Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Edgar, Dead! Grr.
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 12 | Aired on 03.05.2006
It's Edgar, calling from the ventilation room and asking what's going on. "Get out of the building, now!" Chloe snaps and hangs up. Not forgetting what he came for in the first place, Edgar calls out to Carrie, but all he finds is her corpse. Making sure she's dead (by which I don't mean that he shoots her), he turns and runs out of the room. Too bad he didn't see what Carrie saw, which is the missing fan grate. Which is even more conspicuous now that the gas canister is sitting there. As we watch, at 6:57:32, it gives a sinister little hum and the top opens up. Gas starts pouring out, where the fan whips it directly into the ventilation system. That can't be good.
Audrey leads Spawn and Barry towards the exits. And finally, we find a use for all these glass walls, because before they go through the door into the hallway, they see that the people outside in the hallways are already dying. Audrey realizes they can't get out that way, and runs with them back to Chloe's desk at the middle of the floor. Apparently the air ducts go from the outside in, which means the place where they are now is going to be safe the longest. Buchanan tells Chloe to auto-lock the outer doors, and asks her what rooms they can seal off. She yells that she's working on it. Kiefer runs in, telling Burke over his cell phone that they can't leave with Henderson yet, and then asks Chloe the same question Buchanan just asks. "Hold on!" she wails. Another second of tapping tells her that they can lock down "the Situation Room, the upper offices, and Clinic Isolation." Kiefer herds everyone towards the Sit Room, except for Buchanan, who announces, "I'll access comm from my office!" Nobody cares. Kiefer gets back on his phone to Burke and tells him to move Henderson to Isolation and "seal it off for bio." Hey, don't forget Tony! Wait, what am I saying? Tony will probably be fine if he can just get a hold of a filtered cigarette to breathe through. A woman collapses against the outer wall to the main floor, her hands squeaking against the glass as they slide down. Kiefer's the last one out on the floor, and he herds one last extra into the Sit Room before joining everyone inside. "Chloe, seal it. Seal all the rooms." I'm not too impressed by that one-inch gap between the double glass doors to the Situation Room, but the rubberized seal that comes down from the ceiling when Chloe enters a command on her laptop is rather reassuring. And then metal shutters roll down, covering the glass walls along the side of the room. The glass door is still uncovered, though, as a desperate but slow woman fetches up against them and begs for admittance. Barry tells Kiefer to let her in, but Kiefer tells her, "We can't break the seal. You have to find another exit out of the building. Hurry! Go!" She runs off like she's not dead already. Chloe confirms that the rest of the designated rooms are sealed.