Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | 215 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT A Terrorist Walks into a Bar[ometric Pressure Chamber]
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2010.03.01
At 1:34:02, Kiefer leads paramedics over to the ambulance to load up Farhad's dead body, which has an oxygen mask on it and everything. Hastings calls Kiefer to report that "the hook has been baited." Assuming the bad guys saw the news report, which I guess Hastings is. And correctly, which is worse. Kiefer says they're most likely to attack while they're en route, when they'll be most vulnerable. Drive slow, then! In fact, try hitting every hospital in the city, leaving a trail like Billy from Family Circus. Hastings says they'll have NYPD and SWAT units all along the way, as well as at the hospital. Kiefer reminds Hastings that they need to take the bad guys alive, and Hastings says that's covered. Kiefer leads Owen over to the ambulance to ride with him, and pauses to ask if he's okay. Owen says he is, but I suspect Cole Ortiz isn't the only CTU agent with wet pants right now. Kiefer assures him they're covered. Owen bravely says, "Fine, Mr. Bauer. Let's do this," and climbs into the ambulance. Looking guilty, Kiefer mutters, "Yeah," and climbs in the ambulance next to him. The convoy heads out, sirens blaring. It's 1:35:16, and Owen can at least take comfort in the fact that the terrorists are highly unlikely to attack during the commercials. Which are apparently six minutes apart now.
At 1:39:34, Tarin and Kayla are totally making out on the bed in one of the splitscreen windows. Not that he has her suit off yet. At the U.N., Rob tells Taylor that the evacuation is ready to start -- the second one tonight, I remind you, so they must be getting good at them -- and asks if he can get her anything. She thanks him, and apologizes for how challenging his first few months have been. Because normally a White House Chief of Staff sits around playing solitaire. Rob leaves as Hassan enters. Hassan has already heard his brother is dead, and asks Taylor to arrange transport back to Kamistan. "Personally, I don't care where his body rots, but my mother will want a proper burial." And while Mrs. Hassan is at it, she can probably arrange for Farhad to finally get that haircut she's been bugging him about. Taylor agrees to Hassan's request, and says it's time to evacuate. Hassan says he's sticking around, since Kayla is missing, having "run off with" his former head of security. Taylor offers her help, but Hassan says his people are on it. Taylor asks him to come with them anyway, for his own safety, but he refuses. "She's somewhere in the city with no idea that a nuclear threat exists. I won't go anywhere until she's been found." That's heroic of him, especially from the point of view of the people who are going to also have to hang around here until he decides to bail. Taylor gives in, and they shake hands before parting company. Neither of them mentions that the last time they evacuated this building, Hassan almost got blown up and came out of the experience with his brain in sideways.