Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT What is it with chicks, man?
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.26.2006
But Hayes disagrees. She's been watching with Buchanan in his office, and she's not satisfied that Kiefer "pushed" Audrey hard enough. What, you wanted her to go through the wall? Despite Buchanan's arguments, she orders Burke sent in to do his thing. I don't think Buchanan's a bad guy, but I'd be a lot more impressed if he told Hayes to do it her own damn self. It's 9:20:27.
Chloe gets off the phone with someone, and informs Shari that CTU has located Bierko's bunker, now empty. I guess they gave up on burning it down, then. She adds that Forensics is there, but they don't expect to find much aside from a bunch of spent matches and empty lighters. Shari just keeps staring at Chloe like she's waiting for more. "Upload that information onto the subnets," Chloe duhs, and Shari gets to it. Yeah, Shari, people don't just tell each other shit around here for purposes of exposition.
But before Shari can accomplish more than a few keystrokes, Slime appears at her side, smugly saying she doesn't have the clearance level for what she's doing. Ah, so they do know each other. Shari says it's a provisional qualification, stated in her supplemental file. "All right, Shari," Slime says, leaning in close. He's put a hand on the armrest of her chair, which he quickly pulls away again as though it's hot. "First mistake, I yank the provisional and you're out of here," he hisses at her before stomping off. Shari watches him go. Chloe comes over to Shari and asks, "What's with him?" Uh...he's hateful? But Shari has a longer explanation. It seems they worked together in the San Francisco office two years ago (CTU or DHS? Don't care) and there was a "sexual harassment thing." "Miles?" Chloe wonders confusedly, as surprised as anyone to hear any suggestion that her new nemesis likes girls. Shari says it was subtle at first, then got really bad. I can imagine. They probably started dishing about their favorite Tom Cruise movies, and then he started pressuring her to dress like Tom Cruise. Anyway, Slime got off with a warning (which seems like the kind of thing that would get him off), although Shari doesn't want to say much more. "Don't worry, I don't need details," Chloe assures her. Shari nervously comments, "I guess I better not make any mistakes." Which is when she totally loses Chloe, who says, "Yeah," like Bitch, when was that not the case?
Kiefer's leading Audrey back out towards the floor, but Buchanan meets them at the mouth of the hallway and apologizes that Audrey's not done yet. Kiefer insists that Audrey is, steering her right around Buchanan and onto the floor. But it's there that they meet up with Burke, carrying his case and flanked by two Whiteshirts. Burke says he's got orders to interrogate Audrey, but Kiefer's unimpressed. "Get out of my way," he tells Burke, who sets his jaw and tries to look intimidating, like he hasn't spent his day getting bested by blown-up guys and his own torture victims. The standoff only lasts a couple of seconds before one of the guards makes a move for Kiefer, and then it's on. While Kiefer's busy with the two guards and Buchanan's begging him not to make it worse, Burke wades in with a taser and zaps Kiefer to the floor. Finally, the man does something right. Shari watches this in shock from across the floor, like, come on, New Girl, you haven't heard stories? While Kiefer's subdued, Audrey is dragged back to holding by other guards, calling to Buchanan for help the whole way and followed by Burke and his case. Buchanan is singularly unhelpful. And of course Hayes saw the whole thing from her office on high. It's 9:22:44.