Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Small Consulation
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 12 | Aired on 03.04.2007
The Veep's already in the White House, and as he and Lisa board the elevator down to the Bunker, he tells her to get moving on Tom's JAM (Jail All Muslims) plan. "The president rejected that plan," Lisa quietly reminds him. "What's your point?" he responds. As the elevator descends, she wonders if it's too soon to enact the plan Wayne shot down. He tells her that a Muslim terrorist just bombed the White House: "If anything, we've delayed this far too long." Do you think when that when the Veep finds out the truth, he'll order internment camps set up for Life Goes On cast members and ex-spouses of Oscar winners?
The elevator disgorges Lisa and the Veep in the Bunker, where SecDef is waiting with some other official-looking guys. He reports that Wayne has been stabilized, but that there's no prognosis yet. "Something else has come up," he adds, giving Lisa a pointed look so that she'll go find something else to do. SecDef reports that, in connection with the attempt on Wayne's life, Tom has given himself up. The Veep is confused. Clearly he doesn't understand the depth of Tom's commitment to his "guilty until proven innocent" concept, which Tom believes so fervently that he has applied it to himself.
Tom is currently being debriefed in a conference room. He tells the agent questioning him that Chad Lowe first hinted about the plot about two hours ago, even though it's more like four by my math. When the agent asks why Tom waited an hour (or two) to report it, Tom says that there wasn't anything actionable before then. He was just playing along to find out more, and when he realized that Chad Lowe was making his move, Tom tried to alert Agent Hollister, and that's when Chad Lowe knocked him out and tied him up. Perhaps he could point to the obvious bruises on his head and the duct tape residue on his face and wrists to bolster his story here, but he doesn't. The agent starts to ask about Tom's providing Carson's clearance into the White House, and Tom shrilly protests that it was Chad Lowe who did that, using Tom's stolen security pass. The agent asks if Tom was just pretending when he gave Chad Lowe Wayne's "classified itinerary." How classified could it have been? Wayne's in the Bunker. His "itinerary" would have shown him going from one part of the Bunker to another part of the Bunker. Again, how big is this place? "Maybe it's just that you had second thoughts," the agent accuses Tom. Agent, we've already been over that on the forums. You're going down a dead end.