Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Crushed Velvet
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 1 | Aired on 01.13.2007
Everyone at CTU waits nervously for the call that finally comes. Fayed tells Buchanan that he's keeping his end of the deal, and reads off a set of coordinates. He's even had a transponder placed at that location, just as a little value-add. Behind him, Kiefer whispers the coordinates back to himself, so we know he's memorizing them.
At CTU, Milo enters the coordinates into the computer and comes back with an address in Inglewood. It's 6:57:22 as Buchanan barks orders -- mobilize the attack choppers, notify Wayne, and cut off Fayed's access to their systems.
Standing well apart from all this activity, Chloe is busy trying not to break down. Morris joins her and says that they did everything they could, gently telling her, "If it stops these attacks, it's for the greater good. There's no one [who] understands that more than Jack." Chloe collapses into Morris's arms...
...and into the end-of-episode splitscreen. In other windows, Ahmed hangs at his neighbors', Wayne hangs in the Oval Office with Karen, and helicopters hang in the air over their base.
Back at the house of Fayed, the man himself is still toying with Kiefer, and with a pair of pliers. "Do you remember doing this to my brother?" he asks Kiefer, positioning the pincers around Kiefer's left index finger. But then the tech guy comes in to say that Fayed has a call, so Fayed decides to put off the moment until he can enjoy it properly. He gives the one henchman in the room some instructions in Arabic, and then leaves to take the call at 6:58:46. The call is, wouldn't you know it, from Ahmed. D'oh! He's all stressed out about his father being nabbed by the FBI, and tells Fayed that his father's innocent. Fayed tells Ahmed, "If your father is meant to be sacrificed, then that is how it will be. Now tell me what the FBI said."
While the guard isn't looking, Kiefer somehow contrives to rip off the EKG cuff. Hearing the flatline tone, the guard goes to check on him. Last mistake he ever makes, because Kiefer rears back and SINKS HIS TEETH INTO THE GUY'S NECK. I don't know how he keeps him from screaming, unless he's somehow also using his own cheek to block the victim's mouth, but that's fucking gross, dude. I'm having Lost Boys flashbacks. After getting his fill of carotid or jugular or whatever, Kiefer spits out a gobbet of throat-flesh and gets the keys off the body before shrugging it to the floor. A moment later, he's free.
Down the hall, an unsuspecting Fayed is telling Ahmed that he did good, and asks, "Are you sure the FBI didn't find the package?" Ahmed is sure. Fayed tells him to "deliver it soon," and Ahmed promises to call Fayed back. When he hangs up, Scott is standing right there. Ahmed swallows his "busted" face and claims that he was just talking to his uncle. Scott invites Ahmed to join the fam for breakfast. And, hey, if a little Geometry tutoring session should spontaneously break out, that's cool too.