Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Day 5: 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 14 | Aired on March 19, 2006
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Even though Henderson was able to make good his escape, Chloe was able to decrypt one of his files and generate a new lead: one Colette Stenger, the tall French chick who's selling schematics to Bierko. Kiefer and Curtis pay a visit to her hotel room, but all they find is her Eurotrash boyfriend, Theo -- who turns out to be from German Intelligence, working undercover to bust Colette and flush out her worldwide terrorist contacts. But if you think Theo's going to team up with Kiefer, think again. In order to get Theo to give up Colette, Kiefer has to buy him off with America's tippy-top-secret list of terrorist contacts. This deeply pisses off Homeland Security boss Karen Hayes, even as she and her slimy IT guy are busy taking over CTU. Speaking of takeovers, Vice President Gardner is smirking away over Logan's declaration of martial law. And Wayne Palmer heads for Not Camp David to make a mysterious delivery to Aaron, but a hit squad drives him off the road and forces him to flee through the night on foot. But back to Kiefer, who ends up nabbing Colette, and makes an apologetic phone call to Theo after the memory card containing that list blows up in Theo's PDA. So what vital information does Kiefer get from Colette? Well, she doesn't know where Bierko is now, she doesn't know where his target is, she doesn't even know what she sold him; all she knows is the name of the person who sold her the highly secure schematics of Bierko's primary target. That source? Audrey Raines.
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Tony gets his own freeze frame in the previouslies this week. Enjoy it, because it's his last one.
And, as if to prove it, we open on Tony's mortal remains on the floor of the CTU clinic, his face being covered by a sheet. I hope they have a lot of sheets in this building. Kiefer stands by watching, having recovered from his crying jag in the past two minutes. Audrey comes in and expresses her sympathies, but Kiefer blows right by that and asks if Henderson has been found yet. Oh, yeah, that guy. Audrey says that Henderson managed to squeak out during the tiny window between lockdowns, take a car from the parking lot, and abandon it a block away. She doesn't say whether the car then blew up or not. But the good news is that Chloe was able to decrypt one of Henderson's computer files and find someone connected to Bierko. Audrey hands Kiefer a dossier on the tall French chick from late last hour. "Who's Collette Stenger?" Kiefer asks, and Audrey says she's an "international intelligence broker. State secrets, intellectual property." Which Audrey totally only knows from the dossier, of course. Never heard of her otherwise. She says that Interpol has records of Collette meeting with Bierko twice in the past eight months. Done! Audrey tells Kiefer that Collette's registered at an L.A. hotel, and that Curtis is prepping a tactical team to pay her a visit. Kiefer thanks Audrey and whips out his cell phone to call Curtis and invite himself along. So nobody cares that Henderson is on the loose? At the very least, Kiefer should be on the lookout for the next gratuitous attempt on his own life.
Out at Not Camp David, Logan's press secretary steps up to a podium to address the reporters assembled outside in the back yard. As far as I know, it's the same ones who have been there all day. I wonder how far away they got before they had to turn around and come back? Inside the house, President Logan is pacing around and worrying about how unpopular his impending announcement is going to be, while Vice-President Gardner assures him that it's the right move. Just then, the First Lady comes in and asks to talk to her husband alone. The Veep tries to blow her off, but she insists, and Logan okays it. Bold move, Chuck, standing up to the Veep like that.
Once it's just the Logans in the room, Martha tells the President that CTU has a new lead on the nerve gas. Wow, she's in the loop, isn't she? Even CTU didn't find out about CTU's new lead until a minute ago. Of course, Martha still isn't on board with the whole martial-law thing that Logan's about to announce: "Has it ever occurred to you that he proposed this whole thing to set you up for a fall?