Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT OMFGOTUS
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.09.2009
Taylor tells Buchanan to pull the agents out, but as Buchanan relays the order, Dubaku's soldier is already raising his arm high in some kind of signal. "Roger that," says the driver, taking his time to back the car into a stately turn. This agent clearly flunked the evasive driving course at Secret Service school. He's just putting it back into drive when he happens to look up at a tall power structure nearby, atop which is a guy with a bazooka. The last thing the agent sees is the RPG streaking toward his hood. And an explosion blossoms on the Oval Office big screen. Nice going, Buchanan. Well, at least they've got a fix on five of Dubaku's guys, and will be able to nab them quickly and easily now, right? Right?At 3:57:06, Kiefer double-parks next to Walker's car (go ahead and tow the fucker, see if he cares) and they head straight across the street and into the grocery, guns out. Kiefer grabs the cashier and drags him to the back room, telling him to unlock the door and ask the men downstairs what they want to eat. "You do one thing I don't like and I will blow your head off, you understand me?" The cashier complies, and Kiefer thanks him by knocking him unconscious. Kiefer steps through the doorway and uses a hand mirror to peer through a hole in the brick wall blocking his view of the basement. Seeing four guys down there watching TV, he uses secret-agent sign language to tell Walker that there are four people and that she should start downstairs, while he covers the location from the relatively safe location above by sticking his gun through the hole in the wall. That seems rather unchivalrous of him.
Down below, one of Dubaku's minions gets a call from their boss, who orders, "Kill Henry Taylor." "We'll have nothing to hold over their heads," the minion objects. Dubaku says that's already the case, since clearly the president hasn't gotten any less stubborn in the past hour. "We are done here. Kill Taylor and have the men pack everything up." Should be a fun debrief with Juma when he gets back to Sangala. After the call ends, suddenly another guy comes around the corner from another room in the basement, and spots Walker in the middle of climbing down the outside of the stairs, just hanging there like a sitting duck. She just hangs there, hoping that since she's officially presumed dead, he can't actually see her. But that doesn't seem to work, and he reaches for his gun. Lucky for her, Kiefer shoots him before he can pick her off, and as she drops down and he breaks cover, the yelling and shooting and running begins. Kiefer jumps down and engages the enemy, who barricade themselves behind cases of beer. Oh, it's such a terrible waste; I can hear the bullets plinking through the bottles. Heartbreaking. Walker gets in a few good shots as well. Soon all of Dubaku's men are down, except for one, who limps at high speed to the very-back room where Henry is being held. Henry looks pretty curious about what's going on outside. Just as Dubaku's henchman reaches the room, Kiefer slides feet-first on the floor to the end of the hall, putting himself in position to put three bullets in him. Which he does. Pretty fancy move, that. But before the henchman falls, he's able to fire his own gun once at Henry Taylor. It hits him in the torso, and his chair flips backward from the force of the bullet. Kiefer comes into the room, making sure the last guy is dead, but he's horrified to find the FGOTUS unconscious and bleeding, lying on his back. He starts loosening Henry's tie and collar, and when Walker comes in, he bellows, "Get an ambulance!" at her, like this is her fault.