Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Carry-on Kiefer
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.23.2006
Back at the barn, Heller's dead guard's cell phone is ringing. Audrey answers it, and Kiefer tells her to get the hell out of there before Henderson's latest batch of henchmen arrives. Because you never know, these latest guys might actually live longer than mayflies. Audrey doesn't want to leave their prisoner alone, but Kiefer says they don't have a choice. Audrey disagrees: "I have the gun and I can kill him." Dude, he's sitting right there. Rude much? Kiefer promises that Curtis will get there in time to track Henderson down, but Audrey so isn't down with leaving the man who killed her father. Even as she's saying this, she notices that the helicopter is setting down outside. Not a good place for you to be right now, Auds. Kiefer tells her to listen, but she hangs up. She charges over to Henderson, the gun leveled at his face, panting, teeth gritted. He just looks up at her, waiting. And then she wimps out and goes right past him. No wonder Henderson has stayed alive so long, with that Jedi whammy he always seems to put on people who are about to kill him. He's like that snake from The Jungle Book or something.
Three bad guys come into the part of the barn where Henderson is, now that Audrey's out of sight and trying to escape through a locked back door at 1:45:56. Looks like she's trapped. Henderson orders his men to free him, then tells them, "Heller's daughter is somewhere in this building. Kill her. Then get back here and we'll deal with Bauer." But...but...what about helping Heller? He wasn't serious about that? Gosh, I feel so used. Henderson's men leave him alone so they can hunt down their quarry, and so that she can double back and shoot their still-unarmed boss with his own gun. Not that that happens. Instead, Audrey holes up behind some hay bales, the gun positioned so she can try and defend her little bolthole. Suddenly a hand claps over her mouth, and the entire orchestra jumps. But it's only Curtis, who has arrived in the nick of time. And very quietly. He tells her to stay down, then makes some hand signals as the three henchman approach. I have to learn those signals, because they make armored CTU agents pop up from behind the hay bales and blow all three bad guys away. That's four teams you've lost now, Henderson. It's beginning to seem careless of you. Henderson himself is arrested, his life probably saved by the fact that he was the only bad guy without a gun. Curtis says they're all going back to CTU, and asks Audrey if she's okay. She says she is. For some reason, Curtis doesn't ask why Audrey's arm looks like she stuck it up to her shoulder into a Sam Raimi movie. She sits down to call Kiefer on her dad's dead guard's cell phone.