Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 216 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Fire in the Hole
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 14 | Aired on 2010.03.29
At 5:07:37, Kiefer's on the phone with Cole, getting an update and agreeing with him that the timing on that satellite outage was pretty damn convenient. Kiefer asks who was running it at CTU and Cole tells him it was Chloe. "You know her from before, right? And you trust her?" "With my life," Kiefer says decisively. But then he gets that call from President Taylor, so Cole's off his phone and out of the episode. Once Kiefer switches phones, Taylor wastes no time getting to the point: she wants Kiefer to supervise Hassan's evacuation from the U.N. to where she is, at McGuire AFB. Kiefer politely argues that he's probably of more use on the search for the rods. "Besides," he adds, "Secret Service is more than capable." Still, Taylor wants her very favorite agent on the job. Kiefer agrees and hangs up. He tells Walker, who has just shown up in front of him, what's going on, and she's like, "Okay let's go." Kiefer says he has to do this alone, for whatever reason he might have other than habit, but she refuses. "I'm coming with you. End of discussion." All he can do is follow as she walks away. I wish we could have just a glimpse into the future of their domestic coexistence. "I'm going to go drop some of these old flak jackets off at Goodwill." "I'm coming with you and you can't stop me!" That could be either one of them saying either of those things, obviously.
At 5:08:55, the TerrorTaxi enters a warehouse where all manner of welding is going on. Samir and Tarin get out and are met by the bomb technician Samir talked to on the phone a couple of hours ago. He's sorry to hear Ali didn't make it, but Samir assures him, "Tarin will take his place as driver." All that remains to be done is for the rods to be loaded into the bomb. Samir takes Tarin aside and tells him to be ready to leave. "I want to place the bomb as soon after I talk to the president as possible." So as to give them more time to find it, I guess. Tarin watches the bomb tech open the big duffel bag with the rods inside. It's 5:10:12. How exactly are these rods going to do any damage at all when nobody seems afraid to be around them? Maybe it's a special kind of radiation that only works on Russians.