Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Veep Is A Creep
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.25.2007
It's 8:21:16 as Kiefer and his team quietly take up position outside Mark and Brady's house. Mark helpfully glances out the front window to give Kiefer a nice clear look at him. Like Mark can see anything outside with the lights on inside anyway. Kiefer signals his men to fan out around the house. Chloe sends Mark's file photo to Kiefer's cell phone, and fortunately it's one that was taken in the past five minutes, by the look of it. Satisfied with the positive ID, Kiefer gives the order to move in on the house.
Inside, Mark hears a neighbor's dog start to bark, and reaches for a handy shotgun he keeps leaning against one corner of the room, just as all households with a developmentally disabled member should do. Kiefer bursts in the front door, sees an armed man in the hallway, and shoots him in the back of the leg. Another agent gets Mark in the torso. After that, a guy who was prepared to go down shooting gets cooperative in a fast hurry. "Do what they say, Brady!" Mark yells as the agents get him into a chair. Brady would already be doing that, if they'd been telling him to rock back and forth in his chair in a panic saying Mark's name over and over. Kiefer takes one look at Brady and makes an instant diagnosis. He orders Brady taken into the living room at the far end of the house. Brady is hustled off, still repeating Mark's name the whole way. A CTU medic reports that Mark needs to get to a hospital quickly. Kiefer says that there's no time; he wants Mark stabilized right here, right now. He heads into the living room with Brady and asks the agent in there for a little alone time.
Sitting down across from Brady, Kiefer goes into gentle mode, which I'm surprised to see he has. He assures Brady that everything will be okay. Brady wants to see his brother. This will be Brady's litany for the remainder of the episode. Kiefer agrees, but says he needs to ask Brady some questions first. Brady says he's not allowed: "Mark says not to talk to strangers." Kiefer smiles that he's not a stranger, but a police officer, so he's okay to talk to. It's when you don't talk to Kiefer that he gets violent. Kiefer asks what Brady was doing on the computer when they came in. "Getting files," Brady answers. Kiefer asks what kind. Brady doesn't know, but when he rattles off a stream of fluent technobabble, Kiefer adjusts his diagnosis in a hurry. He says he's going to talk to Mark, and then Brady can see him. "You're doing great, Brady," he assures him with a fatherly pat on the leg, and heads down the hallway to go be a lot less nice to Mark. He accuses Mark of having used his brother to get information to Gredenko: "Now he's in a lot of trouble." Mark insists that Brady didn't know he was doing anything wrong, but Kiefer says that Brady will go down for treason unless Kiefer intervenes. Because he's the only person in the entire federal law enforcement community who can spot a lack of competence to stand trial. "Now, I'll help your brother," Kiefer says, "because you and I both know he didn't understand what he was doing. But you're going to have to give me Gredenko." Mark says that he was selling Gredenko security specs for the Edgemont Nuclear Power Plant. Wait a minute -- since when do you need security specs in the first place when you plan to hit something with a nuclear bomb? Is Gredenko worried that the drone won't be able to punch in the proper security code at the front gate, which will in turn result in the detonation leaving intact several bricks of Cooling Tower 2?