Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Everything Changes
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 11 | Aired on 03.02.2009
In fact, Madame President, Juma is closer than you think. Now that night has fallen over D.C., he's standing on the south bank of the Potomac, gazing across at the Lincoln Memorial, with the Capitol Dome and the ubiquitous Washington Monument further off in the distance. So he's been in the U.S. all along? He must not have expected Dubaku's plan to work at all. A young man in Sangalan fatigues who looks a great deal like Dulé Hill addresses him quietly from behind. Juma comments on the beauty of the view, and asks if the men are ready. The young man says they are and asks Juma, "Have you heard from my father yet?" So I think we can assume that this is the son of Colonel Dubaku that we've heard so much about, even if he looks about the same age as Dubaku's late brother. Juma assures Dubaku, Jr. that his father will be there.
Eh, not so much, because Dubaku is currently in cardiac arrest. Juma gets a cell phone call from that sneaky orderly, who reports that Dubaku is dead. "His son just asked me about him," Juma says. "He must never know about this, or his father's cowardice." The orderly ditches the syringe in a bin and walks out as Juma says their timing has to be just right. It's only his first episode, but he already knows how this show works.
Behind the orderly, Walker comes running down the hall, wide-eyed and straight armed, arriving just in time to see the doctor call Dubaku's time of death as 6:06 p.m. Walker asks him what happened, but he won't have any answers until the autopsy. You think he could expedite that so we could find out what happened before the end of the season?
It's still 6:06:29 as Moss continues holding forth to his troops about the conspiracy they've been uncovering, and finally gets to the part where they get to do something about it: he's assigning team leaders to make arrests at various departments at the same time throughout the district. Unless something else comes up, of course, but what are the chances of that?
Behind Moss, in the conference room, Chloe answers her cell phone to find Kiefer on the other end. He's already riding in Tony's SUV, where he's changed into a shirt and tie that he must have gotten from the Jos A. Bank store on Massachusetts some time in the last eight minutes. He asks Chloe if the names have been distributed to the FBI yet, and when she says they haven't, he informs her that another attack is in the offing, although they don't yet know the target. Right now, Kiefer wants Chloe to take Ryan Burnett off the list. "If the FBI start to move in on him, he'll lawyer up and no one will get the information on time." Kiefer already knows that Burnett and Mayer are at the White House to meet with Taylor. He must have gotten that from Buchanan, since he's currently on his way for a debriefing with him. Which would explain why he's wearing the suit, if not where he got it. "You don't expect to interrogate a suspect in the White House?" Chloe protests. Uh, why wouldn't he?