Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT O Brother, Where Art Thou?
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 5 | Aired on January 21, 2007
Nearby, some bloody guy is dashing around, trying to get some help from the panicked citizens dashing obliviously around him. Nobody wants to help him, so of course his attention lands on a guy across the street who's just standing there staring blankly at the cauliflower cloud in the distance. The blank-eyed guy is, of course, Kiefer. Being grabbed by someone in need seems to jolt Kiefer out of his state, and at 10:09:06, the bloody guy leads Kiefer at a run to where he left his friends. One of them is unconscious, the other is dead, and they were all in the same helicopter that just crashed. Which means that Fayed just passed within a block of Kiefer. That's just a bit too Six Degrees for me. I certainly hope there won't be any more unlikely coincidences coming up this hour. As they dash around the corner together, the guy says that he doesn't know what hit them. Kiefer does: the shockwave of a nuclear bomb. The poor guy hasn't even seen the mushroom cloud yet. Hey, shouldn't there also be an EMP? I don't know what the radius of that phenomenon would be from a one-kiloton nuke, and I'm assuming that's what the show's counting on. Reaching the house with the helicopter precariously jammed into its roof peak, Kiefer effortlessly (especially for a guy with a fresh knife wound in his shoulder) climbs the front porch trellis right up onto the roof and makes his way to the wrecked chopper, followed closely by the bloody guy. We see that the guy in the right front seat is awake now but trapped, while the guy on the left isn't moving. He must be the dead one. No idea how the first guy got out of the aircraft. Kiefer tries to open the chopper door, but it's jammed. So he finds something to pry it open: a broken off TV aerial antenna. Kind of an anachronistic artifact to discover up here, especially considering that we've already seen that the very same roof has a satellite dish on it. Still, it's just the thing for prying the door open. Kiefer rescues the surviving aviator, and not a moment too soon; no sooner are they all clear than the tail section snaps off, leaving the fuselage to drop into the side yard, where it explodes hugely. Because falling out of the sky wasn't enough to blow it up, but dropping two stories turned it into a fireball.