Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Day 5: 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 19 | Aired on April 23, 2006
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Luckily for Audrey, Henderson didn't actually sever an artery after all, which means she gets to continue to participate in the proceedings. Which include Kiefer catching up to Henderson and demanding the recording back. But Henderson threatens to have Secretary Heller killed if Kiefer doesn't let him go, so Heller kills himself instead (apparently). And then it turns out that Henderson handed off the recording to someone else anyway. Kiefer heads off in pursuit, leaving Audrey alone with Henderson. This turns out to be a bad idea on several levels, but it all turns out okay; Curtis shows up in time to rescue her from Henderson's cavalry and take the bad guy into custody. At CTU, Shari comes clean to Hayes about why she let Chloe go, including Chloe's accusations against Logan. And Hayes's confusion about Logan's activities and motives begin to become clear for her. As they do for FLOTUS when Logan also comes clean. She's pissed, but she promises to keep quiet. Which seems to satisfy Logan's boss, for the moment. Yes, I said Logan's boss, We don't learn much about him. Kiefer follows the recording back to Van Nuys Airport, where a diplomatic flight of some sort is being boarded. Slime traces Chloe to Buchanan's house and Hayes lets him send a team to pick her up, but at the last minute she calls to warn Chloe to get out. And Kiefer stows away on that diplomatic flight. Better hope that luggage compartment is pressurized, dude. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
When last we saw Kiefer, he was just about to move a wounded Audrey out of the airplane hangar. And when we come back from the previouslies, we see that he's succeeded in moving her about ten feet. I guess that's all he really needed to get her into a seated position, leaning her against a parked forklift or Bobcat or something. The tourniquet he's tied around her arm is working better than he expected; in fact, the bleeding has already stopped, which means that Henderson didn't sever her brachial artery after all. That seems like a cheat, given the amount of gore she left on the ground at the end of last hour, not to mention the mess on her clothes and Kiefer's hands. But then blood always looks like there's a lot more than there really is, don't you find? I sure do. Remind me to tell you that story some time. Anyway, Kiefer says he wants to get her to a doctor, but first she tells him to "do what you have to do." Shoot her like a lame horse? No, he simply tries to dial Chloe on his cell phone, but it goes right to her voicemail. Audrey asks who else can help him, but he says nobody else has access to CTU's satellites. Nobody else still alive, anyway. And then there's the sound of another cell phone ringing. Kiefer follows the noise to the guard from Heller's Secret Service detail who was watching them when they were tied up in the hangar. The guard's dead now, of course, but luckily his cell phone battery isn't. Kiefer checks the caller ID, then answers, "This is Jack Bauer."
It's Heller, naturally, who wants to know why the hell Kiefer's answering his guard's phone. Kiefer has to explain that Henderson just blew through, killing Heller's guys and getting away with the recording. Heller asks if Audrey's all right, and Kiefer exaggerates that she is. "She's going to need a honkin' glass of orange juice, though," he doesn't add. Heller tells Kiefer that President Logan accepted his terms when he arrived at Not Camp David, but reneged after receiving a phone call. Kiefer figures the caller was Henderson. Heller offers to help get the recording back, but Kiefer doesn't think so: "With all due respect, Mr. Secretary, I asked you for help and you betrayed me." Drama-queeniness aside, I love how Kiefer always says "With all due respect" when he means, "Fuck you." And now even Heller falls victim to the curse of Kiefer ass-kissing: "I made a mistake," he begs. "Please forgive me." Except he says it all angry-like, and good for Bill Devane for not buying into this soapy dialogue. Kiefer just hangs up the dead guard's phone, because it's not like the Secretary of Defense is going to be able to help him with spy satellites or anything.