Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Small Consulation
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 12 | Aired on 03.04.2007
We don't get to hear it, because instead we cut to Kiefer beating the crap out of Markov, whom he's tied to a chair. The Consul is looking pretty bloody, but still denying that he's spoken to Gredenko since Gredenko's arrival in the U.S. Fiddling with Markov's cigar cutter, Kiefer says he never mentioned Gredenko was even in the U.S. Markov shuts up, although he could reasonably claim that he learned that from Logan. Kiefer sits down in front of Markov, saying that they know Gredenko supplied the nukes; they just don't know why he's still involved. Uh, they're assuming he's still involved. Seems a little sloppy, since the only evidence they have of Gredenko's continued participation is an abandoned safe house. But that's more than enough for Kiefer to play the torture card. He holds up the cigar cutter and threatens to start taking fingers. And, after giving Markov one more chance, he takes one. Markov grimaces in agony. Remember a few hours ago, when it looked like Kiefer had lost his stomach for this kind of thing? No? Yeah, I kind of thought I was the only one.
Meanwhile, the terrible, terrible security guards outside are just now getting a live video feed of what's going on inside the office. They say they can't move in yet because Kiefer's still too close to the Consul. Good excuse.
Kiefer decides to take a different tack with Markov: he says that Markov can either turn in Gredenko and Kiefer will go get him, or Kiefer will kill Markov right now. If he does the latter, Gredenko will hear about it, assume that he's exposed, and skedaddle. Either way, Gredenko's done. I don't know why this is any more or less true than it was before Kiefer gave Markov's left pinky a trim; mutilating someone is just a bonus, I suppose. Looking down the muzzle of Kiefer's gun, Markov gives up Gredenko's location: the Mojave Desert, in the Shadow Valley. Kiefer asks what Gredenko's doing, and Markov actually smirks as he says that Gredenko's launching drones with nuclear bombs. "In two hours, all of the bombs will be in the air," he snickers. Kiefer socks him in the puss once more. And thus concludes another thrilling fistfight between the Great American Hero and somebody he tied to a chair. Kiefer steps away to dial his cell phone. That's exactly what the guards have been waiting for, and the door blows open in Kiefer's face, hurling him stunned to the floor. Two guards pick him up and lean him against the wall while the other two cut the plastic ties holding Markov's wrists to the arms of his guest chair. Markov gets up, orders his men not to let anyone near Kiefer, and vindictively punches him in the gut. With his right fist, of course, because delivering a left would probably sting. Speaking of which, shouldn't somebody get Markvo a Thermos full of ice or something? Kiefer is hauled out into the hallway at 5:49:48.