Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dead Kiefer Walking
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.30.2009
Tony's now been handcuffed to a chair in a small, dark room. Stokes comes in and asks if he's changed his mind about talking. Tony has so not changed his mind that he doesn't even answer. So Stokes claims he bet Hodges a pair of Redskins tickets that Tony wouldn't talk. "Looks like I'm going to be sitting on the fifty-yard line," he smiles, leveling his gun at Tony's face. Tony braces himself, but when there are two silenced shots, it's Stokes who crumples to the ground, revealing Seaton standing behind him in the doorway with a gun of his own, shaking in his hand. He was probably terrified that it was going to jam on him. As Seaton takes the handcuff keys off Stokes's body and frees Tony, he says he needs Tony's help to stop this. "I'm not going to spend the rest of my life in prison because Jonas Hodges has lost his mind." Tony tells Seaton to tell him where on the compound the weapons are, but first Seaton wants immunity. Tony can't promise that, because technically he's wanted himself, but he's willing to call the FBI and see what they say. Seaton agrees, and just to prove his goodwill, he hands Tony the gun before leading him out of the room to go set up a secure land line.
The CDC's giant hazmat van with its police escort is approaching FBI-DC. You can tell it's a hazmat van by the giant letters "TAMZAH" painted under the windshield, with the "Z" not reversed. Of course, anyone seeing that in their rearview mirror will be like, "'HAMSAT?' The ham sat where?" The back of the van is divided into a quarantine area in the back, where Kiefer sits in a set of borrowed white scrubs; and another area in the front, where Dr. Macer sits in her regular clothes with some of her staff. Another plus to Kiefer working with the CDC: under their spacesuits, they apparently wear the kind of zipper jackets Kiefer can pull off in his sleep. Through the glass divider, Macer tells Kiefer that he'll be put in quarantine once they reach FBI-DC, because apparently FBI field offices have quarantine facilities. She also asks how he's feeling. "No different," Kiefer says. Which isn't exactly true; he looks a lot less rushed and angry than usual. A guy hands Macer a PDA that shows Kiefer's blood work results. She looks at it, then gets up and opens the door between the compartments and hands it to him. He looks at it, huffs, thanks her, and hands it back. It's 11:26:22. Well, if he were sick, she wouldn't have gone in there, would she have?
At 11:30:44, Janis flags down Walker to say that Kiefer just arrived, but he's not going to quarantine. Walker looks cautiously hopeful, and goes over to the elevator to meet Kiefer. When he gets off with Macer and her minions, she asks if he's okay. "My blood work came back positive," he says quietly. "I'm infected." Walker doesn't know what to say. "It's fine," he says stoically as he's led off for another costume change. Walker turns to Macer, who explains that the reason Kiefer isn't in quarantine is because the pathogen isn't contagious. "It was engineered that way to prevent blowback on the people deploying it." She says there's still no cure, "But he's patient zero. Whatever we learn from the pathogen will come from the tests we still need to run." So it sounds like Kiefer will be working with the CDC after all, for the rest of his life in fact. Macer gets a cell phone call and steps away to take it. I'm sure it's her agent, calling to ask if she'll be available for Season Eleven.