Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Now That's Hospitality
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 9 | Aired on 02.19.2006
Nathanson reaches the roof and dives over a low wall separating two buildings just as another gunman pops up behind him and opens fire. Nathanson keeps running, making a splendid target in his big black suit atop a cream-colored roof, and he gets winged in the leg before taking cover behind a raised skylight. Now both guys are shooting at him again, and he returns fire. Except, like an idiot, he does it when they're both under cover, so his very last bullet goes right over their heads. Nathanson must not have been a field agent. They move in when Nathanson stops shooting, and are quickly in position to take him out as he lies there helplessly. But right on cue, Kiefer takes them both out with deadly-accurate shots from his handgun as he stands on the roof of the building next door. Funny, I don't see a sniper scope on that thing. Kiefer starts making his way over to Nathanson's roof for the rendezvous, but they're not out of the woods yet; the helicopter has returned.
Kiefer takes cover behind a large air conditioning unit, bellows an order for Nathanson to stay down, and starts shooting at the chopper from his little bitty handgun. The chopper pilot isn't deterred, however, and there's a guy positioned in the open side door who's firing a machine gun at both of them. Kiefer reloads and fires back. Nathanson takes advantage of what he thinks is sufficient distraction to break cover and reach for the assault rifle of the corpse next to him, but a salvo of machine gun fire quickly stitches him to the roof. Unaware of this, Kiefer empties another clip at the helicopter, which begins emitting black smoke from its underside and starts spinning in the air. The pilot quickly regains control, and the craft limps off through the air, where one hopes it won't finally fail for good and crash into the Sunrise Hills Mall or something. Kiefer runs over to Nathanson's bullet-riddled body, rolls him over, and demands, "How do I find the canisters of Sentox?" Nathanson's fading fast, but he manages to direct Kiefer to his pocket. He's got the canisters in his pocket? That was easy. But all Kiefer finds is a memory card in a little case. "What's on the chip?" he begs Nathanson to tell him, but Nathanson is now too dead to talk. Nothing more dangerous to be on this show than CTU's only lead, is there? Kiefer whips out his PDA and plugs the chip into it.
The helicopter pilot has already managed to set the craft down somewhere. Wading through the smoke still coming out of the thing, the blond gunman from earlier tells his cell phone, "Nathanson's dead, but there was someone else there." On the other end of the call, Bierko wants to know who. Blond Guy responds, "I don't know yet, but he took out three of my men and disabled the helicopter." I wish I could convey how fucked up this guy's accent is. I'd like to tell you that he sounds almost like Hank Azaria in America's Sweethearts, but then I would have to admit that I saw that movie and that's not about to happen. He sounds like he's saying, "Kche tuckawt thlee of my man and dee-she-bood the kcheli-caw-ptru." I had a professor in college who came to Minnesota by way of Brooklyn by way of Great Britain by way of Czechoslovakia by way of Poland, and even his accent was easier to decipher than this guy's. And then Bierko responds in Julian Sands's flawless British accent that Nathanson may have passed along damaging information. "Keep looking until you find him," he says. Wow, Russia must have really done a number on their home country if there aren't two people from there who share the same accent. Fucked-Up Accent Guy's ground transportation has arrived, and he yells at the driver in a foreign language. Probably Centralasian. Back at base, Bierko goes back to watching Fox News at 3:36:56.