Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Poison
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.23.2009
And he's just about to get back into the cab to continue his drive when suddenly lead rains down on him from above. The bad guys have gotten a helicopter, and they want their toy back. Plus an SUV is coming up the road. Rather than trying to get back in the truck to try to outrun a chopper, Kiefer dashes across the highway and bounds over a fence into the rocks on the embankment while the shooting continues. He's totally pinned down while Stokes's men slide the bioweapon out of the back of the truck, allowing the helicopter to lower a tether and scoop it out of there. It's an odd-looking device, with rows of gas canisters arranged along a metal rack. It looks like California Closets did a custom job for Cthulhu. Kiefer raises his weapon as though he's about to take a shot at the helicopter, or the tether, but probably thinks better of it as he imagines what would happen if that thing hit the pavement. Both SUV and helicopter are soon gone into the night. "Dammit!" Kiefer roars. Of course.
It's 10:58:06 when Stokes calls from the inside front of his SUV. He spares a look back at Tony, bound and gagged on the floor in the back of the truck. He gets a hold of Hodges, now tieless and in a casual jacket. "The package is secure, we're inbound," Stokes angrily tells Hodges. Hodges asks about Kiefer, so this clearly isn't the first time they've talked since Kiefer made off with the goodies. Stokes says that Kiefer was there, but found cover. Dude, he went and laid down on the ground. You had a helicopter. You couldn't have wanted him that bad. As the conversation continues, we see that Hodges and Seaton are walking through some kind of weird lab, with work stations everywhere that are equipped with magnifying work lights, computers, UV canisters or something, and giant jiffy-pops. Hodges says that since Kiefer almost certainly told someone what he found, they'll need to hurry things up. On 24? Is that going to be possible without ripping a hole through the space-time continuum?
Kiefer calls Moss back to report that he had to stop seven miles short of that weigh station, and also to tell him to redirect the units. "Starkwood reacquired the bioweapon," he euphemistically tells Moss. "They managed to access one of the dock's freight helicopters. While they had me pinned down they airlifted the freight right out of here. They were headed due west from my current position." Moss says Starkwood has a large facility in that area, but, "I can't assault a private compound unless I have proof that a weapon exists." Kiefer tells Moss to send the CDC guys to him, then. "You'll have all the proof you need." "Jack, what happened?" Moss asks with concern, suddenly Kiefer's best friend. Kiefer says one of the canisters leaked. "I was exposed," he stammers. Moss sympathetically tells him to stay where he is, and the guys from CDC will be there shortly. Kiefer hangs up, and sits on the running board of the truck, waiting. And of course Kiefer Sutherland picks this week to tell us he'll be back for Season Eight. It's 11:00:00.