Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 344 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT The Final Countdown
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 24 | Aired on 2009.05.18
Olivia has a visitor, and she's not pleasantly surprised to see that it's Ethan. Aaron follows him in, and Olivia orders him to kick Ethan out. "No, ma'am. I am not going to do that," Aaron says clearly. And not just because his shift would have ended hours ago, if he were a real Secret Service agent, which he isn't. Olivia picks up her phone to call security, and Ethan sets a portable digital recording deck down on her desk and hits play. Why did he need to plug it into his car, then? Was Hyundai jealous of Cisco's product placement? After listening to only a few seconds of her conversation with Martin, Olivia presses stop, but she's gotten the message. Ethan explains about how Olivia confiscated a decoy, and Aaron had the real one. "How long have you known, Aaron?" Olivia asks. Well, it only happened a couple of hours ago, genius, so probably not much longer than that. Aaron only says he was hoping he was wrong, and goes to wait outside. He really is having the worst retirement ever.
p>Olivia tries to explain to Ethan how she tried to call it off, but he's not impressed. She's dumb enough to think he's just blackmailing her to get his job back, but he says he's only interested in the truth. Olivia says that could destroy Taylor, which Ethan realizes. "Then what do you want?" Olivia asks. Ethan says it's up to Taylor; she just needs to know. "I'll let you tell her yourself." A gentleman to the end.At 7:05:22, Tony's got Kiefer handcuffed to a chain link fence inside his hideout, which gives Kiefer a chance to guilt-trip Tony, now that he's woken up again. "I know you think this country failed you and I don't care what kind of ideology you believe in now. This is no way to fight for it." Tony ignores him until Kiefer tells him to look at him. "Please, as someone who was once your friend, let me die in peace. Don't let them use me to kill innocent people." Tony says he doesn't plan to and never did. "I overheard you," Kiefer insists. Well, actually, Tony said that directly to you, Kiefer, so I don't know if that counts as "overhearing," per se.