Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | 310 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Undercover Brothers
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2009.01.12
Time for Kiefer's first costume change. He's in some black commando gear, lacing up his boots in Emerson's basement. Good thing he was about Morgan's size. Emerson comes over and extends a hand: "No hard feelings, Jack," he says. Kiefer shakes it. Emerson continues, "Disagreements are fine, but when a decision's made, fall in or you're gone." Kiefer says he's glad Emerson means it. At 11:35:15, he picks up his own perfectly good clothes off the floor and dumps them in a trash bin for some reason. Which is basically like announcing, "I have no intention of ever coming back here with you," but Emerson doesn't seem to catch the snap. Instead, he asks why Kiefer traveled the world before his subpoena. "What were you looking for?" Kiefer says whatever it was, he didn't find it. So Emerson asks why he came back. "Wanted to know what it was like to walk into a propeller," Kiefer deadpans. "That's funny," says Emerson, briefly cocking one corner of his mouth like there's something stuck in his teeth. But he seriously wants to know why Kiefer turned himself in. Kiefer can't exactly say he did it to save a bunch of Sangalan orphans from being conscripted into the underage army of Emerson's client, so he bonds with Emerson instead about the jobs they've done in the past. "Be polite, professional, and have a plan to kill everyone you meet, right?" Kiefer echoes the issue he was thinking about in Agent Kilner's SUV a couple of hours ago: "Where do the rules of engagement end and the crimes begin? I actually believe everything I did was right. So I wanted to start a dialogue. Come clean, set the record straight." Emerson calls that Kiefer's first mistake. "No one who hasn't been to the edge and looked over can ever understand," he says. As his cell phone rings, he ends the conversation by saying, "It's good to have you on board, Jack," and steps away to answer it.
Tony comes over and, while sticking a tiny bug to the back of a chair, asks Kiefer what's up. "He's just trying to get a handle on me," Kiefer whispers back. Tony warns Kiefer to watch himself, and not to underestimate Emerson. "I won't," Kiefer promises, actually looking a little nervous.