Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mayer, Mayer Not
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.16.2009
Running down the street, Kiefer arrives at a construction lot with a high, barbed wire-topped chain link fence around it. He throws his suit jacket up over the wires, and, noticing that he's bleeding from one hand as a result of crashing through seven feet of plate glass, starts climbing.
He's out of sight by the time Quinn sprints into view up the street, gun still at the ready. Somehow Quinn is able to spot a tiny drop of blood on the pavement under the streetlights, and another right next to it. How fast is Kiefer bleeding, anyway? Quinn follows the spoor to the gate, shoots the lock off, and enters the lot. At 9:56:23, he continues following the trail of blood drops to a trailer, with its door ajar and blood on the knob. This is just too easy. I wish they hadn't shown Kiefer noticing his wounded hand, because it totally defuses the suspense, and now we're just waiting for when he pops up behind Quinn. Carefully, Quinn goes inside, looks around, and rakes the far wall and door to the adjoining room with machine gun fire. So now it's time for the ambush, but I'm glad to say that Kiefer is doing it in a rather unpredictable way. Quinn hears the sound of heavy machinery starting up, and he goes to the window to look outside, just as the entire trailer starts tilting beneath him. Yes, Kiefer is rolling the trailer over with a front-end loader. Actually, that's rather awesome. Alas, Quinn is uninjured, and he climbs up to what is now the roof to break out the window and clamber out. Not really that much of an advantage Kiefer gave himself there. But as soon as Quinn's atop the trailer, Kiefer leaps on him from the loader's bucket, sending his gun flying and commencing a beating. But Quinn's no amateur, and that match-up that Hodges was so excited about last hour seems to be living up to the hype. The fight spills over onto the ground, and Quinn hurls Kiefer up against a parked SUV before swinging a crowbar at his head that only goes through the window. Kiefer gets Quinn down again, and dives after him, but Quinn gives him a little airplane ride that sends him sprawling to the ground. While Quinn is coming after him, Kiefer gets his hands on a handy screwdriver (people are really careless about leaving stuff lying around on this site), which he hurls right through the front of Quinn's Kevlar vest. Quinn's still standing there looking down at it when Kiefer then grabs a four-by-four that he slams into Quinn's head, swinging for the fences. Down goes Quinn. Kiefer rolls him over, takes in the blood gurgling out of his mouth, and informs him, "You're dying. Just tell me when the weapons are coming in. When are they getting here?" Quinn's last words are surprisingly clear: "They're already here," he says. Kiefer looks around in frustration, then gets Quinn's cell phone out of his pocket. There on the screen is exactly the text message he needs: "Port of Alexandria. Yard C. 2230." Well, how convenient. Apparently Quinn is not only Starkwood's one assassin, but their one delivery guy as well. With him out of the picture, Hodges will be paralyzed!