Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Busted…Sort Of
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.20.2009
At 2:45:14, silver FBI SUVs screech into position around the trap Galvez has laid for them. Walker comms to Galvez, who she still thinks is Stoller, and he says he's in the east stairwell, and that the suspect is on the top floor and still appears to be alone. Walker gives her people their instructions: because they still suspect Galvez has an accomplice, they're clearing the building room by room. Which will probably save a few lives in a minute, since it means the agents won't all be concentrated in one area of the building. She calls back to the mobile command center, where Kiefer has just donned a bulletproof vest under his jacket, and tells the hazmat teams to be ready. "How you holding up?" Tony asks Kiefer. "Better, thanks," Kiefer says, unaware that his jacket just got lighter. While the FBI agents begin swarming the building, Kiefer's cell phone rings. It's the FBI stenographer, who wants to clear something up, since "some new information has come to light." Kiefer tries to tell him this isn't a good time, but he presses on. "You told me Tony Almeida's source on the White House attack was a man identified to you as Vincent Cardiff?" Kiefer confirms it, even when the stenographer reminds him, "You yourself have voiced some concern about your own acuity." Who talks like that? But Kiefer's gotten distracted by one of the screens before him, which shows a list of all the FBI agents deployed within the perimeter. He hangs up on he steno and asks the monitoring guy what he's looking at. Well, you and I know what the list of FBI agents' names, all next to the code "L-26" must mean, especially when we can see a lone "S-23" next to Stoller's. But Kiefer makes the guy do a map overlay anyway. "What's going on, Jack?" Tony asks, when he should really be getting in a car and driving as far away as he can. Kiefer says he isn't sure. Which is what Tony wanted to hear.
At 2:46:59, agents are kicking in doors inside the building, Walker among them. Even in the darkness, nobody seems to notice any of the little black boxes with blinking red lights on them placed at strategic points. Galvez is watching from a hiding pace on the next block. And by now, Kiefer's map is up on the screen back at the command center, showing a couple of dozen FBI blips inside the building, and one significantly distant one: the one marked Stoller. "He's not even in the building," Kiefer says. He tells Walker to pull her men out. "It's a trap. Stoller's not even in there. Get your men out now!" Overhearing this on Stoller's radio, Galvez realizes the game is up. He starts dialing the detonation code into his cell phone while Walker runs though the halls yelling, "Code Blue!" And then the building blows up, many times, and from multiple angles. Although there wasn't enough C-4 in there to bring down the building entirely, just send fireballs erupting from every window. It's visible from the mobile command post, and Kiefer dispatches Tony to get them a car while the monitoring guy tries to raise his bosses. Park is alive and calling for help from the perimeter teams. Kiefer belays that order, telling them to hold position or else they'll lose the suspect and the canister. Besides, it's not like he knows most of these people who just got blown up anyway. "Tell your men to stand fast, medevac is on its way."