Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | 215 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT A Terrorist Walks into a Bar[ometric Pressure Chamber]
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2010.03.01
As CTU monitors their progress on the big screen, the CTU convoy pulls into the hospital entrance. So much for an attack en route. The ambulance slowly backs into place at 1:42:04 while other CTU agents take up position. Meanwhile, back at base, Hastings tells Chloe to pull up the hospital's surveillance system and start running the facial recognition. Apparently the hospital has no objection to being used as a giant mousetrap for terrorists, or to armed CTU agents swarming through its hallways. Health care reform is even more urgent than I thought. While Chloe gets busy violating any number of HIPAA regulations, Kiefer calls in to report, "Farhad's body's being taken to his room." Farhad's body? Better hope no one's listening, blabbermouth. The facial recognition process seems to involve Chloe focusing on individual faces of people walking through the crowded halls, and then waiting several seconds while the software looks for a match from the intelligence files Hassan had sent over. For each person Chloe checks. Yikes, this could take a while. CTU should probably have someone on duty who knows some tricks for speeding up facial recognition, don't you think? Hastings tells Chloe to check the exterior cameras.
Lucky thing, too, because right now Marcos is pulling in and parking. Before getting out of his car, he gets a little black box with a big red button out of his pocket and lights it up. Then he unzips the jacket he's wearing over a set of medical scrubs, just to make sure the explosive vest he's wearing under it is still in place, I guess. And then he zips up again and gets out of the car. I'm beginning to suspect that he's not actually planning to meet his mom at Aunt Shelly's place.