Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fed Sematary
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 6 | Aired on 01.26.2009
At 1:20:22, Tony is trying to tend to the wounds of a resistant Emerson. He repeats that it wasn't about the diamonds. "You crossed a line I wasn't willing to cross," Tony says. I'm sorry." Emerson doesn't exactly accept the apology. "Go to hell," he invites. But Emerson will get there first. "You live with it," he spits. Because Emerson isn't going to be living with anything for much longer. And with that, he gets properly started on dying.
Over on the other side of the hangar, Matobo is making sure he understands what Kiefer's telling him: "You're asking us to risk our lives to be delivered into Dubaku's hands, based on nothing but what you have told us." Kiefer insists it's all true, even though he hasn't seen a scrap of evidence for Buchanan's conspiracy himself. "You have as much at stake as we do," Kiefer reminds him. "He's attacked both our countries." That's one way of putting it. But then, so has Kiefer, sort of. Mrs. Matobo has decided that Kiefer is telling the truth. "He has no reason to lie." Matobo looks at Kiefer, who's doing his best "honest man" face. You know, that one he perfected way back in Season One while trying to convince David Palmer to let people think he was dead. He just sort of stands very still, looking you straight in the eye, with a completely neutral but respectful expression on his face. It continues to be quite effective, to the point that Matobo agrees to go to Dubaku -- but alone. Kiefer says that Dubaku wants both of them. "He wants your wife as leverage. If I don't deliver both of you, he will back out." Really? He won't just pay half the diamonds? Matobo isn't thrilled about the idea of his wife getting tortured. "And we won't let that happen," Kiefer insists. "We'll be following you." Matobo asks Kiefer if he can promise his wife will be safe, and that honest-man demeanor breaks down as he has to admit that he can't. Which means Matobo is not on board. Until that is, his wife speaks to him privately. She tells him that she wants to go through with it. "I am ashamed that I opened the door to the safe room," she says, even though if she hadn't, Kiefer wouldn't have a way to get to Dubaku in the first place. "I want to do what is right for our country." Matobo still hates the idea, but she talks him into it. They call Kiefer back over, and Matobo says they're in. "You are both very brave," Kiefer informs them. Thanks for the update.
Kiefer crosses over to Tony, who is now sitting over Emerson's rapidly cooling corpse. As gently as he can, Kiefer says they need to get ready to go. Tony eventually pulls himself together enough to stand up and say, "Let's get the bodies out of sight." Go, team?