Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | 432 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Jailbreak!
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2009.01.12
Chloe warns Kiefer that six guards are coming up the stairwell toward him and Tony. Using a fire extinguisher, they smash a window that fortunately for them leads right out to the roof of the parking ramp. You never saw anything like that happen at the much more bunker-like CTU. Yes, there were plenty of windows there, but they only led to other rooms. Chloe tells them to head to the north end of the garage, where Buchanan will meet them in the blue van. The FBI is still closing in, with Moss telling his teams they're in the parking garage and Walker ordering Sean to have Metro Police put up a five-block perimeter around the building. Inside the garage, Kiefer and Tony come around a corner of the parking garage and see an armed team up ahead. "On our right! Get down!" Kiefer yells. Tony dives for cover behind a parked car as Kiefer and the guards exchange gunfire. Just enough to keep each other pinned down, you understand. No one actually wants to kill anyone. Which is why you don't see any tasers or tear gas. "We gotta get you out of here and back undercover," Kiefer pants to Tony. "I'll be right behind you. Go!" Tony breaks cover and dashes across the parking ramp's traffic lane, leaping over the barrier to land God knows where. Fortunately it's only the second floor and there's a van parked under him, but his feet still hit its roof hard enough to blow all of its windows out. He vaults from there to the roof of a cab and behind another parked car to wait. Meanwhile, Kiefer is quickly getting surrounded as more agents arrive, all of them shooting at him. He breaks into the car he's been using for cover. Outside, Tony's in a crouch with his gun pointed up at the scene of engagement as Buchanan's van screams into the alley behind him and pulls a bootlegger's turn that presents the van's rear entrance for quick access just feet away. There's just no way to make that sound not dirty.
And a level above, while lying on the floor of the car he just entered, Kiefer pistol-whips the ignition lock out of the steering column and hotwires the car. "This is gonna hurt," he warns himself. He puts the car in gear and floors the accelerator with his hand, giving a yell as the car plows through the concrete barrier and lands at a thirty-degree angle that bridges the gap between the white van and the cab Tony just jumped down on. Obviously Tony does a little more jumping when he sees this happen. Kiefer struggles out of the car, with its undeployed air bag, just as agents start coming into view above and Tony begins laying down a bit of covering fire for him. "Tony, let's go!" Buchanan yells from the driver's seat of the van, but Tony keeps shooting while Kiefer limps to the van and they both hop inside. Bill floors it and screeches out of there, just moments before the agents with assault rifles show up and start shooting. The camera zooms in on the one unlucky officer who has to radio, "Agent Moss, they're gone. They got outside the perimeter." Neither Moss nor Walker looks too happy right now.
Driving toward the capitol, Buchanan reports to Chloe that he's on his way back, and Chloe says it doesn't look like anyone's in pursuit. She's also cycling traffic cams to make sure the van doesn't show up. Buchanan asks Kiefer if he's all right. "I'm fine," Kiefer lies, even though he's sprawled on the floor of the van, in pain from untold injuries that are certain to have him debilitated for minutes. He asks where they're going. "It's not far," Buchanan non-answers. Kiefer says he did what Buchanan asked: "Tell me what's going on." Buchanan says he'll tell Kiefer everything when they get there. Kiefer and Tony look at each other, with Kiefer thinking, "If this van ride ends with one of us watching the other plunge into the surf, I am going to be pissed. It's 11:00:00.