Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fished In
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 3 | Aired on 01.14.2010
Down at the U.N., Davros climbs off his police motorcycle and removes his helmet as another cop greets him as "Farmer" and asks what he's doing there. At 6:26:03, Davros gives the story about filling in for a sick officer. "Probably a few to many at lunch," he smirks. And a few too many bullets in the brain at dinner. They enter a room where Cole is currently conducting a briefing of NYPD cops, none of whom seem to mind being lectured by some puke from CTU. He says the perimeter is being pushed out another six blocks and the Queensboro Bridge will be closed until mid-April (or, as he puts it, "noon tomorrow"). Cole informs them that CTU has made an arrest, but they're still after the main guy. "He's already killed five people that we know of, including two CTU agents." I guess the third would be Victor, and then his two compatriots who were already dead at the start of the season, which shouldn't even count. Of course that also doesn't count the two cops Davros's men killed in the first hour, and they don't know about Jim and Maggie yet. Rather than correcting Cole's math, Davros just takes this all in from the back of the room, polite but dead-eyed, as Cole concludes. "History is happening upstairs, people. And it's on our watch." It's 6:27:07. Which is apparently the ideal time of day to make dorkily earnest pronouncements.
6:31:25. At the U.N., the two presidents are in conference when they're interrupted by someone passing a note to Ethan, who passes it to Taylor. After Taylor rudely stops what she was saying to read it and Hassan realizes they're done talking for a minute, Taylor covers her microphone and says "my counterterrorism director in New York" is asking to talk to Hassan about Meredith Reed. Farhad comes over all shifty, and after a moment's hesitation, Hassan gets up to follow Weiss to a conference room at 6:32:22. The Hassan brothers hang back a bit so Farhad can remind his brother to deny the affair with Reed (ostensibly to protect Hassan, but really so Farhad can continue to operate as Davros's inside man while CTU is distracted with Reed). Now they're in the conference room, and Weiss hands Hassan the phone and leaves the two of them alone in there.
On the other end of the line, Hastings beckons Chloe into his office as he introduces himself over the phone to Hassan. Hastings wastes little time asking Hassan why Meredith Reed has a key card to his residence at the U.N. "She claims that she got it from you and that her relationship with you is perhaps more than professional." Hassan cuts a look at Farhad and asks if there is anyone listening in or the call is being recorded. Hastings assures him in the negative, and Hassan clearly says, "Then I will tell you what Ms. Reed said is true." Farhad hisses, "Omar! What are you doing?" Hassan says that he's trusting in Hastings' discretion, which I'm not sure he would do if he knew Hastings better. But maybe I'm being unfair. Yes, in the two and a half hours we've known Hastings, he's proven to be a martinet, a weasel, a blame-dodger, and a miser, but I guess there's no reason to assume he's a blabbermouth. Hassan explains, "I'm telling you all this in the interest of justice. Because I'm convinced that Ms. Reed is not part of this conspiracy." Hastings asks if Hassan is basing that on anything other than his naughty bits. "No, I suppose not," Hassan admits, and Hastings lets him go. As soon as Hassan hangs up, an angry Farhad snaps, "Have you any idea what you've done?" "The honorable thing," Hassan says, and heads back to the council chamber. Well, la-di-dah.