Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Glower, Cower, And Tower
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 6 | Aired on January 28, 2007
Kiefer yells at his dad for trying to handle the situation on his own, and for not reporting the missing nukes the second he heard about them the day before. Dad tells Kiefer that Graem told him the nukes couldn't be detonated with deactivated triggers. "He was wrong!" Kiefer yells. "Evidently!" Dad yells back. It's like they were never apart. Kiefer turns away; he needs a moment. Dad says he's just trying to keep his son out of jail, and insists that he doesn't know where McCarthy is, offering, "When I do, we can pick him up together." Graem comes in, rubbing his wrists and saying that Kiefer just wants them both in prison. Kiefer says that he wants to find the nukes, adding, "If you're held accountable for what you've done, that's the bed you've made." Graem complains some more about Kiefer's sense of family loyalty: "We'd be better off if he were still rotting in a Chinese jail." Kiefer pulls out his cell phone, but his dad begs him to hold off, offering to compromise. Kiefer basically says that Graem's problems are his own; he should have been more careful, and he should have reported the missing nukes as soon as he knew. "Oh, and you always do what you should, right, Jack?" Graem needles. "How about when Dad needed you and you disappeared?" I can also think of some other examples, if Graem has plenty of time and a very large hard drive. Dad's still asking Kiefer for a chance, but Kiefer refuses to be responsible for thousands of deaths, "just to protect this family." "Wrong!" says Graem. "Protecting family is everything, and I think your dead wife would agree." Ooh, snap! In a flash, Kiefer's got Graem up against a wall. Dad stops the violence by giving Kiefer his way and telling him to call CTU, over Graem's objections. Kiefer lets Graem go and starts dialing his phone, which is when Graem says, "I don't think so."
That's the first henchman's cue to ambush Kiefer with a kidney-punch from behind, and then to disarm him again and hold Kiefer against the wall with his own gun. Dad protests angrily, telling the gunman, "You work for me." Graem tells him not so much, and nods to the other henchman to cover Dad. "You don't think I'd let you run loose without keeping an eye on you, do you?" says Graem. Dad tries to talk to him, and Graem just tells him to shut up. There's that family loyalty he keeps going on about. He takes Kiefer's phone, saying, "I'm glad we can all put our cards on the table." Even his voice is deeper now. "Family. Pfft," he says to Kiefer, and leads them all out of the office.