Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Do-Over
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 10 | Aired on 02.23.2009
Moss enters the conference room that's been serving as Chloe's work area and hands her the drive. She holds it up and announces, "This is a PX17 drive. It's got an auto-erase function. We've only got one download." Well, of course they do. She pops this special, unique component into a slot on the front of the government-issue computer designed to accommodate it, and gets right to work.
At 5:31:06, Sean delivers his modified motherboard to Erica, who's already impatiently at work in the server room. As she pulls the component out of its anti-static bag, Sean pulls up the surveillance cam feeds so he can watch for Moss and Chloe. "Once we do this they're gonna realize someone's up here in a few seconds," he explains to Erica. "We'll have to make a clean exit." By now, Erica has the motherboard installed and is ready to begin some majorly destructive technobabble.
Just then Sean's cell phone rings. It's Burnett, calling to ask why Dubaku isn't at the airfield or answering his cell phone. "FBI got him," Sean says mildly. He assures Burnett that Dubaku's unconscious and not talking, and that he's about to delete the database they got from him. Burnett's freaking out about the list, and Sean tells him to just take care of Dubaku. Burnett is saying he'll do just that when suddenly Erica lets loose a loud, "Dammit!" Sean hangs up on Burnett so he can see what's up. Erica's having problems, but after technobabbling out loud to herself, things are working fine. Or rather, they are not working in the way they want them to not work. What would they do if someone else walked in right now?
Of course, alarms are going off all over Chloe's system, and she tells Moss that the files are being erased and there's nothing anyone can do. "This is deliberate," she realizes. "It's not a glitch. Someone's trying to crash the system." She asks him where the mainframe room is, and Moss leads her out of there at a run. Which is not very considerate towards the pregnant lady.
On the surveillance screens, Sean sees them coming and tells Erica it's time to go. She's satisfied that the servers are in the process of Ebola-shitting themselves, so before leaving, he picks this moment to get all hot and horny with her. Soon he's got her up against a wall, macking on her and telling her it's going to be fine. He literally still has his lips on hers when a gunshot rings out; he's plugged her in the stomach. Wow, that is deeply, deeply cold. She chokes and spits blood in confusion, while he leans in, watching her closely with clinical interest. I'm wondering why he's hanging out in here, but getting away is not actually in his plan. Finally she sinks to the floor and dies of massive hemorrhaging, a broken heart, and generally being too stupid to live. "I'm sorry," Sean tells her, then steps away and fires the gun once more: this time through his own left arm. Then he slides the gun across the floor to Erica. Ah, the old self-inflicted gunshot to divert suspicion. You know what would have diverted suspicion even more effectively? Shooting himself in the right arm. And having the bullet nick his brachial artery. Before ricocheting into his brain. Nobody would suspect him of being a traitor and a murderer then.