Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 77 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Fished In
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2010.01.14
Hastings, however, is not doing the honorable thing, and Chloe's pissed that he's not sending backup to Kiefer like he said he would. "I said I'd consider it, and I have," Hastings weasels. He says confirmation of the affair proves nothing (then why interrupt historic peace talks and have an embarrassing conversation with a head of state to get it?), and maybe it's how Reed got the goods in the first place. Chloe says that Kiefer's still missing, but Hastings scoffs that he's just out of contact. "His phone battery may have died or more likely he's in an area with bad cell reception. There's pockets of them all over the five boroughs, which you would have known if you were from around here." By "around here" I assume he means New York and not the 24-verse, where cell phone problems only occur when vital to the plot. Chloe says she'll go herself, and Hastings won't even let her do that, saying they might need her to work on that big file that's almost decrypted. Alluding to her earlier suggestion that he speak more efficiently, he says, "You leave the building, you're fired. Is that clear and direct enough for you?" It would seem to be.
At 6:36:04, Farhad steps into a quiet hallway to call Davros, who is just coming out of Cole's police briefing. He breaks the news that Hassan confessed the affair. Davros steps out onto the sidewalk and into a lovely shot of the setting sun peeking horizontally along the length of the street, while Farhad's splitscreen window shows the full orb reflected in the window nest to him. It's beautifully composed and I always appreciate when the day-night transition on this show doesn't look like someone flipped a switch, but I don't know how the sun is visible to only one of them when they both seem to be on ground level within a block of each other. Anyway, Davros isn't unduly worried about this threat to their frame-up job. "They will still have to act on what they find in any event." He says they need to stick with the plan and stay cool. "I promise you, your brother will be dead before the hour is out." Really? This very episode? Farhad hangs up at 6:35:57, because if Davros is being serious, a lot is going to have to happen between now and then.