Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 170 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Day 8: 4:00 PM -- 5:00 PM
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2010.01.17
At 4:41:34, Dana accompanies Cole and his team to the helipad exit, giving him an efficient briefing until she notices that he's looking at her like she's on a microscope slide. Hey, maybe he's just afraid that if he turns away, when he looks back she won't be there any more. She assures him nothing's wrong, and finally he heads outside to the lawn right there on the riverbank, where the chopper is spun up and waiting. As Cole and his sidekick jog over, the sidekick makes a crack about Dana's cold feet, and Cole good-naturedly tells him to shut up and do his job. Dana watches the helicopter lift off and head out over the river.
Nice choice of alley, Kiefer -- Victor has picked this moment to start fading. He collapses into a pile of trash bags, his wound reopened. Kiefer rips off the soaked bandage and goes to cut up a handy abandoned mattress for a new one. Welcome to New York! He's unaware that a parking guy is watching and has just quietly dialed 911. Again, welcome to New York. It's 4:43:36.
4:50:24. A striking woman who one assumes is Mrs. Hassan finishes her makeup while listening to more of these omnipresent news reports about the upcoming peace agreement. In comes her grown daughter, politely muting the TV and saying it's time to go. "Tell your father I'll be right there," says the wife. The daughter says she'll wait. "He doesn't trust me to be on time," the wife says, but the daughter earnestly says he does. "When did you become such a good liar?" her mom asks, regarding her in the makeup mirror. She adds, "You don't have to defend your father, darling. He can take care of himself." It's all very civil yet tense, not that we have any idea what's going on with this family. They go to meet up with Hassan in the next room. Husband and wife exchange compliments on how good they look, but when he goes to take her hand, she snatches it away and coldly says, "Let's not pretend any more than we have to." She's keeping it real, all right. She walks out, leaving Hassan to tell his daughter, "I'm sorry you had to see that." "It's not your fault," she says. He caresses her face, and they head out to the elevator, the women covering their hair as they go. It's 4:52:34. Well, that was all very fraught, wasn't it?
Down in the lobby, Meredith Reed, Girl Reporter sees Farhad come out of the elevator with a new set of credentials for her, hand them to the security guard, and instruct him, "Let her through." Once she's in and has thanked him, all Farhad says to her is, "I will tell you the same thing I told him. Unless you want to destroy everything that he's worked for, stay away from him." Well, fuck you very much.