Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Everything Changes
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 11 | Aired on 03.02.2009
As Walker hangs up, a hospital security guy comes up with more security screen grab printouts. Her mystery-orderly left fifteen minutes ago, but the camera in the parking ramp got a nice, clear view of his license plate number: ZX 20K7. She gets back on her cell phone, this time to the DMV. Which means she should have a vital clue in her hands within days.
Janis returns to the conference room to bug Chloe some more. She's found an "orphaned header fragment," which, according to the file on the jump drive she hands Chloe, means that someone's name was deleted from Dubaku's list. Chloe tries to blow it off, and then says she'll run a recovery program. Janis offers to do it for her, but Chloe declines. Janis leaves the room with this gripping passive-aggressive-off currently in a draw. So Chloe wisely gets Kiefer on the line at 6:22:43 to let him know what's up and that he's going to need to move fast. Torture quickly, Kiefer!
Elsewhere in the White House, Burnett has figured out an excuse to get out of there: he's going back to the Hill to work on a press release for Senator Mayer as part of the media offensive Mayer is already planning. "We've got to make pardoning Jack Bauer as politically toxic for the president as possible. She's a woman in a highly emotional state. Her husband's been shot." Okay, that was kind of dickish, but just because he's a patronizing ass doesn't mean I'm suddenly going to be all, "Yay, torture!" A staffer and a guard come to escort Mayer to the Oval Office, and Burnett says he'll take care of the rest. Then, when Burnett is alone, he calls Juma to confirm a planned 7:30 rendezvous. He's still packing up when someone walks into the office, and isn't aware that anything's amiss until he looks up and sees Kiefer, pointing a weapon at him. "You and I?" Kiefer says as he sends the taser probe flying across the room and into Burnett's chest. "We're gonna have a talk." It's 6:24:15.
At 6:28:43, Moss is on his office phone chattering about an FBI command post at EEOB, which is not as much fun to say as its old name, OEOB. Say them back-to-back out loud for a few minutes and decide for yourself which one you prefer. It only works if you say it as loud as you can, preferably while you're at work. Janis comes in and waits until he's off the phone. She pops a drive into his computer, babbling, "She's supposed to be this whiz-bang systems analyst, which is exactly what tipped me off in the first place, and her demeanor is--" Oh, Janis, you don't want to venture into the territory of Chloe's "demeanor." Trust me, all you'll find there are my footprints. Moss calms her down enough so she can tell him what's on her mind: she's found evidence that Chloe's up to no good, and plays back a clip of Chloe's last call. That would be the one where she told Kiefer that someone was onto her regarding her deletion of Burnett's name from the list, and it's pretty damning. Without a word, Moss leads Janis out into the hallway back to the conference room, snagging a hall guard by name as he goes. The guard takes Chloe by the arm and frog-marches her away from the computer, while she and Janis stare at each other. Meanwhile, Moss is already trying to reach the White House on his cell phone.