Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Girl Troubles
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 5 | Aired on 01.25.2010
Meanwhile, in the car outside, Kiefer gets a phone call from Chloe. She just found out that Ziya has a probation officer, and is wondering what Kiefer wants to do about that. Kiefer tells her it's all covered. Chloe wonders how they're dealing with Ziya's bracelet without triggering the alarm. "Trust me, it's been taken care of," Kiefer says grimly, but won't tell Chloe any more than "Renee got the result she wanted. Ziya's taking her to Vladimir." Chloe seems to accept that and says that Dana's working on his cover ID. She says she'll call when it's ready, as Kiefer pulls out to follow Ziya's truck down the road. Which should be easy; to avoid being spotted, he can hang back a safe distance and just follow the trail of Ziya's body parts Walker will certainly be leaving as they go.
At 8:09:22, Chloe goes over to Dana's desk to check on her progress with the cover ID. Dana says she's almost finished, but Chloe keeps hovering over Dana's shoulder as her cell phone rings with a call from home, wondering if Dana shouldn't get that. Dana does, and Chloe still keeps hovering until Dana dismisses her with a hint that even Chloe can't miss. Dana tells Kevin -- for of course it is he who is calling -- that she told him not to call her. He's being as obedient and non-creepy as always. Dana says she'll see him when her shift ends in the morning, but Kevin's not okay with that, and gives her fifteen minutes to get home. But when she balks, he gives her thirty. "Who said I can't be reasonable?" he asks reasonably. But because he has to keep reminding her how things work between them now, he gives her a little preview of what he might say to Dana's boyfriend if he has to call him: "Hey, pal, congratulations on the engagement! By the way, her name is not Dana Walsh. It's Jenny Scott. And did I mention that she's an ex-con? No, nothing too serious. Just an accessory to murder's all." Whatever, like CTU hasn't employed worse. In fact, she's right in the middle of the bell curve, if you ask me. But thirty minutes it is.
Dana goes over to Arlo to ask him something. He creepily acts like she's asking him out. She's too stressed to even kick him in the goolies and simply says she has to go home for a bit. When he points out that it's not a great time, she promises it won't be long, but she needs him to cover for her by finishing up the profiles for Walker and Kiefer and sending them to Chloe as soon as he's done. And he's going to do that with what, aerial drones? I can't believe she can just hand this off like this, but as she leaves, she says she owes him one. "One what?" he asks creepily. How about one kick in the goolies? She casts a guilty glance at Cole, who is talking to someone else, and manages to sneak out without him seeing her. It's 8:11:42.
It's 8:15:54 at the U.N. President Taylor's Chief of Staff, Rob Weiss, joins her in a conference room just as she's finishing up a phone call with some prime minister of something. She happily tells Rob that of the twelve heads of state she's talked to, they're all still planning to show up tomorrow for the signing ceremony. Rob says he has less good news, which is how it's not until now that Taylor learns about CTU's suspicion that Farhad is buying weapons-grade uranium from a Russian mob. "It's what we've been afraid of since the Wall came down," says Ethan, who wandered back in after being missing for the entire last hour. Really? Then why did they let Farhad in here in the first place? Oh, I guess he's speaking more generally. Ethan wonders if Hassan knows about this, and Rob tells him Hassan was the one who alerted them. Ethan says that helps explain why Hassan's security forces are running amok back in Kamistan. It's effectively martial law over there now. "Who can blame him?" Rob mutters, realizing that Farhad couldn't have been acting alone. Ethan and Taylor, however, point out that it looks bad for Hassan to be breaking his own laws and running roughshod over human rights, to the point where it threatens the credibility of the peace process. Rob says Hassan will be back in ten minutes, and Taylor says she wants to talk to him alone when he arrives. Sounds like someone's about to get a spanking.
In the shotgun seat of his own truck, Ziya right-thumbs the cap off a bottle and takes a few swigs, until Walker lectures that she needs his wits about him. He does seem quite calm now, considering he's only been an amputee for under twenty minutes. With Kiefer still listening in from the car behind, Ziya says, "I'm surprise you take deal to him again. After what he did to you?" Walker just asks how much further. Ziya talks about how Walker doesn't want to talk about Vladimir, and talks and talks and talks about it, until she repeats the question, louder. "Ten minute," he says. "Touchy, touchy." But at least now she isn't telling him to lay off the booze. How awesome would it be if they got pulled over and busted for an open container violation right now? That would put rather a crimp in Walker's little plan.