Episode Report Card Erin: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A cup of No-Doz and an espresso IV, STAT!
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.26.2005
Once in the bathroom, Raimes immediately vomits. Dix and Vaughn appear, and Dix says, "Last time I saw you like this, you were in a bar in Baghdad." ["Last time I saw him like that, he just got his ass shot." -- Sars] Raimes is surprised to see him there. Both Dix and Vaughn want to know why Raimes didn't fill out a second report that the bomb was going to go off at the embassy. Raimes is all, you know what? I'll make sure to fill out a report later, okay? There's some back and forth between the three of them, and the music tries its damnedest to pretend that there's some tension, any tension, in this scene, but there just…isn't. What's the nutshell of this scene? Do you care? Okay, fine. Dix and Vaughn think Raimes is working for the bad guys because he didn't inform Langley of the bombing before it was supposed to happen. Raimes thinks Dix and Vaughn had better get the hell out of there before Stubbly Lambert gets suspicious, as he's wont to do, seeing as he's a paranoid mofo. That's it. That's the whole thing.
Raimes let fifteen people die at the embassy because he "had his reasons" not to tell Langley about the bombing. Mostly because if he'd tipped them off, and Stubbly Lambert had found out about it, his cover would be blown, and he had a reason to stick around. Mainly that Stubbly Lambert is after a new weapon that contaminates water. It can wipe out entire ecosystems. And the embassy bombing was crucial to getting the weapon. How? We don't know. But it was either kill fifteen people or fifteen million, Raimes sums up, and he had to make a choice. Raimes says that if they don't recover the water contaminant, hundreds of thousands of people could die, so he suggests that Dixon let him walk out that door. The Strings of This Scene Isn't Boring! No! It's Not Boring At All! mercifully take us to the commercial break.
When we return, both Vaughn and Dix are on their cell phones, telling the Apple Store that Raimes used the bombing to cover the intel theft that let them know where the water contaminant was being developed. It's called Hydrosec, by the way, and it's being developed by the Indonesians. Oh, those crafty Indonesians. Always coming up with new ways to make water suck. Stubbly Lambert knew that if the bomb went off, all the intel at the embassy would be transferred offsite, and he was prepared to intercept the transferal. Now, he's putting together a team to go get the Hydrosec. Raimes says the only option they have is to let Stubbly Lambert lead them to the weapon and they can take him out of the picture before he can use it. Dixon decides to keep Raimes in the field and he and Vaughn will shadow him. Stubbly Lambert sends Dirty Broderick off to look for Raimes.
Back in the bathroom, Dix is trying to convince Raimes to wear a wire. Raimes is all, did I mention the paranoia? Dude will sweep me and I'll be caught. No thanks. Dix says they'll wire him with something else that'll send out burst transmissions; no way Stubbly Lambert will be able to detect it. Raimes says that's fine; he'll meet him in the bar in ten minutes. Dix then asks who the meet is with, and Raimes tells him it's with a hacker named Linus Halsey. Dix asks if Stubbly Lambert has ever met Linus face-to-face and Raimes says no, why? You thinking of changing him out? Both Vaughn and Dix think this is a very good idea, and head off to chase down Linus. Raimes returns to Stubbly Lambert. I check to see if I'm still awake. Would it be wrong if I tried to write this while I slept? I'm thinking that if it's wrong, I don't want to be right.