Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Can You Dig It
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 5 | Aired on 01.19.2009
Gedge reaches the guy who was Roger's evil Secret Service agent in "Redemption," who's now wearing his hair just a bit too long and floppy for active duty. Selecting a knife from Sam's butcher block, Gedge tells the other agent that it's time to bring Sam back home. Apparently the other guy, Agent Vossler, has been tailing Sam for some time, and is even now watching her finish up lunch at a sidewalk café. So she left the office for her secret meeting with Henry and lunch? What kind of securities trader is she, anyway? "Are you sure this is gonna work?" Vossler asks doubtfully. Gedge insists he's got it all figured out: "Mr. Taylor came to her apartment to confront her about Roger, lost his temper and killed her, took his own life. 'Kay?" Which shouldn't be at all awkward for the agent who drove him there off the books. Vossler agrees, hangs up, and gets out of his car. Gedge returns to his helpless charge to apologize. "If only you'd left well enough alone." Henry's spasmed face isn't too expressive right now, but I think we can assume that he's running through a couple of other "if only"s behind that pained rictus. For instance, "if only" Sam had the sense to not leave an apartment key under her mat, in Washington D.C., when she knows she's being watched by highly motivated killers. That's one of my favorite "if only"s ever.
At 12:45:56, Vossler crosses the street to where Sam is just finishing lunch alone. He approaches her, and she remembers him, which only makes sense, since he was her boyfriend's shadow for who knows how long. He claims that Henry sent him, believing she's in danger. He adds that he has orders to put her in protective custody and take her to a safe house immediately, although he's willing to stop by her place to pick up a few things first. Nice touch, that, making her think he's doing her a favor by letting her go to the apartment he actually wants her to go to. Mighty Christian of him. Sam lets him escort her back across the street to his car. It's 12:46:48.
At 12:51:14, the splitscreen is dominated by the grim scene in the back of the van. They're still driving? Are abandoned construction sites really that few and far between? You'd think that the 24-verse would be pretty packed with abandoned construction sites. Otherwise how would all the abandoned warehouses get built?
Back at FBI-DC, Sean approaches Janis to gossip about Howell, the guy from the Attorney General's office, who's still loitering around the office. "He wants to talk to me about what Renee did to Tanner in the hospital," Janis explains. Sean asks what exactly that was, but since Janis wasn't in the room, she doesn't know. "But Howell's claiming she tortured Tanner." Sean doesn't believe it, which I'm choosing to believe says more about Walker than about Sean. Janis tells Sean what she knows, which was that Walker kicked her out, alarms went off, and a minute later Walker had what she needed. Sean tells her it's not her problem, but she admits that she stalled Tanner's lawyers to give Walker time to do whatever it is she did. "Come on, Gold, what were you thinking?" Sean says helpfully. "Do you realize if they prove that Renee tortured him, you're an accessory? And [Moss] is not going to protect you." But Janis has a plan: "Let's just hope that the AG has moved on to something else when this is over." Sounds solid. Or she could hack into the DoJ database and erase the records completely. I'd say she's about two hours from being morally compromised enough to try it. Across the floor, they watch Howell close his cell phone. "I'm getting back to work," Sean announces. Capital idea. Erica hasn't been ogled for a good eight minutes or more.