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
Down in Jim and Maggie's basement, Kiefer wakes up to find himself handcuffed to a chair and having water thrown in his face by the bald cop, Officer John, while the younger one, Officer Phil, watches from the background. Officer John starts yelling at Kiefer and punching him while the rookie weakly tries to call him off. But the veteran is on some kick about the failures of the criminal justice system. "What I can't do is watch another creep like this walk on a technicality. Or because some lawyer didn't file the right papers to the right clerk." Or because some vigilante sadist with a badge tied him to a chair and beat the crap out of him? Not that Kiefer doesn't kind of have this coming, mind you. Officer Phil reminds Officer John about what Kiefer said about working with CTU, but since Kiefer's not carrying credentials, he's out of luck. And he's not bothering to speak a word in his own defense. One wonders what Officer John would think if he knew his suspect had been tortured by the Chinese government for almost two years and never said a word. Think he'd step up his game? Eventually Officer John gets tired of arguing with Officer Phil and sends him to wait upstairs until he's finished. "Just don't kill him," Phil says. What a hero.
Down at the U.N., Davros climbs off his police motorcycle and removes his helmet as another cop greets him as "Farmer" and asks what he's doing there. At 6:26:03, Davros gives the story about filling in for a sick officer. "Probably a few to many at lunch," he smirks. And a few too many bullets in the brain at dinner. They enter a room where Cole is currently conducting a briefing of NYPD cops, none of whom seem to mind being lectured by some puke from CTU. He says the perimeter is being pushed out another six blocks and the Queensboro Bridge will be closed until mid-April (or, as he puts it, "noon tomorrow"). Cole informs them that CTU has made an arrest, but they're still after the main guy. "He's already killed five people that we know of, including two CTU agents." I guess the third would be Victor, and then his two compatriots who were already dead at the start of the season, which shouldn't even count. Of course that also doesn't count the two cops Davros's men killed in the first hour, and they don't know about Jim and Maggie yet. Rather than correcting Cole's math, Davros just takes this all in from the back of the room, polite but dead-eyed, as Cole concludes. "History is happening upstairs, people. And it's on our watch." It's 6:27:07. Which is apparently the ideal time of day to make dorkily earnest pronouncements.