Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mayer, Mayer Not
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.16.2009
But for now, Kiefer turns back to the monitor, which is showing the scene of a deadly car accident. Mayer says it's not connected to Juma; the victim was a source at Starkwood. "Unfortunately he was also a drunk," he adds. Hence the accident. But Kiefer zooms in on the face of a state trooper at the scene; which happens to belong to one John Quinn. That's all Kiefer needs: "Your informant was murdered by the same man who took Ryan Burnett out this evening." Dude, how lucky is Kiefer that Starkwood only has one assassin? Mayer wonders about the meaning of this, and Kiefer in turn asks what the source knew. Mayer says that despite the source's wacky accusations, they just ended up with a lot of dead ends. "Maybe you didn't dig deep enough," Kiefer suggests, and asks exactly what the source told him. Mayer says that the man claimed Starkwood was blackmailing people at the Pentagon, "that they were involved in assassination plots, even that they were seeking to acquire their own WMDs." He suggests Kiefer check out the interview transcripts, which are there in the files. Kiefer pulls one up, and instantly sees that Starkwood was accused of trying to get a bioweapon. "That's your connection to Juma." Aha! Bingo! So there! Wait, what? Mayer doesn't get it either, so Kiefer explains that there were rumors that Juma was developing illegal weapons while he was in power. "The people that I knew in Sangala believed he was testing these weapons on his own population. He used a remote village, released some kind of pathogen. Everyone there was struck with dementia, paralysis, and eventually died." And then Juma firebombed the village before anyone could get there to investigate. Which is why we're just hearing about it now. "And U.N. officials had a hard time believing that Juma had the technology or the expertise to develop such a weapon," Kiefer continues. Indeed. "But Starkwood? They had both." So why did they need Juma? Kiefer says Juma provided "a safe haven to develop the weapon and an endless supply of victims to test it on." And then... he had to ship it back to them when he was done, and that's the "shipment" that Hodges and Seaton are expecting? This is getting way too X-Files for Mayer, who wants to know why Starkwood would want it in the first place. "Senator, you've been trying to dismantle Starkwood for the last six months. Maybe they planned on fighting back." Yes, with weapons of mass destruction. Oh, Starkwood, you scamps!