Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Kiefer's Ex vs. World War III
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.15.2007
11:38:42. Doyle finishes up a cell phone call with Buchanan and rudely tells Kiefer, "Get over here." Still handcuffed, Kiefer walks over to Doyle, who takes the cuffs off and says that he's supposed to help Kiefer with whatever he needs. Kiefer says that he's going to need someone to back him up on recovering Audrey. "I want that to be you," he tells the guy he met four hours ago. Really? Won't making Doyle the first American Audrey sees in months make her want to turn around and go right back to Cheng? At this display of trust between psychopaths, Doyle gets in a slightly better mood and barks, "Fine. Where are you going to be?" Well, after that C-4 goes off, I'd say next Tuesday. All over the room. In orbit. Whatever. But Kiefer's got a speech to make instead: "The name of the Chinese agent that's holding Audrey? Cheng Zhi. He was responsible for my interrogation and torture for almost two years in that Chinese prison. As soon as I get the signal from you that Audrey is safe, two things are gonna happen. I'm going to destroy that circuit board, and Cheng Zhi isn't going to make it out of here alive. In answer to your question, where am I gonna be? Wherever I have to." See how my answer has fewer words?
Chloe descends the stairs from Buchanan's office back to the CTU floor, unaccompanied by security or any other sign that she's been arrested or even had her clearance downgraded. Morris comes up and asks her what happened. "The president agreed to Jack's plan," Chloe bitchfaces. Morris wants to be sure he understands: "The president's going to allow Jack to hand over a defense algorithm to the Chinese?" As opposed to a defense long division problem, I suppose. Chloe says no, Kiefer's going to destroy the component as soon as Audrey's safe. When Morris asks how Kiefer plans to pull that off, Chloe pointedly says, "I don't know, I guess President Palmer trusts him." Morris still thinks that Chloe did the right thing by telling Buchanan, but she's pissed at him for not trusting her in turn. He points out that she did break into his system, after all. Chloe says that's only because she knew Morris wouldn't back her up. "So you're going to hold this over my head, then, are you?" Morris asks. Chloe says she plans to do just that for a long time. Morris asks for an estimate. Chloe says she'll get back to him. Clearly, the most important thing in this conflict is for both of them to avoid the actual central issue, which is that Chloe loves and trusts Kiefer more than she does Morris. Too bad Doyle's not around to bring that up.