Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Glower, Cower, And Tower
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 6 | Aired on January 28, 2007
Commercial for a contest where they're giving away a visit to the 24 set. Not a prize I'm interested in, for reasons I'll explain later in the recap.< p>At 11:31:13, Morris is giving Nadia shit about how long it's taking her to get stuff done. Milo steps up and technobabbles some fictional excuse on Nadia's behalf. After Morris leaves, more or less satisfied with Milo's explanation, Nadia asks why Milo covered for her. Milo says that he talked to Buchanan. Then he reaches for Nadia's keyboard and logs her in under his own user ID. "That's illegal," Nadia points out. Milo says that he's doing it, not her. Still illegal, but she appreciates it. Not enough to make out with him, though.
Karen heads into the new Undal Office, a manila folder under her arm. Looks like she made her decision pretty quickly. She prevails upon Wayne to kick out the people he's been talking to, and hands him her resignation, effective immediately. Wayne basically morphs into a talking mass of red flags and asks her what's going on, but she won't say. Wayne figures that Tom has something to do with this, because he's noticed how Tom and Karen are always fighting, but that's not a good enough reason for Wayne to let her go; he says he needs her: "I need different points of view." He tries to decline Karen's resignation, but she tells him that's hard cheese. She does soften the blow by telling Wayne how totally awesome he is: "You know what to do, sir...You will continue to rise to this challenge." She has tears in her eyes by now, almost as if she believes the crap she's telling him. Wayne asks what he can do to change her mind. "Raise that new security restriction on Middle Eastern CTU operatives," she doesn't say. But she does ask him to reassign her to CTU L.A. Boy, is Buchanan going to be surprised to see her. Wayne agrees to put Karen on a military transport. Let's hope she doesn't end up in a midair collision with Assad, who's currently on his way to D.C. from L.A. With one last apology, Karen leaves Wayne in his office to wonder how he's going to get through the rest of the day with no National Security Advisor.
Walking through the halls, Karen literally runs into Chad Lowe, who asks her to look over some statement and then give it to Wayne. Karen tells him to give it to Tom. That tells Chad Lowe all he needs to know, and he calls Tom to tell him that Karen's out. "Thank you," says Tom, and gets back to work in his self-satisfied aura of evil. But at least he remembered to thank Chad Lowe, unlike some people. It's 11:36:24.