Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 1407 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Kill Bi-- Never Mind, He'll Do It Himself
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2009.03.09
At 8:41:43, a federal marshal ushers Moss and Kiefer into the area of the hospital that contains Burnett's room, telling him security is super-tight (as we'll soon see) and that Burnett's room has been set up with video and audio surveillance. As he leads them around to the little surveillance setup behind the nurses' station, the marshal says that it's going to take a while to get Burnett awake from his sedative. "He was in pretty bad shape when he got here." Gosh, how did that happen? Burnett's doctor shows up, and Kiefer looks at him with something like remorse (or possibly indigestion), until the doctor says, "He's still recovering from his last interrogation, so if you're here to brutalize him again, I won't be party to it." Kiefer gets grumpy, starting his big speech about what the "patient" was up to that landed him here in the first place (leaving off item number one, which was pissing off Kiefer), but Moss interrupts him by saying, "We won't harm him, doctor." Fortunately, Kiefer remembers to keep his trap shut. That wins the doc over, and he walks off, saying it's going to be a couple of minutes. Kiefer and Moss return their attention to the surveillance screens, which show the doctor entering and walking around Burnett's bed. What a startlingly effective demonstration of the concept of live video surveillance. It's like magic.
And here's Quentin. I mean, he's wearing scrubs and an ID badge and a stethoscope around his neck as he walks through the hospital corridors, but his evil face and eviler music kind of give him away, as do the black nylon saddle bags he's carrying over his shoulder. He ducks past the nurses' station unnoticed and enters a double room, snagging the chart on the way in. He stands over the old, gray patient in the bed, asks him his name (Robert), and confirms that he's recovering from heart surgery. "You have a wife, Robert?" he asks. He answers that she's dead, and he's got no children or grandchildren. Quentin asks if the other man in the room, currently sleeping peacefully, has family. "Lots of grandkids," Robert chuckles. "Make a hell of a noise when they visit." Having found out what he needs to know, Quentin suffocates Robert as quickly and quietly as he can. Nice of him to make sure there wouldn't be any grief-stricken survivors of his self-created diversion. That's some value-added murdering, right there. Retrieving his saddlebags, he steps back out into the hall, where the code he just triggered is clearing out the nurses' station. I hasten to add that this is a different nurses' station from the one where Kiefer and Moss are watching Burnett on TV, otherwise they might get suspicious. Quentin calmly goes over and syncs up a PDA to the unattended computer, and has Burnett's room located in seconds. From there, he goes into a storage room, climbs up onto a table, opens a hatch into the ceiling, and climbs up inside. Meanwhile, at the other station, Kiefer and Moss are still watching Burnett on the monitors, unaware that anything's amiss.