Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Down with the Sickness
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.06.2009
A moment later, Doug steps out in front of that Humvee, which stops and pins him in its searchlight. A Starkwood soldier gets out and draws on Doug, demanding ID. Doug holds up his ID card, and the guy holsters his weapon. "Dammit," Tony whispers, watching from his hiding spot. While the soldier is sweating Doug as politely as possible given that Doug is his boss's boss's boss's boss's boss's boss, one of his three partners is still scanning near Tony's hiding spot with his light. By now, Janis has finished cracking the code, but Tony can't go in the door right now with Starkwood guys looking at it. That is, until Doug gets the soldiers' attention back on himself by blustering at them until they bundle him into their Humvee. Once he's in the vehicle, Tony ducks through the door and says he's in, but without Doug. Walker tells Tony about Taylor's insistence on a visual confirmation, and Tony replies that he's on it as he makes his way through the building. Walker had also noticed that behind her, Kiefer's panting and sweating and shaking until he finally says, "Stay here, I'll be right back." But when he tries to walk away, he topples, pulling a whole credenza's worth of shit down on the floor with him. Way to make a mess, Kiefer. The FBI's not going to invite you back if that's how you're going to act. Walker crouches over him in concern as he chokes and shakes and bugs his eyes out at her. "Get me the medic!" she yells. It's 12:22:56.
12:27:22. The soldier who nabbed Greg is on the phone with Hodges, telling him that he found Doug outside the "restricted zone," and claiming to be out for a walk. "Should I take him to Stokes for interrogation, sir?" he offers. Hodges acts all shocked. "You're suggesting what, soldier? That we strap him down, extract a confession because he was walking? He's the chairman of the board." The soldier backpedals that he was just asking for instructions, and Hodges tells him, "Take him to his office, make sure he's comfortable, and stay with him until I arrive." He also orders more security sent into the area to make sure Doug was alone. But how are they going to do that retroactively?
In the weapons lab, the techs are busy with the weapons, and the chief tech, Tom, says it'll be about another half hour. Suddenly Hodges is okay with the original two-hour time frame; he just wants to know the minute it's done. Given how close this is going to end up being, he'd better make that the second.
Olivia and Aaron have already arrived at the hotel of Ken the reporter, and as they get off the elevator, she asks Aaron to wait in the hall. Aaron protests, but Olivia charms him into letting her have her way. Again. She taps on the door, and Ken lets her in without either of them saying anything, until he offers her a drink at 10:29:29. She declines, not that that stops him from indulging. She sets her cell phone down next to her purse on the table and says she doesn't like being threatened. That's odd; don't most people? Ken insincerely apologizes, and tells her what he knows, which basically seems to be the entire story from Carl the Port Authority guard. That dude's really gotten around in the past couple of hours, hasn't he? Olivia confirms it, but Ken insists, "I want to know all about it." Olivia says the story would cause a panic. "If you knew what it was you'd know why it's got to stay a secret," she insists. Ken agrees with that, and offers to prove it. So Olivia, idiot that she is, tells Ken, "It was a bioweapon in the container yard, that's what they were fighting over. It was developed by Starkwood in Africa. They moved it to their base about thirty miles from here." Ken is quietly blown away, but keeps pushing for more. Olivia grits out, "The president ordered an air strike as soon as the exact location of the canisters was known." Olivia presses Ken that he can't run with the story, or innocent people will die. Ken agrees that maybe she's right, but he's not about to let this meeting end empty handed. In other words, he wants her to convince him to drop the story. And in case it's not clear why I'm putting the word "convince" in italics, let me just clarify that it means "with her cooter." Olivia resists, but not for long. Is there anything sweeter than blackmail poontang?.