Episode Report Card M. Giant: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Unresolved
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 24 | Aired on 05.20.2007
At 5:46:12, Buchanan and Josh walk onto the CTU floor, while a couple of uniformed guards frog-march the wounded Cheng along behind them. Marilyn appears out of nowhere, and Buchanan sends Josh running to her. Big hug. No lines for Rena Sofer in this episode, though. Looks like she lost her voice, as predicted. Buchanan turns to Cheng and tells him that he'll be debriefed at a federal detention facility. "My people will not abandon me like you abandoned Jack Bauer," Cheng quietly taunts. Buchanan looks like that actually hurt a little bit. Good. He tells the guards to get Cheng out of there. Nadia meets Buchanan on the floor, and they shake hands. Buchanan tells Nadia to be proud of the work she did today. Nadia basks in her mentor's approval for a moment before asking where Kiefer is. Buchanan tells her, and she's confused. Saying they need to find him. Buchanan says they'll never find Kiefer if he doesn't want them to. "Let him go," he advises. Well, if he says so.
And now we're at Heller's house, wherever that is. As we'll soon learn, it's nearby. In fact, I'd say it's walking distance from where Kiefer dropped from the helicopter. But I'm getting ahead of myself. After wearing a suit to go pick up his daughter in the middle of the night and bring her home (or at least to this lovely cottage he's renting on the coast), Heller has changed into something more comfortable: a dress shirt and a yellow sweater. Hell, considering how buttoned-up he usually is, that's probably what he sleeps in. He's on the phone with someone, expressing his amazement and relief that Audrey is still alive. He hangs up, sits back, and hears a noise somewhere else in the house. He slowly reaches for the phone, but has barely dialed 9 before a very damp Kiefer appears in the hallway. And when was it that Kiefer looked up Heller's address? Or did he live here even when he was Secretary of Defense? Never mind -- any complaints about timeline on this show always multiply tenfold when it comes to Kiefer's last scene of the season. Kiefer tells Heller to hang up the phone. Heller does. Kiefer walks the rest of the way into the room, glaring dead-eyed at his ex-boss. "Are you here to kill me?" he asks. "Depends," Kiefer answers. Ooh, a shot at Heller's age. Not nice. I'm sitting here wondering why Kiefer's so pissed. Did he suddenly realize some betrayal on Heller's part while he was hanging from the helicopter? Did he make some spontaneous connection that pointed to some part Heller had in the conspiracy while the oil platform was blowing up beneath his feet? Nope. We know everything Kiefer does. I'm just telling you now so you don't sit here wondering what's going on with Kiefer for the next few paragraphs. More than you already were, anyway.