Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Final Countdown
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 24 | Aired on 05.18.2009
In the hallway, she leans against a side table for support, and that's how Ethan finds her. "Allison?" he says, and offers to talk later as he turns to go. She says she couldn't cover it up, as much as she wanted to. Well no, she never would have gotten away with it. Oh, maybe that's not what she means. Ethan says she doesn't have to explain, and that he understands. "Henry doesn't," Taylor says. Ethan tries to assure her, "He'll come around, in time," but Taylor thinks not. "I've lost my family," she says, all choked up. "I've lost everyone." Yep, that's what happens when a chick becomes president. Make a note of it, ladies. "Not everyone," Ethan corrects, and just like that, he's un-resigned. Taylor pulls herself together, telling him about the FBI's new star prisoner, Alan Wilson. It looks like they're going to get right back to work. Maybe I've said this before and maybe I haven't, but does this country really need a chief executive who's in the habit of denying herself sleep until she hallucinates?
At 7:56:02 (!), a handcuffed Wilson is led through an observation room at FBI-DC, and on into the adjoining interrogation room. He's seated at the table by the armored agents who escorted him in, which leaves Walker and Janis alone in the observation room. Observing. Janis tells Walker that Tim's on his way, and Walker needs to sign the transfer papers before he gets there. Walker makes no move for the folder. Instead, she starts turning off the cameras and telling Janis to get out. Janis refuses, because the last time she went along with this brand of Walker's bullshit she ended up as the target of a Justice Department investigation, and for years she's going to have nightmares about that impotent bureaucrat who wandered helplessly around the office waiting for her to have three minutes to spare for him. "Fine," Walker says, and crushes the door keypad with her gun butt. Janis demands to know what she's doing, and Walker actually draws on her, making her handcuff herself to the AV rack. While she does so, Janis tells Walker not to do this. "You've done your job, you arrested him. Let the courts take it from here. Stop this now before it's too late." Walker has already taken off her FBI windbreaker, and looks at the badge folder in her hand. Finally Janis says, "Larry would not have wanted this. Don't dishonor his death like this." That almost seems to reach Walker, but she puts her badge on the table and opens the door to the interrogation room. She stands in the doorway for a moment while Wilson smirks up at her, but the smirk melts when he gets a load of her expression. And she closes the door. With her inside. Genius move, Walker. Maybe he would have gotten put away and maybe not, but torturing a confession out of him is certainly going to tip things one way. And I don't think it's the way she's thinking.