Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | 215 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT A Terrorist Walks into a Bar[ometric Pressure Chamber]
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2010.03.01
Taylor waits alone in the U.N. council chamber. Hassan enters, wanting to know what's going on with his brother. Taylor gestures him to a seat and explains the situation. We've already heard it, of course, but the part that's of interest to Hassan is that the people planning to build a dirty bomb out of the rods are his own spies. Suddenly Hassan, who for the past several hours has been convinced that the very dust bunnies are against him, is skeptical that the people he pays to live a lie might have questionable loyalties. Taylor tells him that Farhad had no reason to lie, and asks him for intelligence files "for every asset you have in this country so Farhad can identify these terrorists." Hassan all but sneers scornfully and suggests she just give him Farhad and let his people work on him, which Taylor obviously doesn't go for. Farhad wont be able to help her if he's in tiny little pieces, after all. She gets that she's requesting a breach of security. "But you need to understand that if this radiological attack takes place, I will be forced to retaliate." Hassan looks stunned. But after she repeats her request, he agrees to call his acting head of security. "You'll get the files in a few minutes." Let's just hope that threatening to bomb his country doesn't do any damage to their work on the peace treaty that they're hours away from signing.
Hassan's acting head of security, Nabeel, is currently riding in the shotgun seat of an embassy Escalade, with Tarin riding alone in the back seat. That way he's able to sneakily unlock his handcuffs without anyone being able to notice. While he's doing that, Nabeel turns to say he doesn't believe that Tarin is guilty, but is only following orders. Tarin lies that he'd do the same (even though he's in this situation because he wouldn't). "Whatever happens to me, you mustn't blame yourself. Never forget that." Which is normally the kind of thing people say when they're about to make a big move, but Nabeel just takes it at face value and smiles complacently. And a moment later, Tarin has pulled out the hidden gun and is holding it to Nabeel's head, demanding his weapon from him. He then tells the driver to pull over, and he complies at 1:10:57. Tarin gets them out of the car while Nabeel tells Tarin he's only making things worse for himself. Kind of have to go with Nabeel on this one. Tarin says it can't get worse than what's waiting for him at the embassy. Okay, that's probably a good point too. Nabeel's cell phone rings; that would be Hassan. Tarin takes the phone and the attached earpiece, and lets it keep ringing while he makes both men handcuff themselves into the back of the vehicle.