Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | 1 USERS: C- YOU GRADE IT Women's Work
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 13 | Aired on 03.22.2010
After the call, Kiefer whips the CTUmobile around into a hard left turn. Cole asks what's up, and Kiefer says this means there's only one way to get in: "Across the East River," Cole says. In the back seat, Agent Owen and the armored CTU tech nerd from a couple of episodes ago are just along for the ride. So far.
On the Brooklyn side of the river, that gray SUV drives out onto a pier to meet the black van that is the latest vehicle to be carrying the rods. Everyone gets out of their respective vehicles and looks at each other seriously. Ali reports to Samir that CTU is "blind, deaf, and dumb." Plus he's got this immediate area secured. Samir pauses to look across the river at the lights of Manhattan and compliments Ali on a job well done, then orders him and his men to load the rods into the "Zodiac." Because if you're carrying something as heavy as uranium fuel rods, you definitely want to be in an inflatable boat with them. Seeing that Tarin looks unhappy about something, Samir tells him, "Hassan's daughter was a necessary sacrifice. Using her was the only way to get the rods into the city." Tarin just nods. He'll be so happy when he finds out Kayla's alive! Meanwhile, at 4:06:15, two men are at each end of the crate carrying it down a steep gangplank to the dock. I wouldn't want to be the guy on the bottom end of that crate going downhill, but I guess that's the price of being a terrorist.
Hastings leads Kayla and a group of agents through CTU, telling her she needs to go through the IRK intelligence files and ID the people working with Tarin. Kayla isn't feeling terribly cooperative right now, which is nice of her considering she just inadvertently blew the place up. Hastings stops walking and explains to her about how she drove a car with an EMP into the building and crashed everything they have. "I don't understand. Tarin put me in that car," she says, somehow not getting it. Hastings explains that the escape was staged, and Tarin is alive. "We spotted him a few minutes ago." Kayla's face crumples as Hastings says," I know it's a lot to take in, but you need to go with these agents back to the U.N. Start looking through those files." Suddenly she's a lot less argumentative.
Ali is strapping the crate down in a boat that isn't much larger than the crate itself. Why it's not already at the bottom of the river I don't know. Samir gets off his sat-phone and tells Tarin that the bomb is ready, now awaiting only the rods. Then his walkie-talkie squawks. It's one of the armed men posted around the perimeter, reporting that a vehicle is coming into sight from the east and giving a letter-perfect description of a CTUmobile. After learning that they have three armed men covering it from concealed positions, Samir gives the order to wait until it's in range and take it out. It's 4:08:12.