Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT There's No "I" in Kiefer -- Oh, Wait.
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 2 | Aired on 01.14.2006
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8:32:54. Some longhair packs explosives into a truck, Kiefer hacks, Palmer's still dead, and Chloe is monitoring her screen. Wherever the longhair is, there are a bunch of other guys taking machine guns out of a crate. A guy's cell phone rings nearby, and he answers it. The guy with the phone is another nameless bald guy, and his caller is none other than The Man. The Man says that Bald Guy 2.0 and his guys should be on their way already, but Bald Guy 2.0 assures his boss that they'll get to where they're going right on schedule. "Call me when you're approaching," says The Man, and hangs up.
In Wayne's study, he and Kiefer have found a discrepancy between the printout and the document on the screen. Wayne has spotted a name and an address inserted in the middle of a sentence. Kiefer reads off "Chevensky - 16 Transport Way" to Chloe. She quickly determines that Transport Way is a street at Ontario Airport. Now, when I saw this, I hadn't ever heard of L.A.'s Ontario Airport, and I was like, "This show wants us to believe that there's only one airport in the entire province of Ontario?" Which would have been grounds for revocation of Kiefer Sutherland's Canadian citizenship, but the mistake was mine. Kiefer tells Chloe to check incoming flights for a passenger named Chevensky. Before she can do that, though, she notices that a lot of agents are suddenly moving into the building. Kiefer realizes that means he's busted, so he puts on his aviator shades to sneak out undetected. Wayne offers to help him get out, but Kiefer declines, saying Wayne can't risk it. He also tells Wayne to keep their clue a secret until they know whom they can trust, and Wayne agrees. With a last promise to find Palmer's real killer, Kiefer leaves the room.
Out in the hallway, Kiefer looks towards the living room and sees a bunch of agents milling around, every one of them holding a copy of a screen-grab of his face from the security camera footage. Why do I have to be so goddamn handsome?, he wonders. Chloe quickly finds him an alternate exit through the kitchen, and he only has to punch out one guy to get out of the apartment. Out in the hallway, he lurks in an alcove while two uniformed cops step out of the elevator, admiring their own Kiefer headshots. Did the Secret Service commandeer a Kinko's? "Good thing he's so goddamn handsome," the cops mutter inaudibly to each other. Kiefer darts unseen into the elevator and asks where the agents are most heavily concentrated. Right then, Chloe's schematic goes dark, as someone has cut off her access to the deployment grid. She does know that the agents were gathering in the lobby a second ago. Kiefer bails out of the elevator on the second floor and heads down the stairs at a dead run. He meets a guy in a suit at the third floor landing, and quickly delivers an efficient beatdown before going on his way. I hope that guy wasn't just the concierge or something.