Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT How To Disarm A Terrorist
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 16 | Aired on 04.01.2007
9:41:25. In his office, Wayne asks Karen for launch protocols and so forth. Karen hands them over, saying that Wayne can use them to cancel the strike permanently if he gets to keep his job. Because that's what he wants them for, right? Wayne also wants an update on Fayed, and Karen explains that CTU has already nabbed Gredenko and will now use him to catch Fayed. Wayne asks who's running the operation, and seems glad to hear that it's Kiefer. See? Unfit to be president. Sandra triumphantly marches in with word that the Veep has withdrawn his objections. Confused, Wayne wonders why. Sandra doesn't care, because she still gets to be the First Sister. She leaves to go practice her super-lawyering somewhere else. I'm sure she's supposed to be some high-powered attorney, but so far all we've seen her do is get one client arrested and not even have to make an argument for another. Also, her client base seems to consist entirely of her boyfriend and her brother. Wayne Caesars to Karen that he isn't going to punish anyone who voted with the Veep, and as Karen leaves, he asks her to keep giving him updates from CTU. After he's alone, he gets on his desk phone and asks to see his doctor. You think it's about a burning sensation when he urinates?
Kiefer's already at the Santa Monica Pier, scoping out the whole amusement park area from a hidden location with a night-vision telescope. Over his earpiece connection to CTU, he says that Fayed's not visible, and probably won't appear until Gredenko shows himself. In fact, the whole pier seems to be empty, although some considerate employee was thoughtful enough to leave the lights burning on all the amusement park rides for tonight's shoot. Buchanan asks Ryan how things are going with Gredenko. From the back of a CTU van, Ryan says that he's finished with the audio transmitter. You know how CTU has those invisible little plugs that can be hidden inside an ear? Poor Gredenko gets about six yards of cable and a box the size of an iPod Giga stuck inside his jacket pocket. There's also a remote tracker to be injected into Gredenko's left arm. As it goes in, Gredenko asks if it's radioactive. Ryan rogers that, adding that it goes right into the bone and has a half-life of eleven hours, so good luck trying to dig it out. Ryan clearly underestimates how badly Gredenko wants to get away, or else they'd inject the tracker into his right arm bone. Or maybe even someplace that doesn't have a bone at all. Buchanan says that Doyle's team is still twenty minutes out, and Kiefer says that they can't wait for him. He tells Ryan to send out Gredenko.