Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Putting The "Curt" In "Curtis"
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2007.01.15
Meanwhile, the Handler has broken out a laptop and is opening it up when he hears a metallic clang from the middle distance. He looks up in that direction, but the CTU agent on the roof is hiding. All the Handler can see is the top of the agent's helmet. Yes, Curtis's men know their jobs, all right. The Handler stops what he's doing and opens his briefcase. As Curtis and Kiefer get into position, the Handler takes a handgun out of his briefcase and opens up on the rooftop agent. The agent returns fire, and the Handler takes cover behind the HUGE PALLET OF EXPLOSIVES as more agents open fire. Good plan. The Handler manages to take down one agent, but in so doing, he exposes himself to a bullet from Curtis's gun and goes down, out of sight behind the crates. Curtis orders him to show himself, but when the Handler does, it's with a hand grenade. Kiefer runs out and yanks Curtis back into a doorway, ordering everyone else back, just before the entire storage unit and its contents blow the fuck up. And unless Fayed is in next Tuesday, their chances of following the Handler to him are pretty much shot. While burning debris is still raining down, Kiefer notifies Buchanan that the Handler was killed while retrieving a laptop: "We'll check the hard drive, but it's been badly damaged." Buchanan tells Nadia to get Wayne on the line. Hey, the good news is that, since the Handler was unable to carry out his task, Fayed will be unable to proceed with his plan, right? Right? Oh, who am I kidding.
Wayne's still veg-ing out in front of PrisonerVision, which is now showing the men at an airfield getting ready to board a plane. Buchanan's call comes through -- before the commercial for once -- and he tells Wayne (and Tom and Karen, who are also in the room) that the Handler done blowed himself up. "I'm sorry," Buchanan adds. "So am I," says Wayne calmly. "Keep me informed." Wow, he's like the Anti-Logan. Tom holds out his open cell phone and says that if Wayne really wants to go ahead with the prisoner release, they're waiting for the order. They wait a little longer, and finally, Wayne quietly says, "Load them on the plane." Tom relays the order into the phone.
At the airfield, it's 8:47:46 as the sergeant in charge coordinates the headcount and the boarding onto the plane, reporting that everyone's accounted for. He barks a few more orders to the prisoners, and to the men guarding them, and then tells them to move the buses out and hops onto one. As the bus drives away with him and the driver the only apparent passengers, the camera pans to look toward the back of the bus. I don't see anyone back there. Do you see anyone back there? I sure don't see anyone back there. Least of all someone in an orange jumpsuit.