Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fished In
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 3 | Aired on 01.14.2010
At 6:52:02, the underground parking garage is, unlike most underground parking garages on TV, quite the hive of activity, with armed security guys leading the various dignitaries to their various vehicles. The Presidential party jumps into a big limo. Meanwhile, Cole leads the brothers Hassan to their own transport as Omar remembers to ask where his wife and daughter are. His bodyguard says they're on their way down a stairwell, less than two minutes behind. Hassan doesn't want to leave without them, but Cole insists. Farhad offers to wait for them and make sure they get out okay. Oh, good, I was wondering how Davros was going to blow up just one of the Hassan brothers if they were leaving together, so this clears that up. Hassan goes on ahead in a car that's part of a whole motorcade, and Cole sprints to his own car and pulls out of a parking spot to fall in behind them. Somehow, during all this, Farhad is able to go off by himself to make a cell phone call to Davros. "He's in the third car. Motorcade's coming up the ramps now." Davros hangs up and on his police radio hears confirmation that the cars are heading up the ramp and should be visible in five minutes. How big a ramp is this? Farhad goes back over to meet his niece and sister-in-law, who are kind of stressed out, but he hurries them into a car with him at 6:54:02.
Back at the crime scene in Queens, Officer Phil is just getting off the phone with dispatch, having found out that the dead cop was assigned to U.N. security and was replaced by Mike Farmer. He lets Kiefer out of the back of his squad car and uncuffs him, telling him he was right. He tells Kiefer about Mike Farmer. "That's your assassin," Kiefer says. He wants to call CTU and get to the U.N. now. When Officer Phil hesitates, he presses, "Officer, this is going down now. You can either stand here and do nothing or you can help me stop it." Phil says, "Make the call. I'll drive you to the U.N." They both get in the squad car and drive off, to Officer John's chagrin. He's left standing there scratching his bald head. In other splitscreen windows, Hastings watches live video of the evacuation on the CTU big screens, the Hassans ride up the parking ramp in their various cars (really big ramp), Davros watches for the motorcade, and Dana looks focused on her work for once.
From the shotgun seat of Officer Phil's car, which is en route with sirens and flashers going, Kiefer gets a hold of Chloe. He says he needs to tell Cole about the assassin having killed a cop and taken his place. Chloe says she'll patch him in. "He's in the middle of evacuating Hassan." Kiefer asks why, and Chloe says it's Hastings' orders. "The evidence in Reed's computer indicated that there's a bomb in the building," Chloe explains. She adds that Hassan's motorcade is about to hit the surface just as Cole comes on the line. "Cole, you need to stop Hassan's car now!" Kiefer orders. He explains to Cole as quickly as he can, and Cole asks if Hastings knows about this. Kiefer says there's no time, and Cole needs to stop Hassan's car now. Except Cole can see the cars ahead of him already emerging into what would be daylight if it were still day outside, and he tells Kiefer it's too late. Kiefer insists, "Cole, you need to stop that car or Hassan's a dead man." Cole sets his jaw and hits the gas. His car comes screaming out of the tunnel, passing the last squad car in the Hassan motorcade. "Whose vehicle is that?" Hastings demands, watching on the CTU big screen." "It's Cole, sir," Dana says in that "Oops, I killed your son" voice she has. Hastings hits his phone and starts yelling at Cole. Cole ignores him in his rush to catch up to Hassan. The lead car in Hassan's motorcade already passing over that manhole cover. Davros watches from his position as Cole's car keeps jumping slots in the motorcade, finally hauling the wheel around just in time to cut off the car that Hassan is in, just before it drives over the bomb. Davros hits the button and the bomb goes off, flipping Cole's car in the air. He grunts as it hurtles against a parked car and comes to a stop on its roof, on fire. "Cole!" Dana yells, having just watched her fiancé possibly get blown up for the second time this evening. "What was that?" screams Mrs. Hassan from the back seat of the car she's sharing with Farhad and her daughter. Kiefer says into his phone, "Cole, can you verify, was Hassan hit? Cole?" Cole can't do much of anything, since his car has just finished rocking from side to side on its roof and the only thing visible through his windows are his blinking flashers. It's 7:00:00.