Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 330 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Thrilling Bureaucratic Intrigue!
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 16 | Aired on 2006.04.03
As Kiefer walks over to the back door, he and Wayne both call out tests for the earpiece comm units they picked up somewhere along the way. Chloe hears both of them back at CTU, where she's still getting real-time images from the infrared satellite. She tells him that there's a tunnel and a conveyor belt on the other side of the door whose lock Kiefer is currently picking. Kiefer copies that, and tells Wayne to draw his weapon as he gets the door open. Wayne draws a silenced handgun just like Kiefer's, presumably produced from somewhere in the depths of the man-purse, and they both disappear through the door. It's 10:47:42.
10:52:04. The leader of the hit squad who tried to kill Wayne is now positioned on a high rooftop above the industrial complex, manning a sniper rifle. Talk about failing upward. Down inside the building, Henderson intones into his walkie-talkie, "Bravo, check. Have you got a visual on the mark?" Bravo the sniper doesn't, and it's weird that it's taking Evelyn longer to drive around the building than it took Kiefer to drive to it. No wonder he and Wayne wouldn't let her take the wheel.
Kiefer's still consulting his PDA as he leads Wayne through the catacombs of the building. "This way," he whispers. Looking at the screen, he spots a bad guy whose patrol is taking him near their position. Kiefer comes up behind the baddie, wraps an arm around his neck, and fires two silenced rounds through the guy's torso at point-blank range. "Let's go," he whispers to Wayne, satisfied that he's given his new sidekick sufficient proof of what a stone-cold bad-ass he is.
It's 10:53:13 as they make their way to a new position. Kiefer checks his screen again and frets, "Dammit, there's too many of them. We're running out of time." Basically, he has no choice but to send Wayne on a little mission: Wayne is to take out a guard at ground level so Kiefer can climb unseen to the roof and take out the sniper. Wayne starts to head out, but Kiefer yanks him back into their hiding spot, saying one of them's moving. And indeed, a guard comes into view, only to be felled by two more silenced rounds from Kiefer's gun. "Go," he hisses at Wayne. Wayne goes. Kiefer looks worried as he watches Wayne sneak off. Oh, come off it, Kiefer. You don't work for CTU either most of the time.