Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Not-So-Secret Service
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 25 | Aired on 09.13.2006
In the speech room, Jill manages to get past Agent Tom and whisper in the ear of the First Lady. Montrose watches nervously from the wings. Outside, the agents report that their radios have suddenly gone dead, even though Montrose hasn't moved. "It's going down!" Pete yells.
Jill tells the First Lady that Montrose is the mole. Her only reaction is to cast a glance in Montrose's direction. Nobody moves for a moment. Then the elevator door dings, and Kiefer and Pete are in the room with the two agents they've dragged along. The agents outside the elevator draw on them, and in the ensuing argument and pandemonium, Montrose makes his move: he dashes out to the podium, grabs the President, and drags him into the wings. Which is what he would do anyway, so POTUS isn't suspicious of him yet. Kiefer and Pete yell at everyone not to let Montrose move the President, and FLOTUS steps in, hollering at the agents blocking Kiefer, "Crystal! Crystal is the password!" For some reason, this settles the issue, and all the agents are off in pursuit of Montrose and POTUS. FLOTUS is with them, until Agent Tom pulls her off in a different direction, to motorcade C. How many damn motorcades do these people have?
Montrose and a group of other agents -- including our old buddy Aziz -- lead the President through the underground corridor, POTUS carping, "That's a hell of a way to leave the G8." Another agent bitches about the radios being on the fritz, but before anyone can respond, a bad guy in a Canadian Army uniform pops out in front of them and opens up with an assault rifle. I assume the Canadian Army didn't cooperate with the production. Agents go down, and the rest dive for cover, Montrose pulling the President behind a door frame. Elsewhere in the building, the other parties hear the shots and decide to head in that direction. Meanwhile, the blond gunman's got the President's group pinned down. The other agents ask Montrose for orders. He struggles with his conscience, and probably the logistics of going ahead with this. Montrose finally instructs, "Hold the corridor. Push him back." He leads the President into a nearby stairwell. The cavalry then arrives in the form of Pete, who manages to flank the shooter and take him down from behind. But there are still a number of machine guns to get past. "Pete, we're cut off from the B motorcade," Aziz calls out. More shooting.
Weapon drawn, Montrose gets the President to an isolated spot in a stairwell and takes a deep breath. He tells POTUS to turn off his locator. "That's how they know where we are. They're tracking us." He's squinting as he says it, like he can't believe what he's hearing himself say. POTUS asks how Montrose knows that, and Montrose just looks at him guiltily. "Oh, no, Bill," POTUS says in disgust. Hey, at least he confessed. Montrose steps out from behind cover, and gets his ass shot down from a bad guy at the top of the next flight of stairs. Way to decide to ultimately protect the President after all, by getting killed and leaving him unprotected, Bill. Fortunately, Pete and another agent arrive before the bad guy can come down the stairs and finish the job. Using a sneaky move where he crosses the bottom of the stairs out of sight of the shooter who's too far back on the landing to see, Pete takes the bad guy down. His gun is still smoking when he hears Montrose on the floor, gasping Pete's name. "My family," Montrose begs, grasping at Pete's ankle. Pete kicks away the dying man's hand. So sad for you, little Montroselets. Pete tells the President that he and the other agent are going to get him up top to the car, so it's a little disappointing that they don't get much further before Pete's fellow agent is shot down and Pete takes a bullet in the side. Kiefer and Jill find them thus pinned down, and make their own sneaky move. This time it's Jill who scores the kill shot. The little party starts limping up the stairs, Kiefer dragging the wounded agent.
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