Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Not-So-Grandfather
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 9 | Aired on 02.11.2007
At 2:43:04, Chloe enters Morris's room in the clinic to tell him that she needs his help running tactical on the Gredenko operation. "Don't be ridiculous," Morris tells her. Wind, don't blow. Rain, don't fall. Chloe insists that they're shorthanded (especially after sending Milo out into the field for no good reason), and that Morris needs to get his shirt on and get back to work. Morris gets what Chloe's doing: trying to motivate him and make him feel better: "Be a little less obvious, Chloe. I'm a coward, not an idiot." Chloe says that she knows Morris has been through a lot, but that he's starting to piss her off. "Then let's add that to my list of failings," Morris sarcastically suggests, and Chloe slaps him across the face. Instead of having a PTSD flashback, he tells her, "Look, if you're going to try and save a bloke, save someone who's worth it." This time the hand coming at his face is a fist, but Morris catches Chloe's arm before it reaches him. He's got to put a stop to this before she comes at him with a drill, after all. Chloe angrily admits that she could run tactical alone, but that there's less chance of a mistake if Morris helps: "So why don't you stop feeling sorry for yourself and get back to work?" She storms out, so if he has an answer to that, she won't hear it.
At 2:44:43, Kiefer's driving Marilyn along in an unmarked sedan rather than the usual CTUmobile. Milo's riding in the SWAT van six blocks behind, keeping in touch with Kiefer via walkie-talkie. By way of small talk, Marilyn says that she can't imagine what Kiefer went through in China. Kiefer self-consciously takes his scarred right hand off of its two o'clock position on the steering wheel as Marilyn goes on to say that she thought about Kiefer during his absence, although she tried not to: "I tried not to think about you for twenty years." Except for that night they made Josh, of course. Kiefer kind of doesn't want to have this conversation, but Marilyn persists: she asks if Kiefer left and joined the military because of the pressure from his dad to take over the company. "There were a lot of reasons," says Kiefer. Marilyn asks if she was one of them. Kiefer stares at her. Hey, eyes on the road, buddy. Finally, he says no.
Marilyn's cell phone rings, and she digs it out of her purse to answer it. It's Dad on the other end, standing outside his car in at a gas station. He quickly tells her not to say anything, because he doesn't want Kiefer to know he's calling. "Okay," says Marilyn, confused. Dad says, "You're involved in something that's much bigger than you can possibly imagine. So here's the deal. Unless you do exactly what I say, I will hurt Josh." And then he tells her that he killed Graem, just to let her know he means business and has plenty of up-to-date Bauer-killing mojo. Marilyn is frozen in shock. Dad tells her to say "Thank you, Susan." She manages to croak that out. Kiefer doesn't pick up on her tone, and she's turned so her face is mostly hidden by her hair. So he remains oblivious as Dad tells Marilyn not to bring Kiefer to the house where she followed Graem, but to a different address: 9407 Hindry Place. He repeats that if she doesn't do what he says, Josh dies: "I already lost a son today. Don't make me lose a grandson." Marilyn says, "Goodbye, Susan," and hangs up. Kiefer asks if she's okay, and she lies that she is. Come on, Marilyn, Dad is at least sixty-five. Josh can take him.