Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 291 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Small Consulation
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2007.03.05
Blondsky goes into the hallway and starts looking sneaky. In other splitscreen windows, Nadia explains to Buchanan what she's been doing so that someone can take over for her after she gets arrested; the Veep wraps up his statement; Wayne still lies in the Bunker's operating room, unconscious, wrapping up the easiest day's work DB Woodside ever put in; and the O'Brians scowl at their respective monitors. Alas, Morris is failing to download himself any whisky at all.
Deciding that he's alone, Blondsky goes into a room and pulls out his cell phone, putting it to the ear that had a Bluetooth attached to it just a second ago. No sooner does he ask for Buchanan than a shadow is seen lurking behind him. Sure enough, Blondsky is still waiting for his call to be transferred when an unseen assailant puts a bullet in his head with a silenced handgun. Blondsky's dead before he hits the floor. The shooter -- a man in wingtips and a suit -- picks up the ejected shell casing. We still can't see his face, and I'm getting very nervous that something really stupid is about to happen. Buchanan is being told by the CTU switchboard operator that he's getting an urgent call from the Russian Consulate, and I don't know how the operator knows that if Blondsky is using his personal cell phone and never identified himself. Blondsky's dropped cell phone says, "This is Bill Buchanan." The shooter picks up the phone and snaps it shut, and as Buchanan and Nadia look at each other in puzzlement, we finally see the killer's face: it's the thin, dark-haired Consulate guard we saw earlier. Oh, thank God it wasn't Logan. It's 6:00:00.