Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Not-So-Secret Service
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 25 | Aired on 09.13.2006
Speaking of Montrose, he's currently having a discreet meeting with TerrorNerd. He makes excuses, talking about tight security and random procedures. The bad guy isn't buying: "If you'd wanted him on that helicopter at Camp David, you could have put him there." He says he's tired of Montrose playing them, and reminds him that he made a deal. "Yeah," Montrose says. "Twenty years ago, with the KGB, which doesn't even exist anymore." He turns with a smile, and says he's done. "I don't care. Expose me. I don't care if I spend the rest of my life in prison for treason. I don't care if you kill me." The bad guy talks to Montrose like he's an idiot, which he is. "If you don't do this," he says, "we're not going to kill you." Bottom line: Montrose gets to pick between the President and his family. "The KGB's gone, but we're still here." Whoever the hell "we" is. What the hell did Montrose get from the KGB, anyway? The bad guy instructs, "When he finishes his speech, you take the primary route to the B motorcade under the plaza. And you take the radios out." He leaves Montrose alone with his thoughts, and the photos of his family taken by hit men. The answer to the question, "Daddy, what did you bring us?" could be a little awkward after this trip.
Kiefer is leaving the police station with Pete, and he's on the phone with Jill asking her to confirm with the polygraph techs that Montrose took the test.
Then we're at the G8, and the President's motorcade arrives at the underground parking garage. "Everybody ready?" POTUS asks Montrose obliviously. "Yes, sir," Montrose says, so sketchily that every polygraph all the way back at D.C. headquarters goes completely apeshit.
Kiefer and Pete are in the car on their way to the summit when Jill calls with the news that Montrose never took the polygraph test at all. It's getting dark out, so it's a good thing the bad guys didn't decide to take out the President this morning. Meanwhile, POTUS has taken the podium at the G8 and has begun his generic speech. Jill says she's also gone the extra mile by hacking into Charlie's email. She learned that he had been streaming Montrose's offshore phone logs. Montrose used office phones? Idiot. Pete tells Jill to tell the First Lady, and only the First Lady, that it's Montrose. Because it'll be more dramatic that way later. Jill acknowledges and hangs up. "Jesus Christ, Pete, the First Lady? What the hell were you thinking?" In the shotgun seat, Pete checks his weapon and says, "I never saw it coming."
Outside the summit, unruly protesters are clashing with the perimeter guards. Pete and Kiefer manage to get through with Kiefer's credentials, and they run across the empty plaza. Pete's in sniper range now, and a rooftop sharpshooter identifies the fugitive and asks if he should take the shot. Armed agents run out to meet Kiefer and Pete, weapons drawn threateningly. Kiefer shows his ID and says he's the investigator who issued the warrant for Pete in the first place. This is all, of course, being transmitted to the earpieces of every agent who knows Pete, everywhere in the building. Kiefer's urgently trying to get Pete past the guards, who say Pete's a "do not admit." Kiefer says he's countermanding that order, and they FUJIGMO him, saying Montrose is in charge. Kiefer screams at them not to call Montrose, and Pete adds that Montrose is the mole. "What's the procedure for that?" one of the agents asks the other. That may have been slipped in there after the Secret Service was shown what they were told was the final cut.
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