Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | 432 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Jailbreak!
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2009.01.12
The guard parks Kiefer in a vacant office right across the hall and tells another guard to keep an eye on him. While the new guard takes up position outside the closed door, Kiefer dials his cell phone. At the other end, an artificially deepened voice answers, "Hello?" The voice appears to belong only to a mouth and a rather scruffy chin, but I have my suspicions as to who they're both attached to. Kiefer identifies himself and says that Tony Almeida told him to call by giving him an old CTU emergency phone code. And with that, the owner of the scruff removes the voice disguiser from his own phone and says, "It's Bill, Jack." For it is indeed Bill Buchanan. And like everyone who manages to survive more than a few seasons of this show, he's ditched his trademark business suit in favor of a black mock turtleneck. Furthermore, he's wearing his hair like he's on his way to a Rome fan convention. Bill asks where Tony is, and Kiefer explains about how Tony is under arrest at FBI-DC for the whole terrorism thingy. "We need to talk, Jack," Buchanan says, and promises to call Kiefer back on a secure VPN line in ten minutes. Kiefer's pissed about being blown off, but Buchanan hangs up on him anyway. You can't tell me that wasn't a teeny bit of payback.
We now see that Buchanan's standing in some lair that looks to be decorated in Budget Bond Villain, and a slim woman with long dark hair is sitting at a bank of computers with her back to the camera. She turns to Buchanan, and we see that it's Chloe, who has clearly lost all her pregnancy weight and more. "If Tony's been arrested, it's over," she frets. "Are you going to tell Jack everything?" Buchanan says that they'll have to, because they'll need Kiefer's help to get Tony back undercover. "He's our only hope," he says. It's 10:17:37. And shouldn't at least one of them be setting up that VPN line instead of staring at each other?