Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | 215 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT A Terrorist Walks into a Bar[ometric Pressure Chamber]
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2010.03.01
Inside one of the hospital corridors, Kiefer gets a call from Walker. She's been sprung but is still at CTU, and somehow Chloe found the time to tell her about the deal Kiefer made to get her off the hook. "I didn't ask you to do that, Jack," she says. Kiefer says he couldn't let the White House set her up. "You did nothing wrong." He insists she let it go, and she's not responsible. On a more personal note, he adds, "I meant what I said earlier. When this is over I want to be there for you. With you." "I'd like that," Walker says. Oh, swoon. I wish we could see them in their happily-ever-after period, listening to them talk about their relationship in grim, hourly five-second increments. It would be like Twilight via Facebook. He tells her he'll have someone take her to his apartment (the one he was going to move out of that very afternoon) and he'll meet her there when they're done. She agrees, and he lets her go because he's hearing talk in the comm channel. And because he's going to have to figure out how to explain to Spawn how that FBI agent who called her out of the blue last season is going to be her new stepmom.
At 1:44:57, Kiefer switches channels and hears Hastings telling him the facial recognition came back with a hit on Marcos Al-Zacar -- the same Marcos who's about to enter the building with a bomb strapped to him. Hastings gives Kiefer a description, and Kiefer's on his way until Chloe zooms in on the surveillance frame to say it looks like Marcos is carrying a detonator, which probably means an explosive vest. Kiefer asks if she can disarm it from there. Well, sure, why not? That would be the safest place to do it from, after all. Chloe says she might be able to, if she can figure out the model of detonator from the surveillance frames. Kiefer tells her to go ahead, and then switches comm channels to inform Agent Owen -- posted outside a side door -- that Marcos is on his way to him. Poor kid probably thought the danger was over when they got to the hospital. "What should I do?" Owen wonders. "Stay calm and do whatever he asks," Kiefer instructs. "CTU techs are gonna try and disarm the vest from off-site." Owen says okay, which means he'd believe anything, and Kiefer tells him, "You can do this. Just try and slow him down as much as possible." When Marcos comes around the corner, Owen challenges him, asking for ID like he would anyone. Marcos comes right out and says he has a bomb. "Give me your weapon right now or I'll kill us both." After a pause, Owen complies, doing a very convincing imitation of a nervous hostage. Marcos asks where Farhad Hassan is, and Owen tells him the third floor. Marcos tells Owen to take him there. "Anyone asks who I am, you say I'm a doctor and I'm cleared." He makes Owen precede him into the building at 10:47:02. You know, I thought those intelligence files were a bit of overkill at the beginning of this episode, but now it looks like they might just save the hour. Good thing Hassan didn't ask for them back the minute his brother died.