Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT O Brother, Where Art Thou?
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 5 | Aired on 01.21.2007
10:25:42. At CTU, Milo's busy micromanaging Chloe when Morris rushes between them to show them a list of names of people Gredenko has done business with in L.A. It fills the whole screen, which is all kinds of not helpful, as Chloe points out. "But one of [the names] kind of floated to the top, if you know what I mean," Morris points out. We don't see what he means, but Chloe does, telling him to send it to Buchanan as she dashes up to his office. "Wow," Milo says. I'm not sure if he's bowled over by Morris's find or the spectacle of Chloe running in a dress.
Chloe reaches Buchanan's office in record time and tells him what Morris just sent him. He pulls it up, and she tells him to look at #17 on the list of names. It's the chairman of BXJ Technologies, a gentleman named Philip Bauer. "Jack's father," Chloe helpfully adds. They don't have anything else right now, but she says that she'll look into it as he picks up the phone to call Kiefer. She flounces out at 10:26:56.
Once Buchanan gets Kiefer on the line, he asks if Kiefer knows Gredenko. Kiefer, now being chauffeured back to the office in a CTUmobile, says that he doesn't. Buchanan says, "Your father does." Kiefer is confused, and asks if his dad's a suspect. Buchanan says no; it's just that Bauer, Sr. just came up on a list of people who had had contact with Gredenko and CTU plans to question him. I'm sure they'll be just as careful to interview the other sixteen-plus people on the list, but nobody cares about them. Buchanan just wanted to check to see if Kiefer knew anything about it first. As Kiefer says, not so much: "I haven't spoken to him for over nine years." Buchanan takes an "all-righty, then" pause and says that they'll send someone over. But of course, Kiefer wants to handle his father's questioning himself, saying his dad will open up more quickly if he goes alone. Buchanan not only thinks it's a swell idea to let the crazy PTSD murderer/torturer go question his own father, he says Kiefer can take the CTUmobile he's riding in. Kiefer agrees, hangs up, and tells the agent driving the CTUmobile to pull over. That poor driver. If you're a CTU agent, it's got to give you some kind of complex if the biggest terrorist attack in history takes place twenty miles away and you're left standing on a street corner waiting for someone to come pick you up.
At the Anacostia Detention Facility in Washington, D.C., a whole surveillance room has been set up in what was probably the school's science lab or something. Sandra Palmer is hanging out among the agents manning computers and flat screen monitors, and she's not exactly happy to see the blond agent who arrested her and Walid a few hours ago. He claims he didn't want to arrest either one of them, and introduces another agent named Jennings, a tall, Dubya-looking dude who's going to be working with them. Agent Blond says that Jennings will be putting a wire on Walid. Sandra thinks replacing Walid with someone else is a better idea, since Walid doesn't have the training. Good point. Plus I think it'll totally work if some guy no one's ever seen before goes up and says, "Hey, remember that guy who came to your defense when the guards were hassling you before? Pretend that was me." Sandra tries to ask Jennings how the wire's going to be getting on Walid, but he's not particularly forthcoming.