Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Time for Plan E
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.27.2009
Tony drives his stolen FBI SUV into the parking lot of a motel. Two minutes after breaching the perimeter. So clearly, Kiefer was right and widening that perimeter an extra couple of blocks wouldn't have done anything. He knocks on the door of one of the rooms, and who should answer but Galvez, who is all clean and changed already. No sign of the ambulance he hijacked or the dead paramedics, so I can only assume he stashed them under the bed. I also have to assume that he already had this room booked, because he wouldn't have had time to check in since the last time we saw him, even if he hadn't also changed, showered, and created a couple of new openings in the District's EMT corps. As he comes in and sits down, Tony assures him Kiefer isn't going to be a problem, and asks about the canister. "Where's the money?" Galvez asks. Tony sets a slip of paper on the table. An IOU? Is that going to fly? No, actually it's an account number, apparently, and Galvez pulls out his phone to check it at 3:06:22. Satisfied, he pulls the familiar backpack out of the closet and sets it on the dresser. Tony gets up, remembering to grimace from the fresh gunshot wound in his side, and walks over to the bag. Inside it is nothing but a phone book. Is this the start of some puzzle where Tony is supposed to look up the address and phone number of a D.C. citizen by the name of "Variant, Prion" and follow the series of clues that ensues? Probably not, because behind him, Galvez has pulled a gun on him, which is not how most fun scavenger hunts generally begin. "You don't want to do this," Tony says, but Galvez says he wants to know who the buyer is. In answer, Tony swings the empty backpack in his hand, knocking the gun away and getting it out of Galvez's hands. They grapple all the way into the bathroom, where despite having a bullet hole in his side, Tony sends Galvez into a daze with a kick to the head. Then he pulls down the plastic shower curtain over Galvez's face and demands to know where the canister is. Oddly, Galvez isn't telling him, because he's either too stubborn or too busy suffocating. Which would be worse: having your air cut off entirely by a plastic motel shower curtain, or having to breathe through a cloth motel shower curtain? Either way it's win-win for Tony.
In the Oval Office, Tim from Homeland Security is telling Taylor that the soldier transporting Hodges not only noticed him swallowing the pill, but got it out of him before getting to the hospital. Which is not what we saw last week, but whatever. It's the senioritis phase of the season for everyone. Taylor asks how Hodges got the pill in the first place, and Tim tells her about the Faux-yer, who they figured out was an imposter when the police found the body of the real lawyer five minutes ago. Inside her house. How nosy are D.C. cops, anyway? It's not like they're having a slow night, either. The speakerphone beeps in to say that Kiefer and Walker are on the line, and Taylor orders, "Put them through," before it's finished speaking. Sorry you're not more interesting, Tim. I think my favorite thing about him is the way he always tries to downplay his shortness by tilting his head to the side when he looks up at people. Try not noticing that from now on.