Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Everything Changes
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 11 | Aired on 03.02.2009
At 6:54:32, one of the splitscreen windows shows Kiefer being stashed in the White House brig. By now, Buchanan is awake, and as he reholsters his gun he confirms that Kiefer is in holding. He then dials his cell phone and reaches Tony, who's still sitting in his car right outside the White House. Which is an outstanding place for a wanted felon to be, of course. Buchanan tells Tony that they didn't get anything out of Burnett, and asks if they can have another talk with Tony's source on the intel. "That's highly unlikely," Tony says. Which is his charming way of saying that he tortured him to death. Buchanan's pissed that they don't have any kind of back-up plan, and just hangs up in disgust. That's the trouble with putting together a freelance team on the cheap: you can't fire them when they fuck up.
Moss is in the helicopter over D.C. and on the line to Janis, who reports that Walker's phone is down. "Either the battery's dead or her cell got damaged somehow." Walker has been burning through the phones today, hasn't she?
At 6:56:16, Walker climbs over the aft railing onto the outer deck of the boat, still unnoticed by any of the soldiers inside the cabin. What I love about this is that this is clearly a pleasure boat, complete with a main cabin that looks like a little living room, so some of the heavily armed, camouflaged soldiers look a bit self-conscious about how incongruous they are in this setting. Walker crawls along the outside port deck until she reaches a window where she can see Juma pointing out stuff on maps and ordering radio silence from now on. "You all have your assignments," he pronounces. "May God be with us!" The whole group moves out to the aft deck, while Walker moves forward to stay out of sight. All of the soldiers save Dubaku, Jr. don scuba masks and tanks and jump into the river in their fatigues. Now that it's a little less crowded, Walker takes the opportunity to enter the cabin and start rifling through the charts. She's not finding anything definitive, until she gets to a big illustration of a front view of the White House. Because Juma's men are going to need to be able to recognize it from the street? Unfortunately, right then is when Dubaku, Jr. spots her and comes in after her. She runs out of the cabin and dives right over the rail into the water, striking out for shore as Dubaku, Jr. fires a machine-gun burst into the darkness. He doesn't hit her, of course. As far as I can tell, he doesn't even hit the river.