Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Das Brute
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.14.2006
FLOTUS continues to make her way across the grounds, looking around as if expecting to hear an alarm at any moment. Fortunately for her, the Secret Service doesn't have time to worry about her right now, because it's too busy planning to kill each other.
Adams herds Aaron out of the trophy room at gunpoint and orders him to get in the trunk. Rather than obeying, Aaron warns Adams that Logan is no damn good, he isn't going to get away with it, and if he does, pretty soon it'll be Adams getting into a trunk. And the next guy might decide to reuse the plastic. Having heard enough, Adams tries to manhandle Aaron into the trunk. Aaron puts up a fight, but the difference of twenty years, fifty pounds, and handcuffs vs. handgun makes it a pretty uneven struggle. Soon Aaron's on the floor and Adams is standing over him, about to blow him away. When FLOTUS demands, "What are you doing?" Adams's weapon swings around to cover this new "threat," and he tells FLOTUS not to move. "Aaron?" she says to the bloody figure on the ground. Aaron doesn't respond, because he's one beating over his daily quota. FLOTUS quickly goes all Jedi-mind-trick on Adams, walking slowly towards him and asking if he's really going to shoot the First Lady. Adams looks like he only wishes he could. Without lowering his weapon, he pulls out his cell phone to make a call. But Aaron knocks him off balance with a couple of kicks from the ground. Way to stay within reach there, Adams. He lurches against the wall, dropping his gun. Rather than retrieving it, he returns to whack Aaron across the face, putting him down again. Then he reaches into the trunk to grab the tire iron out of the trunk, which he apparently had the foresight to keep outside the plastic lining. He raises it high, preparing to cave in Aaron's skull. But before he can bring it down, FLOTUS brings Adams down with a shot to the chest from his own gun. And now she and Aaron are even. She stands there in shock for a moment, until Aaron raises his head and says, "Martha?" A little free with the first names this hour, aren't we, Agent Pierce? Finally FLOTUS drops the gun and rushes to Aaron's side. She cries, possibly because he's too bloody to make out with. It's 4:35:53.
4:40:14. In one of the splitscreen windows, FLOTUS looks like she's trying to find a way to make that happen anyway. Meanwhile, two CTUmobiles are driving through the abandoned streets. The passengers of one of them include Curtis, Kiefer, and Henderson. You know that's been a long ride. Curtis breaks the awkward silence by saying they're getting close to Malina's apartment. They all park, and everyone gets out. Kiefer tells Curtis to set up a perimeter, then warns Henderson that he's got ten minutes with Malina before he comes in with thumbscrews blazing. Although not in so many words. He wants to set up Henderson with a wire, but Henderson puts the kibosh on that, saying Malina's got scanners that will detect any listening devices instantly. Kiefer just stares at Henderson like he wants to hit him so hard. Just make his eyes rattle with one good sock to the...stomach. Henderson says it's fine that they don't trust each other, "But neither one of us can afford to blow this operation." Curtis returns to say the perimeter is already set up, which explains a lot about the success rate of CTU perimeters. Grumpily, Kiefer lets Henderson have his way, warning him not to try anything. "I don't need another reason to put a bullet in your head," he exaggerates. With an order to Curtis to have CTU monitor channel eight, Kiefer leads Henderson towards Malina's building.