Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT The Odd Couple
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 2 | Aired on January 13, 2007
CTU is monitoring the real-time progress of the attack helicopters, as are the folks in the Oval Office, who are also on an open phone line to the CTU Situation Room. I can't help thinking that Wayne and his staff should be watching this in the White House Situation Room, but I suppose that hanging a giant video screen on the wall of the Oval Office set is cheaper than building a separate Situation Room set. Nadia reports that the choppers will reach their target in five minutes, and Buchanan says that Curtis will lead a team into the wreckage immediately afterward to start sifting through the smoldering femurs and shit. It's 7:10:43, and they don't have much to do now but watch.
Kiefer arrives Chez Assad, hops out of his stolen car, and runs toward the house. Meanwhile, the chopper pilots announce that they're three minutes and fifty seconds out.
Kiefer makes his way into the barren backyard of Assad's house, crouching low behind the garbage bins. A guard walking through fails to spot him. Kiefer notices a pile of firewood nearby, and just like that, he has a plan. He taps on the garbage bin he's hiding behind, and when the guard comes to investigate, Kiefer jumps out behind him and clubs him unconscious with a log. He takes the guard's gun out of the back of his waistband (good thing the guy fell face-down) and heads for the house, weapon at the ready. He takes up a position near the back door and peeks inside. Several swarthy guys are in there, unsuspectingly going about their business. There are computers set up everywhere in the main room, making the place look like a LAN party with spreadsheets. Staying out if sight, Kiefer watches. Kiefer, this is no way to outrun an air strike. You of all people should know that.