Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | 399 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Nuclear Winner
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2007.04.09
At 10:33:16, Fayed directs the driver of the armored car to pull into a handy parking garage to await Habib's call. Kiefer and Doyle's pickup pulls to a stop one corner behind. Jamal tries again to get Fayed to lead them to his men, but Fayed still refuses. He asks why he's never heard of Jamal or his cell. "This is going south, Jack," Doyle whines to Kiefer, who tells him to be patient. Patient like Kiefer. Jamal gives Fayed the whole spiel about how cells are kept in ignorance of one another to protect themselves and the operation, which Fayed well knows. Jamal's phone rings. He speaks Arabic into it for a moment, then holds it out to Fayed. "The general," he says. I'm impressed that he doesn't seem more surprised. Fayed takes the phone, and he has a conversation in Arabic with his boss back in Mideastia. We see Habib looking beaten and bloody in some Mideastian prison as Nadia simultaneously translates the conversation over the radio for Doyle and Kiefer and CTU. And how awesome would it be if Fayed asked, "Who is that woman speaking?" Instead, he asks if Habib sent the men who rescued him. Habib looks over across the room to where Mideastian soldiers are holding guns to the heads of two boys, presumably Habib's sons. At least they weren't just pulled randomly off the street, because Habib answers Fayed's query in the affirmative. He asks after the status of the nukes. Fayed says he's got two left at a safe house, and when Habib asks why Fayed hasn't used them, Fayed tries to blame Gredenko. Habib isn't buying it. He blames Fayed, and says he should have sent somebody named Samir instead. Then he tells Fayed to meet up with his men and call Habib back for a new target. Fayed acknowledges and hangs up. "Are we good?" Jamal smirks at Fayed. Fayed tells the driver to head east at 10:36:05, and Kiefer and Doyle follow while Buchanan says he'll update Wayne.