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
It's 5:43:20 as Sean makes his way through the bullpen and into the hallway. It's soon apparent that he's fresh out of clever backup plans, and is simply making a run for it. Soon he breaks into a jog down the hall, but is brought up short by the sight of a couple of security guys, who come after him. Whoa, that was fast. Another team cuts off his escape, weapons drawn. Moss is right there with them, and he grabs Sean by the lapels. Smart move, Sean, grabbing your jacket, or God knows what Moss would have taken hold of. Moss threatens, "You better start talking to me. Right now!" Sean would rather talk to his attorney. Those would be his last words if Kiefer were here, but since Moss is a law enforcement official who actually likes the law, he roughly releases Sean and orders him taken to holding. Now that he's alone, Moss pulls out his cell phone and asks for "Bill Buchanan at the White House." This is going to be one of those good news-bad news conversations, I can tell.
Walker is watching the docs working on Dubaku when Rosa rolls up behind her, asking where Marika is. Walker has to break the news that Marika was killed in a car crash during the pursuit. Rosa is, predictably, not happy to hear it. Walker tells her. "We wouldn't have caught Dubaku without Marika's help. She was very, very brave, Rosa." She hands her the sad little Ziploc pouch, which is really not what Rosa wants right now. "Marika was all I had!" she accuses. "I trusted you with her life and you let her die?" Well, it's a little more complicated than that, but for some reason Walker has forgotten about the part where she climbed into a burning car to try and save her. Not really relevant to the issue at hand, I suppose. Tears spill down Walker's face as she reaches for Rosa's hand, but Rosa isn't having it. "You killed my sister!" Rosa accuses. "You didn't care how you did it or who got hurt." Unfortunately, Walker doesn't know that Rosa was a big drama queen before, so this is ripping her heart out. Fortunately, Kiefer calls to her from the far end of the hallway, wisely staying as far away from this mess as he can. Walker excuses herself and walks over to Kiefer, who tells her they got the goods and they're about to start arresting people. "It's over," he says, which is an odd remark to make ten hours into the season. But then, it's hard to see how he's wrong. All of the major storylines have already been resolved, except for whatever's up with Taylor and her pissy-ass daughter, and who gives a crap about that? It's almost as though the writers got a quarter of the way into the season, went on a really long break for a few months, came back with a lot of extra time to get the rest of the season written, and decided to wrap up as many of the ongoing storylines as they could before starting fresh. But what are the chances of something like that having happened?