Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Veep Is A Creep
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.25.2007
Arriving back at CTU with all of the drone pilot's computer equipment, Doyle introduces his buddy from Denver -- who turns out to be named Johnson, and is on loan from Division -- to Buchanan. Johnson says that they're still working on the stuff, and will continue back here at base. He heads off with the rest of the techs to do so. Doyle asks if Buchanan has gotten any info from Nadia. Buchanan says no, and wonders why Doyle is asking. "Just curious," Doyle demurs. Milo comes over to report that Kiefer's calling in with Mark in custody. Buchanan leaves the two old nemeses staring at each other, until Doyle turns and walks off. Ooh, tense. Did you notice how nobody mentioned the Nadia-exonerating computer chip Johnson found? Maybe they just forgot.
Buchanan takes a call from Kiefer and quickly learns what Mark was planning to sell to Gredenko. Kiefer explains that now he's going to use Mark's brother to go through with the transaction, and grab Gredenko when he shows up in twenty minutes. He doesn't mention that Brady's not exactly able to give informed consent to something like this. He hangs up at 8:24:06 before Buchanan can ask.
8:28:22. Brady sits in his living room chair, doing this Verbal Kint thing with his right hand. He doesn't notice Mark's gurney being wheeled past the open doorway. Not very smart of him. Kiefer returns to the room. Since he's been gone, Brady has realized that if the police are there, it means that Mark did something wrong. "He's made some mistakes," Kiefer admits, "but he's helping us fix them." Brady understands mistakes; he makes a lot, he says. "And you try to fix them, right?" Kiefer says with a friendly little smile. He says that's what Mark's trying to do, but that he needs Brady's help. Which means it's time for them to go talk to him. Brady's relief is short-lived when he sees Mark laid out on a gurney in the front doorway. He runs to his brother, freaking out. Mark assures Brady that it's not as bad as it looks (which, I'm no doctor, but it looks to me like they made him hang out on his hallway floor for a while as he was bleeding out), and that he's going to the hospital now. Brady, of course, wants to come along, but Mark instructs Brady to stay behind and follow Kiefer's instructions to the letter. "Who takes care of you, Brady?" he manipulates. Brady says that Mark does, and Mark tells Brady to trust him. "[Kiefer] will take care of you," he promises. Wow, he handed off that football with a quickness, didn't he? Remember, Kiefer: no red food. Mark tells Kiefer that he's ready to make the call, and Kiefer starts dialing Mark's cell phone.