Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 438 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Re-Juma-nated
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2009.03.02
It's 7:36:43, and Jonas Hodges from "Redemption" -- Academy Award Winner Jon Voight, still -- is enjoying some Chinese takeout in front of CNB. A phone rings behind him, and Rory Cochrane (Speedle from CSI: Miami, who you recall dying on that show as a direct result of his slovenly gun maintenance habits) answers it and tells Hodges that it's Juma. Unhappily, Hodges throws down his napkin and gets on the speakerphone to ask Juma what's up. Juma explains the situation and tells Hodges, "I need you to find me another way in." Hodges says he's already done all he can, and he's out. Juma steps away and whispers threateningly, "Are you forgetting you don't have the shipment yet?" Shipment? What shipment would that be? Whatever it is, we're not finding out tonight. Hodges blusters about the deal they had, but Juma's ready to destroy the shipment if Hodges doesn't help him now. Hodges puts him on hold so he can confer with his man Seaton, who says the shipment isn't due for another two hours. "His men will have plenty of time to destroy it [or] render it useless." So the shipment must be something Hodges wants, that Juma has, but going by what Seaton just said, it's probably not diamonds. Which means it's going to turn out to be diamonds. Hodges gets back on the line and asks who's in lockdown with Taylor, and upon hearing that Olivia isn't in there, he tells Juma that according to the manifest that he has at his fingertips, she's somewhere else in the building. "Your shipment will arrive as planned," Juma promises, and ends the call. "Stress is the fertilizer of creativity," Hodges boasts to Seaton, and then invites, "Let's play some darts," as he hurls one at the board. Whatever the fertilizer of good darts is, Hodges doesn't seem to have a great deal of it.
At 7:39:25, Juma tells his men that their new project is to find Olivia. They scan the hostages' faces. Mayer whispers an inane question to Buchanan, and when Buchanan ignores him, he asks, "You think I made the wrong call with Bauer? You think that if I'd signed off on him torturing Burnett all of this could have been avoided?" "You don't know what I'm thinking, Senator," Buchanan finally lies. By now, Juma and his men have determined that Olivia's not among the hostages, so they'll have to go find her.
Aaron leads Olivia through a hallway, and after peeking around a corner, sees that the last of their three possible exits is covered, just like the others. Which makes three teams of Sangalan soldiers, just on the exits, in addition to the ones guarding the hostages, and the ones roving the hallways, plus one or two who have already been killed. Are Juma's men half-rabbit or something, the way they keep multiplying? Adding to Aaron and Olivia's problems is the fact that the windows are unbreakable. So they have to get a signal out through the windows of the residence somehow. Aaron tries to get her to agree to let him stash her somewhere so he can go alone but she refuses. Looks like they're staying together, then. Well, there are worse places for a First Family member to be in a crisis than with Aaron Pierce. Anywhere else in the world, for example. It's 7:41:34.