Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Framed in Vain
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.04.2009
d says he's bleeding out. He screams for a medic. The field ops guy relays the order into his walkie-talkie while Kiefer rips a bandage. Really, field-ops guy? You had to wait until Kiefer told you before you called for a medic for the dude you just saw getting stabbed in the throat? Way to be proactive. No wonder you're on the graveyard shift.But if they can't save the guy, here's a thought -- why not go public with the information that Jibraan is being set up? Without a viable patsy, The Group will have no choice but to call off this morning's operation, or at least put it off long enough to give Kiefer time to find them. And of course, by "Go public," I mean, "send an interagency bulletin." The Group always seems to be able to intercept those anyway. I mean, obviously they can't wait to put it on C-SPAN 2 at eight in the morning when the entire world is watching.
In other splitscreen windows, Olivia is the protagonist of her own Poe story, the charred carcass of Hodges's SUV smokes after having been put out, the bioweapon canister is transferred by a guy in a hazmat suit (because apparently The Group has the proper facilities for this kind of thing, unlike Starkwood) while the Faux-yer watches, and Tony leads Jibraan across a street, where he taps on the side of a van.
Once they're inside, Tony talks to a guy who's busy on a laptop, hacking into some system or other. Jibraan asks what he's supposed to do, and Tony tells him he'll know soon enough. "Is the subway on schedule?" he asks, looking at video of a train platform that's surprisingly busy considering the Metro doesn't start running for another two hours. The hacker says it is. The subway? What the hell are they thinking? "Let's see, we've got one canister of a biological weapon that only infects those who are directly exposed to it. How shall we maximize casualties? I know, let's release it underground, in a place that can be quickly sealed off and the damage easily contained! They'll never expect that!" Stupid The Group. They deserve to fail. It's 5:00:00.
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