Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Wayne In Pain
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 11 | Aired on 02.25.2007
Wayne is sitting in his office alone, doing pretty much nothing, when Melinda comes in with the Executive Order authorizing Logan's release. It's in a fancy leather folder and everything. Wayne signs it, closes the folder, and hands it back. Melinda tells Wayne that an on-camera rehearsal is scheduled for five minutes from now. She's about to leave, until Wayne stops her to ask where Tom is. She doesn't know, of course, so Wayne asks her to find Tom so that he can be there for Assad's statement. I guess Wayne wants to watch Tom's sourpuss reactions close-up.
In the steam pipe trunk distribution venue, Carson has gotten to the stage of bomb assembly where he's using a syringe to draw colored liquid out of one of his highlighters. I assume that the syringe was hidden inside a highlighter too, because we didn't see the Secret Service agent try to give himself an injection with it earlier. Tom starts coughing, so Chad Lowe goes over to him to takes the tape off his mouth so that he can tend to the cut on Tom's forehead. He warns Tom not to call out, or Carson will kill him. Once the tape's off, Tom begs Chad Lowe to call this off. Chad Lowe says that it's too late, and that he thinks that Tom will come around once Wayne's gone. I don't know why they're acting like they've already committed to this and it's too late to go back. It's two guys. All they have to do in order to avoid killing the president is to not kill the president. How hard is that? Tom tells Chad Lowe, "You're just as bad as Fayed." Ooh, burn. Chad Lowe is still naïvely thinking that Tom must have been on board at some point, and demands to know whether Tom changed his mind. Tom says that he was against this from the start. "That's very disappointing," says Chad Lowe, roughly replacing the tape on Tom's face and checking his ringing cell phone. He takes the call from Melinda, acting all friendly and helpful about sending Tom over to Wayne ASAP. I'm pretty sure he's not actually going to do it, though. He hangs up and stresses at Carson some more about the time. Carson now works his magic with the red highlighter. It's almost as exciting as watching someone refill an ink cartridge. Finally, he snaps shut the case of the small voice recorder -- with its new, improved, explosive guts -- and tells Chad Lowe that the bomb is finished and armed. He gives Chad Lowe the PDA that's going to serve as the remote detonator, instructing him to punch in 624-Enter to set it off. It'll take fifteen seconds for the chemicals to mix, and Wayne needs to be inside the device's ten-foot kill radius. Chad Lowe is ready; as he says, he's the only one who can get close to the podium without attracting attention. Funny, I would think that Chad Lowe of all people would have bad memories in relation to podiums. It's 4:49:12.