Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Wayne In Pain
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 11 | Aired on 02.25.2007
Buchanan goes over to Nadia to tell her that Kiefer should be arriving at Not Camp David any moment, and to have her get the TAC teams ready for redeployment. "We're out of leads," he adds, stating the stakes for the episode, which is pretty much all he ever gets to do anymore. "Let's hope Jack can get something from Logan."
Meanwhile, Kiefer has already landed in one of Not Camp David's familiar pastures, and is jogging across the grass at 4:20:37. Logan is standing there waiting for him at the entrance to the stables, his bearded mouth flopping open and closed like that of an impeached fish. Kiefer asks the Secret Service agents flanking Logan for a moment alone with the ex-prez, and they give him one because they don't want to get tasered.
Kiefer and Logan amble slowly through the stable as Logan opens with a remark about Kiefer's father that he probably intends to sound empathetic but only comes off smug. Kiefer cuts off that line of conversation and asks what Logan knows about Dmitri Gredenko. Logan knows the season's whole story so far: "I get regular intelligence updates. And I still have my sources." Kiefer asks if Logan can help find Gredenko. "Yes, I can," Logan says, and then stops talking. Which just pisses Kiefer off even more, because he figures that Logan wants a plea bargain in exchange for helping his country. But Logan assures Kiefer that he's not the same man he was two years ago. "Just as you're not the same man who was dragged away and thrown into a Chinese prison," he adds, again going for empathetic and landing on smug. I'm going to need a shorthand for that, I can tell already. He says he's changed, and has "had time to reconnect with [his] faith." He says he doesn't want a pardon and wouldn't accept one anyway. Not much danger of that, considering who's president these days. Kiefer asks what Logan does want, and Logan says that he only wants to give Kiefer the info he has. What's he waiting for, then? After wasting all this time talking about what he doesn't want, Logan finally says that he can help find Gredenko through Anatoly Markov, the Russian Consul in Los Angeles. Kiefer's off again, saying that they already tried that as soon as Gredenko's name came up, but Logan insists that Markov is lying. Kiefer has no sooner whipped out his cell phone than Logan advises him to avoid official channels. The Russian government won't help, so Kiefer needs to use back channels instead. "Me," Logan specifies. Wait, did this conversation just get dirty? Logan offers to talk to Markov in person. Kiefer asks why Markov would talk to Logan, and Logan says that he has leverage: "Markov was involved in the conspiracy that put me here." Oh, who wasn't, at this point? Logan offers to hold the threat of exposure over Markov's head to secure his cooperation, in other words. I see no reason why this wouldn't work. Unless the Russian Consul has some kind of diplomatic immunity or something, but what are the chances of that? Kiefer steps right into Logan's face and whispers, "I don't trust you." Logan doesn't flinch, which is remarkable in itself, because he flinches when he's happy, for God's sake. He suggests that Kiefer start. Kiefer's going to need a moment. It's 4:23:38.