Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Swap Meet
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.22.2007
Kiefer comes to on the floor of the hotel. From his mostly hidden position, he can see two Chinese guys who are still in there, for some reason, instead of shooting at Americans or running away. Kiefer takes them both down without bothering to get up. He gets to his feet with his weapon still at the ready, but by this time nobody's left on the scene but CTU guys. They make him drop his weapon with what is either a hail of warning shots or an incredibly inaccurate shoot-to-kill salvo. They grab him and force him to the ground. "Who is your commanding officer?" Kiefer demands. Doyle comes in, all, "That would be me, dude." He asks where the circuit board is. Kiefer says that Cheng's got it, and that he was all ready to blow up the whole building until Doyle started shooting. He hands Doyle the detonator to prove it. Doyle tells Kiefer that Cheng escaped out the back, and makes sure that CTU got the message as well. Nadia acknowledges, and says that two more CTU choppers are on their way, and all they know for now is that Cheng escaped in "three black Hummers! In the mountains! Off road! Traveling north!" And, by the way, Nadia wants Doyle to arrest Kiefer now. After Doyle buzzes off the comm. call, Kiefer is all pissed at Doyle: "I had this handled! Why the hell didn't you listen to me?" Uh, because everyone was listening to the acting President of the United States. He outranks even you, Kiefer. Still, this is quite a screw-up on CTU's part no matter how you look at it. They might want to bring back Buchanan so that they can fire him again. Kiefer lets Doyle cuff him as other agents bundle Audrey into the building. Kiefer's first concern is for her, and he reassures her that she's safe. She robotically babbles, "Help me, Jack. Please don't let them do this to me." Finally, Kiefer figures out that Audrey's belt isn't currently going through all the loops. As Doyle tells his men to put Audrey in a chair and tries to hustle Kiefer out, Kiefer begs Doyle to help her. Doyle promises to do so. Audrey sits in her chair and pulls her feet up on the seat so that she can be fetal while she mutters. Even the musical score agrees that her elevator doesn't reach the top floor, as it chimes in with some of those random pizzicato string arpeggios that mean "bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs." So now they have to find the component and Audrey's marbles. It's 1:00:00.