Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Busted…Sort Of
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.20.2009
"Agent Moss is dead," Park blurts. "What?" Walker gasps. Park tells her about Moss and the chopper pilot, and that Tony's wounded but alive. Walker manages to ask about Galvez, and Park assures her that he can't have gotten far, and they're still looking. "How do you want to proceed?" "Me?" Walker asks. "You're the ranking agent in charge now," Park informs her. That's handy. Obviously the chain of command at FBI goes by number of lines. Although I shouldn't complain; the alternative would be the predictable route of bringing in some temporary, by-the-book, stick-up-the-ass interim manager that they'd just have to break in all over again, slowly helping him win over the audience until finally one day he goes and blows himself up inside the White House. Walker manages to give some orders and promise to be there soon with a team. Park says he's got enough people without her showing up (apparently the Starkwood compound is pretty much taking care of itself now, less than an hour after its liberation), but Walker insists that she's on her way. Janis, who's heard only Walker's end of the conversation, worriedly asks, "Larry?" Walker tells her what happened, and Janis says, "Oh, God," pulling off her headset. With a tear trickling down her face, Walker tells Janis to call the White House, have Dr. Macer send out a hazmat team, and put together a team to head out with Walker. Janis says she's sorry, and Walker says someone needs to tell Moss's ex-wife. "Probably shouldn't be me." Janis is on it, even though Walker's last line conveyed a surprising amount of new information. New, at least, to us.
In the FBI debriefing room, Kiefer is pouring himself a glass of water with shaking hands as the FBI stenographer says they're up to 3:00 PM (dude, Kiefer's been talking fast) and maybe it would be a good time for a break. Kiefer declines. "We need to finish this while I still can," he says. And at this rate, it's going to take another seven minutes. The agent brings up the intel about the White House attack. "Tony Almeida provided me with the intel, but we did not know the White House was the intended target at the time," Kiefer explains. The agent asks Kiefer who Tony's source was, and even though we never saw him give Kiefer a name, Kiefer's able to come up with one: "Vincent Cardiff." Upon being asked if he talked to Cardiff himself, Kiefer says, "He didn't survive Tony's interrogation. But he was the one who provided us with the intel on the upcoming attack. We did not know that the White House was the intended target at that time." He keeps repeating that, until the agent offers the break again. Kiefer apologizes, and just then a guy comes in to deliver some data files to the agent. Through the open door of the debriefing room, Kiefer can see armored FBI agents milling around in the hallway. Which wouldn't necessarily mean anything, given all their comings and goings tonight, except that he overhears them saying something about Agent Walker having their assignments. So Kiefer gets up at 2:10:27 and walks out into the hallway to investigate. Soon he finds himself in the bullpen, where a flak-jacketed Walker is briefing her troops. As the huddle breaks, Kiefer intercepts Walker and asks what's going on. He walks with her down the hallway as she explains about Galvez, who's trapped inside a perimeter with a canister of the bioweapon. "Is Larry in command of the perimeter?" Kiefer asks. "Larry was killed in a firefight," Walker says matter-of-factly. "What?" Kiefer gasps, grabbing her arm to stop her, and possibly also because he's annoyed at her for burying the lede like that. She says that Tony was wounded and is still at the scene. "Larry's dead?" Kiefer repeats. Do try to keep up, Kiefer. Walker confirms it and shakes him off so she can head out. Kiefer goes running off in the other direction, probably to return to his debriefing so he can finish it up in time for the next commercial.