Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Wayne In Pain
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 11 | Aired on 02.25.2007
4:39:22. At CTU, Nadia comes up to Chloe to complain about some technobabble on a report Morris did, like the TPS reports don't have a cover sheet or something. Chloe makes a technobabble excuse on Morris's behalf, and Nadia reluctantly lets it go for now. She's not happy about it, though, because it's either this or going back to being Lieutenant Uhura all the damn time.
So then Chloe heads over to where Morris is messing with the server racks -- still able to easily reach things above his head despite missing a cylinder of flesh from his left shoulder -- and asks him really, honest and for true, if he's been drinking. Without missing a beat, Morris cracks, "I just had a couple of beers, love. I didn't think anyone would mind." Heh. Chloe's not in the mood, and when she tells Morris about Nadia's alleged TPS issue, he blows it off as an example of Nadia just wanting to prove herself right. He adds that as much as part of him wants to "go home, crawl into bed, and forget this day ever happened," he's staying because CTU needs him. Wait: last hour it was because he needed to work. What's it going to be next hour? He can't drive home because his car's in CTU impound with bullets in the headrest and plus he's still got a hole through his scapula? Pick an argument and stick with it.
At 4:40:56, Logan is taking his sweet old time picking out his clothes for a visit to the consulate, almost as if there aren't any nukes out there at all. He opens a suspiciously uncluttered little dresser-top case, and we see that he not only got off with house arrest, e also got to keep a couple of sets of cufflinks with the Presidential seal. He picks out that American flag lapel pin he wore all of last season to complete his outfit, and takes a lingering look at a photo of himself and ex-FLOTUS Martha in happier and presumably less traitorous, friend-killing, psychotropically-controlling times. He enters the bathroom and, staring into the mirror, recites, "He brought me out of a horrible pit, set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings." Who did? He tells himself, "One step at a time, Charles. One step at a time."
In one of the outer rooms, Kiefer's already decked out in a fresh suit and tie. I don't know where he found it, but obviously this isn't the first time he's raided a wardrobe on the premises. He's on the phone with Buchanan, lying that Logan is almost ready and that they should be reaching the Consulate about forty-five minutes after they leave. Buchanan reports that as far as Markov is concerned, CTU hasn't been able to find any dirt on him at all. While listening, Kiefer opens Logan's Bible to the page he left marked and finds Psalm 27 highlighted: "He set my feet upon a rock and gave me a firm place to stand." But not a very good memory, apparently. Buchanan wonders what they're going to do if Logan is lying. Kiefer says that they don't have any other leads, so they're just going to have to work this one. Makes perfect sense to me. Buchanan reminds Kiefer that they have no jurisdiction at the Consulate, like Kiefer doesn't know more about being careful in Consulates than anyone alive. Instead of pointing that out, Kiefer just tells Buchanan to have teams ready in case Markov gives them anything. Buchanan hangs up and calls Chloe to have her call the ChiPs and get them to clear the roads from Not Camp David to the Russian Consulate. What, we're suddenly worried about traffic on this show?