Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Carry-on Kiefer
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.23.2006
Kiefer tells Audrey what's happening, and she asks, "Why aren't you going now?" Obviously he doesn't want to leave her alone with Henderson, considering the likelihood that if he does that, one of them is going kill the other. But she's insisting that she'll be fine, and that Kiefer doesn't have time to wait around. "If you don't get that recording, my father will have died for nothing." At 1:23:22, he walks over to where Henderson left his clip and his gun. He loads the weapon and sets it down next to Audrey, telling her not to interact with Henderson in any way when he wakes up. He adds that Henderson's guys are probably looking for him, and monitoring cell phone traffic to do it. "Which means you can't receive or make any calls unless they come from me." He hands her the phone he took off of Heller's dead Secret Service agent. "I don't feel right about this," he says, but she bravely assures him that she'll be fine. He touches her cheek with a hand that's still covered in her blood, and then hugs her tight, telling her he's sorry. She tells him to go. "Make sure you get that recording," she orders. He says he will, and heads out. It's 1:24:32.
We're back at 1:28:54, as Slime struts into Hayes's office. He's just gotten word that Bierko has regained consciousness in the CTU clinic, but they still have to wait for the doctors' word that he's well enough to be tortured. And he's got "better" news: the takeover by Homeland Security is now complete, he smirks proudly. Hayes noncommittally takes the folder he's giving her, and he's clearly hurt that she isn't more impressed with him. She apologizes for her distractedness and explains that she's still trying to figure out what's going on with Logan and Kiefer, since they reported Kiefer's location to the Prez over an hour ago. "We should have heard something by now," she frets, and complains that it's still not making any sense to her that they were given responsibility for finding Kiefer and then pulled off at the last minute. "We're out of that loop," Slime points out. The "Pay attention to MEEEEEE" is silent, of course.
Then a call comes in from Valerie, the blonde Homeland Security agent who was following Audrey last hour. By now, she's back on the CTU floor, and she's calling to report that Chloe's gone from her holding room. Slime demands to know how that could be, and clearly he hasn't noticed his keycard's absence in the last hour either. Valerie says that all she knows is that surveillance tapes show Chloe having a conversation with New Girl Shari right before she left, and that Shari let her go. So naturally a security guard is looming over Shari at her desk right now. Hayes orders Shari brought up to her office immediately, and tells Slime that they have to concentrate on finding Chloe. Slime figures that Chloe's probably not only in contact with Kiefer, but remotely using CTU resources to help him. She'll be trying to hide her activities, but Slime boasts, "I can trace her physical location by looking at the binaries." Okay, even I know that's bullshit. But Hayes unleashes him toward his work station.