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
Back at the sub, Bierko and his guys don full-face gas masks. For some reason, this fails to open the fresh stitches on Bierko's face, or even appear to bother him. His henchman hands him the beeping and blinking Sentox canister, which Bierko drops down the hatch into the sub. Careful, it might break! Two of his men close the hatch and lock it down, as the canister opens up next to Southern's body and starts releasing gas.
Splitscreen! Kiefer asks his pilot how much further, and is told five minutes. At Not Camp David, FLOTUS finds Novick, but he's in talking to Logan, so she can't get to him right now. Russian and American submariners start succumbing to the gas, which seems to work faster every time. And Aaron wraps the body of Agent Adams in the plastic trunk liner that was meant for him. Looks like our prediction about Adams came true faster than anyone could have suspected.
Satisfied that the Sentox has already done its work, Bierko's men open the sub's hatch again. Aside from a suspiciously small number of corpses, the masked terrorists have the boat to themselves as they make their way to the control room at 4:59:02. Bierko finds a computer terminal and orders, "Read me the code we got from Malina." I could have figured that out, dudesky. The henchman obliges, Bierko types in a series of Cyrillic characters, and they're in, just like that. Bierko asks his walkie-talkie if the sub's missiles are loaded yet. At the other end of the radio connection, more of Bierko's guys are loading the torpedo tubes. And not with flowers and candy, either. It's 5:00:00. Don't forget -- the finale's next, it's a two-fer, and it starts an hour early. I'd hate for you to miss episode 23 and have to rely on me.