Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT What is it with chicks, man?
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.26.2006
Somewhere in the building, a couple of guys in the necktie/short sleeves/hardhat combo that is sartorial TV shorthand for "engineer" are conferring over a clipboard. One of the engineers looks around appraisingly, which is weird because it looks like they're surrounded by lockers. Bierko and his guys come sweeping around a corner, and Bierko's commanding English accent asks, "Who's in charge?" The skinnier guy says he is, and Bierko asks to be taken to the control room. Ten million dollars he paid for the schematics to this place, and he doesn't know how to find the control room. "What are you guys doing here?" the boss Kip Bonapartes, which immediately gets his buddy shot. "Can you take us to the control room?" Bierko repeats in exactly the same tone as before. The boss quits asking questions and leads the way. As they walk, Bierko puts a companionable arm around the boss's shoulders and promises, "Keep cooperating and no more of your friends will die." He dispatches "Mikhail" to the main distribution tank with the canisters.
Trailed by a group of armed henchmen, Bierko and his new friend quickly reach the plant's control room, where a couple of other employees are already working. "Sam, what's going on?" one of them asks the boss, like the guys in dark clothes walking in with guns and doing shit like unplugging the security camera can be a sign of anything good. Bierko's glad to know his new best friend's name: "Ah, Sam," he says. He explains to the room that they're planning to release "a certain substance" into their pipelines, but the current pressure in the pipes will render the substance inert. Wow, for a poison gas that eats through door seals, this Sentox is kind of a drama queen. "Sam, don't do it," one of the employees warns, and immediately gets blown away by one of Bierko's guys. I hope he didn't have his new SAG card in his shirt pocket. Bierko asks how long it'll take Sam to reduce the PSI by 50%, and when Sam tells him an hour, he remarks dangerously, "You don't seem to care for your friends very much, do you, Sam?" But before another gas worker goes down, Sam says he might be able to manage it in thirty minutes. "You have fifteen," Bierko threatens. Well, if he knew the answer before he asked... It's 9:34:45.
9:38:52. In one splitscreen window, Burke is shooting a syringe into some IV tubing. Probably just for some much-needed practice. Aaron's on foot in the woods around Not Camp David, quietly stalking the wilderness with his handgun drawn and leveled. He briefly breaks cover to hop across a narrow dry creek bed, when a hoarse but still unmistakably deep voice calls out, "Don't move!" Aaron freezes, and the only reason I'm not already positive that it's Wayne Palmer covering him is because the owner of the voice is also holding a rifle with an infrared scope. And, hello, where did Wayne get one of those? Off a hitman? Because he was unarmed when he left his car, and I don't see Wayne pulling any Splinter Cell-fu outside of his game room. Aaron doesn't have my handicap in this situation, although he's already obeyed the order to drop his own gun and get down on his knees when he asks, "Mr. Palmer?" Wayne is relieved to see who it is, and Aaron retrieves his gun before they run off together. Not like that. Not yet, anyway.