Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Management Issues
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 9 | Aired on 02.16.2009
Janis enters the server room, and plugs that digital key into a socket. The numbers freeze and the little light on it goes green, and the next thing you know, Janis is looking at Chloe's tracking grid on a workstation monitor. It's 4:50:22, and under the circumstances, Janis might as well put on a t-shirt that says "I'M THE MOLE."
It's 4:54:44 as Marika asks the driver in the car, "How much further?" He doesn't answer. Just her luck to get a mute driver. Some distance behind them, Kiefer is on speaker with Moss and Chloe, giving them constant real-time updates on his and Walker's location while they watch the giant Marika-blip move across the D.C. street map on their monitor. Kiefer asks Moss if there's any clear airfield-like destination that car could be heading for. Janis can now hear their conversation as well, as Moss says it could be any number of possibilities. Suddenly a guy walks into the server room. Janis yanks the digital key out of its socket, and her monitor goes back to the login screen. And Chloe's screen goes entirely blank. As Janis unobtrusively leaves the server room, Chloe reports to Kiefer that they've lost the tracking grid. Walker stresses out, and Kiefer bitches at Chloe to get it back up. "We're doing our best here, Jack," Moss replies. We? After a few more seconds, Chloe restores the grid. "What the hell happened?" Kiefer demands. Chloe says she's running a diagnostic to find out. Moss remembers about the directing thing they're supposed to be doing, telling Kiefer he's within a half mile and suggesting Kiefer back off. Kiefer copies. The irony is that while none of them know it, all Kiefer has to do is put a bullet through the back window of Marika's car and Dubaku will release that file telling them everything they need to know.
Chloe tells Moss what her diagnostic just told her: "Someone in this office was mirroring my terminal. Whoever it was knows exactly what we were doing." Oh, Janis, you're so screwed right now. The time to be sneaky is not when the boss is on the lookout for a mole in the office. Moss casts a paranoid glance out onto his floor, spotting Erica, Sean, and any number of extras in turn. He asks Chloe if she can trace it, but she says that since the link was severed, it cold have come from anywhere. Moss's glance drifts over to more extras, and Janis. Who is screwed. He asks Kiefer if he's hearing this, but Kiefer's got more immediate concerns: Metro Police cruisers are suddenly appearing all around them, rushing in to surround their car. Kiefer tells Moss about it, and Moss is confused as to why this could be happening. Like Kiefer didn't just kill a guy. "I don't know, just get 'em off us," Kiefer orders, whipping the wheel around in some evasive driving. He attempts a J-turn, but the cops lock him in. "Larry, do something!" Kiefer yells. Moss is already on the phone to the cops, using his most officious voice. He'd better talk fast, because Walker and Kiefer are finding themselves in the end of the Blues Brothers movie, as they're forced out of the car and onto the street. "Come on, Larry, do something!" Kiefer yells at his faceful of pavement while his hands are cuffed behind him. Moss is telling a police captain that there's no federal warrant out on Walker and Kiefer, but it turns out that there is: Chloe has found one on her computer. "Occupants armed and dangerous, to be apprehended with decisive force," she reads off the screen. Chloe confirms that it came from someone in FBI-DC. The real mole, whoever it may be, has been busy. Chloe then mentions offhandedly, in case anyone's still interested, that Marika's car just turned again. Moss yells down the phone that he's revoking the warrant. "I don't have time to deal with your chain of command. You need to release these people right now."