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
Buchanan and Chloe have now dug Walker all the way out, and are tending to her neck laceration in the open back of the molester-van. She's being brought into the loop as we speak, and is just learning about the part where they're working on their own, without any agency support. "Okay, I need to contact my boss," Walker says. "He needs to know that I'm okay." Yeah, more than she knows. Buchanan nods, and then says, "You can't do that." It'll blow the whole thing, see, because if anyone at the FBI hears that Walker's little dirt nap is over, it'll get back to Dubaku and blow Kiefer's cover. Assuming of course that Dubaku even knows that Kiefer is in Emerson's crew, which remains very much in doubt. Walker tries to insist that she be allowed to call Moss, but Buchanan assures her that they're almost done, as soon as they get to Dubaku, who is the key to everything. And who I'm also sure will be only too happy to allow himself to be taken alive and then to provide a bunch of freelance counterterrorists with a full, annotated list of which government employees are on his payroll. But I guess we'll worry about that when the time comes. "Luckily," Buchanan says, "we have something he wants." "Matobo," realizes Walker, showing that she wasn't deprived of air long enough to suffer much brain damage. Buchanan confirms, "He's our best chance to locate Dubaku, reacquire the CIP device, and get to the bottom of the government corruption. Until all that happens, you have to stay dead." I'm still wondering: was all that other stuff worth letting Emerson deliver the CIP device to Dubaku in the first place? I guess what I'm saying is that this government corruption had better be pretty damn big.
Buchanan's cell phone rings; it's Kiefer, all concerned about whether they found Walker. Buchanan assures him she's fine, and Kiefer tells them they're at Northwoods airfield, whose existence I can't seem to verify. There must not be an abundance of abandoned warehouses in the D.C. area, so the bad guys are branching out to abandoned airfields. I'm hoping that future episodes will reveal hideouts in abandoned homeless shelters, abandoned lobbying firms, and abandoned conservative think tanks. Kiefer reports, "Litvak is dead, Emerson's been wounded, Nichols is en route. I need you to get over here now." Buchanan reminds Kiefer that they need to have Matobo agree to go along with their plan. I don't see why; it might be easier to just let them assume they're still kidnapped. There aren't as many kidnappers now, but they still have the same number of guns. Even so, at 1:11:44, Kiefer promises to secure Matobo's buy-in. After glancing over to where a clearly upset Tony has parked the badly wounded Emerson on a couch, Kiefer opens the cage holding the Matobos, trying to be all friendly and reassuring now that the real kidnappers are out of the picture. "We are here to help you," says the man who nearly gassed them to death an hour ago. Kiefer says they're working on stopping Dubaku, but will need the Matobos' help.