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
Wayne and Tom have the Oval Office TV tuned to a report on the Chicago hotel bombing, which apparently involved a car bomb that "sent bodies hurtling out of windows from as high as the twentieth floor." Well, that's what the hotel gets for letting guests bring their cars up to their rooms. Tom points out that these attacks were planned long before the raid on Assad, but that doesn't make Wayne feel any better, because it only means that there will be more of them. Karen comes in, red-faced, to tell them about the phone call CTU just intercepted. "Fayed is the one behind these attacks," she confesses. "Not Assad." Karen tries to take the blame for the screw-up, but Wayne says that they were all in agreement. Tom hopes nobody looks at him. Nobody points out that the decision was based on intelligence from Karen's people in the first place. I hate to say it, but Wayne could probably stand to "Logan up" a little. "So Jack was right," he says instead. "He was right all along." Drink! "This is going to get much worse," Wayne intones, and goes into a splitscreen window. In other windows, Walid and Sandra are being loaded into an FBI car outside their office, because it took the black agent this whole time to get all of the hard drives into the trunk; Tom stands there purse-lipped; and Assad continues to follow Fayed's handler. He dials his cell phone.
Looks like Fayed and Kiefer exchanged numbers before they split up, because as Kiefer emerges into an alleyway, he takes Assad's call and asks if he's still following the Handler. Assad says that he is, two blocks from Union Station and heading in Kiefer's direction. "Copy that," says Kiefer. "I'll find you. Just stay with the Handler. He's our only connection to Fayed." Well, as far as Kiefer knows, anyway. It's 8:00:00.
By the way, this episode is dedicated to the memory of Major Gerald "Beav" Bloomfield and Captain Michael "Martini" Martino, whose Marine helicopter was shot down on November 2, 2005. This makes the second such dedication in two years. I'd just rather not have Marine helicopters on the show at all if it means that there has to be a dead actual pilot to dedicate the episode to. Use CGI and save the pilots, is what I say.