Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Glower, Cower, And Tower
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 6 | Aired on January 28, 2007
At 11:57:54, McCarthy and his girlfriend are checking into a hotel. As he lets them into their room, the minion on his cell phone is saying that they've got a candidate in town who can do what Fayed needs, although he probably won't do it willingly. McCarthy tells his minion to text him the guy's info, and hangs up. His girlfriend says that she hopes he knows what he's doing, and he says that he might buy her a small country when this is over. "As long as it's not Palm Springs," she callbacks. Still not funny.
At McCarthy's office, Graem and one of his henchmen are waiting in the lobby, still holding Kiefer and his dad. The second henchman comes in from inside, saying, "Everything's been handled. We're clear to go." Kiefer looks sad; he knows what that means. Graem rumbles, "Let's move." The little group heads out of the lobby and into the end-of-episode splitscreen. Which also includes Walid being carried out of Anacostia on a gurney, attended by his worst-lawyer-ever girlfriend; Karen is still walking through the hallways of the White House Bunker, because apparently she got lost trying to find the way out twenty-five minutes ago; and McCarthy works on his laptop while his girlfriend lurks in the next room.
Walking out into the parking lot, the Bauers pass the CTUmobile in the parking lot. It now has two bullet holes in the passenger window and two dead agents inside. "Good God, what have you done?" Dad asks, horrified. "Jack forced my hand," says Graem, and tells his men, "Call me when it's over." Graem drives off in Kiefer's CTUmobile, while his father and brother are loaded into the back of a blue van to be driven off by his henchmen. But before they go, the captive Bauers' handcuffs are chained together. "Lap and shoulder belts are much safer," Kiefer doesn't say. It's 12:00:00.