Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Crushed Velvet
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 1 | Aired on January 13, 2007
While on the way back to CTU with Curtis, Buchanan calls Nadia at CTU to make sure the military helicopters are ready to strike. She says that they can hit any location in Los Angeles within twenty minutes. How comforting. Sounds like Tom beat Karen handily in a previous debate about posse comitatus. Buchanan says that they can't afford any mistakes, since Kiefer's giving his life and all. He also tells her to patch his phone in if Fayed calls in before Buchanan gets back. Nadia agrees, and confesses that she spilled everything about this whole situation to Chloe. Buchanan's not mad; he just says he'll talk to Chloe when he gets back. Surprisingly, he does not then tell Curtis to drive slower.
At 6:41:22, Morris cheerily bops over to Chloe's desk and scootches her over so that he can use her computer to "try to get a visual on Jack." Chloe reminds him that Fayed is monitoring everything, but Morris just happens to know about a satellite that's off the grid. Why? Because he once helped an Uzbek energy company with an illegal aerial survey of L.A. in exchange for some cash. Once again, CTU's background checking procedures prove to be just really, really stellar. Morris pulls up a screen he can use to redirect the satellite in question, quietly rejoicing, "The little bird, she's still flying, she's still flying!" Chloe is more than a little uncertain about all this, but Morris just tells her to thank him later. Hey, Morris? It's going to be much, much later.
Kiefer's still standing at the fence where Buchanan cuffed him, near the mouth of a short tunnel. Fayed's red van drives into this tunnel from the far end and parks inside, out of view of any nosy, satellite-hijacking Brits. Fayed gets out of the car and watches as his two henchmen rush up and free Kiefer from his handcuffs. Handy that they had the key. Or maybe Fayed just wants to keep his bolt-cutters nice and sharp for what's coming later. The henchmen lead Kiefer over to face Fayed, who tells him, "I've been waiting for this for a long time." Kiefer just looks back at him without expression, until he's hustled back to the van, knocked unconscious with a punch to the side of the head, and dumped into the vehicle. Just then, Fayed's cell phone rings. It's his tech support guy back at headquarters, with the news that Fayed should stay where he is for now because the area he's in is being scanned by a privately owned satellite. Fayed's not convinced of the danger, until the henchman tells him that the satellite is transmitting its signal on a government frequency. "Connect me to CTU," Fayed orders angrily.