Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | 215 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT A Terrorist Walks into a Bar[ometric Pressure Chamber]
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2010.03.01
The previouslies freeze-frames feature Cole Ortiz, Kayla Hassan, Farhad Hassan, Brian Hastings, and Jack Bauer, who wraps up the segment with a dramatic, "Deal."
At the U.N., Hassan's daughter Kayla walks with Nabeel, the shady guy Hassan put in charge of security when his original security chief, Tarin, proved to have an inconvenient conscience when it came to torturing innocent people's families for no reason. They're going to the room where Tarin is being held. Nabeel tells her she's got two minutes, and then Tarin will be transported to their embassy. Because in a universe where it takes but minutes to reconfigure servers and invent entirely new technologies, arranging for one dude to be driven across town apparently eats up more than an hour. Nabeel lets Kayla in, tells the guard in the room, Bashir, to clear out so they can have some privacy, and leaves the two of them alone in there. Idiot. Kayla tells Tarin that her father still thinks he's in on the conspiracy, even after learning about their relationship. Now on top of everything else, Tarin has to worry about his boss having learned that he's been shtupping his daughter. Tarin wants to tell her a secret of his own. Bashir, the guard who just left the room, is giving Tarin a handcuff key and has stashed a gun in the transport car. So that's what's taking so long. He asks Kayla to meet him at the Teodore Hotel after he escapes. Before she can answer, Nabeel comes back in, but as they get ready to move him, Kayla manages to sneak Tarin a nod. Hard to imagine what could go wrong.
Wherever Kevin and Nick died at the end of the last hour -- and I really hope it's not the Reservoir in Central Park now, given what's going to happen -- Cole is futilely doing CPR on Kevin. Dana, her once-perfect hair looking like she was dragged through a hedge backwards, tells him to take off. "It's my fault. I lied about everything. Who I am, what I've done." She plans to take the blame. Well, whoop-de-fuck, look who just figured out what the situation is. But now Cole picks up her torch of stupid from where it was just lying guttering on the ground and declares, "What's done is done. We're gonna clean this up and no one's ever gonna know what happened." Because that worked out so well for FPJ in I Know What You Did Last Summer. He says they need to strip down the van, and "dump the bodies in the swamp." Isn't there, like, a job they should be doing right now or something? Dana has a problem with Cole's plan, but Cole reminds her, "They're scum, Dana, and no one's gonna miss 'em." He asks if she wants to go to prison for the rest of her life for these two. Because if she does, she should by all means participate in covering up their deaths. Oh, wait, that's not what he means.