Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Death Wish
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 23 | Aired on 05.24.2010
Splitscreen. Cole supervises the Mobile Command Unit as Arlo sets up inside the CTU server room. SecGen continues his speech. Kiefer's already got the unconscious Chloe handcuffed to a railing so he can concentrate on the view below through his sniper scope. CTU and NYPD look busy down on street level. And Logan watches the beginning of Suvarov's speech, until he mutes it to answer his cell phone. "Jason, you watching this?" he smirks. Don't tell me Kiefer forgot to take Jason's phone away from him? No, Of course it's Kiefer calling. "I have a 556 rifle pointed straight at your head," Kiefer informs him. Logan's expression instantly goes slack with horror, because watching Phone Booth was bad enough without finding himself in it. Through Kiefer's crosshairs, he gulps, "Bauer." Why not just dive out of sight? "Bullet travels two thousand nine feet per second," Kiefer explains. "If you try and move you're a dead man. Which means you need to do exactly what I say, do you understand?" Kiefer has to repeat the question. Logan says he told him everything he knew. "And you thought I believed you," Kiefer says, and plays him a snippet of his earlier conversation with Suvarov. Glad to see he didn't tape over it, because I'm not sure Logan would be impressed by hearing Kiefer's voice say, "Kiss little Teri for me, and if you ever find her gone after midnight, just let her stay gone for fuck's sake." Logan looks busted and asks, "What do you want?" Kiefer instructs him to invite Suvarov up to Logan's office as soon as the press conference is over. Logan wonders what he's supposed to say to the Russian president to get him up there. "Try the truth for a change," Kiefer suggests. "Tell him you've got credible intelligence about a threat to his life." Without taking his eye from the sniper scope, Kiefer allows himself a tiny, scary little smile at his own cleverness. It's 3:00:00. Only one hour left -- less than the last fifteen minutes of Lost.
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