Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Die Hard At CTU
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.06.2007
Tom gives a capsule review of Lisa's performance: "Sounded genuine enough." He says that the next thing is for Lisa to go back to Boyfriend and be sure to leave him alone in the room with her PDA. That way, he can sneakily download all the fake memos and messages they've stuffed it with to the effect that the U.S. has recovered the Russian nuke component from the Chinese. And then, in theory, President Suvarov will call off his plan to attack the U.S. military base in Centralasia. Despite the fact that her other option right now is to go to trial for treason, Lisa has the stones to say she's not sure that she can "be with him again" now that she knows he's been lying to her all this time. The Veep is spectacularly unsympathetic as he drifts past, rumbling, "For the last year, you've had no problem lying to me." Oh, Veep, fifth grade was a long time ago. Get over it. Tom swallows the giant horse-pill of Vitamin-A-For-"Awkward" that someone just stuck in his mouth, and says that he and Agent Hollister will be positioned in a surveillance van across the street from Boyfriend's apartment when Lisa -- ahem -- "reinserts." Tom advises, "Do as you're told and it should all go smoothly." Well, unless someone takes a shot at the Veep while the White House's ranking Secret Service officer, the aforementioned Hollister, is out doing some heavy breathing in a spookmobile.
At 2:18:06, Kiefer's still contemplating the table in front of him, wondering whether it was lowered from the ceiling or if it rose from the floor or what. The door opens and Chloe enters -- followed by Marilyn. Just what he needs right now. Kiefer asks what she's doing there. Marilyn says that she's just there to see if Kiefer's all right. Acting all shifty, Kiefer says, "I don't think the charges will stand up, due to extenuating circumstances." The chief extenuator being the fact that he's Kiefer, dammit! Extenuate that, bitch! Of course, Marilyn's not asking about that, but about Kiefer's reaction to the news that Audrey's alive. Looking like this conversation is more torturous to him than anything that happened to him in China, Kiefer has to explain that Heller already took Audrey away from CTU and doesn't want him around. He keeps cutting all these looks at Chloe. She's so on his list now. Marilyn keeps peppering Kiefer with all of these questions until Kiefer finally snaps that he doesn't want to talk about it. Marilyn takes a breath and says that she and Josh are going to be allowed to leave CTU in the morning. "Good," says Kiefer, a bit too eagerly. Marilyn says that she wants to bring Josh by before they leave, and Kiefer agrees, like he's consenting to give a papal audience or something. Marilyn promises Kiefer, "When all this is over...I'll be there for you." Kiefer manages not to throw the table at her. Instead, he just thanks her, and then says that she should really go. Because there's a, you know, thing. That she has to do. Somewhere else. Anywhere else, really. Marilyn finally leaves. Chloe's about to follow her out the door, but Kiefer sharply calls her name . Uh-oh, now she's in for it. But Kiefer is only wondering if there's any word from Doyle's team yet. Chloe says that Doyle and his men will be at Bloomfield any second, and leaves with one last promise that they'll get Cheng and the component back. Kiefer's left alone again with his table, thinking, "Maybe it slid out horizontally from the far wall."