Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT OMFGOTUS
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.09.2009
It's 3:23:02 as Walker and Kiefer climb out of a car -- which I guess they got from somewhere -- near the Reflecting Pool. Moss is waiting there, and gets pretty emotional when Walker shows up. "I thought I'd never see you again," he says, although he doesn't try to kiss her or hug her or even shake her hand. Once any danger of a mushy display has passed, Kiefer abandons his respectful distance and asks Moss what he found out from Gedge's phone records. Moss says that Gedge spent a lot of time talking to Agent Edward Vossler during the past three hours. Moss also has this to share about Vossler: "Before he was a Secret Service agent he was Special Forces." Which would explain why Vossler wears his hair like the keyboard player in an 80s new wave band. Moss adds that "Vossler served in Sangala for two years." Well, sounds open-and-shut to me. He hands Walker his Blackberry, which contains Vossler's file. While she's beeping through it, Kiefer asks, "Does Vossler have a family?" "Why do you need to know that?" Moss asks, as though we don't already know and aren't preemptively grossed out by it. Walker says Vossler's got a wife of five years who's a stay-at-home mom to their eleven-month-old boy. Kiefer matter-of-factly hands out assignments. He tells Moss, "I need you to help me track Vossler." To Walker, he says, "I need you to go to his home and hope his family is there." Seeing their wary looks, he spells it out: the only way they're going to break a Special Forces vet like Vossler in the tight time frame they're facing is to "make him think we're going to hurt his family. His wife and his kid." Moss refuses, and even Walker says, "That's stepping over the line, Jack." Kiefer reminds her, "You stepped over the line the second you interrogated Tanner." Okay, first of all, what an asshole. And secondly, how does he even know about that? It's not like he and Walker have been spending a lot of time catching up. And thirdly, what an asshole. Walker reasonably points out that threatening a murderer is different from threatening a child, and Kiefer just loses it on both of them: "When are you people going to stop thinking everyone else is following your rules? They're not!" Well, yes, Kiefer, that's what makes them the bad guys. Sheesh. He lays it out for them: "You've got one of two choices: you can either phone the president and explain to her that your conscience [way to mock what you don't have, Kiefer] won't allow you to do what is necessary to save him, or you can simply do what is necessary. Pick one!"