Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Gassing The Gap
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.12.2006
Curtis is about to lead his men into the mall with these basic instructions: "Masks on. Inject anyone who's down and get them outside as soon as possible." But before they can enter, Kiefer the big hero rushes out with the unconscious girl in his arms, not only blocking access to the building, but also making everyone pay attention to his patient. An agent appears at his elbow with a shot of atropine, which Kiefer injects into her femoral artery right through her jeans. And then she starts getting better again, because Kiefer is just that damn good.
Buchanan earpieces to Kiefer, "We've secured the exits." Uh, yeah, that's a great idea during an evacuation. Really stellar. But his point is that Henchman #1 might have escaped before the lockdown, in which case he may have taken with him their only chance of finding Erwich. Kiefer duhs back that they can use the tracking device on the remote trigger, which Henchman #1 still has on him. Chloe gets on that at 2:48:15, and quickly ascertains that Henchman #1 appears to be moving away from the mall on foot. So can they maybe unsecure the exits now? Curtis flags down an agent and puts him in charge of the scene while he and Kiefer go after Henchman #1. By the way, Kiefer's patient is awake now. AHH! ZOMBIE! Sorry, I really am done now. Kiefer tells her she'll be fine, and dashes off with Curtis.
Henchman #1 hops a wall somewhere and finds himself in the parking lot of an apartment complex, where he breaks into and steals a parked car. Unlike the canister, he manages to hot-wire the vehicle without any remote tech support, and he's on his way. And on behalf of Stee and everyone else who's ever had their car stolen, fuck you, Henchman #1. And because I forgot to say it six episodes ago, fuck you, too, Kiefer. It's 2:49:26.
We come back at 2:53:52. As he's driving his getaway car, Henchman #1 pulls out his cell phone to call Erwich with an update as to how their little field test is going: "Rossler, or whoever he was, killed [Henchman #2] and tried to stop us." Confused, Erwich asks whether Henchman #1 is being followed. Henchman #1 is sure he isn't, so Erwich tells him to come back to the garage. Where, I assume, they've just been picking off all the other mechanics as they come back from lunch, one by one. Because on the one hand, brawny bike mechanics, but on the other hand, full and logy. It bears mentioning that Erwich looks like he's thinking more than he's saying. Perhaps he's just now realizing that maybe releasing a cloud of nerve gas in a location that's ten minutes away from where he's currently standing wasn't the best idea he ever had in the first place. At least not without checking which way the wind was blowing.