Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT OMFGOTUS
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.09.2009
At 3:46:49, Agent Mafauxbo and his driver leave the White House and enter a car from the motorpool. They're live via comm earpiece with Ethan and Taylor in the Oval Office, who tell them they'll be tracking them via satellite. Which doesn't really seem necessary given that they already know where they're going, but it's not like those satellites could be doing anything else right now, with FGOTUS missing and Dubaku at large. Taylor wonders how much time this will buy them. "Ten minutes. Maybe fifteen," Ethan guesses. When in doubt, calibrate all time estimates to the top of the hour. Buchanan enters the room to tell Taylor that Kiefer and Walker have gotten an address for her husband, and they'll arrive at the location in ten to fifteen minutes. See what I mean?
At FBI-DC, Sean glowers creepily at his monitor with his hands folded over his chest. Perhaps he's trying to figure out how to move his cursor with his mind. Erica comes over and hands him a fax from Homeland. "It's like you said, we're being kept out of the loop," she says. Sean gets up to find Moss, leaving Erica standing there and wondering why Janis is staring at her. Once Sean finds Moss, he asks about the threat level being lowered, which of course Moss already knows about. "Don't you think that's odd considering we don't know anything about the CIP device being recovered?" Moss remembers he should think that's odd, and offers to talk to Homeland about it. "I feel like there's something going on behind our back here," Sean presses. Larry repeats that he's on it. He's rescued from this increasingly awkward conversation by the ringing of his cell phone, and he steps into an empty conference room to answer the call from Walker. After hearing she's in the car on her way to Dubaku's hideout, he offers to send a SWAT team to meet them, but Walker says he can't, since Dubaku still has spies at the FBI and it'll blow the whole thing. What she does want him to do is "Keep an incident quiet until what Jack and I are doing goes down." What incident would that be? "Vossler's dead," Walker says. "Jack killed him at the hotel at 18th and Reagan. It was self-defense." Odd, we never heard Kiefer tell Walker where he killed Vossler. And how quiet is Moss going to be able to keep it, given that it happened ten minutes ago in a semi-public place with several witnesses around? Moss is pretty pissed off at how this played out. "Dammit, Renee, what are you doing with this guy? You're supposed to bring suspects in, not murder them." Right, like Kiefer ever has time for that. Walker says she still needs Moss's help, and reminds him that he needs to keep it outside of the Bureau. Fortunately, Moss knows a guy at DC Metro he can trust. Really? He can trust him to keep Moss from being investigated as an accessory to murder, after Moss literally directed Vossler's killer right to him and asked to have his death temporarily covered up? Because that's a lot of trust. Also, do you suppose Walker ever told Mrs. V. that her husband was dead? Or even identified herself as a law enforcement officer? Because I'm sure she would have, since it's not like she was doing anything wrong.