Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Management Issues
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 9 | Aired on 02.16.2009
Kiefer and Walker are coming up empty searching the laptops in Dubaku's hideout, so he decides they need to start looting the corpses for clues. She's just getting started when her cell phone rings with a call from Moss at FBI-DC. He asks if she's okay, and when she unconvincingly says she is, he closes the door to his office and voices his doubts about that. Apparently he just got a fax from Metro Police about a Mrs. Vossler, who says she was just terrorized by an armed, unidentified woman. Unfortunately, Walker doesn't offer to go find that unidentified woman as soon as she's done looking for Dubaku. Instead, she reminds Moss that yeah, they kind of agreed to do that, and Moss complains, "Yeah, right. Whatever's necessary. Jack Bauer's rationalization for every unethical action he takes." Symbolically looking at herself in a dirty mirror, Walker points out that it worked, which is always such a morally defensible stand. Moss reminds her that Kiefer's already in trouble, and it's not looking good for her either. "You already got the AG's office looking into that thing you pulled with Tanner's respirator, and now this." Does she? Because as far as I can tell, the AG's office got bored and went home. That guy isn't even bugging Janis any more. "No one was actually hurt," Walker points out. Moss angrily reminds her, "Bauer killed the woman's husband!" Oh, she meant besides that. Moss echoes what he said to Kiefer in the previous hour, which is that he's worried about what's happening to her. Tell me about it, Larry. I used to think she was awesome, too. "You put these people through hell and it doesn't bother you," he accuses. In the course of holding her phone to her face, Walker has smeared some blood from her hand onto her cheek. She assures Moss that in fact it does bother her, as she tries to dry-scrub the blood away. Out, damn spot. As Kiefer comes up, he hears her telling Moss about earlier. "She had no idea that her husband was a killer, a traitor to his country, and she looked at me like I was the monster." No, Renee, not the monster. Just a monster. Kiefer picks this moment to interrupt that he's hit pay dirt on a couple of PDAs: banking transactions from accounts that were registered to the same address. And since he used the infallible technique of cross-referencing, you know it's a valid lead. He reads the address out loud, and Walker relays it to Moss over the phone: 21917 Euclid Street, Apartment 6. Walker says she and Kiefer are on their way, and asks if Moss can set up satellite surveillance. Moss tells her that Buchanan's sending someone in to help with that, but it'll take some time to get her up and running. Walker hangs up, and Kiefer asks, "You sure you're okay?" Walker says she's fine, and they leave the bodies where they lie. I'm sure someone will get to them eventually, when the grocery starts losing customers to a funky smell. It's 4:12:12.