Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Not-So-Secret Service
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 25 | Aired on 09.13.2006
Up in the mall's crowded food court, Xavier sits at a table by himself. Pete rides the escalator to the top floor and heads in that direction, peering around through his sunglasses. Chiminsky takes up a removed position on the top level and stands leaning over a railing. We see the guy who shot Charlie enter, carrying a shopping bag. Chiminsky spots Xavier and tells his shirt cuff, "At your one." Pete glances over to his one o'clock at where Xavier's sitting. He starts to make a beeline in that direction. Xavier sees him. Then Pete hears over his earpiece, "Watch your three." Pete stops in his tracks and jerks his head to the right, where Chiminsky has spotted the gunman. Good, good. Xavier won't notice that at all. He'll totally assume that Pete is there alone, and is only sensing potential threats by using the Force. Not that anyone recognizes the Blond Gunman; they guy's just acting suspicious. Pete makes a move toward Blond Gunman, but the bad guy disappears behind an "Employees Only" door. And when Pete looks back, Xavier's gone as well. As Xavier heads out of the mall, and Pete wanders around in confusion, nobody notices the Blond Gunman reaching into his shopping bag, pulling out his silenced handgun, and tossing the bag aside. It's that last thing that I think would really attract attention. More cat-and-mousing leads our two principals to the bottom floor. Chiminsky spots the gunman -- complete with gun -- almost right below him, and instead of drawing his own weapon, he hollers into his shirt cuff to Pete, "Check your nine!" The gunman hears this, turns around, and plugs Chiminsky twice in the chest. Chiminsky obligingly falls forward over the railing to his death. Whatever. He sucked anyway. Pete's weapon's out now, but the Blond Gunman's already shooting at him, too. There's a little Romancing the Stone echo as glass railing panels explode behind Pete while he scampers just in front of the line of fire. "Get down! Secret Service!" Pete bellows to the crowd. He pops up to try and return fire, but the Blond Gunman has grabbed a hostage. Pete dives back under cover. "Shots fired, agent down," he tells his shirt cuff. The transmission reaches Kiefer, who relays a request for backup. "Blond hair, dark jacket," Pete describes the shooter.
Meanwhile, at Camp David, the President is posing outside for a photo op with his fellow leaders.
At the mall, the Blond Gunman has ditched his hostage and is about to leave, until he spots the police cars rolling up outside and thinks better of it.
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