Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | 113 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Walker Hard
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2010.01.18
7:27:14. Chloe stands outside enjoying the nighttime view of the Manhattan skyline and the wind from a chopper landing on the helipad. Out climbs Renee Walker, with a very serious expression on her face, not to say haunted. A more worrying sign of her damaged state is the fact that that formerly spectacular hair of hers is all pinned together in a messy updo. "Hey, Renee, it's good to see you," Chloe says. "This way." Walker silently follows her to the elevator hut. While they wait for the lift, Walker finally mutters, "Didn't know you were back at CTU." Chloe explains about Morris losing his job and her ending up here. So that pretty much exhausts that topic, and Walker doesn't seem all that invested in keeping the conversation afloat. Even Chloe can't deal with that much uncomfortable silence on the ride down, and she says she heard Walker worked for a security firm. "Didn't work out," Walker grunts. I bet her coworkers miss her terribly.
At 7:28:54, Hassan is in Hastings' office to share his theory about how Davros might have come in contact with weapons-grade uranium. It's actually pretty simple: Hassan's country was working on the Bomb, came up short on fissile material, and then Farhad was approached by someone claiming to have access to some old Soviet stuff. Hassan, whose already-giant pompadour actually seems to be visibly growing in this scene, thinks it was the same people who were behind the assassination plot. Hastings asks Hassan if he has any idea where the stuff is now. Hassan reasonably points out, "That man was contaminated recently. Doesn't that mean the materials are here in the U.S.?" Hastings has the grace to look not only disgusted but embarrassed that Hassan has to do his job for him. As is always necessary when transitioning from one crisis to another in mid-season, Hassan lays out the stakes: "We must find the Russians before they can get the uranium to my brother." Because a wanted international fugitive is just a couple of coolers of fissile material away from becoming a one-man nuclear power. Wouldn't it be easier to just freeze his accounts or something?