Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Chip And Dip
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.13.2007
At 3:19:37, Kiefer gets Josh off the catwalk and asks what Cheng wanted. Josh says, "He made me talk on the phone with Grandpa." Confused, Kiefer asks what his Dad said to Josh. "He said he loved me," says Josh. "He wanted to take me to China, and I was his legacy. I think he's out of his mind." "That's a pretty sad legacy, all right," Kiefer doesn't say. He asks if Josh was able to glean any aural clues to Dad's location from the call. He's all stress-monkey about it, too, until he realizes that Josh really didn't hear anything helpful. He hugs him and says it's all right, and that they'll get him back to his mom.
Doyle arrives up on the roof to report that more CTU guys are on their way to secure things. Where is he getting them all? Do they just spawn in certain places like videogame characters? Kiefer tells Doyle to let CTU know that his father's still involved. Doyle, who didn't come along until Kiefer's dad was already gone, asks why the elder Bauer is involved with the Chinese. Leading Josh down the stairs into the building, Kiefer says, "I don't know. I'll ask him when I find him." It's 3:20:52.
3:25:14. Karen enters the Oval Office to interrupt the Veep in the middle of some highly important standing around that he's been doing. She reports that the Russians are moving more divisions into Centralasia, at the highest alert level. You suppose it has occurred to either of them to warn their men in Centralasia that they're about to have company? Well, actually, at the moment Karen is too preoccupied with wondering where Tom is. The Veep explains that Tom is running a "classified operation." So classified, in fact, that he tells her everything about it. Namely, that the source of the White House leak was his own Lisa Miller, that she didn't know that a man she's "romantically involved with" has been passing information to the Russians, and that now she's been sent back to her boyfriend with false information that the all-important FB sub-circuit board has been destroyed in hopes that President Suvarov will call off the attack he's planning. We, of course, know all this from watching the last two episodes, but it's pretty complicated, and the previouslies can only go on for so long, after all. Karen's like, "Well, you're the boss," and she's about to leave. But the Veep calls her back for a little sit-down to assure her that his decision to keep her out of this particular loop wasn't about her, but about himself. He confesses to his own relationship with Lisa, drama-queening, "Needless to say, I am ashamed." Karen advises the Veep to cut himself a little slack, being a recently single (read: horny) man and all and unaware of what Lisa was doing behind his back. But the Veep doesn't want to let himself off the hook. He calls it a "question of judgment," and says that his mistake may end up leading them to war. And if we know anything about this Veep, it's that when he does something stupid that could easily lead to a devastating global conflict, he wants it to be on purpose.