Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT OMFGOTUS
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.09.2009
Back at the security lobby, Vossler balks some more, but when Kiefer gets his cell phone out again, Vossler gives up the address right quick. He also tells Kiefer about the back staircase, that Dubaku was there when he left, and that there are at least four armed guys guarding Henry. Just then a resident bumbles in. "Get out of here!" Kiefer roars at him, and he does, but Vossler takes advantage of the distraction to kick Kiefer's gun out of his hand and come at him with a knife from an ankle holster. Vossler certainly recovered from being t-boned in a hurry. A fight ensues, and just when it looks as though Vossler's about to stick Kiefer in the face, Kiefer twists and sends the knife sinking into Vossler's own gut instead. He goes off and leaves the body, only to find a bunch of looky-loos investigating the accident he just caused. Kiefer yells at them to get away, and since he's a crazy man with a gun (although not nearly as blood-covered as he probably should be), they obey. But Moss's SUV is fucked, so Kiefer has to commandeer a passing Cadillac at gunpoint. I wonder if that would have occurred to him if the next car had been a 1983 Bonneville. At 3:40:42, he drives off in his stolen car, thinking, "Hmm, what was that address again?"
At 3:45:04, at the White House, Buchanan is briefing two Secret Service agents. One of the agents is an African-American man who has just finished applying a fake goatee, which makes him look only marginally more like Matobo than I do. Buchanan instructs them to go to the rendezvous point as planned, but keep their distance and get out of there if they think it's getting too dangerous. Sounds simple enough. What could go wrong?
Kiefer calls Walker, who's still at the Vosslers' house, to tell her the address he got from Vossler. Which he was just sitting on during the whole commercial break, the better to mentally transpose a couple of digits and end up storming a day care center or something. Why stop at terrorizing only one child, after all? He tells Walker to stay put if she gets there first, and he tells her to update Moss while he does the same for Buchanan. I'm surprised he cares about keeping Moss in the loop now that he's served his purpose. Walker asks Kiefer about Vossler. "He's dead," Kiefer says. "He attacked me. I didn't have a choice." Walker looks over at the wife and child who are now a widow and an orphan, and she's overcome with guilt. Kiefer asks if she's okay, and she answers that she doesn't think so. "What do you mean?" Kiefer asks, bewildered. "What's wrong?" Well, if you didn't have an idea, why did you ask in the first place? She doesn't answer for a long moment, and he tells her, "Listen to me. We could not have gotten this far if it wasn't for you. Okay? No one would blame you if this was just too much for you to handle. Maybe you should get out." Walker agrees, "Maybe I will." Kiefer gives a pissy little huff that his reverse psychology didn't work, and probably over the fact that his apprentice in evil is bailing on him. But then Walker adds, "Tomorrow," and hangs up. It'll be interesting to see how she gets out of that house now. Except that we won't.