Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Daddy Issues
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 10 | Aired on 02.18.2007
Back at CTU, Chloe picks her cell phone up off her desk to call Morris. He's still crouched next to the Dumpsters, his face twisted in misery, when his cell phone rings. So they recovered it from the site of his carjacking already? CTU thinks of everything. He looks at the caller ID, takes a couple of rings to pull himself together, and answers just enough to say "I'm on my way." Chloe says that she needs him back now. "I'm on my way," he repeats, and hangs up. He cries a bit more, and then pops a few Altoids and staggers back toward work. In his current mood, I'm surprised he doesn't feel personally mocked by something that claims to be curiously strong.
At 3:30:43, Kiefer drives his CTUmobile into an underground parking garage. He and Marilyn get out and go around to the back of the truck. He gets a bulletproof vest out and asks her to put it on under her clothes. It's kind of a girly version -- thin enough to preserve the line of her blouse but probably incapable of stopping a harsh word. He politely turns his back while she strips to her camisole, and she looks a bit disappointed that Kiefer isn't watching. Hacker probably has a great view through the rearview mirror, though. She needs his help getting dressed again, as her hands are shaking because she's such a girl. Kiefer promises again to get Josh back safely. "He's the only reason I stayed with Graem," Marilyn says. "He's the only good thing I had left since..." Kiefer runs a gnarled hand down her hair and gives her a sympathetic look, and then cuts off this jibber-jabber. This conversation isn't going anywhere he wants to be, and it's time for them to get going anyway. He lets Hacker out of the truck, uncuffs him, and tells him to do exactly as Kiefer says. It's 3:32:16 as they head to the stairwell.
At 3:36:44, Morris is on his way back into CTU. He happens to pass by the clinic, where Milo is sitting on a hospital bed with a fresh dressing on his arm. Morris enters and asks how Milo's doing, clearly affected by the sight of Milo's bloody and discarded dress shirt puddled at the end of the bed instead of in a biohazard container where it belongs. You know, next to Morris's bloody and discarded dress shirt. He asks Milo what happened, and Milo says that he was stupid: "They don't pay me to be a field agent." Don't feel bad, Milo; they haven't paid Kiefer for that either since three seasons ago. Morris gives Milo props for protecting Marilyn. Milo gingerly gets to his feet, saying that he didn't know what he was doing. Oh, he noticed that too? Well, now I feel bad. Okay, not really. Morris tells Milo not to "downplay it to make me feel better." Milo becomes the latest to give Morris a "this isn't about you" face, but he simply agrees and asks if Morris is okay. Morris says he is, and with one last "Well done," he leaves Milo alone, looking confused. Okay! Good debriefing!