Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 77 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Fished In
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2010.01.14
And at 6:44:52, here comes the man himself, blowing off Reed's lawyer over the phone. Dana uses her handheld device to mess around with the graphics on the screen, which she says shows recent construction work on the U.N. building -- namely a couple of new I-beams to hold up some new interpreters' booths. Right under the Council Chamber, in fact. And here comes Arlo's part of the file, which looks like a bomb attached to a cell phone. "Modified to fit between the I-beams," Arlo observes. "Sir, judging by the size, that's big enough to drop the entire Security Council into the East River." Hastings calls a red alert and demands to be put in touch with Cole and the U.N. security guy from last hour, whose name turns out to be Manners. And he orders a full evacuation. From his elbow, where she planted herself right at the start of all this excitement, Chloe insists he think about whether the intel is fake. Hastings says he's not taking any chances, and by now Dana has Cole and Manners on the phone for him. Hastings tells them both over Cole's speakerphone that there's a bomb in the building. Cole also has his doubts, considering how thoroughly the building has been vetted and searched. Hastings insists Manners start the evacuation, and that Cole be personally responsible for Hassan. They both move to comply, and other guards begin to accrete to what will rapidly become a growing mass of them. It's already a pretty big group that bursts into the Council Chamber so Manners can announce that it's evac time. He tells them to head to underground parking, and "please speak only with your designated handlers." Cole tells Taylor and Ethan to get themselves out and leads Hassan and his brother (and Hassan's own bodyguards) out of the Council Chamber to the elevators. As he does so, he's on his earpiece to NYPD traffic control out on the street. In position among them is Davros, sitting on his NYPD motorcycle and confirming that he's standing by. He takes out a cell phone and enters a code which causes the display to read "device armed." That certainly won't be suspicious if anyone finds it on him. He looks up the street to a manhole cover half a block away. An electronic device is attached to its underside, blinking red and attached to a few blocks of C-4. It's 6:47:44.
At 6:52:02, the underground parking garage is, unlike most underground parking garages on TV, quite the hive of activity, with armed security guys leading the various dignitaries to their various vehicles. The Presidential party jumps into a big limo. Meanwhile, Cole leads the brothers Hassan to their own transport as Omar remembers to ask where his wife and daughter are. His bodyguard says they're on their way down a stairwell, less than two minutes behind. Hassan doesn't want to leave without them, but Cole insists. Farhad offers to wait for them and make sure they get out okay. Oh, good, I was wondering how Davros was going to blow up just one of the Hassan brothers if they were leaving together, so this clears that up. Hassan goes on ahead in a car that's part of a whole motorcade, and Cole sprints to his own car and pulls out of a parking spot to fall in behind them. Somehow, during all this, Farhad is able to go off by himself to make a cell phone call to Davros. "He's in the third car. Motorcade's coming up the ramps now." Davros hangs up and on his police radio hears confirmation that the cars are heading up the ramp and should be visible in five minutes. How big a ramp is this? Farhad goes back over to meet his niece and sister-in-law, who are kind of stressed out, but he hurries them into a car with him at 6:54:02.