Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 330 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Thrilling Bureaucratic Intrigue!
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 16 | Aired on 2006.04.03
And then her cell phone rings. "It's them," she says. Wayne dials the ringing phone and gets Kiefer, who says, "Patch me in." Wayne hits some buttons and hands the still-ringing phone to Evelyn, saying, "You ready for this?" Evelyn nods and answers, wondering how this guy knows his way around her phone so well. I'm just wondering how he managed to do all that without driving off the road again.
It is indeed Henderson, who wants to know why it took Evelyn so long to answer. Kiefer manages not to crow, "I knew it!" upon hearing his ex-boss's voice. Evelyn claims she was passing through security on the way out of Not Camp David. In the face of this first sign that he should call the whole thing off, he lets it go, asking, "Are you alone?" She lies that she is, and his next question is, "Why was Wayne Palmer at the retreat?" Evelyn plays dumb, but Henderson isn't impressed: "He was there for a reason, and it wasn't to drop off his résumé." Hee. I'd love to see the objective statement at the top of that document: "Presidency-ending former White House Chief of Staff seeks new, high-ranking position in current administration despite not being related to anyone in it. Special skills include burglary and sweet lovin'." Evelyn insists that she knew nothing about Wayne's presence at Not Camp David, and Henderson eventually lets that go, too. Sign number two, right past the boards. "Did you bring what she discussed?" he asks. Evelyn says she did, and asks to talk to Amy. "Very well," Henderson monotones, then walks the three steps over to where Amy's sitting and kindly says, "All right, sweetheart, this is your mommy. Say hello." Aw, what a sweet kidnapping murdering lying bad-husband traitor. Mother and child have a brief but emotional conversation in their separate splitscreen windows, while a third shows us how hearing this is affecting Kiefer. He's not suppressing guffaws, in case you're wondering. He looks like he's remembering when his own eight-year-old daughter was kidnapped, even though she was chronologically in her teens at the time. Evelyn tells her daughter to keep being brave, and they exchange "I love you"s. Henderson takes the phone back from Amy, calling her "sweetheart" again and telling her she did good. He gives Evelyn an address: 4615 Tarpin Street. Evelyn says she's got it, giving Henderson sign number three with her ease in writing down an address despite the fact that she's supposed to be driving. Sign number three passes without comment from Henderson. Meanwhile, Kiefer drops off of the call to dial Audrey at CTU.