Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Do You Have the Stomach For It?
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.10.2010
Somewhere behind the scenes of the store, Reed asks Kiefer who he just shot. "Russian operatives," Kiefer says as they met up with Jim, who is holding Tokarev at gunpoint. Jim hands Kiefer the rifle case he confiscated from Tokarev and drags the assassin along behind. The four of them head through a service hallway at 12:36:25. You'd think Tokarev would be trying a leeeetle harder to make a break for it about now.
12:40:43. Logan, that complete asshole, is in his office picking out a tie for his TV appearance, which is both hilarious and enraging in its total dickishness. He's excited to get a call from Jason, assuming it's going to be good news, until Jason has to report that it's quite the opposite: "All of Pavel's team is dead and Bauer has Pavel." He adds that Kiefer was several moves ahead of them, and used keywords on purpose to trick Echelon. "He played us, sir. He knew we'd use off-book resources to deal with him. He used that journalist to draw them out." And he came up with the whole plan in, like, five seconds. It gets worse; Tokarev knows everything, so if he talks to Kiefer they're fucked. So what's the good news? Jason says, "At the moment, sir, you still have complete deniability. President Taylor made all the decisions." At Logan's urging, but never mind that. "I think the time has come for you to distance yourself from this mess." You know, the one he made. Logan gapes like a fish, and it's obvious he's not about to follow Jason's advice, but his reasons are not human ones like you and I would use. Instead, he says, "Twenty minutes from now, the president's press secretary is going to make an announcement. She will say I've become part of the president's team, and I've been indispensable in bringing this peace process to a successful close." Yeah, that's going to turn out awesome. "Do I just slink away?" Logan demands. Jason claims this isn't Logan's fault; "There were circumstances we couldn't have anticipated, namely Bauer." How can anyone not anticipate Bauer on this show? "Then we find Bauer and we neutralize him," Logan says, like it's just that easy and like they haven't been trying to do that for more time than they have left at this point. Logan says, "Pavel is a good soldier. He won't talk, whatever Bauer does to him." Logan's got a lot of confidence in a guy he just met an hour ago. He reminds Jason him why he's at CTU: "They have huge resources. You have intelligence and tenacity. You use those capabilities. Find Bauer." Jason says he's on it. "Good!" Logan all but yells. "Keep me posted." Yes, I'm sure it will be nothing but good news from here on out.