Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Death Wish
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 23 | Aired on 05.24.2010
While working, Jason quizzes Kiefer: "You've spent your entire career working outside the system, but you've always had a good reason. This? It's just bloodlust. You're destroying an agreement that took years to put together." Kiefer says it's an agreement made by "murderers and liars." And Hassans, but then I guess Farhad was all three. "You're the one killing people in cold blood," Jason points out. Kiefer says that all his victims had a hand in the attack today. Even Novakovich's staff? What if a couple of those guys were just temps the agency sent this morning? Jason asks, "Who made you judge and jury?" Kiefer says Taylor did, when she signed on for the cover-up. "I would have accepted justice by law." Noble of him. "But that was taken away from me by people like you. So you're right, I am judge and jury. Now step back! Turn around! Start to move back toward the car." I guess Jason's done stitching. Holding his bloody hands in the air while obeying, Jason realizes what this means. He starts crying and begging for his life when Kiefer makes him get on his knees. He blubbers about his six-year-old girl until Kiefer takes pity on him and knocks him out with a blow to the head. And then another for good measure. Nighty-night! Of course if Kiefer keeps it up with the blunt-force skull trauma, Jason and his six-year-old will be on equal intellectual footing. Now that he doesn't have an audience, Kiefer allows himself to give a cry of pain. It's 2:26:33, and wouldn't it serve him right if he popped his stitches with that blow to Jason's head? "Wake up and do it again." Sew, sew, sew, WHACK! "Dammit! Okay, wake up..."
Commercials. Even I don't think 24 does as much to promote violence as this "PunchDub" nonsense does.
2:30:52. Kiefer has not only shouldered up his giant Duffel of Justice, he's also heaved Jason up into the back of his SUV. And with fresh stitches in his belly, too. Jason's a miracle worker! Of course, if Jason had been thinking, he would have sewn the loose end of Kiefer's sutures to himself. Kiefer draws his gun and starts making his way thought the building in a way that shows Jason didn't even tie his shoes together.
Dalia can't seem to get Reed on the phone (because she doesn't know, as we do, that Reed's in jail), and Jamot reports that although he was able to reach Reed's editor, Gary doesn't know where she is or how to reach her. "He seemed very anxious to get off the phone," Jamot adds. The Hassans seem to think that's pretty significant, to the point where I hope they never have to call me. I always sound anxious to get off the phone. Dalia throws on her headscarf to go see Taylor right now. "President Taylor and I are supposed to be sitting across the table from Yuri Suvarov in less than an hour," she tells Kayla. "If his government was involved in murdering your father, President Taylor needs to know." Yes, someone should really tell her.