Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Time for Plan E
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.27.2009
"You of all people should understand," Hodges tells Kiefer, overestimating the damage that the pathogen has done to Kiefer's brain. Hodges starts to get under Kiefer's skin as he says that he watched the hearings that morning. "You should be regarded as a hero, not a criminal." "I broke the law," Kiefer points out, not liking to agree with Hodges on anything, up to and including his own awesomeness. "You were following your instinct to protect your country. Just like me," Hodges claims. Bored with this, Kiefer demands names. Instead, Hodges laments his lot in life some more, now that he's got an audience again. "The government used us to great effect, and now they think they can just throw us away." Kiefer asks if this is really about money. Hodges says, "I tried to tell the politicians how vulnerable we are, but they wouldn't listen, so we decided to show them." "By attacking your own country with a biological weapon? By killing innocent people?" Kiefer asks incredulously. Hodges claims it was for the greater good. Hmm, who else is a big fan of the greater good? Hodges doesn't make us puzzle that out for long. "Having the courage to make those hard choices gives us a lot in common, Mr. Bauer," he says. Kiefer takes extreme exception to that, as he should. After all, he never took things quite so far as to prove threats against the country by manufacturing them, let alone carrying them out. "All that you have done today is create a scenario by attacking your own country that has made you valuable again," Kiefer says. "Today has been nothing short of a desperate grab for power, and it has failed. You have failed." Once again he asks for names, and Hodges yells that he doesn't know any. So Kiefer dials his cell phone and says, "Patch me through to Amy Meyer at the Washington Post." Of course he's bluffing, because he just dialed Walker's phone, and plus whatever State of Play may or may not want us to believe, I don't think you can get a newspaper reporter on the line at 3:30 in the morning. But he sells it pretty hard. "Amy, it's Jack, I have a statement I need to make," he says. Hodges desperately begs him to wait, and again swears he doesn't have any names. "We never met in person." So how did this group get together in the first place? Ads in Soldier of Fortune magazine? A flyer on the bulletin board at the shooting range? Free Republic.com? "Everything was handled through an intermediary," Hodges says. "A woman. She never told me who she was. Se never told me her name. I never asked her." He confirms that it's the same woman who gave him the suicide pill. So how do the members of this Group know they can trust each other when they don't even know who the rest of them are? Hell, for all we know, half of them probably think they're playing some elaborate online game. Walker looks at the monitors and taps on the one-way glass. After pretending to let his fake WaPo reporter off the line but before leaving the room, Kiefer tells Hodges, "You tell yourself whatever you want. You are a traitor." Hodges reminds Kiefer of the witness protection deal, and Kiefer leaves the room. Oddly, he forgets to stick his head back in and ask, "So, when your guys were working on that pathogen, they didn't happen to stumble on antidote or anything, did they?"