Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Class Reunion, Without the Class
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 2 | Aired on 01.11.2009
Tanner calls Tony from the road to report that he's out. Tony asks Tanner what they'll need for the next job, but Tanner wants to hold off on sharing that until he arrives, which he says is just moments away. After hanging up the phone, Tony tells his men to pack up and start deleting files.
At 9:52:24, Tanner's car pulls into the docks. Only a couple of cars behind, Kiefer realizes this is the end of the line for their automobile pursuit lest they're spotted, and he yanks the car into a spot next to a parked forklift. He gets out and peers around it as Tanner drives to a stop a short way ahead and Walker is getting something out of the trunk. "Agent Walker, we need to go!" he hisses urgently. He looks kind of naked in this position without a gun in his hand, but Walker's got that covered; the item she was getting out of the trunk was a government weapon for Kiefer, which she hands to him with a conspicuous lack of paperwork. As they hang back to watch Tanner get out of his car and ditch his borrowed FBI jacket, Walker tells Kiefer, "I'll engage him. Cover my flank." He looks at her uncertainly. "I can handle it," she assures him. Both of us believe her, and they separate to slink up behind Tanner as he approaches the security gate. Just before he swipes his access card, he hears a noise behind him and goes back to investigate among the crates, his gun at the ready. When Walker steps into view, he raises his gun at her, but then Kiefer's is at his temple half a second later. "Weapon down, now," Kiefer orders quietly. Tanner complies, and then Kiefer commences beating the crap out of him. A little protective of his new partner already? No, he's just demanding to know whether Tony is on the boat. Walker pulls him off, telling him it doesn't matter as much as the device. "We have to go in now." Kiefer knocks Tanner unconscious for good measure. Feel better now?Before getting much closer, Kiefer spots the surveillance camera through the fence. Without breaking cover, he gathers up an abandoned rag to use as a makeshift silencer, then takes out the camera with one shot, his aim is not even remotely jinked up by having his sights covered or the presence of several layers of terry cloth. Has he been taking some target practice while in federal custody?
Inside the boat, Tony sees the surveillance screen go snowy, and sends his nameless underling to go look into it. When the underling gets outside, he sees Kiefer forcing a suddenly fully conscious Tanner to walk ahead of him down the gangplank toward the boat, his gun at Tanner's back. The underling wastes no time firing at both of them, and Kiefer goes down beneath a wounded Tanner. Then Walker takes out the underling from the flank, and Kiefer rolls the now-useless Tanner off the gangplank into some cargo below before proceeding on his way. Soon both agents are on the deck of the boat, and when Masters appears and takes a single shot at them (because despite being able to convincingly impersonate an air traffic controller, he doesn't seem to be able to count), they both fire back simultaneously. Masters goes down. That leaves only Tony, not that Kiefer or Walker would know that. The agents split up and enter the boat via separate entrances. Walker is the one who finds a lone laptop left open on a counter, with text reading "DELETE ALL SYSTEM FILES" scrolling sideways across the screen. She unwisely sets her gun down next to the computer to try and stop it, but she's too late; the computer is wiped in seconds. "Dammit," she Kiefers. Don't you just hate that Mocking Deletion program? At least nobody jumps out at her while she's distracted and unarmed.