Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Not-So-Grandfather
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 9 | Aired on 02.11.2007
Back at the service station, Dad gets back in the car where Josh is waiting and says that the roads to his house are closed because of the bomb. No problem, he says. They'll go to a hotel until the roads open. Lucky for him, he has enough money that this makes more sense than just hanging out in a coffee shop for a couple of hours.
At 2:47:42, Kiefer and Marilyn drive right past the house where Gredenko and his men are holed up. Marilyn stares at it, but lets it pass by. Inside the house, Gredenko checks his watch. Kiefer asks if the area looks at all familiar to Marilyn. She says his name like she's about to tell him the truth. Good call, Marilyn. Kiefer makes everything better when someone else's teenage son is involved. But then she chickens out instead. And then she sees the street sign for the 9200 block of Hindry Place, and says that's the street. Via walkie-talkie, Kiefer relays the name of the street to Milo, who relays it back to CTU.
A block or so back, at Gredenko's house, Gredenko asks his tech support guy how long it's going to take to reprogram the new targets, and is told it'll be twenty minutes. As the guy's computer screen shows little crosses dancing on a U.S. map, the tech guy asks Gredenko, "You still think you can trust the Arabs?" Gredenko's got it all figured out: "Our country lost the Cold War because it was afraid to use these weapons against the Americans. Today we will correct that mistake, and the Arabs will take all the blame." Gosh, that...almost makes half an iota of sense. It's 2:49:16.
2:53:42. Buchanan gets off the phone and tells Chloe about Hindry Place, because it took Milo four and a half minutes to relay this bit of information. Chloe asks if Marilyn's sure, since it's a mile away from where they're looking. Hindry Place sure has long blocks. Buchanan tells Chloe to pull up access roads, but she protests that she's doing some other technobabble right now. Fortunately, Morris shuffles out onto the floor in a fresh shirt, and Chloe says that she'll assign it to him. Because all the other people in the building have to be available at all times in case something happens that they have to stare at. "Your call," Buchanan says quietly. Morris stares blankly at Chloe across the floor for a moment, and then gets himself to work.
Dad and Josh are walking down a hotel hallway to their room as Josh says, "I know you're lying to me." But Dad didn't get this far in his machinations by breaking down into a confession after a remark like that, and when he asks what Josh is talking about, Josh says that everyone's treating him like "some stupid kid." Well, a Bauer kid. Same difference. He knows that Graem was up to no good, and nobody's telling him anything: "Did it have to do with the nuke?" Dad stops walking and tells Josh, "You're going to hear a lot of things about your father, what he may or may not have done. I'm not gonna pretend it's gonna be easy. But you know no matter what, I'm gonna be there for you." Until I have to kill you, of course. Dad lets them into their hotel room at 2:55:45.