Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Putting The "Curt" In "Curtis"
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2007.01.15
...and into the end-of-episode splitscreen. We also see Walid waiting in an interrogation room while someone brings in a polygraph; Dad drags Marcus's body out of sight; and a soldier at the airfield is already on the line with Buchanan, who's giving him Numair's name and sending his picture to the soldier's PDA. Things certainly move quickly during those splitscreen interludes, don't they? Meanwhile, Wayne, Tom, and Karen nervously watch PrisonerVision from the Oval Office.
The soldier with whom Buchanan was just talking boards the plane to look for Numair. I immediately notice that the plane has rows of six seats, three on each side of the aisle. Every window and every aisle seat is occupied, but all the middle seats are empty. Forget the seventy-two virgins; I might become a terrorist if it means I never have to take a middle seat again. (Note to Homeland Security and the NSA: kidding!) The soldier calls out for Numair to raise his hand. Nobody does. The soldier starts working his way down the aisle, holding his PDA with Numair's photo on the display. "We need to go over every inch of this plane," the soldier says into his radio. "And someone let the Sarge know that he needs to get up here now."
Cut to the bus the sergeant left on, which is parked on the side of the road. We hear a gunshot, and then we see the sergeant, his gun still out, walking down the aisle between the empty seats to the back of the bus. He opens the door to the bathroom (wait -- prison buses have bathrooms?) and reveals Numair cowering inside. "Hurry up," the sergeant says. "Fayed is waiting for you." Numair gets up and runs out, not sparing a glance for the dead bus driver. The sergeant just stays on the bus, calmly watching him go. Good luck driving that thing across the Mexican border, Sarge. It's 9:00:00.