Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Kill Bi-- Never Mind, He'll Do It Himself
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 13 | Aired on 03.09.2009
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At 8:40:32, a bald guy who I assume is Chapman is in Hodges's office, getting all John King with a touch-screen map of the East Coast and talking about the twelve targets they've narrowed down. Those "targets" look suspiciously like cities. "They're all within three hundred kilometers of the base," he adds, which according to the map appears to be right there in Washington D.C. They talk casualty estimates and potential kill ratios, until Hodges says, "Let's hope we never have to find out." Okay, so maybe he's not so evil after all. He gives the order to start having the coordinates programmed in, and Chapman leaves. At the same time, Seaton enters to report that according to a flash they just intercepted, Kiefer's about to go question Burnett at the hospital, thanks to an executive order from the White House. Taylor's not going to be happy that she's learning about this executive order after the bad guys did. "Burnett will tell him everything," Hodges says. Seaton says he's got it covered: he's sent someone to take care of Burnett and Kiefer at the same time. "Who'd you send?" Hodges asks. "Quentin," Seaton says. "Oh, Quentin's good," Hodges says. "Bauer's good, too." He seems to relish the idea of a match-up. Too bad he can't buy tickets.
At 8:41:43, a federal marshal ushers Moss and Kiefer into the area of the hospital that contains Burnett's room, telling him security is super-tight (as we'll soon see) and that Burnett's room has been set up with video and audio surveillance. As he leads them around to the little surveillance setup behind the nurses' station, the marshal says that it's going to take a while to get Burnett awake from his sedative. "He was in pretty bad shape when he got here." Gosh, how did that happen? Burnett's doctor shows up, and Kiefer looks at him with something like remorse (or possibly indigestion), until the doctor says, "He's still recovering from his last interrogation, so if you're here to brutalize him again, I won't be party to it." Kiefer gets grumpy, starting his big speech about what the "patient" was up to that landed him here in the first place (leaving off item number one, which was pissing off Kiefer), but Moss interrupts him by saying, "We won't harm him, doctor." Fortunately, Kiefer remembers to keep his trap shut. That wins the doc over, and he walks off, saying it's going to be a couple of minutes. Kiefer and Moss return their attention to the surveillance screens, which show the doctor entering and walking around Burnett's bed. What a startlingly effective demonstration of the concept of live video surveillance. It's like magic.