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
Wayne is still under the knife in the White House Bunker's operating room, the sterile drapes over his chest causing his current shirtlessness to go completely to waste. Grounds for impeachment? Chad Lowe is watching from the hallway outside, until he discreetly withdraws to dial his cell phone. A Secret Service agent appears next to him, and Chad Lowe nearly jumps out of his skin. When the agent tells him that Tom has been summoned to a teleconference with the Veep in the Battle Bridge, Chad Lowe says that Tom is "occupied," and that Chad Lowe's covering for him. He says that he's on his way. Calling his co-conspirator on an unsecured wireless connection in a highly secured facility that's on double-super-infrared alert because it just got blown up will just have to wait.
The meeting is already underway, with the Veep joining in from Air Force Two via the teleconference screen. A suited doctor reports that Wayne took shrapnel in his upper chest and neck. We're relieved to hear that Wayne's pretty face is unmarred. Good thing he's so tall. But he's unconscious and, as the doctor says, is lucky to be alive at all. Wayne's Secretary of Defense (not James Heller) basically tells the Veep, "You're in charge." The Veep takes a moment to absorb this news with the appropriate sobriety and steely resolve, and then says that he's landing in a few minutes. Wait, these presidential planes can land, too? After watching Season 4, I thought they just had to keep flying around all day until somebody shot them down. The Veep says that he wants a briefing from Tom Lennox as soon as he arrives, which can't help Chad Lowe's mental state. SecDef agrees, and signs off. When the meeting breaks up, SecDef flags down Chad Lowe to ask him where Tom is. Chad Lowe quickly makes use of his superpower of telling people that Tom is somewhere they already know he isn't. In this case, it results in SecDef's grabbing the nearest Secret Service agent to report Tom missing, ordering, "Have your men sweep the Bunker and find him." In seconds, the Secret Service agent is talking to his shirt cuff, which meansthat Chad Lowe is so very screwed. He all but runs back to the steam pipe trunk distribution venue...