from the action. The Escalade carrying Nichols and three goons pulls into the hangar, and all four men get out. Nichols approaches Tony all friendly-like and asks where Emerson is. Tony says he's dead, as are Litvak and Bauer. "I got 'em in a back room. You want to say hi?" Okay, I'm sorry to keep harping on this, but now we know that Nichols knew Jack Bauer was working with Emerson, but not Dubaku. The longer this is left unresolved, the more curious I am about it. Which I'm sure is not what the writers intended.
Anyway, Nichols is suspicious, and Tony says he decided not to split the payment. "I don't understand, I thought you and Emerson were friends." "That was before he left me to rot with the FBI," Tony snits, as though he hasn't been out of custody longer than he was in it. "You want Matobo or not?" Nichols does, but Tony doesn't want to say where Matobo is until he sees the diamonds. Nichols gestures to one of his henchmen, who sets the case he's holding on the hood of the Escalade and opens it up. Tony comes over and examines them. Satisfied, he tosses a set of keys to one of Nichols's men and says the Matobos are in the back of the prisoner van. Good hiding place. They never would have looked there. As soon as the handcuffed Motobos are presented, Nichols tells Tony, "Keep your tracks clean. We might call on you again." Then he nods at the henchman standing behind Tony, who nods back and produces a gun, which he levels at Tony's head. But before the man can fire, he goes down, courtesy of a bullet from Kiefer in a sniper perch overhead. Tony then elbows the henchman nearest him to the floor, and shoots the one who's standing right next to the Matobos before he can even draw. Good thing Tony didn't hit them, or this little operation would have been over in a hurry. Even Nichols reaches for a gun, but Kiefer shoots the ground near his foot before it's fully drawn, and Nichols lets it drop. Tony puts the case of diamonds down, collects Nichols's weapon, checks on the guy who's still crouched on the floor with a hand to the elbow-print in his ribs, and utters this awesome line: "Okay, then. Let's put that behind us." Hee. He tells Nichols and his surviving goons to take the Matobos and get out. They're loaded into the back of Nichols' Escalade, which is a lot less crowded now than it would have been otherwise, and the driver quickly ferries them and Nichols out of there at 1:56:54. "Clear," Buchanan intones. A radar blip tracking Matobo is now on Chloe's laptop screen. You'd think she would have wanted to check that before the Matobos left "Get everyone ready to move out," Kiefer orders.