Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT We still have Logan to kick around
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.07.2006
3:40:24. Logan yells at his speakerphone, "Where the hell is Mike Novick?" "He's moments away, sir," says the beleaguered voice on the phone. "You told me that three minutes ago!" Logan bitches. "Yes sir," is all the poor guy at the other end can say. Finally Novick enters the room, using a long story with a whole lot of words and the better part of a minute to explain something that Logan is able to encapsulate in three words: "[Kiefer] got away." Devastated, Logan turns away from his aide. Novick assures Logan that it's only a matter of time before someone nabs Kiefer, which, surprisingly, doesn't seem to be what Logan wants to hear right now. With his back to Novick, we can see that his whole world is crashing down inside his head. Novick realizes that something else is going on, and asks Logan if he's all right. After about thirty minutes, Logan calmly thanks Novick and says he needs some alone time. Without another word, Novick gives it to him. At 3:42:53, Logan walks slowly back to his desk. His cell phone starts ringing. Logan just sits in his chair, stares out his window, and lets it ring. And ring. And ring.
And ring.
Curtis and Kiefer have arrived at CTU. Karen meets him in the hallway and addresses him like they've met in person before, which they haven't as far as we know, and tells him that the Attorney General is going to be ready for a conference call in his office in ten minutes. Kiefer hands the recording off to Chloe and tells her to get it ready for playback. This involves a bit of technobabble. He specifies that she needs to work alone and not let the recording out of her sight. Alas, he fails to advise her to make a backup copy before doing anything else. Kiefer tells Hayes that he'd like to spend his ten minutes with Audrey. Hayes directs him to Medical.
And ring. Just kidding.
Audrey's sitting up in her bed, on the phone with the hospital where her dad's still in the ICU. As Kiefer comes in the door, she stops talking and her face lights up. Kiefer looks right back at her as he approaches her bed, a near-smile on his face. Audrey rather peremptorily wraps up the call ("Dad? Dad who?") and tells Kiefer that Heller's going to be okay. "I know, I heard," Kiefer says. Too bad we didn't get to see his reaction to that news. He was probably pissed that someone else around here besides him got to cheat death. He strokes her messed-up hair, and they say they're glad to see each other, and then they make out a little. "We did it," Kiefer says. "We got the evidence." "So it's over?" Audrey says. Not with three hours and fifteen minutes left in the season, it's not, but she and Kiefer don't know that. Kiefer tells her to rest, and sits at the foot of her bed to snuggle her knee for a while. Aw, she's so happy. She's so dead.