Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fished In
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 3 | Aired on 01.14.2010
Dana sits at her desk looking distracted when Arlo comes up to her and says, "You screwed up." She jumps, and he's like, "Yeah, surprised me, too." Apparently she forgot to do some technobabble to his system that he needs to finish cracking the file from Reed's computer. He offers to finish up from her station, so she relinquishes her chair to him. Which she will soon regret, because while he does his thing, he asks her what's up. "It's not like you to make mistakes. You seem distracted. Wedding jitters maybe?" He starts in again about how she and Cole are wrong for each other --"not exactly intellectual equals," as he puts it. He keeps pushing, and she starts to snap at him, but the file has just cracked. And up on the screen appears a schematic of something. She sends him off to finish his part and put it up on the screen while she alerts Hastings.
And at 6:44:52, here comes the man himself, blowing off Reed's lawyer over the phone. Dana uses her handheld device to mess around with the graphics on the screen, which she says shows recent construction work on the U.N. building -- namely a couple of new I-beams to hold up some new interpreters' booths. Right under the Council Chamber, in fact. And here comes Arlo's part of the file, which looks like a bomb attached to a cell phone. "Modified to fit between the I-beams," Arlo observes. "Sir, judging by the size, that's big enough to drop the entire Security Council into the East River." Hastings calls a red alert and demands to be put in touch with Cole and the U.N. security guy from last hour, whose name turns out to be Manners. And he orders a full evacuation. From his elbow, where she planted herself right at the start of all this excitement, Chloe insists he think about whether the intel is fake. Hastings says he's not taking any chances, and by now Dana has Cole and Manners on the phone for him. Hastings tells them both over Cole's speakerphone that there's a bomb in the building. Cole also has his doubts, considering how thoroughly the building has been vetted and searched. Hastings insists Manners start the evacuation, and that Cole be personally responsible for Hassan. They both move to comply, and other guards begin to accrete to what will rapidly become a growing mass of them. It's already a pretty big group that bursts into the Council Chamber so Manners can announce that it's evac time. He tells them to head to underground parking, and "please speak only with your designated handlers." Cole tells Taylor and Ethan to get themselves out and leads Hassan and his brother (and Hassan's own bodyguards) out of the Council Chamber to the elevators. As he does so, he's on his earpiece to NYPD traffic control out on the street. In position among them is Davros, sitting on his NYPD motorcycle and confirming that he's standing by. He takes out a cell phone and enters a code which causes the display to read "device armed." That certainly won't be suspicious if anyone finds it on him. He looks up the street to a manhole cover half a block away. An electronic device is attached to its underside, blinking red and attached to a few blocks of C-4. It's 6:47:44.