Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 221 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Class Reunion, Without the Class
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2009.01.11
9:16:32. Back at the Columbia building, the SWAT teams are doing their thing, namely searching the place on live streaming video. For now, the shooter is still at large in the stairwells, but the sight of more law enforcement vehicles arriving below and a helicopter hovering overhead don't seem to cheer him much. He inwardly curses his luck at not having a nice, porous CTU perimeter to sneak through.
At the docks, a hawk-faced man in sunglasses steps out of a black car with a couple of goons. He buzzes a chain link security gate leading to a boat docked there. "It's Emerson," he says to the intercom and the security camera mounted over the gate. Masters buzzes him in, and it's suddenly apparent that Tony's hideout has been on the boat this whole time. It's all very The Usual Suspects. "Get the module ready," Tony tells Masters, and returns to the cabin where Latham is still handcuffed to a chair in front of his workbench. Tony orders the guard to uncuff him, and as he's being led out of the cabin, Latham has a sudden attack of bravery, asking Tony if he crashed the planes and how many people he killed. The spell passes, however, when Tony clamps a hand over Latham's throat and orders him cleaned up. With Latham having been dragged to a forward cabin, Emerson steps inside at 9:18:13 and greets Tony. "The offsite testing of the module went perfectly," Tony euphemizes. Masters shows Emerson the module, nestled in a briefcase that looks like it was designed for that very purpose. "That's our genius, huh?" Emerson asks, glancing up the companionway to where Latham is being given a clean shirt. "Had to be encouraged?" Tony assures Emerson, "I got him to a place where he'll do whatever you want." And it took him less than ten minutes, too. Emerson has a private question for Tony: "So, tell me how the FBI managed to find Schechter." Tony tells Emerson the truth, and assures him, "I took care of Schechter before he could tell the FBI anything. I'll take care of Jack Bauer, too." Emerson just hopes that doesn't distract Tony from his new job. "Speaking of which, you haven't told me what that is," Tony says, suddenly getting all shifty in a way that tells me he's totally undercover after all. For whom, I still couldn't say, but his curiosity about the next gig seems more than idle. Emerson says someone named "Tanner" will tell him about it when he arrives, because Tony doesn't need to know yet. "Tony, we've been doing this three years." Emerson exposits. "The less information any one of us has, the safer we all are. After this next job, we're done." Tony acquiesces, and promises to call when Tanner arrives. Emerson and his guys take off, with Latham and the module. Man, when's he going to be allowed to return to his daughter? She's probably late for school by now.