Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 77 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Fished In
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2010.01.14
6:41:14. The sun has fully set over New York in a gorgeous blue-tinged aerial shot. Down in Jim and Maggie's basement, Kiefer is still tied to his chair. Officer John has found a rag to wrap around his hand, and as he walks smirking back towards Kiefer, the prisoner suddenly jumps up, lifting the chair along with him, and charges Officer John, sending him crashing through some shelves. Then he backs into the cinder-block wall hard enough to smash the chair, somersaults so his handcuffed wrists are in front of him, and starts bludgeoning Officer John with a piece of the chair. Poor, dumb Officer John. That's when Officer Phil comes back, pointing his gun at Kiefer and ordering him to drop the makeshift club. Kiefer does, and with his cuffed hands in the air, insists that everything he said before is true. I guess he can talk again now that he's not sitting down any more. While Officer John yells at Officer Phil from the floor to shoot Kiefer, Kiefer tells Officer Phil to call Chloe O'Brian at CTU. Phil tells them both to shut up and hold still, because he's calling it in. "The officer upstairs has to be connected to the assassination plot," Kiefer says, which pisses off Officer John all over again. Officer Phil tells them both to shut up while he gets on the phone to his lieutenant and explains the situation as he understands it. Kiefer tells Officer Phil to ask about the duty assignment of the officer upstairs while he's at it. "What have you got to lose?" Phil makes the request.
Dana sits at her desk looking distracted when Arlo comes up to her and says, "You screwed up." She jumps, and he's like, "Yeah, surprised me, too." Apparently she forgot to do some technobabble to his system that he needs to finish cracking the file from Reed's computer. He offers to finish up from her station, so she relinquishes her chair to him. Which she will soon regret, because while he does his thing, he asks her what's up. "It's not like you to make mistakes. You seem distracted. Wedding jitters maybe?" He starts in again about how she and Cole are wrong for each other --"not exactly intellectual equals," as he puts it. He keeps pushing, and she starts to snap at him, but the file has just cracked. And up on the screen appears a schematic of something. She sends him off to finish his part and put it up on the screen while she alerts Hastings.