Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Spy vs. Spy
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.19.2006
Kiefer's call goes right through to the CTU Situation Room, where Buchanan is still hanging out with Hayes and Slime. Kiefer relays Collette's story and her terms, and admits that her claim of ignorance about the content of the schematics is plausible. But since she said that Bierko's already on his way to carry out the next attack, they don't have much time. Hayes jumps up from the table and dispatches Slime to call Novick to put the deal in motion. "This better work," she warns Kiefer, adding that there'll be fallout on the WET list. Kiefer tells her that it's Theo who's going to be feeling the fallout; he programmed the memory card to self-destruct. Okay, (a) when? (b) you can do that? (c) Kiefer can do that? (d) can all spies do that? and (e) if so, why didn't stupid Theo see it coming? In that relieved-yet-frustrated way that anyone who's ever had a mom knows, Hayes asks why Kiefer didn't tell her that before. "I told you, I was in the car with [Theo]," he says, and tells her to snap it up already. Presidential immunity agreements don't just appear, you know.
At CTU, Buchanan disconnects the call and tells Hayes that this is proof that CTU is still doing its job. Hayes isn't all that impressed yet: "We're giving a free pass to a terrorist collaborator, and I've yet to see what we're getting from it." Well, yeah, that's how it works.
Wayne Palmer is still driving the WayneMobile towards Not Camp David. He should have left from CTU; it would have been a lot faster. His is the only vehicle on the road -- that is, until a van pulls out from the bushes at 8:57:52 and falls in behind him. Wayne notices in his rearview mirror, and guns his engine. But the van not only keeps up, it closes the distance and pulls up next to him. Maybe they just want to talk? No, that theory goes out the window when the van's side door slides open, revealing a guy with a rifle. Instead of opening a dialogue, he opens fire. He takes out Wayne's left front tire with one shot, and sends the car careening over the embankment, where it rolls over onto its roof. It's barely stopped when the van whips a bootlegger's turn and heads back to where Wayne jumped the ditch. And then at least four guys with machine guns and ski masks hop out. I'm pretty sure they're not Secret Service. Out of sight from the road, Wayne crawls out of his inverted car, briefly selling a bloody injury to his left hand before getting up and fleeing through a culvert. Let's hope he finds Aaron very quickly indeed.