Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 438 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Re-Juma-nated
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2009.03.02
And then we're in a rather cursory splitscreen. Kiefer looks at the monitor, where the combined pressures of Juma's hand and knife are contorting Olivia's already frightened face into some rather inappropriately hilarious expressions. Buchanan, Mayer, and Aaron watch helplessly from among the hostages. Finally, Juma says, "You're running out of time," and prepares to take one of Olivia's eyes. But then the doors slide open, revealing Kiefer with his hands clasped behind his head, and Taylor behind him. I guess he didn't destroy the door panels entirely. Juma's men take Kiefer's gun and radio, and put him with the hostages. "Dammit, Bauer, what have you done?" Mayer asks him. Taylor faces Juma and tells him that now that he's got her, he can let everyone else go. Juma strikes her across the face, causing all the hostages to gasp in shock at the spectacle of the leader of the free world getting bitch-slapped. As she looks at him defiantly with a hand in her hair and blood at one corner of her mouth, he says, "You don't give orders to me." Taylor's meetings at the White House with the other Sangalan leader certainly do tend to go better than this one is so far. He tells his men, "Get the camera ready for the statement." "What statement?" she demands. "The last one you'll ever give," he answers. Well, then, let's hope it's better than her previous one. It's 8:00:00.
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