Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Spy vs. Spy
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.19.2006
Kiefer gets Chloe, who quickly confirms Theo's identity on her computer. She adds that he's a German operative, trained at MI-6, which explains his British accent. That only leaves Bierko's accent unexplained at this point. Kiefer rudely cuts off Chloe mid-info-dump and hangs up, telling Theo that they need his help in finding Collette Stenger, so that they can find Bierko, the guy behind the day's attacks. Theo couldn't care less about Bierko; he's been working undercover for six months, spying on Collette. From inside and out, one assumes. He claims that her shadowy connections to terrorist cells make her "too valuable to give up." Kiefer disagrees, saying that the hundreds of thousands of lives at risk today trump Theo's operation. Theo points out that they just have different agendas, serving their own respective nations. "You're asking me to betray my duty to my country," he says. "Ask yourself what you would do in my situation." Kiefer snarls, "You'd better start asking yourself what you would do in mine." As variations on "I know you are but what am I?" go, that's a pretty good one. He grabs Theo by the arm of his suit and leads him to the stairs, despite the German's protests that "you can't touch me." "We'll see about that," Kiefer growls. It's 8:24:12. Is Curtis going to get his gun back?
8:28:35. Looks like Bierko's got a drive-in bunker, as Collette's sporty red Lexus rolls in. She disembarks, hands over a gun that she pulls out from under her skirt, and allows herself to be subjected to a rather ungentlemanly search of her person and bag before she's allowed to proceed. Oh, the trials of a chick freelance spy.
At CTU, Audrey is on the phone, apparently trying to intimidate some German apparatchik. Good luck with that. Buchanan's in the next room with Hayes, on the speakerphone with Kiefer. From Collette and Theo's suite, Kiefer asks whether Logan has talked to the German Chancellor. Hayes says that the Chancellor will be incommunicado for another hour. Or, as we civilians like to call it, sleeping. Jeez, people, have a little consideration. Kiefer says that they don't have another hour (like he knows), and Hayes says that the Germans are just stalling and there's nothing they can do. Too bad Kiefer didn't bust a Chinese agent instead of a German one; I'm sure they'd be happy to help Kiefer out with just about anything. Audrey chimes in to add that German Intelligence isn't playing ball either, and that Kiefer should try to cut a deal with Theo. Kiefer says that he'll try that (and I'm thinking "Tell me where she is and I'll stop cutting you into pieces with a nail clipper" is probably Kiefer's idea of a deal, but I'll be wrong), and hangs up. He asks Curtis for a little alone time with Theo. "Jack, what are you doing?" Curtis asks in that Curtis way he has, but when Kiefer assures him that it's all right, he leaves, also in that Curtis way he has. The other agents go with him.