Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Do-Over
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 10 | Aired on 02.23.2009
The Dubaku-mobile comes to a halt against a UPS truck. From atop the car, Walker tells Kiefer what just happened and they sprint down the street toward it, weapons out, waving aside the looky-loos converging on the scene. While running, Kiefer tells Moss over his earpiece that they'll need an ambulance, and Moss reaches for the phone. As Kiefer approaches the crashed car, the driver kicks out the shattered windshield and rolls out with a bashed-in head. Kiefer tells him to stay down, but he'd rather reach for his gun. Eventually he does go down, when Kiefer shoots him a few times. Kiefer pulls an unconscious Dubaku from the wreck and lays him out on the sidewalk. But Walker's not having as much luck pulling Marika free. Plus the car is on fire, which adds a certain amount of urgency. "Get out of there!" Kiefer yells at her. When she keeps trying to wrestle Marika's motionless form out of the car, he gets up to try to pull her away. She's in no mood for his shit right now, and she draws her gun on him. "I gave her my word, so back off or help me!" she yells. Kiefer looks over the wreck, and decides to try going in through the smashed tailgate. He helps Walker free Marika's pinned leg, and follows them out the windshield as the flames get higher. They drag Marika as far as they can before the car blows up, sending all three of them to the pavement. Kiefer returns to Dubaku, who fortunately hasn't woken up and run off, and bitches at Moss about why their ambulance isn't there yet, two minutes after their call. Walker, meanwhile, is giving Marika some TV-style chest compressions, but after a few seconds she gives it up as hopeless. Kiefer at least has the grace to look over and feel bad about it. Either her injuries from the crash were too severe, or Walker and Kiefer did her in when the explosion caused them to drop her in the street on her face. It's 5:12:15.At 5:16:42, Ethan is giving Taylor an update on the invasion of Sangala in the hospital's family waiting room. Apparently the operation is going so well it should be over within the hour. I can only assume that means that American soldiers are being teleported into the country. Taylor clearly isn't hearing a word of this, almost as if she's got something else on her mind. So Ethan decides to put off the briefing until later. Although at the rate the operation is going, Prime Minister Matobo will be back in his office and asking for help with rebuilding by the time they come back around to the subject. Ethan asks her all friend-like, "You want to talk about it?" Taylor's feeling guilty about Henry; in fact, she says his current predicament is her fault. Does that mean all his other predicaments today were her fault? Because that's kind of a lot for one person to take on. Ethan points out that she wasn't exactly alone in not believing Henry, but she says that as his wife, she should have trusted him. Yes, what a shame that in the first half of the season we didn't see her doing stuff like helping Henry stalk her dead son's girlfriend instead of dealing with geopolitical crises and terror threats. That would have been much more interesting.