Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Plot Quickens
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 11 | Aired on 03.05.2006
And he's also a busy guy. We see him taking his nerve gas canister out of the gurney's storage compartment and setting it on top, right below a giant air intake. He fiddles with some wires trailing out of the canister, and sets the LED timer on the side to start counting down from ten minutes. He then removes the ticking LED display like a detachable car stereo face. Wouldn't want anyone to steal it.
Curtis and a bunch of guys are stealthily stalking the basement. Or at least they're stealthy until Viktor runs by. Then there's a lot of yelling. Curtis tries to take him alive, but has to shoot to kill when Viktor turns a gun on him. Curtis takes Viktor's gun and satisfies himself that the man is dead, but he doesn't get any further before one of his agents calls him away. Curtis follows, ordering another agent to search Viktor's corpse.
On their way into the room where Viktor set up the canister, Curtis and the other agents don full-face gas masks. And then they find the canister, blinking and beeping away. They stare at it in awed silence for a moment, until one of the agents reaches for it. Sharply warning that the canister might be set to go off if it's moved, Curtis orders the chemical response team to get their moon-suited asses down the basement, adding that the canister has been located and is armed. So it's a good news/bad news kind of thing. It's 5:47:36.
5:52:03. The evacuation of the hospital is still going pretty slowly, and even the entry of a bunch of guys in full hazmat suits doesn't seem to build a fire under anyone. Idiots. Curtis reports back to CTU that the hospital still isn't completely evacuated. Don't ask me what he was doing for the previous five minutes. Buchanan copies that, and tells Edgar to have LAPD order a complete evacuation of downtown. Which, as far as I can tell later, doesn't ever actually happen. But whatever.
Nearby, Chloe reports to Kiefer that Henderson's shadow drive is so well-protected, all she's been able to accomplish in the way of cracking it is figuring that it's going to take a half a day to crack. Well, this'll be a dull slog to the season finale, then. Except that Henderson's car is now pulling up in front of the house. I don't have a problem with Kiefer having beaten Henderson home, because we know that Henderson stopped off for an errand on the way. Kiefer notes Henderson's arrival and gets up from the computer as Chloe updates him on the situation at the hospital. Kiefer tells her to stay focused on the eighteen canisters that are still unaccounted for, and asks if more bodies would help her access Henderson's hard drive faster. Chloe yells that she's already got three people on it. Kiefer doesn't respond, because he's hidden himself away somewhere near the front entrance. Henderson comes in, carrying a briefcase, and urgently tells Miriam to start packing. Which reminds me of a joke, and here it is: