Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Plot Quickens
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 11 | Aired on 03.05.2006
At Bierko's bunker, he's got a couple of guys soldering away at nerve gas canisters at 5:05:46. Not a gas mask in sight, of course. Bierko talks to one of these guys, telling him to "place the canister to maximize casualties. It must look as if this is one of our primary targets." Bierko then calls up Fucked-up Accent Guy, who says he's on his way to pick up the key card. Bierko warns him that he's using up one of the canisters to "create this diversion," but it's worthless without the keycard. Did he say "keycard"? Is that the keycard I think it is? Fucked-up Accent Guy utters his phonetically tortured assurances and hangs up.
And yes, it is the keycard I think it is. In fact, said keycard is currently being used by McGill's sister's Loser Boyfriend to arrange lines of coke on a mirror. Loser Boyfriend's cell phone rings, and the caller turns out to be Fucked-up Accent Guy, of all people. Apparently Loser Boyfriend had made some sort of deal to sell McGill's keycard to the terrorists. And they met up in the first place…how? I don't know, I guess we'll just have to assume that Friendster has a dark side. McSibling acts all twitchy about the coke, and Loser Boyfriend assures her that she'll soon be able to buy all she wants. So we're talking Elvis money? Because I don't think even he ever bought all he wanted.
At Not Camp David, Logan is acting all "poor me" to Novick about what he's supposed to say to his wife now. Naturally, he's filled with regret over his poor handling of the situation. I will give Logan credit; when he fucks up, he at least has the grace to beat himself up over it afterwards. But Novick gets up in his face and tells him, "Due respect, you don't have time for self-recrimination." He reminds Logan that the terrorists are going to be using the nerve gas soon, and they have to prepare. Logan asks how CTU is doing with the search for the gas, and Novick doesn't have much to tell him. So...are they done preparing, then?
At CTU, Curtis alerts Buchanan that the dead terrorists from the motorcade attack are on their way there, and that he'll meet the corpses in the morgue. Kiefer calls in, and after getting a quick update on the restored chain of command at CTU, gets put on speaker by Audrey. From the bustling crime scene that is the exterior of Omicron headquarters, Kiefer reports his conclusion that Henderson set up the deal for the terrorists to get the nerve gas. The good news is that Henderson's attempt to blow up Kiefer failed, but there's more bad news in the sense that all of the Sentox project's servers were destroyed and Henderson escaped. Kiefer asks Chloe to try and hack into Henderson's office computer. The proactive little cuss already has, and she tells him that although Henderson's hard drive was wiped five minutes ago (by remote control, apparently, because Henderson was in his car then), it's still transmitting data to some other location off-site. Kiefer asks her where, and he immediately recognizes the address she provides as Henderson's house. Buchanan offers to send a tactical team over, but Kiefer shuts that down, saying Henderson will see them coming. But since Henderson believes Kiefer dead, Kiefer will be able to "walk up to his front door" undetected. And, I presume, eat his food, and use his computer, and fuck his wife, all while Henderson stands there going, "Wow, I never believed in ghosts until today." Buchanan gives Kiefer the okay, and Kiefer climbs into the CTUmobile that he's still going to have to give back to Curtis at some point.