Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT O Brother, Where Art Thou?
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 5 | Aired on January 21, 2007
It's chaos in the streets, with fire engines tearing around and crowds of people hurriedly packing up their cars to search for less radioactive pastures. The mushroom cloud is still in the northern sky, starting to look more like a cauliflower cloud. At 10:07:13, a teenaged girl runs into the street for no reason, and is nearly hit by a red van, which skids to avoid her. Hey, where have I seen that red van before? Well, the sight of Fayed sitting in the shotgun seat on his cell phone provides one clue. It doesn't really seem like his style to go out of his way to avoid squashing an innocent civilian, but I suppose the last thing he needs right now is the state and local police dropping whatever they might be doing this morning so they can look for a red van that was involved in a hit and run. The teen's mom shepherds her out of the street. The van continues on its way, the cauliflower cloud in its rearview mirror. "The bomb never reached its target," Fayed's saying into his cell phone.
That person turns out to be a rather angry guy named McCarthy with an iffy Aussie accent, who's carrying some luggage out to his car. "I sold those weapons to you," he bitches. "The least you could have done was warn me before you blew them up in my city." Fayed says that wasn't the plan, and he's got problems of his own now: his nuclear scientist and the trigger reprogramming device both got vaporized, and now Fayed is sitting on four more nukes that he needs to get functional in a hurry. McCarthy says that he's headed to Vegas, until Fayed offers to pay him double the amount from before, whatever that was. Now he's got McCarthy's attention, but McCarthy still isn't sure he can find any one who (a) can and (b) will do what Fayed wants. But Fayed needs someone in the next few hours, and asks if McCarthy can help or not. McCarthy promises to get back to him, hangs up, and gets in his car. Fayed sighs unhappily. Even the sight of a helicopter that just crashed on top of a house he's riding past doesn't seem to cheer him up. Hell, that even cheers me up.