Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Kill Bi-- Never Mind, He'll Do It Himself
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 13 | Aired on 03.09.2009
Taylor's finishes up a meeting with some assistant press secretary or something, now that the actual one is dead. She dismisses him as Ethan comes in and gives her a long hug before she has a chance to think about the possible significance of his absence from the White House for the last hour. They catch up for a minute, and Taylor says that given their losses, she wants to bring Olivia in as a special advisor. Ethan's got serious concerns about Olivia. "Nobody's forgotten what she did during the campaign. Leaking damaging personal information about your opponent to the press? She almost cost you the election." Yes, it was a terrible thing Olivia did, but at least it was almost completely nonspecific. Taylor says that's all in the past. "I still think it's a mistake," Ethan says. "I don't care what you think!" she snaps. Ooh, awkward. Rather than making an excuse of what she's just been through, she apologizes and takes it back, but she still wants Ethan to offer Olivia the job. "I need the two of you to make peace," she says. Odd how invested she is in having them make up, when she isn't wearing any. Ethan gets up and goes to take care of it. Before he leaves, Taylor asks what Walker wanted. Ethan says it was nothing, and that he took care of it. Indeed he did.
A helicopter sets down outside the White House at 8:33:22, and Kiefer is led over to it. Sitting in the back in handcuffs, he stares over at Moss, who glares back. Kiefer breaks eye contact before he has to burst out laughing. Walker comes up behind Moss, and it's clear from her face that she already knows what he wants. Still, he glowers at her for a good long time before saying he talked to Ethan. "Look, I didn't want to go behind your back, but you didn't leave me any choice," Walker says. Moss angrily says she could have followed orders. Walker admits that Kiefer has done some terrible things today. Like nearly suffocating a man in a hospital bed or threatening a baby? But Walker says of Kiefer, "He has been right every time, and you know what? I can't help but think that if we'd just stayed out of his way, none of this would have happened." Oh, great, we've reached the point in the season where people start making that speech. Never grows tiresome, does it? Moss tells her that she's not going with Kiefer. In fact, she's going back to FBI to clean out her office and turn in her badge. "I'm suspending you. Indefinitely." Now, that's just punitive. Walker says he's going to need her. "What I need are people I can trust," he bitches. "I thought that was you." Ooh, burn. He leaves her to stew over that while he goes over to join Kiefer in the back of the helicopter. As it lifts off, Moss warns Kiefer that he's going to be watching the entire time. "You do one thing I don't like, you're finished, understand me?" "Understood," Kiefer says blankly, then adds, "You should leave Renee out of this. She was just doing what she thought was right." Wow, I didn't think Kiefer actually remembered Walker's first name. Moss snits that she might lose her job over it. "She's the best agent you've got," Kiefer insists. Moss says he can't ignore her going over his head. "I've known this woman for nine years, and I've never seen her do the kind of things she's done in the last nine hours." Kiefer doesn't bother replying, but in a deep voice inside his head he thinks, "Young Skywalker is mine." But without the "sky" part. It's 8:36:05.