Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Busted…Sort Of
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.20.2009
At 2:52:54, Galvez, in his stolen FBI gear, blends into the chaos around the burning building. He kind of sticks out by being the calmest one there, but no one notices as he enters the building he just blew up. By now, Kiefer and Tony are being dropped off at the building, and Tony goes in while Kiefer stays outside to talk to Agent Park. He's mostly concerned about Walker, of course, but Park doesn't know where she is, so Kiefer rushes in, calling Walker on his walkie-talkie the whole time. I bet one way to avoid dying of the CJD strain in his system would be to run into a burning building.
Meanwhile, Tony has found Galvez inside the building. Galvez shows him the canister again, and bends down to smear blood from a handy dead agent on his shirt and face. Galvez, "blood on your hands" is typically understood to be just an expression.
At 2:54:16, Kiefer's making his way through the halls, calling Walker's first name. He rolls over a body, but luckily, it's a dude. Probably not Walker, then. Finally she answers his call, and he finds her mostly unhurt and trying to give a fellow agent CPR. He bellows for a medic, who arrives immediately so Kiefer can lead her out of the building, while she holds her left forearm painfully. He explains how he knew it was a trap, and that he told everyone to keep the perimeter secure. Walker says it's weird; this was the last building they were going to search. Well, it's always the last place you look. "You think they knew your sweep patterns?" Kiefer asks, and Walker says they must have. Suddenly Kiefer realizes something, and tells Walker he'll meet her at her car.
Tony is pretending to help a fake-wounded Galvez out of the building, declining a paramedic's help.
Kiefer's leaving the building as he's back on the phone with the FBI stenographer, who's still trying to clean up his record of the day while, hopefully unbeknownst to him, several dozen of his colleagues are actively on fire in the other half of the splitscreen. "You told me that [Cardiff] expired during the course of the interrogation?" Well that's awkward, because Vincent Cardiff just got nabbed by Customs about an hour ago, trying to cross into Canada. And he's in perfect shape, too. Right then is when Kiefer spots Tony at a distance, still "helping" Galvez along, and he hangs up to go in pursuit. He'd better hurry, because Tony has already loaded Galvez into the back of an ambulance, and set the duffel bag inside. "Tony!" Kiefer roars from behind them. Tony and Galvez give each other a look, both of them knowing that Tony's getting the fuzzy end of this particular lollipop, and Tony shuts the doors and sends the emergency vehicle on its way with a pat on the door. "We need to talk," Kiefer whispers when he catches up with Tony. Unfortunately, he's so focused on Tony that he doesn't give a second thought to the guy he just watched him spirit away. Tony acts all agreeable, and then suddenly Kiefer pulls his gun on him. "I told you earlier today if you were lying to me, I'd kill you myself." Actually you said you'd turn him in, but whatever. Tony pretends not to know what Kiefer's talking about, so Kiefer tells him about how Cardiff is alive. Rather than wasting time being pissed at his "source" for having the bad grace to get pinched when he was supposed to be dead, Tony claims he just cut Cardiff loose in exchange for the intel. "I thought it was just a meaningless lie." Kiefer is getting a little shaky as he says, "You and I have been doing this long enough to know that there is no such thing as a meaningless lie." Especially when it's Tony. "How are you involved in this?" he demands. Tony reminds Kiefer that the intel was good, after all, but Kiefer's just getting madder and louder. "How were you shot? Does Galvez even have a second man, or was it just you?" Tony says this sounds like crazy paranoia, and advises Kiefer to put the gun down. It's going down soon one way or another, as Kiefer's hand is already pretty shaky. Finally, Tony proves that he's gone well and truly evil by Going There and telling Kiefer that the pathogen is affecting his judgment. And ultimately, Kiefer sinks to the ground and has another seizure. He's helpless to prevent Tony from taking the gun from him, and then Tony finally shows his hand. "This what you're looking for?" he asks, holding out the little case of syringes he must have lifted from Kiefer at some point -- probably when Kiefer took off his jacket to put on that bulletproof vest. Some safety precaution. Tony claims he never wanted to hurt Kiefer. "I told you to stay out of it, but you wouldn't listen, would you?" Just then a couple of paramedics wander up, and Tony pretends to ask them for help while Kiefer continues seizing, unable to keep Tony from just walking away, or to even say a word. Tony had better hope this one kills him.