Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT How To Disarm A Terrorist
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 16 | Aired on 04.01.2007
When we come back at 9:13:32, we rejoin the continuing romantic misadventures of Milo and Nadia. Milo awkwardly wanders around, trying to think of a work-related excuse to talk to Nadia. He can't just make up some technobabble on the fly? It's not like Nadia's going to admit that she has no idea what he's talking about if he comes up and asks her to open a socket to the vector port firewall proxy network router T1 server. Except he can't come up with anything better than to ask for an update on the Cabinet vote. Nadia says that they haven't come back yet, and then tells him to just forget about what happened today. Milo asks, "Which part? The suspicion of terrorism or [gross leer] the other thing?" Nadia answers the former, and as for the latter, she suggests that they just worry about it later. Milo says that he doesn't think either of them is going to forget about the kiss. Instead of telling Milo that she's going to sue CTU for enough money to pay for a whole lot of therapy, Nadia answers her ringing phone. It's Doyle, calling from his office and asking her to come right up without telling anyone who's calling or where she's going. Ridiculously, she agrees. Probably only because Doyle's office has glass walls. Won't they look lovely from the outside when her arterial spray hits them?
Nadia climbs the steps to Doyle's mezzanine office at 9:14:43 and takes the offered seat. Doyle's spectacularly clumsy opening is, "I know you and I got off to kind of a bad start." Kind of. Nadia angrily points out that he assaulted her. Which is true. Doyle makes the argument that with Muslim terrorists out there and a suspected mole in here, starting with Nadia wasn't racism, but common sense. Nadia doesn't ask whether Doyle will offer to undergo interrogation first in the event of an IRA attack. Instead she concedes that he's not racist, but merely a sadist. But this isn't what he called her up for. He explains to her that the reason the terrorists got into CTU's system was because someone screwed up on some security technobabble. Doyle suspects that it was Milo, and he needs Nadia to get into Milo's computer and prove it. Obviously, Nadia is reluctant. Doyle asks, "Why? Is it because you're too busy deciding if you want to sleep with him?" Doyle really needs to come up with a new conversational gambit instead of always using that one. Nadia hates Doyle so much right now, and I agree. Now that he thinks he's won her over with his charm and finesse, Doyle lays it out for her: Nadia can help him, or he can call a forensics team. They'll tear apart Milo's computer and have Milo frog-marched out of there while everyone watches, because of course none of the non-speaking CTU employees has anything to do but stand around and watch everyone's entrances and exits. Doyle knows that Nadia didn't dig that experience herself: "But you're gonna stand by and watch it happen to him? That's your idea of being a friend?" Nadia gets up in his face and sarcastically asks, "So you want me to betray him for his own good?" Doyle promises that it'll be better for Milo if Nadia helps.