Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Not-So-Grandfather
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 9 | Aired on 02.11.2007
Morris is getting patched up in the CTU clinic which, if you ask me, is way scarier than getting tortured by a terrorist. The doctor finishes up and tells Chloe that she can go in. Morris sits on his bed, all shirtless and bandaged, and not talking when she asks how he's feeling. "What is there to say?" he asks. Chloe tries to be understanding: "You were tortured. You held out as long as you could." Yes, but another fifteen seconds or so would have done it. Chloe reminds him, "Fayed was gonna kill you." "I wish to God he had," Morris drama-queens. Which doesn't really square with how he begged Fayed for his life twenty minutes ago, but people change. Morris says that because of him, Fayed has a device "that can arm all the bloody suitcase nukes he wants." Good thing he only has three, then. Chloe tells Morris not to blame himself, but he says that when the next nuke goes off, "everybody will remember that [he] was the one that made it possible." Chloe takes his face in her hands, saying that it won't matter after they find Fayed. Morris hopefully asks if they're any closer to Fayed, but is crestfallen when Chloe admits that they aren't. As if it changes what he did. Chloe goes to kiss him on the head, but he ducks and tells her to go. She leaves him sitting there, looking sad. What do you think he'd say if somebody offered him a do-over?
At 2:11:52, Dad wanders around the building unaccompanied. Well, of course he does. He takes out his cell phone and calls the creepy security guy at the house from Episode 5: "We've got a problem. Gredenko's here." Creepy Security Guy is just as surprised at this news as Dad pretended not to be a minute ago. Dad says that they have to find Gredenko before CTU does: "If Gredenko implicates me, everything, the company I founded and spent my life protecting is over." Creepy Security Guy says that he's on top of it. "I don't care what you have to do," says Dad. "Find Gredenko and you kill him." Funny how the NSA can intercept relevant calls seemingly at random, but Dad can have a conversation like this on an unshielded cell phone right in the middle of CTU and not raise a single red flag.
Kiefer joins Buchanan in the Situation Room, saying that he's convinced his dad doesn't know anything about Gredenko. I don't know how he can be so sure without strapping his dad into a chair and torturing him almost to death, but I guess he's following his instincts on this one. Buchanan, in turn, shares that they've traced the source of Gredenko's email to L.A. He's got his people working on it, which is all they can do for now. Kiefer says "okay" and is about to leave the room, but Buchanan orders, "Have a seat, Jack." Picking up on Buchanan's tone, Kiefer sits. Buchanan says that Graem's toxicology report came back, indicating that "the hyocene pentothal [Kiefer] administered to Graem during the interrogation caused his coronary." Okay, so I guess I was wrong about Dad filling Graem's veins with air a couple of recaps ago, but that's only because I assumed Dad wouldn't be stupid enough to push more drugs, and that, if he did, CTU wouldn't be stupid enough to miss it. I guess that makes me the stupid one. Buchanan adds that he viewed the field tape of the interrogation (when?) and read Burke's report to Division (when?). The report says that Kiefer went over the line with the owie-juice. "That's true," Kiefer readily admits. "Agent Burke tried to warn me." Buchanan says that Kiefer then pulled a gun on Burke. Kiefer says that he lost control. "I tried to tell you I didn't think I could do this," he angrily tells Buchanan, like this is partly Buchanan's fault. Which, okay, yes, it totally is. Kiefer soliloquizes, "I wanted to kill my brother...I was standing over him and I looked up and I saw my father in the doorway, and everything just stopped. I ordered Agent Burke to shut down the IV and he did. I thought we got it in time." He assures Buchanan that he didn't set out to kill Graem. Buchanan looks out the window and says that he'll "adjust" the report before he forwards it to Division. Kiefer tells him no. Buchanan says that they don't have time for Kiefer to get wrapped up in an Internal Affairs investigation. If Buchanan's also thinking about covering his own ass, he doesn't say so. In any case, Kiefer says that he can't cover this up: "I killed my brother. Whatever the consequences are, I accept them." Can't be worse than China. He tells Buchanan to "do this right," and Buchanan agrees to send the report as is. Except I hope that he'll correct all the spelling and punctuation errors that I'm sure a moron like Burke made. It's 2:16:02.