Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | 432 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Jailbreak!
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2009.01.12
Janis comes up to Sean at his terminal and guilt-trips him some more about having covered his tracks for him. "Although I don't know what I'm going to tell Renee," she adds, as though trolling for ideas. Sean is not exactly brimming with gratitude, but that's partly because he's more interested in what his monitor is telling him, which is that there's some kind of bandwidth shortage going on in the office. Is that really a priority right now? Turns out it is, because after checking her own monitor, Janis confirms that it means someone is hacking in to the system. A hacker into the FBI? Who could it be? Oh, that's right, never mind. Sean wonders if that's even possible, as if he's been asleep all morning. "Anything is possible if you know what you're doing," Janis says, which could be a tagline for this show sometimes. It just needs a little tweak: "Anything's possible if you keep things moving too fast for the audience to think about it." She pulls up a screen that tells her the hacker has gotten into their surveillance system. "What are you going to do?" Sean asks her. "Lock them out," says a determined Janis. Sean returns to his own screen. At first I was wondering if they shouldn't tell someone right away, but who are they going to tell? All the other speaking roles in the office are unconscious. As Janis starts typing, a splitscreen shows her and Chloe in a virtual face-off. It's like a wet dream for people who love geek chicks. Now they just need to hope for Chloe and Janis to have a catfight and then make out.
While guiding Tony and Kiefer down an empty hallway, Chloe suddenly sees all of her surveillance monitor screens go dead. "Signal Lost," they all read. Kiefer tells Tony to freeze. Over at Sean's desk, his own snowy security feeds pop back up, thanks to whatever Janis just did. And what he sees on one of these feeds is worth bringing to Janis's attention: Moss and the uniformed guard flat on the floor of the interrogation room where Kiefer and Tony just left them. Janis literally gasps and grabs her phone to send a team to the room, just as the surveillance feed shows a bloody-faced Moss starting to come around. Wait -- no, he's putting his head back down on the floor. That's right, Moss, take a little snooze. You've earned it.