Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | 15 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT High Jack
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 20 | Aired on 2006.04.31
He quickly gets through to Slime, who's all set up in the CTU Situation Room, and reports that Chloe has been and gone. Hayes comes in as Slime asks for Buchanan, and he tells her, "We lost O'Brian." "Dammit," Hayes Oscar-baits. Slime tries to threaten Buchanan into giving up Chloe's location, but Buchanan mildly says, "From what I understand, Miles, she got out of CTU right under your nose. You're the one who should be concerned, not me." Hayes cuts in to pretend to tell Buchanan to spill, but Buchanan just hands back the agent's phone, saying he's done talking. I'm digging this new, rebellious Buchanan. All that's missing is a pack of Marlboros rolled into the sleeve of his t-shirt. Before hanging up, Hayes tells her field agent to bring Buchanan in to CTU and start searching for Chloe. "She's probably got a car, which means she's about fifteen miles out." Surprisingly, that's not the part that Slime has a problem with. He points out that the agents at Cabana Buchanan can interrogate him right there, and that they're wasting time having Buchanan brought in. Hayes pulls rank and says she'll be in her office, leaving Slime alone to scowl at the conference table.
It's 2:06:16, and a police car is patrolling outside a hotel. It totally misses Chloe, of course, because it doesn't have a rearview mirror or something, and once it's clear she heads inside the building. She quickly makes her way through the L.A. trendoid lobby and into the hotel bar, which is neither as abandoned nor as crowded as you might think at two in the morning. She finds a table and pulls out her laptop, with its Ethernet cable still attached to whatever she's got in her bag. An IOU from the prop department, probably. A guy up at the bar leers at her through his red-wine goggles, and Chloe barely takes notice of him. He should consider that a good thing. He won't. Chloe then gets out her cell phone to call Hayes and have her make sure that nobody looks for her at the hotel. Hayes asks what else Chloe needs, and Chloe requests the passenger manifest for Diplomatic Flight 520. Hayes pulls it up; we learn that the plane is bound for Frankfurt (not that it's going to get there), and Chloe asks her to put all 520-related info on the shared drive so Chloe can access it. Believe it or not, that's not going to send up any red flags in the office. At least not this hour.