Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Gassing The Gap
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.12.2006
Just so we know that Henchman #1 is being followed, we get a couple of brief shots of Chloe tracking him on her laptop and Kiefer answering, "We're six blocks out." But I guess there's a fine line between being followed and being tracked, isn't there?
Jogging up to his stolen office at CTU, McGill has taken it upon himself to call the President and let him know that things didn't exactly go as ordered. "I thought it was important to let you know what was happening," he explains. Considering how this call is going, the final insult of McGill's mugging is the fact that he got to keep his cell phone. Logan bitches at him, "What's happening is I sent you over there to make sure that CTU is running smoothly in a time of crisis, and you seem to be incapable of doing that." McGill says there was nothing he could do when Kiefer refused the order, but Logan gives one of his "I'm not interested in excuses" speeches and cuts off the call with a threat to replace McGill. "But I was mugged!" McGill fails to wail down the dead connection.
It's 2:55:12 as Novick comes over to tell Logan that the body count at the mall is much lower than feared: "It appears the fatalities will be limited to between ten and twenty people." Logan is flooded with relief, although he fails to call back McGill and apologize for bitching him out just now. That's just not how he rolls. Logan's first question to Novick is, of course, about the media, and then he asks about the other nineteen canisters. Novick explains how CTU is tracking Henchman #1: "They believe there's a good chance he'll lead them to Erwich and the rest of the canisters," Novick concludes. I can't believe Novick hasn't learned to avoid phrases like "believe" and "good chance" around Logan, considering those are phrases that send him spinning off into one of his pointy-haired tirades, but this time the President only says, "All right. Good." So now, on top of everything else, terrorists have kidnapped Logan and replaced him with a replica? Or maybe Logan's just less touchy about his buzzwords at five minutes before the hour. Novick's last item of business is to tell Logan that Walt's wife has arrived at Not Camp David, and that FLOTUS is on her way to meet her for a little girl talk. Don't girls always say to each other, "Your still-warm husband was a liar, traitor, assassin, conspirator, coward, weasel, and right-wing nut bar, and he cost me ten bucks by hanging himself with his belt instead of his tie"? I don't know, I'm never in the room when it happens.