Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 438 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Re-Juma-nated
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2009.03.02
7:16:12. Ed and Larry get shot down in the hallway as Juma's men continue their progress. Juma leads them into the Press Secretary's office, makes her put down the phone, and then shoots her anyway. If that's all they were bringing the actor back for after the writer's strike, no wonder she didn't keep her hair the same. "Five minutes until roll call, General," Laptop Guy reports, and they keep moving.
Moss and his men are now swarming through the same woods Walker ran through ten minutes ago. Moss finds the dead trooper with his radio on the road next to him, and figures he's on the right track. Either that, or he's worried that Walker shot him for some reason.
Walker, meanwhile, has found some kind of park building, and as she's trying to break into it, suddenly Dubaku, Jr. appears with his gun leveled at her. Why he doesn't shoot her right away I don't know, but his hesitation gives her time to blurt, "Juma had your father killed!" He doesn't believe her at first, but she explains about the orderly and how that was how she found them. His gun wavers for a moment, but finally he calls her a liar and raises it again to shoot her. But then she grabs a handy shovel and raps him upside the head with it, breaking the window she was just about to enter. She gets a few more good licks in, but when he's on the ground she makes the mistake of closing with him and trying to choke him with the handle. Then he throws her off, withstands a few hard body blows, and starts choking her, with his hands. She looks like she's about to black out when finally a couple of shots ring out and he goes down. I feel cheated by that scene; Walker totally should have been able to take him, instead of being rescued at the last minute by good fortune and Larry Moss. But at least she's still got her priorities straight, even when recovering from near death: "I know the target!" she chokes out.
At 7:18:17, Buchanan presents Kiefer to a couple of stone-faced agents who are transferring him from the White House to the Attorney General's office. After signing him over, Buchanan gets a call from Moss, who wastes no time: "Renee Walker says the target is the White House." He says it's first-hand intel, and they're coming in from below. Kiefer's still standing there listening as Buchanan gets on his Secret Service comlink and orders a Condition Red. "Secure the president!" He dispatches Kiefer's escorts to their posts and tells Kiefer, "I need your help. I need to know you'll do exactly as I say." Kiefer grumpily gives his word, and Buchanan uncuffs him before they head off to the Oval Office. You know, that must have been the hardest thing about being in China for Kiefer: no convenient emergencies to get him cut loose when people needed him.