Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT I Won't Be Your Father Figure
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 10 | Aired on 02.26.2006
At Bierko's bunker, several of his men are busy soldering connections inside the nerve gas canisters. And yet not one person is wearing a gas mask. Idiots. Fucked-up Accent Guy calls, and Bierko tells him that the motorcade's about twenty minutes out. Bierko's confident that Logan's playing along, but warns Fucked-up Accent Guy to be alert. Hey, I think I just recognized the cadences of Fucked-up Accent Guy's voice -- he sounds like the guy who used to say "YOU have THREE mes-SAG-es" on my old answering machine. It's 4:31:42 as Fucked-up Accent Guy hangs up and deploys his men. Back at the bunker, Bierko tells his techs, "Keep them armed. If things don't work out, I'll use them here." Well, that should maximize the damage.
Audrey walks into McGill's office, and her voice is shaky as she tells McGill that she thinks they need to report the threat to Secret Service. So obviously Chloe and Edgar went to her after McGill shot them down. McGill isn't pleased: "I'm not going to repeat my orders to every person in this office individually." He doesn't want the chatter to distract from the search for the nerve gas; that's his job. Like she's addressing an idiot (which, to be fair, she kind of is), Audrey points out that the terrorists planning the attack are probably the same ones who have the gas. McGill loses it and screams at her, "This is an unverified threat! If you want to hand it over to NSA, be my guest!" Audrey tells him that'll take too long, and McGill hollers, "Good! That process eliminates false threats!" And lets real ones play out, but whatever. Audrey finally raises her own voice, but McGill cuts her off like she's the one who's being unreasonable, and it drives me insane when people do that. He's screaming at her and threatening to throw her out, his voice loud enough to be heard all the way on the floor. Audrey, realizing she's face to face with a complete nut bar, turns and leaves the office. Outside the office, but still up on the mezzanine, she pauses to tap her PDA. And a window pops up on Edgar and Chloe's computer screens: "A. Raines -- corridor 7A NOW." Edgar and Chloe hop right up from their computers before that window can show up on McGill's screen too.
They meet Audrey in what I presume is corridor 7A, which is as out-of-the-way a spot as CTU has. Audrey tells them she needs to call Secret Service about the threat, "but they won't act on it unless Lynn verifies it." Which verification Audrey plans to forge, with their help hacking into McGill's account. "That's illegal," Edgar tells her. "Fine," Chloe tells her, not caring. She knows perfectly well that she never has to stay in holding for very long. She technobabbles instructions at Edgar on how to cover up what she plans to do. Edgar is still worrying about going to jail, but Chloe suggests he weigh that against "the Russian president, his wife, about thirty-five Secret Service all dead in a few minutes." Edgar -- now wishing he'd called McGill a prickmaster after all -- grudgingly agrees, and they split up to carry out their sneaky plan.