Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Jailbreak!
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 3 | Aired on 01.12.2009
Kiefer has just finished installing his cell phone earpiece into his ear when Chloe reports that the surveillance cameras show Agent Walker coming toward the room where he's been stashed. I would ask how Chloe knows which of the agents swarming through the building at any given moment is Renee Walker, but since it's Chloe, she's probably already pulled up Walker's ID photo, memorized her personnel file, and updated her Amazon wish list to reflect some recent holiday gifts. Chloe is also working on remotely dropping some video loops into the feeds from the surveillance cameras outside the room, Speed-style, so he doesn't show up on the monitors when he walks out. Anyway, Walker's still coming, so Kiefer hides his earpiece and sits down so she doesn't suspect anything when she comes in. Which she doesn't, because she feels too bad about having to tell Kiefer they're cutting him loose. She'll feel better about it in a second, at least until the unconsciousness sets in. While Kiefer signs a form for her, she even offers to put in a good word for him at Justice, for what it's worth. Kiefer thanks her, straightens up from the paperwork, and smoothly grabs her into a sleeper hold from behind. "Don't fight it," he tells her, even as she's gasping his name and trying to reach her gun. Moments later, she's out. Ever the gentleman, he lifts her tiny body up onto the desk so she can finish her nap there instead of on the floor. He then takes the gun from her holster and her access card from where it's clipped to her jacket, and replaces his cell phone earpiece. It's 10:41:52, and he almost made it three hours without assaulting a federal employee. Although it probably would have been a lot shorter if that senator had kept up at him.
At 10:46:04, Buchanan is driving a windowless blue molester-van through DC, as Chloe reports in to him with Kiefer's present activities and the GPS coordinates for the rendezvous point, which Buchanan says he's ten minutes away from. That'll prove to be off by a bit, but what's five minutes when you're busting someone out of an FBI field office in real time? Chloe switches her phone back over to Kiefer, who has been spending the commercial break getting ready to go. He's got his briefcase strapped across his body in man-purse style, since he's not about to leave his legal papers behind, but he's waited until now to showily cock Walker's gun. Chloe tells him the corridor is clear, and he steps out into the open. Luckily, Tony's interrogation room is still right across the hall from where Kiefer got stashed, and Walker's pass lets him right in. He charges in, weapon leveled, and disarms a very angry Moss and the uniformed guard while Tony tries not to smile too much. Kiefer orders the guard to uncuff Tony. "Where's Agent Walker? What did you do to her?" Moss demands, all worried about his girlfriend. Kiefer tells him to shut up. Moss warns Kiefer that he isn't going to be able to get out, and gets knocked unconscious for his trouble. With his hands free, Tony does the same for the uniformed guard, grabbing his leather jacket as he sends the polygraph leads flying. He scoops up the two dropped guns as Kiefer explains the situation and leads him into the observation room. Back on the line with Chloe, Kiefer says he and Tony are ready to move. She warns, "Right now you're in the least populated area of the building, but you're going to run into a lot more resistance before you get out of there." Kiefer doesn't seem too daunted by the idea of "resistance," like he's resigned to the idea of shooting his way out. Interesting.