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
And here's Quentin. I mean, he's wearing scrubs and an ID badge and a stethoscope around his neck as he walks through the hospital corridors, but his evil face and eviler music kind of give him away, as do the black nylon saddle bags he's carrying over his shoulder. He ducks past the nurses' station unnoticed and enters a double room, snagging the chart on the way in. He stands over the old, gray patient in the bed, asks him his name (Robert), and confirms that he's recovering from heart surgery. "You have a wife, Robert?" he asks. He answers that she's dead, and he's got no children or grandchildren. Quentin asks if the other man in the room, currently sleeping peacefully, has family. "Lots of grandkids," Robert chuckles. "Make a hell of a noise when they visit." Having found out what he needs to know, Quentin suffocates Robert as quickly and quietly as he can. Nice of him to make sure there wouldn't be any grief-stricken survivors of his self-created diversion. That's some value-added murdering, right there. Retrieving his saddlebags, he steps back out into the hall, where the code he just triggered is clearing out the nurses' station. I hasten to add that this is a different nurses' station from the one where Kiefer and Moss are watching Burnett on TV, otherwise they might get suspicious. Quentin calmly goes over and syncs up a PDA to the unattended computer, and has Burnett's room located in seconds. From there, he goes into a storage room, climbs up onto a table, opens a hatch into the ceiling, and climbs up inside. Meanwhile, at the other station, Kiefer and Moss are still watching Burnett on the monitors, unaware that anything's amiss.
It's 8:46:12 when Olivia comes to visit Aaron in the White House's brand-new East Wing Triage Center to ask about his arm and see what he looks like with his shirt off. "I should be back on my feet in a couple of hours," he says, so we know Aaron's time in this season isn't over. She's there to thank him. "You took a bullet for me," she says. "You saved my life." Actually, it looked like he was trying to get out of its way, but whatever. Aaron says she doesn't need to thank him. "Right, you were just doing your job," Olivia says. "Only in this case it wasn't really your job, since you retired four years ago." She's suddenly curious about why. "Did it have to do with Martha Logan?" "Martha and I were close," Aaron says slowly. Olivia says, "It must have been hard for you, what happened to her." "I'd prefer not to talk about it," Aaron says quickly. Why not? There are worse places to end up than on Samantha Who?. Olivia apologizes, and Aaron says she doesn't need to do that either. "I hope you won't be a stranger, Agent Pierce," she says. He thanks her, and adds, "It's Aaron." She smiles and takes her leave. Aaron does have a way with the ladies of the White House, doesn't he?