Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Plot Quickens
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 11 | Aired on 03.05.2006
It's 5:42:35 as Kiefer continues to sit at Henderson's home computer, and it looks like Chloe is patched into Henderson's system remotely. He's berating Chloe for not finding anything more incriminating than some downloaded music. Hey, don't knock it, Kiefer; I bet the RIAA would lean on Henderson pretty hard. Still sitting on the sofa across the room, Miriam takes advantage of this opening to reiterate that Henderson is innocent, just like he was when Kiefer forced him out of CTU. Kiefer impatiently reminds her that Henderson tried to kill him. She says she was sure her husband was defending himself. Kiefer: "He blew up the server room at Omicron while I was still inside." Miriam's face falls as she realizes that what Kiefer's describing doesn't exactly sound like a "him or me" scenario. But Kiefer can't stop when he's ahead, and he insists that Henderson was trying to destroy evidence of his involvement in the conspiracy. "Why do you hate him so much?" Miriam asks, like she's already forgotten about that whole "tried to kill me" thing. She claims that Henderson never hated Kiefer, and even checked on Spawn when everyone thought Kiefer was dead. Yeah, I bet he did. If by "checked on" you mean "checked out." Before that can go any further, Chloe cuts in to say she's found a "shadow drive" that for some reason contains records of every satellite phone call Henderson has made in the past year. Kiefer wants to her to start cross-referencing to the numbers that they know terrorists have been using today, but the access she needs is password-protected. Kiefer asks Miriam what the password might be, but she has no idea. Kiefer clearly thinks about forcing the issue, but decides that the fastest way to get into the shadow drive is to have Chloe get her hack on.
5:44:25. Wegman finds Curtis, and shows him something a hospital guard brought to his attention. It's one of those magic data pads that I thought only CTU used, but it's displaying footage of Viktor the fake orderly. This is significant because (a) nobody recognizes the orderly, (b) no orderlies should be in the sub-basement anyway, and (c) the footage is from five minutes ago. Curtis immediately starts barking commands into his headset, ordering, among other things, a soft perimeter (like CTU has any other kind). Curtis makes sure that CTU home base is on the call, and tells Edgar to run the fake orderly's picture through their facial recognition software to try and get a match. Edgar's on it, and Curtis heads to the basement.
Back at CTU, it's only a matter of seconds before Edgar finds a match from the surveillance footage of Viktor the fake orderly. Buchanan passes along the info to Curtis, and Viktor's Russian nationality and record of "drug smuggling and weapons trafficking" satisfies everyone that he's a bad guy. Hey, whatever happened to "innocent until proven in possession of a Thermos of Death?"