Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | 1 USERS: C- YOU GRADE IT Women's Work
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 13 | Aired on 03.22.2010
ldn't want an overload or a fire. Chloe thinks she can figure a workaround. Haynam snarks, "You couldn't keep an EMP from taking out your whole operation. Forgive me if I don't bow to your expertise." She keeps trying, but he shuts her down and rudely insists that she leave the room. She huffs out at 4:21:37, and he closes the door behind her. See how frustrating it is to deal with socially retarded tech wizards who think they know everything, Chloe?She goes and finds Arlo hand-connecting some Ethernet cables, like that's going to fix anything, and asks him if there's another way to the trunk line besides through the server room. Of course there isn't, because that might provide a way around some of the impending drama and conflict. Chloe explains her situation to Arlo, and he suggests she talk to Hastings about it. Chloe knows that won't work, so Arlo tells her to leave it in the capable hands of the NSA. Frustrated, Chloe leaves him to it.
Instead of taking Arlo's advice, she's calling Renee Walker's cell phone. She reaches her at Kiefer's apartment, where she doesn't seem to have done much to make herself at home other than turning on the light in the bedroom. Which seems a little forward if you ask me. Chloe fills Walker in on the EMP situation, and her fear that Kiefer's in trouble. "Slow down, Chloe," Walker says. Chloe explains about Kiefer tracking the terrorists and then losing contact with the NSA. Walker asks if Hastings knows about this, and Chloe says yes, but won't do anything about it. Getting ready to move, Walker asks Chloe where Kiefer was as of last contact, and Chloe tells her the first exit off the Williamsburg Bridge. Walker says she's off on the hunt, and tells Chloe to get CTU back up so she can send her Kiefer's position. Chloe complains to Walker about the problems she's having on that front, but Walker isn't sympathetic. "You have to make them listen, Chloe. Do what you have to do." Chloe says she will, and they hang up. Walker gets her gun out of her suitcase and cocks it all bad-ass, while Chloe looks the opposite of bad-ass. Bad-tummy, maybe. It's 4:23:53.
4:28:14. Owen and Kiefer are still ripping apart that CTUmobile, a project that's been going on for fifteen minutes under withering fire. I heard that the auto shop classes at my high school could be like that. Back at CTU, Dana finds where an agent is informing a group of "non-essential personnel" that they're being evacuated. Presumably that agent will be going with them, and there will be nobody left in the building save Hastings, Chloe, Dana, and Arlo. But then it's proven to be rather surprising how many more speaking roles CTU suddenly sprouts when the computers quit working. Dana shows up to cut Prady from the herd of soon-to-be-evacuees, and leads him into a holding room. She apologizes for the delay in getting back to him. Prady is still playing the friendly hick, sympathetically saying, "They briefed me on what happened. Terrible thing." Dana gives him more bad news: the EMP erased everything. "Well that's a damn shame," Prady says. "So what you're telling me is whoever helped Kevin Wade rob that evidence locker, they just caught a huge break?" Yes, that person certainly did. She tells him that even the backups are onsite, which I don't think Prady would believe even if he were really the ignorant rube he's been pretending to be. Dana ruefully tells Prady she's done all she can and wishes him luck finding Kevin. He says she knows how to reach him if anything changes, and adds, "Hope you get your lights back on." When in fact he rather looks as though he'd like to punch them out.