Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 367 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT The Final Countdown
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 24 | Aired on 2009.05.18
7:13:53. The Faux-yer quietly tells Tony that Wilson doesn't know about their relationship, and she wants to keep it that way for now. Tony agrees, like he cares one way or another at this point. The monitor shows Wilson's convoy rolling onto the grounds, and they go outside to meet him.
Wilson has arrived in a stretch limo bookended by Humvees, a clear sign of a man who wants to protect his anonymity. Of course if he were really careful, he'd be riding in one of the Hummers. Or possibly in a sling underneath it. A small army of bodyguards gets out of the two larger vehicles, but Wilson stays put inside the limo for now. His men fan out and take up positions all around the courtyard, their weapons plainly visible. Tony and the Faux-yer meet up with them, and the guards pat them both down. Tony is relieved of his handgun, but he gets to keep his cell phone. Yes, that's the same phone that's now his detonator. The goon didn't even bother opening it to see if Tony's homepage screen was a picture of a big black cartoon bomb with Kiefer's face on it. Satisfied, Wilson finally steps out of the back of his limo. Tony tries to hold his cell phone as casually as he can as Wilson approaches. The Faux-yer walks ahead to meet him, but Tony is held back as Wilson stone-facedly says, "Hello...Kara," without taking his eyes off Tony. She pecks Wilson on one impassive cheek, and I think I just figured out why she didn't want to tell Wilson that she and Tony are shtupping. She introduces Tony, and Wilson asks where Kiefer is. She gives directions on where to find him inside the building, and Tony hands over the keys to Kiefer's handcuffs at 7:16:46. Two of Wilson's men scurry into the warehouse as Wilson says that Tony's "been an asset," which is practically gushing for him. Tony says he has more to offer, as Kiefer is frog-marched out of the building. Wilson asks for Kiefer's pathology report, and the Faux-yer produces it on a PDA. Kiefer is dragged closer to Wilson. Tony fingers his cell phone. It's about to go down.
But suddenly, a helicopter roars into view over the courtyard. Walker's amplified voice rings out: "This is the FBI. You're surrounded." Looks like Chloe came through after all. "Lay down your weapons," Walker orders. Instead of doing that, Wilson's men start firing them at the chopper, as Wilson grabs Kara and they run for cover. Armored agents on the helicopter's landing gear open up with machine guns, and while bullets rain down around him, Tony takes a gun off one of Wilson's fallen men. Government SUVs are also rolling onto the scene, disgorging yet more armored agents. Kiefer breaks away from the men holding him and dives behind a parked pickup. Walker gives her pilot the order to land as the firefight rages on. A fuel drum gets pierced, and Tony creates a diversion for himself by shooting the stream on the ground and setting the stack of barrels alight, allowing him to run for the door through which Wilson and the Faux-yer just fled. Shortly thereafter, Walker runs from the helicopter and orders an agent to drive her over to the pickup Kiefer's hiding behind. She jumps on the running board, shooting as she goes, and finally somersaults off and ends up next to Kiefer. With the tape still on his mouth, he shakes his head and grunts at her, and tells her to get away as soon as she removes the tape. "I'm wired with C-4, Tony's got the detonator," he warns. But she opens his jacket and says she knows how to disarm it. Lucky, that. As she gets to work with the little screwdriver that apparently all FBI agents have on them at all times, she tells him Spawn's safe, and he tells her in return, "Tony's been playing both sides all along." He adds that Tony's after Alan Wilson, the man behind the conspiracy, and she needs to stop him. Quit distracting the lady who's fiddling with the explosives strapped to your body, Kiefer. Finally she finishes defusing him, then takes off his handcuffs. They go running off in search of Tony, Kiefer still wearing the bomb. It is surprisingly slimming, I suppose.