Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Good News, Bad News
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.13.2009
At 1:21:24, Tony finishes attaching electronically wired C-4 charges to the underground fuel tanks. He goes to Stokes, who he's handcuffed to a pipe, and frees his hands. Apparently he's not still mad enough at Stokes to leave him down there to be incinerated. He makes Stokes lead him back out and up the stairs. Stokes closes the doors, and Tony makes him walk around the parked truck. It's not clear what his next move is, but it's moot given the sudden reappearance of Poor Man's Tracy Morgan. He tackles Tony from behind, sending Tony sprawling and the detonator clattering through a narrow gap between two metal grates in the concrete. Why didn't PMTM just shoot Tony when he had the chance? Maybe he didn't want to set off all the fuel that's flowing around in those pipes and hoses. Or maybe he had a different reason. Whatever the case, in the time it takes for Tony to beat Poor Man's Tracy Morgan down, Stokes runs to an alarm keypad and punches in a code. Tony beats Stokes down, too, but it's too late. Alarms are going off downstairs, and Tom the tech says it means they need to launch immediately, per their standing orders. Another tech clearly has doubts about this, but Tom says to start the launch sequence. Above ground, the tops of the missile silos begin to open up. "You're too late," Stokes taunts bloodily from underneath Tony. Tony socks Stokes unconscious and goes after the detonator. The gap in the grate is just wide enough to stick his arm through, but the hole is too deep for his fingers to reach the detonator. While this is going on, the guys downstairs have locked in Clarksville, Maryland as the target. As a sheet of metal closes down over the window into the missile bay, Tom the tech tells the other guy to enter the firing codes, but the other guy refuses. "We're about to kill ten thousand people. We should get someone on the phone." That's not a bad motto, actually. But Tom pushes the tech away and enters the codes himself. Above ground, Tony's fingertips scrabble for the remote detonator. The missiles' engines begin to warm up as Tony finally manages to retrieve the detonator. And then when he pulls his arm up, the metal grates that were blocking him lift easily out of their slots and clatter against the concrete. Not really, but that would have been kind of hilarious. Tony finally hits the button and takes off running in a random direction, just as a giant fireball blows everything, below and above ground, all to shit.
From outside the Starkwood fence, Moss sees the explosion (not that we can see it from his vantage point, or even a change in the light on his face) and tells his men that's their cue. They jump in their trucks and move out at 1:24:14.