Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Management Issues
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 9 | Aired on 02.16.2009
At 4:37:05, he returns to Marika on the couch and crouches on the floor in front of her, gently taking her hand. "I have a favor to ask," he whispers. "We can't make you do this, but when the car arrives, we would like you to go with the driver so that we can follow you back to Dubaku." Kiefer should have whispered more quietly, because Rosa still heard it, and she's not happy about it. But Marika's on board immediately, probably at least in part because Rosa's so dead set against it. "It's the right thing to do," Marika says. Kiefer asks for her phone back so he can get her SID number and use it to track her. He promises that he and Walker will be a mile or less behind her the whole time. "As soon as you reach the destination, that's when we'll move in." Rosa's still protesting, but Marika insists that she's doing this. "I should have listened to you," she says to Rosa. "You warned me about him." Pretty much constantly, sounds like. Rosa admits that she was only jealous. Aw, Kiefer's not only going to save his country, he's going to patch up these sisters' relationship.
At the other end of the apartment, Kiefer's on the phone with Moss, asking about his operations support. Moss puts Chloe on speaker. Kiefer's surprised that it's her for about half a second, then asks how long it'll take her to set up satellite tracking on a cell phone. "Usually a few seconds, but with the backward way they have this system set up, it's going to take at least a few minutes," she responds, with Moss quietly thinking, I'm standing right here. Kiefer reads her Marika's SID number, and Moss asks who they're tracking.
Before Kiefer can explain fully, we cut to Janis out in the bullpen, who's now multitasking. On the one hand, she's still glaring at Chloe through the conference room door, and on the other hand, she's trying to use a priority override code to access something, but having no success. Doesn't she have some busywork she should be concentrating on, and then some administrative crap? It's 4:39:33.
At 4:43:54, we find ourselves in a darker, fancier hotel lobby with first daughter Olivia Taylor, who's trying to sell a potential client on her company's consulting services. It's not going great, in part because she's being played by Sprague Grayden, and the confident image she's trying to project is totally undercut by my memories of her as druggie space-case Anita on Six Feet Under. The other problem she's having is that he's a sleaze who only wants to talk about her access to the White House and look at her legs. So when a suited man with a familiar, Texas-inflected voice appears and interrupts, he's actually doing her a favor, although she doesn't see it that way. "My name is Aaron Pierce," says Aaron Pierce, flashing his Secret Service ID and saying he was sent at the president's request. "Your credentials say you've retired, Mr. Pierce," Olivia says smoothly. "Perhaps no one informed you I refused Secret Service protection months ago." Aaron says it's a special circumstance. As the client takes off, much to Olivia's annoyance, she demands to know why Aaron's insisting she come with him. Finally he admits, "It's your father, Ms. Taylor. He's been shot." Olivia's upset, but at least she isn't mad at Aaron any more. "None of this is public knowledge," he says. Olivia, in shock, grabs her coat to go with him at 4:46:02. Wow, good thing he was in D.C. and available on such short notice, eh?