Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT End of the Line
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.11.2009
She promises that there's no need to have Tony killed. "Trust me. We've got another play." "You better have," Wilson threatens.At the airport, the gate agent announces that the plane is on its way. Spawn's new friend's husband, who's working really hard to be goofy with zero material, says he'll believe it when he sees it and offers to go for coffee. "Your husband's really nice," Spawn says when he's gone. "He has his moments," the woman agrees. Spawn asks her to watch her bag while she hits the restroom. That doesn't seem like it's in the interests of aviation security.
At 5:46:16, Spawn strolls down the crowded concourse. The FBI agent watches her go, checks his watch with concern, then goes into the men's room himself. Someone enters behind him and washes his hands, which is enough time for the agent to have completed the fastest pee ever. No wonder there are no bathroom breaks on this show; they happen so fast you practically have to freeze-frame to catch them. But when he comes back to the sink area, who should grab him from behind and start garroting him but the goofy husband of Spawn's new friend. Yeah, who's goofy now? Despite the crowds in the terminal outside, the bathroom stays empty enough for his assailant to drag him to the open stall of the far end of the bathroom, although he quickly gets impatient with the agent's lame attempts to grab his long hair, and snaps his neck. He pulls the body into the stall, closes the door and locks it from inside, then hops the wall into the adjoining stall and walks out like nothing happened besides his hair getting messed up. It's 5:47:33.
At 5:51:53, Olivia returns to her office to find Aaron standing outside it with his most severe look. Knowing she's n trouble, she addresses him as Agent Pierce and promises it won't happen again. "No, ma'am, it won't," Aaron says, "or you'll need to find someone else to do this job." He wants to know why she left, and Olivia gets emotional as she comes clean -- sort of: "Everything that's happened today -- being held hostage, Jonas Hodges's murder, and seeing my father so weak and vulnerable -- I was feeling overwhelmed. Aaron, I'm trying to live up to my mother's expectations. And I didn't want her, or anyone else for that matter, to know I was being affected by the pressure. I hope you can understand that." Aaron softens, and says he gets it, and asks if she's feeling all right now. Olivia says she is. "I guess I just needed to tell someone what was going on with me. I'm glad it was someone I could trust." Aaron thanks her, and opens the door for her. She thanks him right back before stepping inside.
But Aaron wasn't fished in, whatever his asymmetrical mouth might indicate. No sooner has he closed the door than he pulls out his cell phone and calls Ethan Kanin, directly, at 5:54:14. Ethan's reading his newspaper in an armchair in front of the cold fireplace when the phone rigs, and assures Aaron he didn't wake him. Aaron breathlessly asks Ethan about some "modifications to the Chief of Staff's office." He's referring to a voice-activated recording system. Sounds like Mike Novick's speed. Ethan says he used it too, and Aaron asks if it's still up and running, and how he can access the recordings. Ethan says his own thumbprint is required and says, "If you want my help, you're going to have to tell me what this is about." Aaron doesn't want to say on the phone, but Ethan promises to be at the White House within a half hour. By now, Ethan's had time to think about the circumstances under which he left. Yes, he resigned because he'd become a liability to the administration. But it's almost certainly occurred to him to think back to the likes of Tom Lennox, Walt Cummings, Wayne Palmer, and Mike Novick, and realize that being a liability is what White House Chiefs of Staff do. By that measure, Olivia's misdeeds probably land her squarely in the middle of the pack.
Inside that office, Olivia has the bank transfer window open again on her laptop. And in addition to being on the hook for a murder she decided she didn't want and now regrets, she's paying a quarter of a million dollars for the privilege. Talk about buyer's remorse.
At FBI-DC, Janis and Chloe are wrapping up some vital business, which is Janis trying to get Chloe to say something like, "Good job, Janis, on technobabbling the technobabble, or just maybe I should have considered the possibility that you might actually know what you're doing." Chloe explains, "You don't know me, but if you did, you would understand that this is the last place you should look for any type of validation." "How about just acknowledging you were wrong?" Janis snaps shrilly. Chloe doesn't bother replying -- by now, that photo of the Faux-yer from the White House security entrance is up on the screen, so she hits enter.
Back at the scene, Kiefer comes up to where Moran is showing Jibraan that photo on the laptop. He recognizes her, but describes what she was wearing when he last saw her. "Jibraan, your brother's here," Kiefer says. Moran must be like, "Thanks for interrupting my debrief, dude." Jibraan runs over to the SUV that's pulling up, which Hamid and Gohar are getting out of. The brothers hug, and Gohar gives Kiefer a grateful nod. Kiefer nods back, and allows himself a small smile as he turns away from the sight of the three men hugging. Kiefer couldn't even scare up one guy to hug right now; all his male friends are now either dead or evil.