Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Two Can Play at That Game
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 1 | Aired on 01.11.2009
And suddenly there's a shattering of glass and two bullet holes blossom in Schechter's chest. I admit it, I jumped. I should have known better. I guess I'm a little rusty. But the same could be said of Kiefer. He and Walker draw their weapons and dive for cover behind the window supports while a rooftop sniper across the street reloads and shoots Ari. Kiefer asks if Walker's all right, dares a look out the window, and sees a figure fleeing along the railing atop the neighboring building. "Tell your men they've got a shooter on top of the Columbia building heading south," Kiefer yells at Walker. Walker barks into her walkie-talkie, and we see a large number of plainclothes agents and guys in FBI windbreakers at street level begin to swarm across the street. Hopefully they can put up a better perimeter than CTU ever could.
Suddenly Schechter's cordless phone rings, and for some reason Kiefer answers it. "Get away from this, Jack," says Tony's voice. "There's nothing you or the FBI can do about this. Just stay away." Kiefer begs Tony to talk to him, but his old friend has already hung up. Well, at least now Kiefer will back off, right?
In the final splitscreen, Kiefer and Walker stare significantly at each other, Tony glowers, Henry Taylor rides in the back of a Secret Service limo, and Taylor is closing down the Sit Room with Ethan and Stevens. At the FBI, Moss asks about what's going on at Schechter's office. Sean just says they haven't checked in yet.
It's 8:58:12 as we rejoin Global Air/Skies 117, beginning their descent into what they think will be JFK. But after the controller gives them their instructions, his headset goes dead. He reports the problem to his supervisor, who stands slack-jawed for a moment before ordering, "Call back the FBI! Tell them we have a 767 on approach to JFK no longer under our control." The controller continues trying to raise the cockpit, without success.
The pilots of GSA 117 are unaware that anything is amiss, because they think they're talking to a legit controller. They are in fact talking to Tony Almeida, impersonating a controller as he sends them into their descent. After taking off his headset, Tony tells Masters, "Get ready to make the course change." Masters seems surprised. "We're really taking this all the way?" he asks. Tony responds, "You just need to do exactly what I tell you to do." It's 9:00:00. Oh, man, how long are we going to have to wait to find out what happens next?