Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Do-Over
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 10 | Aired on 02.23.2009
Buchanan enters the room at 5:18:14 to report that Dubaku has been captured, but isn't exactly in any condition to talk given what happened to him. Taylor realizes that if Dubaku dies, they won't be able to uncover the conspiracy. On the other hand, without Dubaku it's not so much a conspiracy as a bunch of people walking around D.C. and awkwardly avoiding eye contact with each other. But Buchanan agrees with Taylor, and advises her to return to the White House, since she's "too exposed" at the hospital. Yes, her skirt is a tad short. She'd rather stay with her husband, and argues that she doesn't think she'll be any safer in the White House anyway. "My administration has been corrupted, Bill!" Psst, Allie? Your Chief of Staff is sitting right there. Buchanan insists that the White House is still the safest place for her. Ethan adds that Henry will be in surgery for a few hours anyway, whereas she's needed back at work. By now, Sangala is probably part of NATO. Bill goes off to take care of the arrangements, and as Ethan and Taylor follow him out, Taylor asks Ethan what they're going to do next. "We'll just have to pray Jack Bauer can get those names from Dubaku," Ethan says. Sure you will, Ethan.
While Walker watches some EMTs cover the bodies of Marika and Dubaku's driver as they lie in the street, Kiefer goes over to where some other paramedics are working on Dubaku and tells them to wake him up. A brief argument and one injection later, Dubaku's eyes flash open, rolled way back in his head. Kiefer gets down to his ear level and tells him what's going on. "You're in federal custody. These paramedics are trying to save your life. You want them to continue, you're going to tell me what I want to know." Why waste any time getting to the illegal threats, after all? "I want the names of everyone in the United States government that you've been working with." When Dubaku doesn't respond quickly enough for Kiefer's liking, Kiefer tells him there's no point protecting everyone. Oh, and by the way, Kiefer says he is willing to go to Sangala, hunt down Dubaku's son, and "make him suffer. And I will make sure that he knows his father was responsible. All you gotta do to make me stop is give me the names." Dubaku finally finds the strength to talk, which he probably figures is better than the alternative of letting Kiefer continue to make threats. Although I'm curious about what Kiefer would have come up with if given a few more seconds. Something along the lines of, "I'm going to kill your dog and rename Sangala 'Bauerland' and I'm going to eat your dog after I kill it and mess up your side-part and then I'll throw up and eat your dog again, but this time with a cat." "Don't hurt my family," Dubaku manages. I assume he means "more of my family," since Kiefer already killed Dubaku's brother. In self-defense, but still. At least now we know why Dubaku doesn't seem to care about that any more; it's because he's such a forgiving man. Dubaku starts to tell Kiefer something about a list, but he crashes before he can get more than a few words out. Good time management, there, Kiefer. While they try to defibrillate him, Kiefer yells "Bring him back!" and starts searching through Dubaku's discarded coat. Coming up empty, he hears that the EMTs are having trouble with the paddles, due to some "electronic interference" that's coming from inside Dubaku's body. Sensing a clue, Kiefer asks where the object is, and they point to a spot under Dubaku's rib cage. Now that they have his heart beating again, they're ready to get him out of there, but Kiefer wants Dubaku opened up first. He even pulls his gun on one of the paramedics to make it happen. An incision is made, and Kiefer sticks his bare hand in there to pull out a tiny memory card. The paramedic says Dubaku will die if he doesn't get to the hospital. "Get him out of here," Kiefer says contemptuously. Holding the bloody card up to the light, he gets on his cell phone to Moss to tell him about what he just found. "He said it was on him. He meant in him." That's what she said. As Sean listens in, Kiefer concludes that it must be the database of names that was serving as Dubaku's insurance policy, which Kiefer isn't supposed to know about. But how was Dubaku planning to carry out his threat to send the files to the Justice Department if he was killed? Does he also have an e-mail server installed in his liver, programmed to send the files to "everyone@doj.gov" if his temperature drops below 95? Moss asks if they can upload the files directly to the FBI. Kiefer doesn't think so; instead, he goes over to a police officer standing next to a handy helicopter and orders him to deliver it personally to Moss. Good lateral thinking, there: you've got an invaluable, irreplaceable piece of data, so hand it to a guy you've never met before. Better hope Dubaku never bothered infiltrating Metro Police. Kiefer tells Moss that it's on its way via airmail. Sean throws down his headset, disgusted. What's he disgusted about? I'm the one who just watched Kiefer pull a chip out of a dude.