Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | 399 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Nuclear Winner
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2007.04.09
Tom looks at Wayne with new respect as he realizes that the Mideastians were lying to them all along, and that Wayne knew it. "I suspected," Wayne says modestly. Tom gets up to have someone give the order to recover the warhead (like it's his job, with fifteen high-ranking military officers in the room with him), but Wayne tells him not to bother. The Admiral explains that Wayne had the Vickery launch an unarmed missile. In other words, Wayne was bluffing. Oddly, the Admiral doesn't seem too disappointed about not getting to rain fire and destruction down on thousands of benighted Third-Worlders. Wayne grins that the Veep was right about the Mideastians needing a lot more convincing, but he points out that since he himself is so much more awesome than the Veep, he wasn't about to sacrifice innocent lives to prove it. Wouldn't it have been awesome if the Mideastians had held out and that dud missile had just hit the ground with a dull thud? Then Wayne would have been like, "Okay, next time I'm going to be totally serious." He tells his people to relay the new info to CTU and hope it will help them to break Fayed.