Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Shanghaied!
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 24 | Aired on 05.21.2006
Inside, FLOTUS seems to be calming down a bit. But that ends in a hurry when Logan storms up to her and smacks her across the chops. Why is it always me who has to recap the woman-abuse around here? Logan holds onto her as she screams and struggles, trying to resist his vain search for a wire on her person. "You said that I was a good liar?" he mocks. "I am nothing compared to you." He gropes around below her waist, then dumps out her purse. Satisfied that she isn't wired for sound, he grabs her and accuses her of, well, basically everything she's done since the end of the last hour. "Getting Jack Bauer on that helicopter took a lot of planning," he says. "You were part of that plan, weren't you?" If only Logan knew that in this case, "A lot of planning" involved about fifteen minutes and a grand total of half a dozen people, including Kiefer himself. His voice shaking with anger almost as much as he's shaking her, he gets her to confess her part in the plan. And then he has the nerve to act hurt when he asks her why. "Because you killed David Palmer," FLOTUS cries. Logan again repeats his old excuse that that wasn't his fault, and FLOTUS insists that covering up a crime committed by people who worked for him was just as bad. Logan repeats excuse #2, that the cover-up, and all the people who died in the course of it, were for the good of the country. FLOTUS is as tired of hearing that as I am, and says, "You sold nerve gas to terrorists. You're insane!" Logan plays the "good of the country" card yet again, which is so worn you can read a newspaper through it by now. FLOTUS calls him a hypocrite, which he says she's not really in a position to call anyone after this morning. "And I'll tell you something else," he threatens. "If you blow up like this one more time, I will fill you so full of drugs you won't even know your own name. And then I will ship you off to an asylum and you can stay there for the rest of your life. Are we clear?" Barely able to breathe, FLOTUS agrees. "Now clean yourself up," says Logan. You're a mess." It's 6:35:23. FLOTUS's face is a maelstrom of emotions, but just for future reference, I meant to do that isn't one of them.
Commercials. Walt Cummings is on a new show in the fall. Nice to see that even though this show was finished with him, he decided to stick with the acting career instead of hanging it up.