Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Daddy Issues
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 10 | Aired on 02.18.2007
That's still enough to tip off Milo. "They know we're here," he whispers to Marilyn. Thinking quickly, he comes up with a plan: he's going to cover her, and she needs to run back down the alley as fast as she can. Great plan. He waits until the bad guys get close enough, and then tells her, "Go!" and opens up with his automatic. The bad guys duck for cover behind a parked pickup. Marilyn runs out, freaks, and runs back to Milo. Of all the things wrong with Milo's plan, that's the one I didn't see coming. The bad guys start shooting back, and Milo falls back behind the Dumpsters with a bullet through his shoulder. The bad guys start moving in. "I told you to go!" Milo yells at Marilyn. She sobs that she couldn't, as she stares in horror at the bullet hole he just took for her, in vain. The bad guys come around the Dumpster. They've stopped shooting, because they don't want to kill Marilyn and Milo's out of ammo anyway. Hacker starts to drag Marilyn away, telling the others to kill Milo. They drag him to his feet and throw him up against a chain link fence, and then level their weapons.
But just when it looks like Milo's about to join Jesse and Gabe in that big Eric Balfour video scrapbook in the sky, Kiefer shows up just in time. He quickly guns down Milo's would-be killers. While he's busy with this, Hacker doesn't take advantage of the opportunity to kill Kiefer. Instead, he uses Marilyn for a shield and threatens to kill her if Kiefer doesn't drop his weapon. Kiefer ain't playing, though: "If you wanted to kill her, she'd be dead by now. Drop your weapon or I will use mine!" Hacker releases both Marilyn and his gun, and Kiefer screams at him to get to his knees and put his hands on his head, and then face the fence. Pinning Hacker to the fence with his body, Kiefer hollers, "Milo, let me see it!" Still using his outside voice for some reason. Milo staggers over, and Kiefer quickly ascertains that the bullet went straight through without nicking an artery. Which means that Milo's going to live, at least until Eric Balfour gets his hundredth pilot. Kiefer gives his gun to Milo. He has two good reasons for doing so. One is so that the hostile captive can be covered by a wounded man, and the other is so that he can have both hands free to grab Marilyn by the throat and throw her up against a garage door. He blames her for tipping off Gredenko and getting half his team killed. And at a very high volume, too. He's so close that Marilyn has to cross her eyes to look at him. Crying uncontrollably, Marilyn says that they weren't Gredenko's men. Kiefer demands to know who sent them, in that case. She finally wails, "Your father!" As Kiefer absorbs this shocking news, Marilyn elaborates that Dad said he'd killed Graem and threatened to kill Josh unless Marilyn led Kiefer to the wrong house. Kiefer turns away and probably acts the hell out of this moment, but I'm too distracted by Marilyn's bright-red crying lips in the out-of-focus background to notice.