Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT How To Disarm A Terrorist
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 16 | Aired on 04.01.2007
At 9:43:37, Gredenko emerges from the back of the CTU vehicle, which won't look at all suspicious if Fayed is watching, because what are the chances he'll remember that Gredenko left in a silver Range Rover instead of a black SWAT van? As Gredenko walks toward the pier, Chloe reports that they have a good signal from Gredenko's audio transmitter, and Milo adds that the tracker isotope in Gredenko's arm is working as well. Gredenko wanders alone onto the empty pier, checking his watch as he goes. He hears a random cell phone ringing, and follows the sound to where the phone is taped behind a railing. He answers it, but no one's there. Morris's first line of the week is to confirm as much. Gredenko looks at the phone's screen and sees a text message: "Building J." Kiefer reports to CTU that Gredenko's reading a message, and tells everyone to prepare to move as Gredenko heads south and out of Kiefer's line of sight. Milo says that Gredenko's still moving, and Kiefer decides to go in after him.
Gredenko finds his way to a building near the foot of the lit-up but completely abandoned Ferris wheel. I don't know how he or Fayed knew this, and before Kiefer's in sight, two of Fayed's goons appear out of nowhere and bustle Gredenko into the building. At 9:45:45, Fayed steps out of the shadows, quite dramatically for someone Gredenko just saw an hour and a half ago. Gredenko holds up a hand for silence, and unbuttons his jacket so that he can pull out the gigundous transmitter and the three miles of wire stuffed into his inside pocket. He unplugs the wire, holds the transmitter box up to Fayed, and tosses it onto a nearby table. Morris's second and last line of the week is a statement that Gredenko's audio signal is gone on all channels. Looking at Gredenko's locator beacon on the digital map, Milo says that Gredenko has stopped moving. Still walking in Gredenko's footsteps, Kiefer's Spidey-sense tells him they're up to no good, and he breaks into a jog.
Meanwhile, Fayed is pissed at Gredenko for leading the Feds to him. Gredenko says that he didn't have a choice: "But if you listen to me, we'll both get away from here alive." Fayed sends one of his minions outside to guard the door, and then oh, boy, is he listening.
Milo directs Kiefer to Building J, and Kiefer somehow gets inside without running into Fayed's guard. In moments, he's inside the meeting room, his gun drawn. But there's no shooting, because he's the only person in the room. Milo insists that the tracker is right in the room with him. Which can only mean one thing, and the axe and puddle of blood on a workbench confirm it. And yet Kiefer (and therefore we) still have to look at Gredenko's arm and hand lying on the floor. Looks like he left his watch behind and ruined a perfectly good sweater, too. Telling his earpiece about his grisly find, Kiefer tells Ryan to start moving in, and heads out of the building in pursuit. It's not too hard to find Gredenko's trail, since he's bleeding like a one-armed Russian and leaving behind a thick red spoor that says THIS WAY. Way to vanish from sight there, Dmitri.