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
Jill and the Handsome Black Agent are waiting out in the hall. He tries a smile on her, but she lets the air out of his tires with the old "you have some spinach in your teeth" line. Not feeling so Handsome now, are we? A moment later, the Deputy Director exits Kiefer's office. Kiefer himself blows out of there a second later, having donned his suit jacket and autopiloting the line, "Route all calls to my cell." You just know the screenwriter banged out that line and said to himself, "Wouldn't it be cool if we could get Kiefer Sutherland?" Kiefer tells Jill that her field work starts today.
Cut to the street outside Charlie's house, which is swarming with D.C. police. A pair of fifth-string Law & Order homicide detectives take note of Kiefer and Jill rolling up in their black Secret ServiceMobile. The agents get out of the car and head up Charlie's walk to his house, the detectives trailing behind. Kiefer takes off his aviator shades to scowl at the scene before him.
Meanwhile, the Secret Service is busy sweeping the First Lady's beach house in advance of her arrival. There's even a hedge maze that some poor agent probably has to walk all around, and I'm sure there were some complaints about that from the White House basement.
And at Charlie's house, Detective Old is sharing his theory about the murder with Kiefer and Jill. He thinks it was a simple robbery that turned deadly when Charlie tried to draw on the perp. That's his gut feeling, anyway. Kiefer examines a bullet hole in Charlie's door frame as he gives a little speech on gut feelings: "Once you have them, the only evidence you see is the evidence that reinforces your gut feeling. Human nature." Detective Old doesn't appreciate being lectured, but he leaves it to Detective Young to point out that Charlie's wallet is empty and there have been a series of robberies in the neighborhood. Kiefer says something about Charlie having spent the last quarter-century "honing his ability to sense danger," because he doesn't know that Charlie just stood there holding both his bags even when he saw the gun that was about to kill him. Kiefer also picks up a shell casing, pointing out that Charlie was shot twice with a .45. And he already knows that nobody in the neighborhood heard anything.
The FLOTorcade arrives at the Beach House, and Herself blows into the place, trailed by her armed entourage and offering food all around. Pete tells Agent Tom to go for dinner while Pete hangs around until shift change.
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