Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Re-Juma-nated
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 12 | Aired on 03.02.2009
Outside, Laptop Guy tells Juma that the panel must have been disabled from inside. Hey, remember that old TV show, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century? He was always shooting door panels to make them do what he wanted. Need a door opened? Shoot the door panel. Need a door closed? Shoot the door panel. Need the door to let in only your friends, and then make you an espresso? Shoot the door panel. I don't know why I thought of that just now. Anyway, Juma orders C-4, but Laptop Guy says it will take too long and possibly not even work. "Then we will find another way!" Juma snarls at him threateningly. Suddenly he becomes aware of how his men are looking at him, so he repeats his message in a more inspirational manner. And then he dials his scrambled sat phone.
It's 7:36:43, and Jonas Hodges from "Redemption" -- Academy Award Winner Jon Voight, still -- is enjoying some Chinese takeout in front of CNB. A phone rings behind him, and Rory Cochrane (Speedle from CSI: Miami, who you recall dying on that show as a direct result of his slovenly gun maintenance habits) answers it and tells Hodges that it's Juma. Unhappily, Hodges throws down his napkin and gets on the speakerphone to ask Juma what's up. Juma explains the situation and tells Hodges, "I need you to find me another way in." Hodges says he's already done all he can, and he's out. Juma steps away and whispers threateningly, "Are you forgetting you don't have the shipment yet?" Shipment? What shipment would that be? Whatever it is, we're not finding out tonight. Hodges blusters about the deal they had, but Juma's ready to destroy the shipment if Hodges doesn't help him now. Hodges puts him on hold so he can confer with his man Seaton, who says the shipment isn't due for another two hours. "His men will have plenty of time to destroy it [or] render it useless." So the shipment must be something Hodges wants, that Juma has, but going by what Seaton just said, it's probably not diamonds. Which means it's going to turn out to be diamonds. Hodges gets back on the line and asks who's in lockdown with Taylor, and upon hearing that Olivia isn't in there, he tells Juma that according to the manifest that he has at his fingertips, she's somewhere else in the building. "Your shipment will arrive as planned," Juma promises, and ends the call. "Stress is the fertilizer of creativity," Hodges boasts to Seaton, and then invites, "Let's play some darts," as he hurls one at the board. Whatever the fertilizer of good darts is, Hodges doesn't seem to have a great deal of it.