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
I don't know how remote this secret location of Chad Lowe's could possible be, because Tom is knocking on the door of Wayne's conference room within five seconds. Wayne invites him in, asking Tom for some notes on Assad's speech. Tom drops a petty little snit about how he didn't think Wayne cares what he thinks anymore. Wayne soothes his Chief of Staff's bruised ego and hands him the printout of Assad's speech draft. Tom accepts it and sits down so that they can go over it together. Am I the only one who thinks Wayne is spending too much time on this project? I seem to remember that Jed Bartlet frequently had to divide a single hour of his life between foreign embassy raids, political assassinations, sinking aircraft carriers, fractious daughters, and space shuttles in distress, all while Rizzo kept calling him a jackass. And here's Wayne spending three hours on an address he isn't even delivering. Dude needs to learn how to multitask.
At 3:28:16, Gredenko's tech guy is still busy at his laptop. Gredenko is starting to worry about his exposure; he figures that if the government doesn't already know they're working with Fayed, they soon will. Way to keep up, Dmitri. He draws the shades, cutting off the poor tech guy's sunshine and littering his desk with an empty paper coffee cup. Bad boss. Bad!
Morris has walked all the way to a convenience store. Weird zoning again on this show. In past seasons, we've seen that CTU is within blocks of a suburban neighborhood and a train yard, and now there's a Gas & Sip as well. You'd think such a perennial terror target would select a more remote location. Morris steps up to the counter to buy a Red Bull and a pack of smokes. He doesn't get to pay for them right away, though, because the cashier's attention is being consumed by the TV behind the counter, which is showing a harrowing interview with a survivor of that morning's nuclear blast. And now Morris has to think about that happening again times three because he couldn't hold his mud. "Hell of a day, huh?" the cashier remarks to Morris. "Yeah, you could say that," Morris agrees sarcastically. He refrains from showing the cashier his fresh drill-hole. The cashier asks if Morris needs anything else. Morris points to a fifth of non-product-placed whisky on the shelf behind the counter. He quickly grabs it, and snags a tin of Altoids as well, telling the cashier to keep the change. Once he's outside, Morris walks out, uncaps the bottle, and takes a giant swig, draining half the bottle at a draught. He breathes deep for a moment, and then sticks his finger down his throat and vomits on the ground between the store's Dumpsters. We get to see it hit the pavement and everything. Want some Coke with that?