Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Manning Down
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 4 | Aired on 01.14.2007
Outside, Kiefer and Curtis establish that nobody can see what's going on in the house, but at least Curtis's men are almost in position.
Inside, Ahmed tells Scott to turn around. Scott does, still not going for the knife. Ahmed says that he's sorry, and is just about to blow Scott's greasy hair out through his face when armed CTU agents burst in. Ahmed forgets about Scott (who, in a rare moment of clarity, dives to the floor) and starts shooting at the armored agents instead. He flees out the back door and right into Kiefer's crosshairs. Kiefer orders Ahmed to drop the weapon. Instead, Ahmed freezes, points his gun at Kiefer, and waggles it in panic for about three seconds. Maybe those painkillers are finally getting to him. Finally, another agent guns Ahmed down. Curtis's men still know their job, don't they? Kiefer yells, "Hold your fire!" and rushes to Ahmed's body. The kid's barely alive. Kiefer calls for an EMT, saying that Ahmed needs to wake up long enough to tell them where he sent Dad. Scott chimes in at this point; he takes a moment, but eventually he's able to remember the address Ahmed gave Dad: 351 Old Mill Road in Valencia. Don't bother checking back; I am very sad to say that's the correct address, and that CTU is not about to storm a soup kitchen. Kiefer calls the address in to Buchanan, who passes it along to Nadia to deploy two other teams that are already in the field. Scott asks Kiefer if they're going to save his dad. "We're going to do everything we can," Kiefer promises. But the words don't come as easy as they did when he said them to Mom earlier, so you know things aren't looking too good for Dad right now. It's 9:42:25.
9:48:26. At CTU, Chloe's pulled up recent satellite footage of 351 Old Mill Road and ascertained that nobody has arrived or left in the past ten minutes. Milo says that their tactical teams can approach without being seen, as if the bad guys on this show have ever picked a place with handy tactical features like windows. Buchanan asks to be connected to Wayne.
In the Oval Office, Wayne is giving his staff orders for first responders to be prepared for a nuclear detonation when Buchanan's call comes in. For once, Buchanan has waited until after the commercial to give good news, as he tells Wayne that they have an address twenty miles north of L.A. and are sending in tactical teams now. He offers to patch Wayne in on the live video feed once they have it set up, and Wayne accepts, telling him, "Good work."