Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Down with the Sickness
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.06.2009
Olivia's cell phone call turns out to be from Ken, her reporter friend from earlier, now calling from a hotel room somewhere. She tries to blow him off, but he's heard about the Joint Chiefs meeting, plus apparently he's been talking to Carl from the Port Authority. Ken's been a busy boy. She promises to talk to him as soon as she can. "I want to know now," he whines. She reminds him about the big story she just gave him a few hours ago. You know, the one about Jack Bauer having killed Ryan Burnett, which then turned out to be false? Funny how even though that's the case, Ethan is still just as gone. Creepily, Ken warns that it would be a mistake for her to hang up on him. "Think how your mother will feel when she hears that you forced out her Chief of Staff so you could take over his position." Quick, which is bigger: Ken's dickishness, or Olivia's idiocy? That question will come up again later in he episode, by the way. She says she can't talk to him there, so he gives her a half hour to get to the Roosevelt Continental. She gets back on her phone and says, "Agent Pierce, please get a car ready. I have to make a quick run." Good thing she drafted a Secret Service agent she can trust.
At 12:18:46, Tony and Doug reach another area of the compound from which they can see several buildings. Looking at the infrared satellite scan, Kiefer sees one building that has no heat signature at all. Sounds like that's the one. Way to put up that blackout shield, Starkwood. Now the government doesn't suspect a thing. Tony and Doug scamper up to the door, but Doug's card key doesn't work. Tony reports this back and stats rummaging through his bag as Janis tells him he should have an R-6 interface module in the bag with his comm unit. "It's a card key--" "Yeah, I know what that is, thank you," Tony interrupts, as he finds it and plugs it into the card slot. The other end hooks up to a PDA, which Janis can remotely access and use to hack the entry code. Of course, now the satellite is showing a vehicle coming, so Tony tells Doug to hide. There are only two digits cracked on the five-digit code. Kiefer's visibly hurting, but continues to insist he's fine. Without unplugging, Tony joins Doug in the hiding place, just as the Humvee comes into view, scanning their hiding spot. It moves on, but Doug says, "We're not going to make it," and breaks cover. Tony tries to call him back, but he's gone. Oh, no, what will happen if the chairman of Starkwood's board gets caught inside Starkwood?