Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Good News, Bad News
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.13.2009
So now Tony asks Moss what that was about Kim, and Moss briefly explains the experimental treatment. "Didn't sound promising," he says. And then he has to reluctantly take Tony into custody. "Yeah, I know," Tony says, without even looking down at the handcuffs he's wearing. Moss gives Tony credit for his bravery and says he doesn't think Tony deserves this. Which Tony says he appreciates, "but I'm ready to pay for what I've done." Moss orders his cuffs removed and says Tony will be joining him on the chopper ride back to FBI. At least he gets to go back to the office in style.
Kiefer and Dr. Macer are holed up in an empty office, as she tells him that memory loss is consistent with the disease. "I just wouldn't have expected it to manifest this quickly." Does the good news ever start with this lady? Kiefer awkwardly says he feels "like I'm losing some part of myself." Let's hope it's his sadism, stubbornness, and/or messiah complex. Macer doesn't have much helpful to say about that, so Kiefer cuts to the chase: can she give him something that fixes his brain like she did the shaking? Sorry, no. Kiefer politely takes his leave of her at 1:36:52. Seeing him be that polite is almost as jarring as watching a normal person having a seizure.
Out in the hallway, he mops at his face, until Walker joins him to ask if he's okay. Kiefer says he needs to go on record about the day's events while he still can. That should make for riveting reading given his current condition. I can just imagine the transcript: "Agent Walker and I proceeded to the office of...uh...what was I saying? Ah, then we found and arrested Tony Almeida...wait, Tony's been dead for years...where am I? [seizure]." But before we can start that fun process, Walker breaks some news first. "It's about Kim. She's here, Jack. I told her that you were sick and that she might be able to help with the treatment." Kiefer is first shocked, then quietly furious as he takes her by the arm and leads her into an empty office. Don't go into a room with him, Walker! Not when he's mad at you! And not when he's in an unstable condition! And not when he's Kiefer! But she does, and he shuts the door and he advances on her, demanding to know who the hell she thinks she is. "I am dying," he rages at her. "And I was okay with it. I could handle it. And now you put in front of me the one thing -- the one thing--that's gonna make this unbearable." She tries to protest, but Kiefer says he told her, "Do not drag my daughter into this." Walker says there was no dragging involved. "She's been trying to see you all day." Kiefer's surprised to hear it, and Walker says Kim was even at this morning's Senate hearing all the way from L.A. "She's been leaving messages at our office all morning. They just didn't get to me until now." In a world where anyone can get the President of the United States on the phone in seconds? Dude, sucks to be Spawn. But then we've known that for years. Kiefer's kind of blown away, having assumed that Spawn's still been hating him all this time. Walker offers to just tell Spawn that he's not here, but Kiefer declines and asks where she is. "Down the hall," Walker says, and Kiefer says, "Show me." It's 1:38:56.