Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Ex-Ex-President
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 1 | Aired on 01.14.2006
Kiefer sneaks between parked cars along a service road. The black sedan comes roaring down the lane in his direction. He jumps out in front of it and empties his gun into the windshield, and the car goes off course and smashes into a parked pickup, probably destroying the camera that was positioned inside it. Kiefer reloads and satisfies himself that the bloody-headed driver is dead (by looking at him, not by shooting him some more), and continues on his way.
At 7:55:37, Jeff Kober stalks the fugitives, closing in on their position. Kiefer also makes his way among the pipes, and spots them crouched down low from about a hundred feet away. Nice hiding spot, Chloe. Kiefer then looks and sees Jeff Kober approaching them stealthily. Before he can shoot, Kiefer sneaks up and shoots Jeff Kober first, once in the leg. Kober starts to turn to face Kiefer, but Chloe hears the shot, panics, and fires three shots at Kober. Kiefer caught a break there, I'd say. That could have gone either way. If anything, I'd have expected Chloe to fire at the sound of the shots. At least two of her bullets hit Kober in the torso and he goes down, even as Kiefer is bellowing at her to hold her fire. Kiefer approaches Kober and kicks away the killer's dropped gun, then begins checking him for more weapons. And apparently, going by where Kiefer's feeling around, the big thing for hit men these days is to carry guns around in your ass. Kiefer orders Chloe to take the kid and clear out. Chloe obediently but poutily leads Derek about forty feet away, and then they both turn around so they can watch what's about to happen. I think Kiefer meant further away, Chloe. Kiefer promises a grievously wounded Kober that he'll bring him to the hospital to save his life, if Kober tells him what he wants to know. Kiefer's first question is why the four people who knew he was alive were targeted. Coughing up blood, Kober explains that Palmer was the primary target, and that the others were only killed to set Kiefer up. Kiefer asks why Palmer was killed, and Kober says it was to keep him from talking, although about what, Kober doesn't know. "Only hired to take out the principal," he grunts. Kiefer's face gets hard as he realizes, "You're the one that killed Palmer." Kober readily cops to it.
Kiefer's angry face shrinks up into the top half of the screen. Derek looks on nervously. Meanwhile, Tony is in brain surgery, FLOTUS is in hair-and-makeup surgery (and let's hope the maid drained the sink before getting started this time), and Logan sits at his desk all inertly Palmer-like. Kiefer asks Kober, "Who's behind this?" But Kober's already spilled all he knows. "Take me to the hospital," he concludes. "Yeah," Kiefer agrees, and then puts one bullet into Kober's head. Like Kiefer has time to be taking people to the hospital all willy-nilly on days like this. It's 8:00:00, and it's like Kiefer never left.