Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT That'll Do, Pig
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2007.02.05
Kiefer drives the blue van back to a CTU staging area near Graem's house. Apparently, the place is on the edge of a new development, because a small platoon of armored CTU field guys have set up on a home construction site around the corner. And they're looking pretty healthy, considering that they were all supposed to have gotten nuked three hours ago. Buchanan must have had them shipped in from CTU-Santa Barbara or something. Dad puts his gun down on the van's dashboard before getting out with Kiefer, who introduces himself to the agent in charge. He's a Poor Man's Jamie Kennedy, named Agent Turner, who explains to Kiefer that they've sealed off a one-block radius around the house, and have confirmed that Graem, his wife Marilyn, and "his" son Josh are inside too. Kiefer orders non-lethal force, instructing, "We need to take my brother alive." Plus he doesn't want his illegitimate son getting killed in the crossfire. Dad wants to go in with Kiefer, but Kiefer says he's going in alone. Well, except for the dozen or so CTU agents who will have his back, of course. Dad asks what Kiefer's going to do to Graem. "Whatever it takes to find out what he knows," Kiefer threatens. Dad looks worried, but doesn't say anything. I'm pretty sure my dad would offer some remark if I said something like that about one of my sisters.
Inside the house, Graem's trying to pretend that everything's under control, while Marilyn angrily tries to tell him what's going on. Josh comes in, yelling at them to stop fighting. I find that a backdrop of four nuclear bombs in the hands of a terrorist only serves to make these scenes of domestic strife even more riveting, don't you? In a splitscreen window, we see the agents moving into position outside Graem's house. Graem's own windows, meanwhile, don't seem to be working any better than they did earlier today. Marilyn apologizes to Josh, and suggests that they leave Graem alone to work. Well, that worked out for Graem, didn't it? Except not so much, because right then explosions blow the front and back doors wide open. Graem snatches a gun out of his briefcase, and he's already got it leveled when Kiefer comes in with his own gun and about thirty armored agents, all of whom are beaded on Graem. Kiefer screams at his brother to drop the gun, and after a brief standoff, Graem yields. Good thing, too; I'll bet Kiefer would have hated to have to shoot Marilyn. Kiefer puts his knee on the back of Graem's neck and tells the nearest agent to have Burke get ready. He also wants every hard drive and memory stick in the house uploaded to CTU. I wait for Josh to blush fiercely and stammer some objections, but it doesn't happen. Graem's secured and dragged off to the next room. Josh asks what's going on. Um, Kiefer's not here to sell Girl Scout cookies, kid. Instead of answering him, Kiefer says that he needs to talk to Marilyn in private for a minute, and leads her into the kitchen.