Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Veep Is A Creep
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.25.2007
The GredenkoMobile is tooling along an empty street at 8:31:20 when Gredenko's phone rings. Mark manages not to sound all shot up as he explains that he has what Gredenko needs, but that he's been called in to work. And if he doesn't show up at his office in ten minutes, the protocols will be changed, and they'll have to download them all over again. Gredenko isn't too hot on the idea of picking the goods up from Brady (whose name and condition he seems to know off the top of his head), but since he doesn't have time to wait, he tells Mark to have Brady meet him at the parking lot across the street. How many times have Mark and Brady had Gredenko over, anyway? Mark finishes the call, relays the meeting place to Kiefer, and gets wheeled off to the hospital. Brady stresses some more, but Kiefer cools him down with a promise to take care of him, and an urgent request to listen. Brady agrees, because he doesn't yet know that Kiefer tells everyone to listen to him.
CTU. At 8:32:42, Johnson walks up to Milo and reintroduces himself. Apparently, they met in Denver as well. Milo gives a left-handed handshake like he's been wearing that sling for weeks instead of hours. Johnson says he's heard that Milo's friends with Nadia; that gets Milo's attention in a hurry. He tells Milo what he found at the switching station (that is, proof that Nadia's innocent). Milo asks where the proof is now. "Ask Doyle," says Johnson, acting the reluctant snitch as he says that he gave Doyle the evidence and it still hasn't been logged in. As expected, Milo loses it. Seeing Doyle and Buchanan coming out of the Situation Room together, Milo struggles out of his sling and heads over there meaning to do some one-handed violence. Fortunately for Doyle, Buchanan and a CTU security guard put a rapid end to the sad little slap fight. Milo accuses that Doyle has evidence of Nadia's innocence. Stunned, Buchanan asks Doyle if it's true. "Yeah," Doyle admits. Milo accuses Doyle of burying it to cover his own ass. Right then, Morris comes running over with the chip in an evidence bag, calling Milo off by saying that Doyle gave it to him ten minutes ago. Which makes sense, I guess, since Morris is probably Doyle's best friend now. Buchanan wonders why Doyle didn't mention this earlier. Doyle says it was from an "unreliable source": "I wanted to make sure it was real before I submitted it for evidence." Morris confirms that it is indeed real, and that Nadia is innocent. Buchanan promises to release Nadia after confirming this, and he and Morris take off, leaving a very embarrassed Milo facing Doyle alone. As for Johnson, he's just standing in the middle of the floor where Milo left him, blankly watching what he's wrought. He doesn't seem remotely embarrassed or worried, and isn't even trying to look inconspicuous. Milo chokes out an apology to Doyle. Doyle is surprisingly menschy about it, saying that it wasn't Milo's fault. He even claps him on the shoulder and tells him to forget about it. You can tell he's sincere because he claps Milo's good shoulder instead of the one that took a bullet five hours ago. And then Doyle walks right over into Johnson's face and growls, "You have screwed with the wrong guy for the last time, pal." Johnson smirks inscrutably. I'm very confused about his goals and motivations at first, but then I decide he's just one of those people who like to stir shit up for no reason. Which is a kind of progress on this show, because characters like this used to be called "women." It's 8:34:35.