Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Poison
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.23.2009
Meanwhile, at the port, the Starkwood group has split up. Some of them (and Carl) are watching as a tall forklift picks up a container, and some others are hooking a trailer chassis up to the semi tractor. Apparently the port has a supply of those, just for situations like this when someone shows up with a truck but nothing to set a container on. Stokes orders the Starkwood container put down on another container for now, then orders one of his men, Mitch, to "run a diagnostic" so it'll be ready when the truck gets there. He's pretty angry about it, too. While this is going on, Tony and Kiefer are lurking in the shadows between the containers, watching the proceedings. "We should get back to the car," Tony whispers. "We want to be in position to follow that container once they move out." Kiefer's not ready for that, though. "Just give me one second," he says. Out in the lot, Stokes sends a big guy named Cooper to "settle up" with Carl, and Cooper leads Carl off, claiming to be taking him to his truck with Carl's money in it. As they go to the next aisle, Kiefer leads Tony between the containers to where they can see what's happening. Which is Cooper pulling a gun on Carl. Kiefer gets in position and attaches a silencer to his gun. "Dammit, Jack, what are you doing?" Tony asks angrily. "You're going to turn a surveillance job into a firefight." And? Wouldn't be the first time. "It'll be two against ten," Tony adds. "Two against nine," Kiefer corrects laconically. Or three against nine, if Carl steps up, but I don't think we'll be able to count on that. Tony says it might cost them the bioweapon. "Don't break your own rules. You may save one man, but what about the thousands of people who could die in a biological attack? Is this about you, Jack, or about them? You want to prevent another disaster or ensure that it's gonna happen?" Tony, dude, keep your voice down. Kiefer lowers his gun. He knows Tony has a point, but at the same time he's thinking, If I don't save Carl, there's this red-haired FBI agent who's going to smack me so hard.
Cooper decides Carl has walked far enough, and tells him to turn around. "You're gonna kill me, you're gonna have to look me in the eye," Carl says. "Okay," Cooper shrugs, and raises his gun. But when the shot comes, it's Cooper who goes down. "Oh, dammit!" Tony hisses. "Thank you," Carl calls into the shadows, and runs off. Awesome: now Carl's twin daughters won't have to grow up without a daddy, as long as they don't mind spending the rest of his life with him on the run or in prison. Kiefer tells Tony -- who isn't wasting time with recriminations, just concentrating on what has to be done now -- that they have thirty seconds before Stokes and his men figure out what happened, and now they're just going to have to steal the truck. "I'll make the direct assault, you cover the east flank. All we need is a big enough firefight to get one of us behind the wheel." And life is going to suck for the other one. They duck back between the trailers.