Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Das Brute
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.14.2006
In Malina's parking lot, Kiefer hands Henderson off to an agent, saying, "Secure him by the tailgate." He's going to drag Henderson back to CTU? Not a bad idea, actually. He calls CTU, where Chloe has just gotten into Malina's files. She tells Kiefer, "It's a Russian submarine, Jack." Apparently, the Natalya, a Delta-IV-class sub, is being inspected by the U.S. Navy. Kiefer asks why that is, and Hayes explains that it's because of the treaty that Logan and Suvarov signed that day. "There's a provision that calls for the sharing of technology." And right the hell now, apparently. Chloe tells Kiefer that the sub is currently docked in a military shipyard at the Port of Los Angeles, and Buchanan heads out to send Tactical teams in that direction. I guess he's not bothering to call port security, because we'll soon see that they all went home or something. Kiefer tells CTU to hold on and turns to Henderson to ask what kind of armament package a Delta-IV sub carries. Off the top of his head, Henderson happens to know that such a craft is armed with twelve Scorpion missiles. They're not nuclear, but they carry multiple warheads and each one could flatten several city blocks. Sounds like Bierko's speed. Kiefer hears the CTU helicopter approaching, and orders Henderson uncuffed. Over the phone, Kiefer tells Hayes to put him in touch with the ranking U.S. officer on board the Natalya so he can tell him to lock out the ship's weapons systems. How reassuring to know that they haven't already done that. Hayes says she'll have Audrey take care of it and get back to Kiefer. Kiefer leads Henderson over to the helicopter. "The deal was Bierko's head on a plate," he reminds Henderson. But is this really the best time to go plate-shopping? Actually, Kiefer says Henderson is coming along because he knows the weapons systems. They climb into the helicopter, and they're airborne at 4:56:26.
Audrey calls Kiefer's cell phone, and she conferences in the ranking American officer on the Natalya, a Lieutenant Southern. Kiefer tells the Lieutenant to lock down the sub, and tells him what's going on. After relaying the orders to the American and Russian officers in the room, Southern asks Kiefer for more specifics, and is told that the terrorists are after the sub's weapons. Southern scoffs, saying that unauthorized civilians would never be able to just walk into a military shipyard on an ordinary day, let alone at five in the morning during a citywide curfew. Okay, actually he doesn't. In fact, he seems a little worried. "I'm going to check right now," Southern says, and hangs up the phone. Uh, bye! On his way to the hatch, Southern takes a pistol out of the small arms locker. Upon reaching the hatch, he looks up and sees nothing. He picks up an extension, which is still apparently connected to Audrey and Kiefer (whew!), to say that he's checking up top. Tucking the pistol in the back of his waistband, he heads up the ladder. And no sooner does he stick his head out than Bierko, standing on the hull with a couple of his guys, blows two holes in it. I wonder how many platoons of soldiers they had to fight through to get this far? Never mind; we'll never find out, so the answer might as well be zero. Kiefer quickly figures out things have gone from bad to worse, and tells Audrey to call the Department of Defense. "Captain, we need to move," he tells the pilot.