Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Do You Have the Stomach For It?
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.10.2010
After hanging up, Jason tells a stunned Eden that it's still on. "I need to know you're with me on this." She says she is, but she's clearly freaked. Jason says he's going to the scene of the gunfight, to "remove all trace of the Russians and get on Bauer's trail." Eden watches him go, looking more than a little worried. She's got a right to be; if I were Jason right now, I'd head to the store via Canada, and maybe forget to get to the store at all.
.Chloe is scrolling through screen after screen of Kiefer's "associates," which she says will still take hours even leaving out the dead ones. Arlo has some info she might find helpful; he knows about the shootout at the store from a 911 call, and replays her some security footage of the incident, complete with Kiefer's escape. Now all they have to do is run facial recognition and cross-reference it with Kiefer's associates to find his supplier. What could be easier?
Kiefer and Jim lead Reed and Tokarev out a back entrance, across the street in broad daylight, and into another building at 12:45:03. It looks like an abandoned warehouse, which is the surest sign yet that Kiefer's going to the dark side; this is the kind of place he's charged into and fumigated more times than we can count. While Kiefer puts Reed in a chair, Jim orders Tokarev to empty his pockets. Kiefer opens Tokarev's case, and there it is -- the gun that killed Walker. It's a sight that clearly gets to him, and Jim reminds him that they don't have much time. Kiefer orders Tokarev to take off his jacket, which he does. Reed, meanwhile, has realized that Kiefer knew the bad guys were going to be coming for him, and she used her to draw them out. Kiefer cops to it. "I could have been killed back there!" she accuses. "You weren't," Kiefer reminds her, looking like he's having mixed emotions about that right now. Meanwhile, Tokarev purposely drops his cell phone on the floor, and Jim makes him pick up the pieces. Something will be coming of that later, you can be sure. Reed asks if the evidence Kiefer dangled at her was also a lie as well, but Kiefer gives her Dana's memory card. "When you see it, you'll know it's real. Take it. My partner's going to take you somewhere to show it to you. I'm sorry things had to play out like this." So Jim's his partner now? He must be thrilled. Seeing Kiefer tying Tokarev's hands behind him, she begs him not to do what she knows he's about to do. "Take her to the storeroom," Kiefer tells Jim. And to Reed, he says, "The evidence I gave you doesn't tell me who else was involved. He will." Jim drags her out as Kiefer hauls Tokarev over to a support column. Once he's secured, Kiefer picks up the sniper rifle and, ejecting the clip and the chambered round, remarks, "Springfield, M1A rifle. 308 round." He puts it down and gets in Tokarev's face to add, "You know, about four hours ago, a friend of mine, a very good friend, Renee Walker, was killed by a rifle just like that." What a remarkable coincidence! Tokarev forsakes the smart-ass route and tells Kiefer, "Go to hell." Kiefer rips oven Tokarev's shirt, revealing the whole gallery of Red Square tattoos underneath, just like the ones on Davros and the other Russians Kiefer killed yesterday afternoon. "You first," he invites. It's 12:47:48, and I think we can rest assured he's not being metaphorical.