Episode Report Card M. Giant: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Thrilling Bureaucratic Intrigue!
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 16 | Aired on 04.02.2006
Who is a little distracted at first, what with watching Buchanan walk out with his coat and briefcase, sparing one last hurt look at Audrey on his way to the door. But she recovers enough to take down the address Kiefer gives her, even though he says it all weird: "Forty. Six. Fifteentarpin." Audrey's got it, and promises to call Kiefer right back. She walks over to Chloe's desk at 10:36:27. Chloe doesn't seem to want to talk to Audrey. You can tell because she hisses, "Don't talk to me." Audrey says she needs Chloe's help for Kiefer, and goes so far as to grab her arm when she tries to walk away. But then they walk off together, Audrey explaining her motives for signing the document in exchange for keeping Chloe at work: "You're the only one that Jack and I trust here." Sure, now that Buchanan's gone. Too bad Audrey had to sell out the whole place in order to get access to a spy satellite. If only she were a highly-ranked official at the Department of Defense or something. She gives Chloe the address they need to monitor. "I'm going to need an explanation," Chloe says sullenly, folding her arms. Audrey promises her one, as soon as there's time. "Right now we need to hurry." And they hurry right off into a commercial break at 10:37:16.
Fox should probably be a little worried that the least interesting ads this break were for its own shows.
10:41:42. In one of the splitscreen windows, Evelyn is still riding shotgun in her own car, teary-eyed. Which is weird, because when the splitscreen is over one second later, her car is parked outside a barn and she and Wayne are loitering inside the building. They've thoughtfully lit a few oil lamps so the cameras can see what's going on. The sound of a car engine is heard, and headlights shine through the crooked wall slats all X-Files. The head lights go out, and they hear the vehicle's door open and close. But Kiefer doesn't come in. "Something's wrong," Wayne realizes, and drags Evelyn into a hiding spot. But it's a crappy hiding spot, because while we're watching Wayne watch the front door, we see an out-of-focus figure enter the back door behind him. "Wayne," Kiefer says, turning out to be a bullshit scare. Wayne's relieved to see Kiefer, and the latter holsters his gun so they can shake hands. Kiefer then crosses over to Evelyn, introducing himself. "I promise you I'm going to get your daughter back." Although he doesn't say in what condition or in how many pieces. And then he asks Evelyn again what she knows, and again she has to say that she isn't telling anyone anything until her daughter is safe. Because no matter the urgency of the situation, there's always time for people to be saying the same thing over and over all the time. "Fine," Kiefer grumps, and excuses himself to dial his cell phone at 10:43:12.