Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Jailbreak!
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 3 | Aired on 01.12.2009
Moss enters the observation room where Walker and Kiefer are still busy observing. So very much observing, they've been doing. Moss explains to Kiefer and Walker about the Juma regime trying to blackmail Taylor using the CIP device. "I can get you your CIP device," Kiefer quietly promises without taking his eyes off Tony. "Just let me talk to him." Of course Moss hates the idea, but Walker helps Kiefer convince Moss to give it a shot. Finally Moss opens the door and ushers Kiefer in, without a word of warning or condition. Which would have been wasted anyway.
Kiefer dismisses the guard waiting in the interrogation room so that it's just him and Tony. "I watched you die in my arms," Kiefer begins. "You want to explain to me how you're still alive?" Because that's the most important question right now. When Tony refuses to answer, Kiefer reveals what he knows about what Tony's been up to, and asks, "Why don't you save yourself some time... and some pain... and tell me where the CIP device is?" Tony finally speaks, but he just says he can't tell Kiefer where it is. Kiefer threatens Tony with charges of aiding and abetting a genocide, and offers him a deal or even immunity. Tony just tells Kiefer to advise the president to give in. Frustrated, Kiefer asks what's motivating Tony to do this. Tony's explanation is simple: "Juma wanted the CIP module and he was willing to pay for it." When Kiefer looks shocked and disbelieving, Tony says, "Money's the only reason I have left for doing anything. The government took care of that." Kiefer reminds Tony that it wasn't the government who killed Michelle, but Charles Logan. You know, when he was President of the United States. So... not the government, then? Tony maintains that "the government poisons everything in its path... look what they did to you." Kiefer can't even pretend that didn't hit a nerve, and Tony keeps working that nerve: "Here you are, working for the same people who want to put you in prison. The same people who killed everything you love and left you with nothing. Your daughter wants nothing to do with you, Teri's dead, Audrey Raines --" Kiefer yells at Tony to shut up, but Tony's not done: "Every second you help the government, you're spitting on Teri's grave!" Finally Kiefer charges Tony, sliding aside the table that separates them and pinning Tony -- still handcuffed, mind you -- up against the wall. "He's losing it," Moss says to Walker, displaying the kind of keen insight that one needs to become head of an FBI field office. He's about to rush in to intervene, but Walker wants to give Kiefer a few more seconds. After all, if they stop Kiefer now, Tony might just get out of there alive. With his hand clamped over Tony's throat, Kiefer screams at Tony to tell him where the device is, "Or so help me God, I will kill you, and you will stay dead this time!" Uh, maybe you should take your meathooks off his neck, then, Kiefer, because right now you've got him so the only way he could communicate is by blinking in Morse code. Which he might actually be doing, for all I know. At last, Tony manages to gasp a couple of words into Kiefer's ear: "Deep sky." Kiefer makes him repeat it, just as Moss comes in, yelling, "Jack, let him go!" Kiefer lets Tony drop to the floor as he raises his own hands high, just to show what a peaceful guy he really is after all. Moss orders the late-returning guard to escort Kiefer out and calls for a medic. Walker looks thoughtful. I do hope she's not taking that little rageaholic display as a lesson.