Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Plot Quickens
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 11 | Aired on 03.05.2006
Logan's now inside the building at Not Camp David, and he's got his "determined" face on as he stomps towards his wife's suite. I think it's 5:22:33, but I can't tell for sure because on the day this was aired, Kirby Puckett died, which in this town is like the Pope and an ex-president combined, and the clock on my Fox affiliate's broadcast is obscured by a crawl that's been repeating the news all hour. Logan tries to charge right through the door, but he's cut off by Evelyn, who tells him that FLOTUS has ordered her to admit no one, and Logan in particular. Logan backs down. And yet FLOTUS expected him to stand up to terrorists, when he can't even impose his will on a minor underling? Once the prez is gone, FLOTUS thanks Evelyn and instructs her to find Aaron. "Tell him I'd like to see him," she says. Ooh, I just bet she would.
Edgar's managed to find a match for the building whose schematic Curtis found on the dead terrorist. Chloe comes over to confirm it. That sound you hear when she tells Edgar, "You're right," is fourteen million pitchers of beer being chugged nationwide. She calls over to Buchanan, and they quickly inform him that the building in question is the fictional Tyler Memorial Hospital in Westwood, as opposed to the real one in Pennsylvania. Buchanan tells them to send Curtis over there with a tactical team, and picks up a phone to call the hospital.
But one of Bierko's guys -- the very same one who was tinkering with the canister in the bunker, in fact -- is already there, in a maintenance closet, standing over the body of the orderly whose uniform he's apparently just stolen. The terrorist takes a nerve gas canister out of a backpack and puts it into the storage compartment in the bottom of an empty gurney. And then he wheels the gurney out into the busy hallway, completely unnoticed in his medical camouflage. It's 5:24:36.
Commercials would normally go here, but my local Fox affiliate's news team would like to inform me that Kirby Puckett is still dead.
5:29:02. Kiefer's on foot in Henderson's neighborhood. And look, the man-purse is back! I haven't seen that thing since he handed it over to the Secret Service at Not Camp David five hours ago. I was beginning to think they'd never given it back. How it ended up in Curtis's car, however, will remain a mystery for now. Sotto voce, he calls in to CTU on his hands-free cell phone, thinking he's just giving an update on his progress. But Audrey quickly steals his thunder by loudly informing him that there's going to be an attack at Tyler Memorial within the hour. Kiefer copies that, but he's still got his own thing to work on, so he continues narrating his approach to Chez Henderson. He uses his knife to lift the latch to the back gate and finds himself in Henderson's back yard, which is almost as big as his secretary's office. Staying close to the fence, Kiefer peers towards the kitchen window and spots Henderson's wife, Miriam. This somehow tells Kiefer that Henderson isn't here, I guess because Henderson is always making sweet love on his wife every moment he's home. Kiefer signs off, saying he'll call back as soon as he accesses Henderson's computer.