Episode Report Card M. Giant: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Tarin it Apart
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 12 | Aired on 03.15.2010
Meanwhile, Samir quietly leads his men to another exit and out into the street. Arlo catches all four of them on his drone camera, and reports their location. Kiefer leads Cole back to the surface to intercept. Hastings asks where Kayla is. Dana says she's at the tunnel entrance now and will be there in two minutes. "Security's standing by." Hastings actually smiles and tells everyone good work, which is pretty premature even not knowing what's going to happen in the next two minutes. Dana glances over at 4:56:07 to where Prady is standing and glaring at her with increasing impatience. Hastings specifically congratulates her. She thanks him ,and gets up, saying, "Will you excuse me for a few minutes." He does, but his good mood is burning off quickly.
Arlo reports that the bad guys are all getting into an SUV. While Kiefer and Cole and the others are piling into various vehicles to follow, one of Samir's party looks around. Arlo captures a freeze-frame of the blurry face and sends it over to Chloe for facial recognition. She runs it. "It's Tarin Faroush!" she says in confusion. Wait, what? Looks like somebody pulled a Marathon Man.Arlo says he's supposed to be dead. But there he is, on the big screen, larger than life and twice as handsome.
And also in the back seat of an SUV next to Samir, who tells him he did the right thing. "She'll die for a good cause." Tarin just looks sad. Is he going to change his mind again?
Chloe tells Kiefer and Cole that one of the bad guys is Tarin Faroush. "Kayla said he sacrificed himself to save her, but he's still alive." "What the hell's going on?" Cole wonders. Excellent question, Cole. I have no idea myself. Kiefer realizes the terrorists demanded a file they knew they'd never get, and says he needs to talk to Hastings, who is already on the line. "You cannot let Kayla Hassan in!" Kiefer says. "The terrorists faked her escape. They wanted to get her to CTU." Hastings asks why. "What's the best way to disarm New York's radiological defenses?" We don't have time for a pop quiz right now, Kiefer. Fortunately he doesn't wait long for the answer before supplying it himself: "Taking out CTU. There's gotta be something in the car, some kind of a bomb. You need to stop her now!" Hastings asks Chloe where she is. "My God," Chloe says, watching Kayla's approach over the monitor. "She's in the tunnel!" Man, I knew that tunnel entrance was going to be trouble one of these hours.
Hastings takes off running, hollering, "Security!" The slow, melodramatic approach Dana had been making toward Prady is rudely interrupted by Hastings yelling at her, "Dana, with me!" She immediately breaks into a sprint herself. Kiefer asks Chloe for a current location on Tarin's car, and she says it's crossing into Brooklyn and taking the first exit off the Williamsburg Bridge. "We cannot lose him, do you understand me?" Kiefer says. Which can only mean they're going to lose him.