Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 291 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Small Consulation
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2007.03.05
Inside the LoganMobile, Kiefer instructs the driver to proceed through the Consulate's front gates and pull over as soon as they're around the corner. Logan asks Kiefer what he's going to do. Kiefer's going to make a call on his cell phone, is what. Just you try and stop him.
The call goes directly through to Chloe's personal cell phone instead of the CTU switchboard. She answers, and Kiefer asks her to secretly hack into the power company's server to cut off the juice to the Consulate. Chloe's been through this kind of thing with Kiefer enough times not to waste time arguing, and just asks Kiefer how long he needs the power out. He asks for sixty seconds, and to make it look like a grid failure. That way, the folks at the Consulate will see nothing at all sinister in a convenient blackout that just happens to occur moments after an ex-POTUS was sent away empty-handed. Chloe says she'll call Kiefer back when she's ready, and he hangs up. No dummy, Logan asks Kiefer if he's sure he wants to go back in. He reminds Kiefer (and us) that Kiefer spent the last twenty months of his life being punished for violating the Chinese Consulate. Does Kiefer really want to be a Consular recidivist? Kiefer doesn't answer. It's 5:24:54.
5:29:04. Remember how Karen Hayes was going to head back to L.A. about six hours ago? Turns out she sucks at it. Instead, she's hanging out in the departure lounge at Edwards Air Force Base, sucking down coffee and watching Fox News on her cell phone. It's the ideal screen size for conveying such a narrow perspective. There's an anchorman talking about the rising death toll in California instead of what would really be happening on the screen, which is pundits arguing with each other about whether to nuke the Middle East into the Stone Age, or nuke it into the pre-Cambrian era. Karen's phone rings, and it's Buchanan, calling to tell her that Wayne got blown up about a half-hour ago. Is he, like, the head of the blown-up-Wayne call tree or something? Karen's shocked, because there's been nothing about it on the news (or on Fox News, for that matter). Buchanan says that it hasn't been made public yet. Karen says that she's going back to the White House, and Buchanan wonders if the Veep will even let her. Karen says that her resignation hasn't been processed yet, so she can still take it back. She says that she'll call Buchanan when she arrives at the White House. Which will take how long, at the rate she's been moving? By that time the crisis will be over, Buchanan will be home in bed, and the Veep will be campaigning for reelection.