Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Undercover Brothers
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 4 | Aired on 01.12.2009
As Walker hits the parking lot, she calls Moss to let him know she got the goods. Well, of course she did, otherwise there wouldn't be any point in doing it, would there? She'll go far in the Justice Department, although I'm hoping that the days when a person could make Attorney General by attacking a helpless man in his hospital bed are pretty much over. Anyway, Walker tells Moss that there's a plan to nab Matobo. "Pretty much now," she elaborates. "Listen, Larry, Almeida's still a part of this and if we can get there before him, we can set a trap." Moss is down with that, and before he hangs up to scramble a TAC team and give Matobo's security people a heads-up, he gives Walker the address of the State Department safe house where Matobo is staying, which is still 167 Foxhall Road. "Renee, do not go in alone. Wait for backup." "Right," Walker snaps unconvincingly as she gets behind the wheel of her SUV. One highly fraught reunion with Kiefer, coming right up!
It's 11:57:24 in the sunny front office of that State Department residence, which is actually quite fancy. A Sangalan security guard's cell phone rings, and it's Moss, who wastes no time: "This is not a drill. Code Alpha alpha delta. Lock the Prime Minister down. I repeat, lock him down!" The guard hangs up and stars rattling off orders in French to the other guards before bursting into the room where Matobo is sitting with his wife, whom I briefly mistake for Toni Morrison. As more urgent French is spoken, Sangala's former first couple is bustled down a corridor.
But is it too late? Emerson's other henchman -- the one Kiefer put through the stair rail -- finishes sabotaging a fuse box somewhere and gives the go signal over a walkie-talkie. A second later, a hallway window explodes next to a hapless guard and Emerson comes charging through it, literally loaded for bear. Kiefer follows, with Tony bringing up the rear and gunning down a guard who appears in the courtyard behind him. That is some deep, deep, deep cover, right there. While Emerson quizzes the fallen guard in the hallway about Matobo's location, Kiefer spots the ex-PM himself through a couple of French doors and leads the pursuit. But they're too slow, because the guard has led the Matobos to what would appear to be an ordinary closet door, until he opens it to reveal the entrance to a concrete-walled panic room. The Motobos are sealed inside, while the guard gets to hang outside and wait for the kidnappers to arrive. Dude, his job sucks. Couldn't he get to protect them from inside the panic room? Kiefer disarms him and forces him to his knees. "Where is Matobo?" Emerson asks again. "You'll not be able to get to him now," the guard says defiantly. Emerson futilely slaps the solid, sealed door of the panic room, while Kiefer enters the adjoining space, a storage closet with drywall on both sides. At 11:58:56, Kiefer picks up a handy putter and starts swinging it at the wall while Tony watches. As he widens the hole, a splitscreen shows Walker driving her SUV with her flashers and siren going, Henry still meditating at the Tidal Basin, Moss walking purposefully past his shifty impersonator at the Bureau, and President Taylor staring into space in what has become the familiar shorthand for a president in crisis zoning out.