Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Undercover Brothers
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 4 | Aired on 01.12.2009
At FBI-DC, Walker continues micromanaging Sean's remote search for the fugitives. When she steps away at 11:19:02, his desk phone rings. It's his wife, Christina, calling from the Airphone in the seatback in front of her. "The pilot says we're in a holding pattern, but we just keep circling and circling," Christina says. Isn't that what a holding pattern is? Sean tells her to relax, and Christina says she heard something about a near miss and the air traffic control system. And since she heard it from the woman in the seat next to her, it must be true. Don't ask me how the woman in the seat next to her heard about it. Sean confirms it, sort of. "The FAA has grounded some planes, but it's only a precaution," he downplays. "It's an isolated incident. You're gonna be fine." That seems to calm Christina's nerves, and she promises to call him as soon as she lands. After they hang up, that Erica chick from earlier comes over to inject herself into the situation, having heard from Janis that Sean's wife is still airborne. And Sean is predictably rude about it. "Her flight is number eighteen in the queue so it'll be another two hours at least until hers gets clearance," he snaps, like it's her fault. Instead of backing off like any normal person with a sense of self-preservation, she offers to help. "There's nothing anybody can do, that's the problem," he bitches. Well, there are worse things than dying in a fiery plane crash. Probably, one of them is being married to Sean.
Janis flags down a passing Agent Walker to let her know that Tanner has woken up, and has already asked for lawyers. "Grab your laptop, Janis, you're coming with me," Walker says. She makes up some reason, which, since it's going to be totally different from what she ends up using Janis for, we don't really need to know. Suffice to say that both women are out of there like a bad double date.
At 11:21:06, Tony drives Kiefer in a Ford sedan through a fancy shopping district. There's a Gap store there and everything. Kiefer asks for the bullet on Emerson. Tony begins, "He's British." Which I was going to say is odd, because Emerson's accent is kind of a non-specific East Coast/congested, but we already know that the presence or absence of a British accent for any given character on this show can never be taken as a reliable indicator of his or her Britishness. Tony continues, "Former SAS, urban warfare, sniping, close quarter-combat, saw action in Beirut and Mogadishu." Kiefer figures Emerson sounds like he knows what he's doing. "But he's not some whack job or ideologue," Tony insists. "He's about two things: money, and personal loyalty." Kiefer wonders if Tony still admires Emerson. "He treated me like a brother when I thought I had nobody else," Tony says. Kiefer asks if this will be a problem. Tony assures him no. "I know he's on the wrong side of this. I'll do what has to be done." Which has kind of always been the problem with Tony, if you think about it.