Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT High Jack
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.30.2006
2:14:53. Back in the galley of the airplane, which isn't suspicious at all, Kiefer answers his cell phone, which is even less suspicious. It's Chloe, telling him that the guy he wants is Hans Meyer in seat 12D, who is apparently a German national with connections to Omicron International. You'll recall that Omicron is the defense contractor that manufactured the Sentox nerve gas, and is also Henderson's employer (at least until 5:00 this afternoon, when he blew the place up). Kiefer acknowledges and hangs up. Wasting no time, he saunters up to 12D, identifies himself as the Air Marshal, and asks Meyer to come back with him to the galley. "We found something that we think is yours… We'd just like you to come back to the galley and identify it for us so we can properly stow it." Meyer must be wearing nose plugs, because instead of recognizing the pungent smell of bullshit, he agreeably heads aft with Kiefer (dirty!), not even getting suspicious when Kiefer tells him to bring any carry-on items with him. My response to that would be, "Why? Am I not coming back?" Meyer doesn't have any anyway. Kiefer is uncomfortably aware that beverage service has begun, and that the flight attendant is working her way to the back of the plane with her cart. Knowing time is short given all the sleeping passengers she's going to be able to skip, he draws the curtains and socks Meyer in the solar plexus. He then subdues his victim with a sleeper hold and lowers the unconscious fellow down into the luggage compartment. He follows and closes the hatch behind him, just before the flight attendant enters. She glances at the hatch's handle for some reason, but notices nothing amiss. If a hot, angry man is going to pop out of the floor and sweep her away from all this, it's not going to be now.
It's 2:16:33 at Not Camp David, and FLOTUS is ransacking her medicine cabinets. Coming up empty, she goes over to the door and opens it, to find that hulking Secret Service agent standing guard outside in the hallway. She says she needs her meds, but the agent says, "I'm sorry, ma'am, they won't let me give that to you." So basically everyone has switched sides on that issue? FLOTUS tries to goad the agent into showing some reaction, including calling her husband a son of a bitch, but it's like acting in front of a brick wall. Only less bouncy. Finally she pronounces, "You don't have much of a personality, do you?" The agent's continued lack of response shows just how right she is. Without bothering to close the door, she marches over to her phone and calls up Novick on his cell. She asks him to come to her room, and he agrees, because it's not like he's got any Chief of Staff stuff to do or anything. Wait, actually he doesn't. Never mind.