Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Kiefer's Ex vs. World War III
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.15.2007
Back at CTU, Morris is busy on the phone getting things set up for the nuke transport. Chloe chimes in with some technobabble advice, and Morris says he's already on it. Then he notices something on his screen that makes his eyebrows go all wonky. "I think someone's hacked into my system," he says. Chloe asks if he's sure, and he says that he installed some spyware on his computer to protect himself after what happened to Nadia. Which, to be fair, Chloe probably would have noticed if she hadn't been in such a rush. It's only a matter of seconds before Morris figures out that somebody downloaded the suitcase nuke schematics from his hard drive about ten minutes ago. Meanwhile, Mary-Lynn Rajskub's face is doing things I haven't seen it do since she was on Mr. Show. Morris picks up his phone to call Security, and she jumps up to stop him. She confesses to downloading the files. And then she tries to leave. Morris gently reaches for her arm and asks, "Why would you do that?" Chloe says that she'll explain later, and she galumphs off at 11:20:27. Morris follows her all the way back to her desk -- her other desk, perhaps I should say -- and suggests she explain it now. Chloe says it was for Jack. Like Morris said the first time we met him, he should have known.
Chloe explains about Audrey and the Chinese and the nuke component and so forth. Morris reminds Chloe that they both know that the Russians have been trying to keep that technology away from the Chinese for years and aren't going to be happy when they find out that a U.S. agent handed it over. If that happens, can't they just have Martha Logan call Anya Suvarov and make it all better? In any case, Chloe insists that it won't come to that, because Kiefer promised. Morris isn't willing to let it drop. He says that it's bad enough that he, Morris, enabled the nukes to potentially kill tens of thousands of people; now he can't be involved in something that might start a war. Chloe says that he's not involved, but Morris says that he is, now that she's told him. She fails to make the point that she only told Morris because he made her. He basically gives her an ultimatum: tell Buchanan now, or he will. She caves and heads up the stairs to Buchanan's office like she's going to her death. I don't know why she's so worried; even when she gets fired, all it means is that she works a fourteen-hour day instead of twenty-four.