Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | 113 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Walker Hard
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2010.01.18
A fresh motorcade delivers Hassan and his guard to the security tunnel entrance at CTU at 7:08:48. Hastings is waiting there for him, and leads him into the bunker, assuring him that his wife and daughter are fine. Hassan asks about his brother, and Hastings is slow to answer. But then he stops walking and seriously says, "It appears your brother was involved with the attack." Hassan is in denial about it and wants to talk to Farhad. Which of course isn't going to happen. Hastings explains, "After the explosion, he killed one of my men to facilitate his own escape. There were witnesses, including your wife and daughter. He is the insider we've been looking for. There's no doubt." Gotta give him credit for such a fast one-eighty. But see what I mean about Farhad's post-assassination plan? It's not like Hassan was the one who busted him; in fact, he was the last to know. Anyway, Chloe pops up next to them to report that Kiefer just called in to say the assassin is dead, and sent them some video to prove it. Before letting him get back to work, Hassan thanks Hastings. "I owe you my life." Hastings nods modestly, and tells Chloe to meet in the conference room. But first, Hassan asks to talk to Meredith Reed. Hastings agrees, and as he and Chloe walk away, he grumbles at her, "I saw that...the way you looked at me when he thanked me for saving his life." Which is weird, because Chloe was behind Hastings when that happened. "You were thinking he should have been thanking you?" With uncharacteristic modesty, Chloe says, "I was actually thinking he should thank Jack, then Cole, then maybe me." Oh, all right: heh. Hastings glares hard at her and circles her dangerously, but what he says to her is rather surprising: "I underestimated you, Chloe. You saw what was really going on and I did not. It was a major save. My report will state that." Which I have to give him credit for, even though he says it all in the same tone he uses when threatening to fire her. Chloe actually smiles a bit and returns to her station at 7:11:02. Now how does this computer work again? she thinks to herself.