Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Class Reunion, Without the Class
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 2 | Aired on 01.11.2009
Kiefer asks Kilman, "Agent Walker, she's good, huh?" Kilman confirms it. "She understands what it takes to get the job done." Whatever that means. Having made friends with the guy, Kiefer asks permission to get some air, and gets it. He climbs out of the truck and wanders across the alley. Walker spots him and goes up to tell him about the JFK thing, like it's his fault his supposedly dead ex-friend went off the rails. Kiefer listens to her for about two seconds before Tanner happens to walk out of the building right behind her. Kiefer immediately notices Tanner's tan boots, a marked contrast to all the businesslike black shoes being worn by every G-man and -woman in sight. Kiefer quietly tells Walker, "I don't want you to do anything now, but see that man walking away? That's your shooter." Which just makes it even more of a shame that Kiefer so often relies on torture in his investigations rather than his keen eye for footwear. Walker wonders how the suspect got out of the building. Kiefer doesn't: "One of your people helped him get through the perimeter." While he watches Tanner walk down the alley toward the street, he sends her to check the deployment grid. She's enough of a grown-up not to be offended by the idea of someone who ever worked for CTU criticizing someone else's perimeter. "You're right, he's not one of ours," she reports back after a moment. "We'll follow him, see if he leads us back to Almeida." She starts to call Agent Dornan over, but Kiefer tells her not to. "Not until you know how badly the Bureau's been compromised. We can do this on our own." His subtle but relentless campaign to recruit her to the dark side continues. Dornan arrives, and Walker gives him some busywork to do before striding off in the direction Tanner just took. "You made the right call," Kiefer congratulates her. "Together, we will rule the galaxy!" As they see Tanner hopping into that waiting gray Ford, she commandeers another agent's car, tosses the keys to Kiefer without a word, and jumps into the shotgun seat as they take off to tail Tanner. It's 9:28:24.
At 9:34:22, we're suddenly in some high-tech command center. And you'll never guess who else is there: Colonel Ike Dubaku from Sangala, who we last saw about six feet from an anti-personnel mine seconds before it detonated underneath Robert Carlyle. He looks none the worse for wear, even decked out in a snazzy suit and tie. He and Nichols, the guy who was Chris's boss at the brokerage firm in "Redemption" but has apparently taken today off work (like that won't be suspicious), are watching a breaking news report about the near miss at JFK with approval. Emerson walks in with his goons and Latham, who he tells, "Do as you're told, you stay alive." Latham is bundled off, and Emerson approaches Dubaku to show off the module. "Very effective," Dubaku agrees. "General Juma will be pleased." The module is now apparently not the electronic component itself, but a little Lucite block that pops right out of it so Emerson can hand it to Dubaku. Emerson tells Dubaku, "And I've brought the man who constructed it here, in case any modification's necessary." Value-added service, right there. Nichols suggests that this might be a good time for Dubaku to present his demands to Taylor. "Make the preparations," Dubaku says. "Your government killed my brother and they tried to kill me." Is that how he sees it? Because the way I see it, those weren't the acts of the U.S. government but the faculty of a tiny school in the African boonies. Dubaku threatens, "Now they are going to pay a very steep price for interfering in our affairs."