Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT High Jack
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.30.2006
Nope; at 2:58:36, Logan's desk phone rings. It's FLOTUS, of course, sounding nine kinds of drugged as she says that he's going to have to help her understand. She speaks haltingly, mumbling that she knows he's a good man, but doesn't understand why he didn't come to her before getting himself into this mess. Logan hops to his feet and bitches, "For God's sake, Martha, for the last three years you've been one click away from a nervous breakdown, every single day. And I'm gonna come to you for advice?" Okay, how stupid is he to talk to her like that given what she can hold over his head? Say something soothing or calming, like maybe, "Just hold on for a few more hours until Evelyn comes to work in the morning." No, I guess that would be bad as well. Logan's cell phone rings, and he hangs up on her, ignoring her pleas not to. One click away, he said. And judging by her reaction, the sound of his desk phone disconnecting was that very click.
Logan answers his cell phone, and Graham announces, "Bauer's got the evidence. He is in control of the plane." Which he knows from overhearing a call from Chloe to Hayes. So much for their "dry channel." Logan asks what to do next, as if I hadn't predicted it seventeen minutes ago. Graham flatly states, "You are going to have to shoot down that plane, Mr. President." Logan is too thunderstruck to even protest, "Me? What am I, Bill Pullman in Independence Day?" Graham insists, "Otherwise you go to prison for treason and murder." Logan hangs up without a word, so he can call Graham right back during next hour's previouslies. But that will have to wait, because now it's 3:00:00.