Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Carry-on Kiefer
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.23.2006
It's 1:42:23, and Audrey is still sitting on the fertilizer bags in the barn next to Henderson's gun. She's looking mighty pale. Disheveled, even. Henderson has woken up, and quickly ascertains that with the handcuffs chaining him to a metal pipe, he's not going anywhere at the moment. So he gets right to work on the only tool currently at his disposal, which of course is Audrey's head. He apologizes for getting her dad involved. "I've known Secretary Heller for a very long time," he says. "He's an honorable man." He checks his watch and, as if the idea is just occurring to him, remarks, "It's ten to twelve minutes since..." Well, no, it's thirty, but maybe he thinks Audrey doesn't know that. He starts speculating that Heller might have survived in an air pocket or something, and his manner gets all urgent as he tries to convince her that her father might still be alive. Audrey obviously wants to believe it, but she considers the source and snaps, "Stop it." Henderson fakes a near-panic, straining against his handcuff and telling Audrey that she has to call someone to help her father. With her hand on the gun, she loudly sputters at him to stop talking. And then she picks up the cell phone. And then she realizes what she was about to do, and she picks up the gun instead, pointing it across the barn at Henderson's face. "What do you think, I'm stupid?" she sneers. "You want me to make that call so your people can find me." Henderson says they're going to be found anyway, and that he's only trying to help Heller. And then he lays on the guilt, insisting that her father's drowning in a car and she isn't doing anything about it. She gets up and stomps toward him with the gun. "Not another word," she grits. I thought this would never happen, but I'm actually a little scared of Audrey right now. And it's not just the hair.
It's 1:44:12, and Kiefer is just pulling his police car up near a chain link fence at Van Nuys Airport. From his vantage point, through his little telescope, he can see the passenger airliner parked on the tarmac, while people climb the stairs to board the plane. I'd say it's a Boeing 727 if I had any idea about these things, which I don't. We'll just go with 727. Chloe calls his cell phone, and Kiefer describes what we can see, which is that all of the security surrounding the plane on the ground suggests that it's some kind of diplomatic flight. Well, that and all the limos with little flags of foreign countries waving from the hoods. Chloe's got more urgent news, which is that the helicopter that dogged Heller is now on its way to where Audrey's trying to shut up Henderson. That sounds bad for Audrey. But at least Buchanan isn't letting her swing in revenge for screwing him over earlier. That guy's a class act. Kiefer asks where Curtis is now, and Buchanan chimes in to say that the Handsome Black Agent might not make it in time. Kiefer tells them to upload their satellite images to his PDA, update Curtis, and wait for him to get back to them. He hangs up and starts dialing.