Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | 315 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Undercover Brothers
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2009.01.12
After Taylor and Ethan get done beating up on poor Moss, they basically write off the whole FBI as being any possible help in this situation. Nice work, FBI. It usually took CTU eight or ten episodes to get to this point. They then remind the new viewers -- you know, the ones who missed the episode that just ended -- that if they're going to meet Dubaku's demand to back American forces off from their invasion position, they have less than two hours to get started. "Which would effectively end our mission in Africa and condemn a hundred thousand Sangalans to a certain and brutal death," Taylor complains. They couldn't come back after six days, when the firewall has been reprogrammed? Ethan points out that there are still a thousand passenger planes in the air over the U.S., waiting for landing clearance. "Dubaku could bring any one of them down at any moment!" Uh, what about implementing an emergency code phrase among real controllers and air crews, so the pilots would know when they're talking to legit ATC? No? Too simple? Even if that did work, Ethan continues that Dubaku could also "use the device for something far worse." Ethan adds. Taylor says that she ran on a platform of not negotiating with terrorists, and she can't exactly give in on that the very first time someone asks her to. "Won't I be telling Dubaku and the rest of the world that blackmailing America works?" "Those are questions for the future," Ethan says. "We have a decision to make now." Well, when you put it that way.