Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Spy vs. Spy
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.19.2006
Theo drives along, telling someone at his office that he's about to upload something very valuable. Without pulling over, he pops the memory card with the WET list into his PDA. I don't know when he got the card back from Kiefer, but here it is, and he sets the PDA down on the shotgun seat to send off the file. But all that's coming out of that memory card now is a shower of sparks and smoke. The PDA screen goes blank, and Theo looks pissed. Kiefer, you sneaky bastard. Just then, Theo's phone rings. It's Kiefer, calling to apologize for screwing him. Well, at least he's timely. But I hope he doesn't think this gets him out of sending a nice card. Kiefer tells Theo, "When this is over, I promise you, I will help you rebuild your investigation. I give you my word." But who's going to help Theo rebuild his PDA? "I had your word," Theo says. "Now I know what it's worth." Disgustedly, he hangs up and throws his phone down. Kiefer closes his own phone, looking a lot more guilty about screwing over a fellow spy than he ever did about torturing an innocent person. It's 8:49:52.
8:54:14. Collette is handcuffed to the luggage cage inside the hangar that CTU has commandeered as its command post. They've been busy during the commercial break; they've learned that her computer is clean. (I said "busy," not "productive.") So since they aren't going to learn anything digitally, Kiefer decides to talk to Collette himself. She asks who Theo is for real, and Kiefer tells her, "German Intelligence." He doesn't mention that Theo isn't feeling so intelligent right about now. Neither is she, of course. She feels sorry for herself about Theo for a minute, until Kiefer gets right in her face and says, faux-patiently, "Bierko." She asks for a minute alone with Kiefer, who tells Curtis it's all right. For the second time this hour, Curtis leaves with his men, wondering why he always has to miss all the cool stuff.
Once they're alone, Collette asks Kiefer his price. "I'm not for sale," he boasts, but she says that everyone has a price. Kiefer doesn't have time for her crap, and asks what she wants. The answer, as it always is in these situations: immunity. The specifics this time: wants an agreement signed by the President and faxed to her lawyers in Zurich and Tripoli, who apparently get up very early. "But I can't tell you where Bierko is," she warns. "He's already gone." Kiefer asks what she sold to Bierko, and she claims not to know, nor does she want to know. All she can tell him is that she got the encrypted schematics from a source. "That source can tell you what they mean," she says. "Give me immunity and I'll give you my source." "You haven't offered us very much," Kiefer sneers, but he says that he'll see what he can do. He steps away to make a call on his cell phone at 8:56:32.