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
Tom then goes to find Chad Lowe in the hallway. Chad's yelling down his cell phone at someone, and when he gets off, Tom tells Chad that he needs Karen out of there now so that Wayne will sign off on all of Tom's insane plans. Chad says that he's working on it now. "This work you're doing for me doesn't go unnoticed," says Tom. Nice to see Chad Lowe getting thanked for once.
At CTU, Nadia's having some computer troubles. As Buchanan's walking by, she flags him down to complain that a new protocol requires all employees with Middle Eastern backgrounds to go through an extra layer of security, and that it's slowing her way down. Brilliant idea. This will make Nadia want to blow up the entire building, and then they can arrest her. Buchanan takes off his glasses sympathetically, but says that there's not much he can do about her plight right now. She wonders how she's supposed to get all of her time-sensitive work done in the face of these new obstacles, and Buchanan tells her just to chalk it up to one of the injustices that all Muslims working in counterterrorism have to face. Because God forbid you get too many Muslims in that field. That simply wouldn't do. Buchanan promises to take it up the chain of command later (as in, when it's not urgent anymore), and Nadia reluctantly accepts his decision. Poor showing from Buchanan here. I expected better. Changing the subject, Buchanan asks whether Nadia's heard from Kiefer. She hasn't, and offers to call him, but Buchanan says that there's no rush. Kiefer will call when he has anything.
What Kiefer's got is his brother's face, shrink-wrapped. Graem is trying to breathe through the plastic bag Kiefer's got over his head, and it's not going too well. I'm going to assume that the bag hasn't been there the whole time; it's been a good six or seven minutes, but Graem's not dead yet. Kiefer yanks the bag off, telling Graem that it goes back on if he lies again. Graem coughs and gasps, his head all grody with sweat and condensation, and starts talking. While crying. He says that Kiefer's right about the nukes. Of course he is. If this hadn't been the one lead out of fifty that was going to pay off, Kiefer never would have tortured his brother in the first place. Graem says that their dad doesn't want to be reached, sobbing, "After the bomb detonated, he told me he was cutting himself off." Graem starts crying even harder when Kiefer says that he doesn't believe him. He starts coming at Graem with the bag again, and Graem does this: "I don't know, I don't know, all right all right all right all right!" Heh. Kiefer holds off with the bag, and Graem tells him that their dad went to see a contract employee of their company. That employee's name? Darren McCarthy. We, of course, have already met McCarthy: he's the ambiguously Australian guy who's been fishing around for someone who can make Fayed's remaining nukes work. But Kiefer doesn't know this, so he asks what McCarthy's connection is. Graem cops to having made a mess Dad's trying to clean up.