Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Cry, Wolf
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 5 | Aired on 01.22.2006
At 11:47:33, an apprehensive Logan arrives at the FLOTUSuite, with Walt and a couple of Secret Service agents, including Aaron, in tow. He asks Evelyn where his wife is, and Evelyn answers that FLOTUS is in the bathroom. Logan calls through the door and knocks, but there's no answer. So he barges right in, calling her name. That's always a bad idea when someone's been in the bathroom for ten minutes, if you ask me. But in this case, there's nothing there but a prescription bottle, lying on its side next to the sink. Logan looks up, horrified, clearly remembering FLOTUS's preference for death over Vermont. He notices in the mirror that the opaque shower curtain is drawn. While potentially precious seconds tick by, he slowly wanders over to the curtains and sucks up the courage to thrust them aside. But there's nothing on the other side except a whole separate bath area and an empty chair. And the chair, in turn, is positioned under the open window. FLOTUS has flown. She has fled. She is FLEDUS. Logan says as much to Aaron, who immediately starts barking orders into his shirt cuff as he charges out of the room. Logan and Walt stare at each other in horror, no doubt thinking very different things. It's 11:48:48.
Commercials. Thanks, Cadillac, for adding all-wheel drive. But I would argue that people who drive towards each other that fast on a narrow, icy road full of blind curves deserve to die.
11:53:14. Yellow Tie and his driver ride in the front of the semi, Spencer cools his heels in interrogation, and Kiefer paces impatiently somewhere. We see that he's in a meeting with McGill, who's confirming that the only people who knew Kiefer was alive were Tony, Michelle, Palmer, and Chloe. "And at least one other person, who killed David Palmer and tried to frame me for it," Kiefer duhs. I still don't see why that can't still be only four people. I'm just saying. McGill asks Kiefer if he has any theories as to who the culprit might be. All Kiefer knows is that on the day he "died," he got a call from Palmer warning him that someone in Logan's administration had ordered Kiefer's death. "I believe that whoever tried to kill me eighteen months ago somehow found out I was still alive and waited until today to exploit that information." McGill is doubtful. "First of all," he begins, "that would mean that someone in this administration is tied to the theft of the nerve gas." "Yeah," Kiefer says, leaning in real close. "You're gonna have to look into that." Heh. McGill points out that any investigation of Logan's administration would take months, which they don't have. Kiefer is frustrated, but before he can tell McGill why he's wrong (and I'd actually like to hear that argument), the doctor at the CTU clinic rings in to announce that Tony is awake and is able to talk, albeit briefly. McGill says he's on his way, but the doctor says that Tony wants to talk to Kiefer first. "He's a friend of mine," Kiefer explains to McGill. McGill tells the speakerphone that Kiefer's on his way. Because he is.