Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Uranium? MY-ranium!
By M. Giant | Season 9 | Episode 9 | Aired on 02.22.2010
g to the part of her story where she facilitated a robbery, and even though she leaves out the part about Nick curbstomping a police officer, Cole's pretty shocked. Dana says Kevin was going to ruin her life. "What would you have done?" "Not this," Cole says, speaking for millions of viewers. Dana adds that Kevin promised to leave her alone after this. "Let me guess. He didn't keep his end of the bargain," Cole chuckles humorlessly. See, Cole hasn't even met Kevin and he knows better. Cole finally figures out that's why Dana's here, and makes her show him the gun in her hand, which he snatches away. "You were going to kill them," he says in disgust. "You were going to shoot them in cold blood." Dana says she now sees that she was wrong, but she was scared. "I thought that I was doing this for us." Yeah, that argument is so not going to work. He asks if she's out of her mind (for your answer, Cole, please see previous recaps), and she says she loves him. He tells her not to say another word, and then gets out of the truck at 12:54:37. He starts striding toward the van with her gun still in his hand, telling her to stay in the truck. Of course, she doesn't, instead scampering along next to him begging him to stop while he ignores her. Finally he reaches the open door of the van and points the gun inside, where Nick and Kevin are just about to toke up, way in the back where they wouldn't have seen Cole coming. Kevin quickly stashes the joint while Nick looks at a shotgun in the mess on the van's floor. Cole dares him to go for it. "That way I only have to deal with one of you losers." "I think you got the wrong address, pal," Kevin says. Cole snags the shotgun himself and tells Kevin to shut up and listen. Next to him, Dana again begs him to leave with her, and Kevin and Nick see her for the first time. Suddenly Kevin gets it, and lowers his hands before pointing a finger at Cole. "Thought you looked familiar," he says, no doubt recalling the photos of him and Dana in her place. Kevin wishes he and Cole could have a beer. "I'm sure we'd have a lot to talk about." Always a good idea to taunt a person pointing a gun in your face. Cole again tells him to shut up, and lays out the options he's offering them, the first being to go back to prison for grand larceny and aggravated assault, even though Dana didn't tell him about the aggravated assault part. Kevin points out that Dana would also go back to prison, to which Cole answers, "My guess is she's prepared to live with that." "Nuh-uh!" Dana wisely doesn't pipe up. Cole tells Kevin and Nick that their other option is to walk away clean with their money, and never come back. "If I even hear about you crossing the state line, I'll skip the formalities and kill you myself. Do we have a deal or not?" Kevin says they do. Cole says he never wants to see other of them again, and slams the van shut. As much as you can slam a sliding door, that is.Nick immediately throws down his bottle, then rummages behind the back seat to find a revolver and a knife. Kevin, who thought this was over, asks what he's doing. "Going after them," Nick says. He figures, "We get rid of him, we're right back in business with her." Quietly, Kevin tells his violent, moronic partner that they got more than they came for, and they shouldn't push their luck. "We're done, okay? Got me?" And then, like an idiot, he turns his back on Nick. So Nick grabs him and stabs him in the chest, then throws him face-down on the floor. Wow, between Dana and Nick, Kevin sure has stellar taste in friends, doesn't he?
Outside, on their way back to the van, Dana is too busy thanking Cole for what he did (not even counting the part where he's now an accessory after the fact to Kevin and Nick's robbery and assault) to notice the sound of the van door sliding open behind them. I don't know what Cole's excuse is for not hearing it, unless it's the same voluntary deafness that's helping him shut Dana out right now. Nick is behind them, getting closer. Kevin, still alive somehow, manages to struggle to the open van door and scream out, "Jenny!" Nick barely glances back before opening fire on Cole. Cole pushes Dana down behind the CTUmobile, then pops up from behind it and downs Nick with one blast from Nick's own shotgun. Lucky for him Nick had it loaded. Cole goes to check the body while Dana runs past them to where Kevin is dying in the van's doorway. She lets him fall out into her lap as he gasps out his last words: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have come back." YOU THINK!? Cole stands over them both as Kevin expires, and good riddance. It's 1:00:00.