Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | 310 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Undercover Brothers
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2009.01.12
Emerson gets off the phone and says they're a go. "We're picking up a package, delivering it to our client. Here's the location." He hands out photocopied fact sheets, which show the layout of a residence at 167 Foxhall Road. "The package is a person?" Tony asks. Emerson confirms it, and reaches for a computer to pull up a photo of a familiar dark-skinned face. "Former Prime Minister Matobo of Sangala." They are to deliver him to Colonel Dubaku, who apparently wants to ask him some questions. And he's just so curious that he's willing to risk exposure and possibly screw up the timing of today's operations to get him.
Listening in at the command post, Chloe tells Buchanan they have to call someone to put a stop to it. "They're going to torture him and probably kill him!" "Unfortunately, yes," Buchanan agrees. Why weren't they listening this closely before? They didn't even know Tony had been arrested until Kiefer called to tell them. Anyway, Chloe argues, "Matobo single-handedly led the fight against genocide in his country. He doesn't deserve this." Buchanan says that's hard cheese for Matobo. Otherwise, "Jack and Tony will not find Colonel Dubaku and we will not get to the bottom of this conspiracy. Agreed?" Chloe reluctantly agrees. It's 11:38:42. Dude, Buchanan got hard core since he's been gone. And I hope this "conspiracy" plans to do something worse than nearly crash a plane and kidnap a poor man's Nelson Mandela to deliver him to an agonizing death, or else all this kind of isn't worth it.
At 11:43:04, Agent Getsch pulls a government town car up to the curb near the Tidal Basin and gets out with Henry. Except Henry doesn't want him to wait, because Sam will only meet with him alone. Getsch reluctantly agrees to position himself on a nearby bridge, which works for Henry. He jogs off to meet Sam, and Getsch drives on. After an obligatory pan up to the point of the nearby Washington Monument (it's becoming like the Space Needle on Real World Seattle), Henry reaches a park bench across the water from the Jefferson Memorial, a spot visible from roughly five miles of horizon, on what has turned into a sunny, clear day. So you can see why Sam picked it. She rushes up to Henry and after saying she can't stay, she quickly confirms that "they killed Roger and made it look like a suicide." Who? "The same people who provided false documents to the SEC to show he'd been trading on inside information." Oh, those people. Wait, that's still not answering the question. "They just said that they would kill me if I said anything," she says. Sam unspools a long and complicated story about how Roger was doing some auditing at work and found blind accounts connected to Sangala, plus others "that were traced to a senior member of your wife's administration." She doesn't know which one, but the trades showed that whoever it was was making heavy bets that Taylor wouldn't be able to manage the invasion. She says that Roger was going to give his mom the evidence in a couple of days. This is all complicated and boring and long-winded enough to not seem totally implausible, except for the fact that Sam says it started in early January and we already know from "Redemption" that Roger's friend Chris came to him on Inauguration Day, which almost always happens on the 20th (next week, in other words, which still can't come soon enough for me). Sam hands Henry a flash drive, saying it contains everything Roger knew. "Do what you have to do, but leave me out of it," she begs, and takes off.