Episode Report Card M. Giant: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Thrilling Bureaucratic Intrigue!
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 16 | Aired on 04.02.2006
Evelyn's cell phone rings, and it's Henderson, telling her to open all the doors and the rear hatch of her car. She complies at 10:56:22. Satisfied, Henderson tells her to go to the front of the car and drop the keys on the ground. She obeys. "Bravo, hold your position," Henderson says. "I'm coming out." Don't worry, Henderson, Kiefer isn't going anywhere. Henderson steps out into the open, leading Amy by the hand and flanked by two henchmen. Kiefer reports this development to CTU. Henderson demands the evidence, Evelyn demands her daughter, and Henderson sends the little girl running to her mom. Through Kiefer's scope, we see four henchmen surrounding Henderson in a box formation, and Evelyn is still standing up and holding her daughter. "Get down," Kiefer wills her impatiently, while Henderson is just as impatiently asking for the evidence, failing to recognize Evelyn's slowness as sign number six. Henderson tells Bravo to check in. But before Kiefer has to respond, Evelyn suddenly remembers her part in the plan, and she drags her daughter to the ground, shielding her with her body. "Now," Kiefer says, and starts shooting. Two of the guys near Henderson go down instantly, and the other two don't get much return fire off before Wayne pops out of the bushes and takes one of them down as well. He's a bit sloppy, though, so as one of the bad guys dies, he squeezes the trigger on his machine gun, sending bullets thudding into the ground right next to where Evelyn and her daughter are crouched. Great plan, Kiefer.
Meanwhile, Henderson is staying low, grabbing Evelyn's car keys off the ground and hopping into her vehicle. Looks like sign number seven, which is the sight of his guys getting shot right out from under him, is what it takes to get the message through to him. Kiefer calls to Wayne, "I didn't get him. If you've got a shot, take it!" He turns and runs down the ramp he came up a minute ago as the gunfire continues. Staying low in Evelyn's driver's seat, Henderson peels out with most of the door's still open, bouncing his surviving henchman off the hood as he goes. That's the third person who's driven her car this hour who's not Evelyn. Does her insurance agent know about this? What would President Palmer say? ["Something about how The Unit is a shitty show? Oh, wait. That's me who would say that." -- Sars] Kiefer's now on ground level, running after the car and shooting at it while Wayne fires from the side and takes out the driver's side window without hitting Henderson himself. Kiefer earpieces to Chloe that Henderson is escaping in the EvelynMobile, and that she needs to redirect the satellite to track him. Chloe says she'll try. Kiefer runs back to where Wayne has joined Evelyn and Amy, and has discovered that Evelyn took a bullet in the leg. Kiefer runs to investigate, and it's splitscreen time.
The takeover of CTU continues, with Hayes witnessing the proceedings literally from on high. Audrey and Chloe are still hunched over their computer, looking worried. And that's the whole split-screen, really.