Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Jailbreak!
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 3 | Aired on 01.12.2009
Klaxons start sounding throughout the building, and Kiefer decides it's time to get moving again. While Chloe is still trying to get her connection back, Kiefer and Tony are dodging through hallways to stay out of the view of the teams of guards who are suddenly jogging all over the place with guns at the ready. Kiefer whispers to Chloe that their exit is cut off, and asks what she can do. "Someone at the FBI is blocking my every move," Chloe says, going from one computer to another. "It's really starting to piss me off." Kiefer's taking it much better, considering he's the one who's stuck. It's 10:51:13.
At 10:55:25, Kiefer and Tony are still watching the security teams from their hidey-hole. Which is basically an alcove that shouldn't be able to hide a thumbtack, but those agents conferring just outside seem to have all their attention focused on each other. Tony's getting impatient, and they take advantage of a two-second window between one team's departure and another's arrival to break cover and duck around another corner. Kiefer asks how Chloe's doing on her end. "I'm still locked out. Try to work around it," Chloe says. Since they're out of alternatives, They duck into the nearest stairwell, hoping for the best.
Moss charges onto the floor, loosening his tie (good thing he picked a red one this morning) and yelling, "Where are they?" Sean says they're looking. "Find them!" yells Moss, letting out a little "ow" as he mops the blood from his nose. Walker meets him on the floor, and they confirm to each other that they're all right. Of course Walker doesn't have a mark on her, which could get awkward for her later when she has to explain how Kiefer got away from her in the first place. Her face is twisted in rage as she wonders what the hell Kiefer is doing. "He's helping his friend escape is what he's doing," Moss says. Walker apologizes to him, and he tells her it's all right, because he secretly loves her. But before we can get into that, Kiefer and Tony are spotted on the camera feed from the southwest stairwell. Moss barks orders into his walkie-talkie. "Beware, the suspects are armed. We need them alive." Which is why they're about to get shot at a real lot.
Chloe finally gets her feed back, and informs Kiefer she's back online. Meanwhile, at Janis's desk, her security screens go haywire. "Whoever this is, they're very good," Janis says. Yes, Janis, we know. We've been hearing about it for years now.
Chloe warns Kiefer that six guards are coming up the stairwell toward him and Tony. Using a fire extinguisher, they smash a window that fortunately for them leads right out to the roof of the parking ramp. You never saw anything like that happen at the much more bunker-like CTU. Yes, there were plenty of windows there, but they only led to other rooms. Chloe tells them to head to the north end of the garage, where Buchanan will meet them in the blue van. The FBI is still closing in, with Moss telling his teams they're in the parking garage and Walker ordering Sean to have Metro Police put up a five-block perimeter around the building. Inside the garage, Kiefer and Tony come around a corner of the parking garage and see an armed team up ahead. "On our right! Get down!" Kiefer yells. Tony dives for cover behind a parked car as Kiefer and the guards exchange gunfire. Just enough to keep each other pinned down, you understand. No one actually wants to kill anyone. Which is why you don't see any tasers or tear gas. "We gotta get you out of here and back undercover," Kiefer pants to Tony. "I'll be right behind you. Go!" Tony breaks cover and dashes across the parking ramp's traffic lane, leaping over the barrier to land God knows where. Fortunately it's only the second floor and there's a van parked under him, but his feet still hit its roof hard enough to blow all of its windows out. He vaults from there to the roof of a cab and behind another parked car to wait. Meanwhile, Kiefer is quickly getting surrounded as more agents arrive, all of them shooting at him. He breaks into the car he's been using for cover. Outside, Tony's in a crouch with his gun pointed up at the scene of engagement as Buchanan's van screams into the alley behind him and pulls a bootlegger's turn that presents the van's rear entrance for quick access just feet away. There's just no way to make that sound not dirty.