Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Check But Not Mate
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 7 | Aired on 02.02.2009
Meanwhile, at Dubaku's command center, he's just been told that a tank rupture is only seven minutes away when Nichols calls him over to show him some belated camera footage from the roof. "Almeida and Bauer," he points out, and says this happened twenty minutes ago. So now that Dubaku is finally about to be face-to-face with the man who killed his brother -- which Dubaku knows, because Solenz the UN guy told him -- will Dubaku's reaction be blind rage, or cold vengeance? In fact, it is pants-shitting panic. Dubaku yells at Nichols for his multiple fuck-ups that allowed this to happen, and gives the order to unhook the CIP module. For some reason, Nichols tells him to hang in there, but Dubaku insists they get out of there now and pick up someplace else. A tech yanks the CIP module out of its slot, and the giant display screen shows a giant error message. At FBI-DC, Sean and Moss are confused to see that the security breach just closed. Dubaku is telling his men to get the CIP device and the Matobos. And Kiefer and his team finish up what has apparently been a whispered conference call talking about how they're going to do the assault. Looks like they're going the two-pronged route. Good idea, now that the element of surprise they had until a second ago is fucked. Tony and Buchanan will make a frontal assault, and Kiefer and Walker will descend from above. Considering the positions everyone's in, what other options did they discuss? Walker and Kiefer climb back to the roof and do a Tarzan swing through a window, while Tony and Buchanan block stairwell escapees and Chloe physically uploads herself into the room? "Give me the C-4 in the pack," Kiefer tells Walker. Time to go. Assuming she can find the C-4 she didn't pack, in pitch blackness, in a space where neither of them has room to move, without blowing both of them up.
Oh, and I just have to say that the C4 is the last straw on something I've been quietly wondering about: just how the hell is Buchanan financing this little hobby of his? I can believe that Chloe brought along her own computer gear, but how is Buchanan affording, let alone acquiring, stuff like multiple comm earpieces, night-vision scopes, all the weaponry they're carrying, and C-freaking-4? Perhaps we're supposed to assume that when he came back to clean out his desk after getting fired from CTU, he also backed up his molester van to the Tactical Supplies room.