Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Die Hard At CTU
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.06.2007
Back at Cheng's hideout, the hot head commando -- who, according to the closed captioning, is named Zhou -- shows Cheng his GameBoy with a map of the "target." He complains that there's only one entry point. "Yes, but it will put you in optimal position for a quick, surgical strike," Cheng assures him. We will shortly see that when they say "surgical," they're using the word in the medieval sense.
Outside the Bloomfield Copper refinery at 2:20:27, a whole fleet of CTUmobiles comes to a halt, disgorging Doyle and every armored CTU agent still awake at this hour. Better hope nobody makes a move on CTU with all the hard-asses out of the building.
Inside Cheng's hideout, Zhou warns Cheng that people are going to die in this operation. Cheng is large with not caring.
At CTU, Morris reports that Doyle's teams are moving in. And we can see them cutting through the chains securing the gates so that they can drive their CTUmobiles onto the grounds. Meanwhile, Cheng is telling Zhou that his objective is to "obtain the package." Zhou doesn't look like the kind of guy who has any worries in the package department.
Doyle's men blow the doors and pour into the building. Which, as you've already figured out by the fact that I've been saying "Bloomfield" and "Cheng's hideout" non-interchangeably, is empty. Your sneaky intercuts can't fool us anymore, 24. Meanwhile, Cheng's commando squad gets ready to descend ropes through a hole in the concrete floor and into the sewer lines, which will take them 180 meters to the target. "Don't let me down," Cheng tells Zhou. They start dropping down into the ankle-deep sewage. Do they plan to attack the target with poo?
Meanwhile, Doyle and his men have finally gotten the memo that there are no humans in the building. There is, however, a hell of a clue: a giant pile of empty munitions crates. Seriously, there's a mountain of wooden boxes so huge that I don't see how fewer than a hundred people could be carrying it all. Unless there was a hell of a lot of bubble wrap in there. At 2:22:46, Doyle pulls out his cell phone and calls Nadia to tell her that Cheng's not there. "If they haven't hit one of our roadblocks, then I'm guessing they got out before we could lock down the perimeter," says Doyle. Before they could lock down the perimeter? Why not just say "before the sun cooled"? Doyle tells her about the empty crates he found, which tell him that there's a small army wandering around the city fully jacked. He thinks they're planning a large-scale assault. "Assault on what?" Nadia wonders.