Episode Report Card M. Giant: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT If We Only Had the Nerve Gas
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 6 | Aired on 01.29.2006
The ringing is heard in Logan's Situation Room. One of the Secret Service agents realizes that it's coming from the manila envelope of Walt's stuff that he's holding in his hand, and he digs out Walt's phone. "Who's calling you?" Kiefer demands. Walt recognizes the dead truck driver's phone number. Kiefer tells Buchanan to monitor and record the call, as he sits Walt down at the table and puts the phone down in front of him in speaker mode. Logan slides the conference phone closer to the cell phone for better reception at CTU's end, which I think is the most helpful thing I've ever seen him do. Walt answers his phone, and we hear the voice of Yellow Tie saying, "We know you altered the arming codes, Mr. Cummings." Yellow Tie says the dead truck driver confessed everything, and he now knows Cummings's involvement. He asks if the President is there with him. Instead of answering the question, Walt says Logan had nothing to do with it. "I was acting alone." Which I believe, because if Walt had notified anyone in the government of his plan, I'd like to think they'd warn him about a few of the five or six million ways it could have gone wrong. Of course, that assumes that The Man isn't in on Walt's real agenda, which I could be wrong about. Yellow Tie, however, isn't buying, but Walt says it's the truth. "Maybe we can negotiate something," he says. "I don't negotiate with my enemies," Yellow Tie says. "I eliminate them. Your country is about to pay a very steep price." Everyone looks at Walt like, Thanks a lump, dude. It's 1:00:00.