There's a new "Kiefer Mambo" promo that's just like the old one, but it's got this red "Fox" logo interspersed throughout and breaking up the monochromatic cobalt blue thing they had going on. I'm guessing that this has something to do with the holidays approaching. No, it's not even Thanksgiving yet and already Christmas is everywhere. The Eggnog Lattes have been on sale at Starbucks for weeks now, and all of the stores have had their Christmas decorations up since Halloween. It's not my imagination; they are starting "Christmas" way earlier than usual. And thanks to the feature on my new TiVo that allows me to add a minute onto each end of the episodes that I record, I have to sit through the tail end of An American Idol Christmas. Kelly Clarkson is the grand finale. She's gained the weight back and let her streaks grow in. She's all in white singing Silent Night, and boy does this girl love Jesus. He was born on Christmas Day, you know.
24. Blip blip blip blip blip. Previouslys. Palmer and Dr. Anne are…[yawn]. Excuse me, I totally fell asleep during that segment and I have a splinter on my finger which prevents me from hitting the rewind button and watching it again. Before my head hit the pillow, I thought I heard the word "trust" bandied about. Bitchelle's got quite a lot on her plate these days…I mean, "hours." She's waiting to hear if her husband is going to survive, and she's running CTU singlehandedly. Kyle and Linda, the Quaran-teens, are captured by the Piquante Pickup Partners and placed in the Terror-arium. Special Agent Charlie Brown is tired of sitting around CTU with his wings clipped, so he takes advantage of the disruption in the chain of command to sneak out and go interrogate Felipe Hartmano. Meanwhile Kiefer is plotting to release Felipe Hartmano from U.S. custody in order to satisfy terrorist demands…but as a rogue agent, so Palmer's reputation doesn't get sullied. When Kiefer gets to the prison he finds and knocks out Special Agent Charlie Brown and basically starts a prison riot.
USC. As a lone cornet blares in the distance like a call to battle, the Presidential debate between Palmer and Keeler begins. As the moderator, who looks like Steve Colbert from The Daily Show, makes some opening statements, the camera pans the auditorium so we can see the small audience, as well as Secret Service agents, technicians, campaign aides from both sides, and the television cameras which bring the debate to a much larger audience of home viewers. Meanwhile, backstage, Palmer is collecting his thoughts. He stands to Dr. Anne as she strokes his upper arm with an almost motherly concern. She asks him how he's feeling. "Is that a medical question?" he asks. "Or personal?" "Both," she says. He insists he's fine. Shut up, cornet! Keeler is introduced. He takes the stage with confidence and waves to the crowd. I think it's time we got Keeler a nickname, so I'm calling him Ruby Keeler from now on. Ruby Keeler was a hoofer who starred in several Busby Berkeley musicals and was married to Al Jolson. She has, like, nothing to do with Senator Keeler except that she has his last name, so that's that. As Palmer prepares to take the stage, Dr. Anne apologizes one more time for the actions of her ex-husband. "It's all right," says Palmer. "We have the truth on our side." What was that sharp pain in my stomach? Oh, wait. I remember. It was that large, strong alcoholic beverage I had to take several gulps of after Palmer actually said, "We have the truth on our side." The moderator introduces Palmer. He kisses Dr. Anne on the forehead and takes the stage. Meanwhile, Brother Palmer watches the debate begin on a monitor with a vaguely stalker-ish intensity. Palmer begins his opening statements. Something about wanting to talk about "critical issues." The camera pans some more across the various monitors in the auditorium with Palmer's face on them. A piece of glassware breaks against one of these monitors…
…because that monitor is the jailhouse television and there's a prison riot happening. The prison doors were only activated to open just moments ago and already there are fires, glass breakage, guards being kicked in the stomach, and all-around violence and mayhem. By the way, all of these prisoners are practically what Norman Rockwell would have depicted if he ever painted a riot in a maximum-security prison. All the men are really shiny. They have shaved heads and buff bodies…and not those angry, bulky prison-weight room bodies, but the kind of bodies you get when you live in L.A. and have a really good personal trainer. There also seems to be a perfect 50/50 split between the Caucasians and the African-Americans. And their prison uniforms seem freshly pressed. They probably all have this really nice soapy smell too. Several yards from this choreographed chaos are Kiefer and Felipe Hartmano. As they search for a way out of the prison, they spy the angry mob and hide from it momentarily as Kiefer unveils his plan. He uncuffs Hartmano and tells him to pretend to fight with him over a gun. They do this as several guards in riot gear run past them. Kiefer calls out to them for help. Two of them swing by to break them up. Kiefer and Hartmano knock them unconscious and take their uniforms. It's The Benny Hill Show. However, Hartmano gets carried away with knocking his guard unconscious, and Kiefer has to tell him to tone it down.
Elsewhere in the prison, Special Agent Charlie Brown and the Warden are trying to figure out what to do . Charlie insists that Kiefer and Hartmano should be found immediately and kept alive. The warden insists on knowing what's at stake, so Charlie spills the beans about the V-I-R-U-S. The warden radios the riot guards and tells them that they are now under the command of Special Agent Charlie Brown. Just then, Charlie's phone rings. It's Bitchelle, wanting to know what the hell is going on over there. Charlie briefs her on Kiefer's attempt to break Hartmano out of prison to deliver him to Hector, and the subsequent prison riot. "He's going to get himself killed," says Bitchelle. "Not to mention Hartmano." Charlie assures her that he's doing his best to protect them both, and asks about the search for Kontagious Kyle. Bitchelle assures Charlie that they are closing in on his location. Charlie asks her to let him know the moment they've got Kontagious Kyle. "If Kiefer knows we've got the carrier of the V-I-R-U-S, he'll give Hartmano back," says Charlie. "We've got everyone working on it," says Bitchelle. "We'll find him."
Speaking of Kontagious Kyle, we take you now to the Terror-arium where the Quaran-teens watch helplessly as their captors take a Starbucks break. Kyle apologizes to PoorMan'sJennieGarth for what he's dragged her into, but Jennie isn't even listening. She's just pondering her imminent mortality. Kontagious Kyle isn't even that sure that he's passed the V-I-R-U-S to Jennie. Strangely enough, he was actually paying attention when Papa Kyle, Kiefer, and Soul Patch explained the ways of the V-I-R-U-S to him and the fact that he's got a couple of hours to go before he's contagious. "Maybe they'll find us by then and you'll be okay," he whispers to her. "Yeah, maybe," scoffs Jennie. All of a sudden Kyle has a plan. He stands on a chair and tests the strength of all these pipes that line the ceiling of the Terror-arium. Now maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but what the hell are these pipes doing in the ceiling of a freestanding structure that doesn't contain a) a toilet, b) a sink, or c) any heating or cooling systems? Jennie asks him what the hell he's doing. Kyle explains that he's looking for wires so that he can get her "out of this." He starts banging on the pipes with an aluminum folding chair, and for some reason the Piquante Partners don't hear this and come over to investigate.
Back at CTU, Spawn is studying some Whatever Technology California Traffic videos from near "the mall," and has improbably found pictures of the Garthmobile leaving the parking garage. She decides that this must be Kyle's getaway vehicle, because the driver is wearing a "blue shirt." Bitchelle calls her over, so Spawn passes the project onto Adam the Woman Hater, who is being unusually helpful and supportive. "You haven't been following what's been going on over at the prison, have you?" asks Bitchelle. Spawn admits that she hasn't, so Bitchelle fills her in on her father's rogue attempt to break Hartmano out by prison "by force" and the ensuing riot. "I don't understand what you mean by 'force,'" says Spawn. Spawn? "Force" is defined as "the use of physical power or violence to compel or restrain," as in "I have to force myself not to go down to CTU myself and beat you senseless with a two-by-four." They're called dictionaries. They're even online now. Look into it. Spawn asks why her father would be doing such a thing. Bitchelle has no idea, but asks Spawn when she last talked to him. Spawn recalls that the last time she talked to her father was back when he asked her to process a prison transfer for Felipe Hartmano. And yes, I sometimes I feel that I exaggerate how stupid Spawn really is, but it seriously takes an unnatural amount of time for Spawn to connect the current prison riot/jail break with Kiefer's request for a prison transfer. Even Bitchelle rolls her eyes, and I'm not making that up. The ladies conclude -- well, Bitchelle, mostly -- that the best thing to do is to find Kontagious Kyle as soon as possible, thus negating the need for Kiefer to free Hartmano.
Back at the prison, it's one of those Bob Hope/Bing Crosby road movies where Kiefer and Hartmano have knocked out the prison guards, taken their uniforms to impersonate them, and gotten into a whole new mess o' trouble. Kiefer warns Hartmano that the prisoners are in control now and their only way out is to fight through them. And indeed, he's right. They walk down this corridor and encounter a bunch of prisoners who, thinking they're prison guards, want to kill them. A leader amongst them -- who looks like an African-American version of Mr. Clean -- stops the violence and takes them hostage instead. Kiefer, Hartmano, and a gaggle of hostages are parading down a corridor when Mista Clean encounters Special Agent Charlie Brown. They start shooting at each other. "We have hostages so back off," shrieks Mista Clean. Special Agent Charlie Brown demands that he hold his fire, but lets them pass without incident. As the hostages are moved along, Special Agent Charlie Brown notices a particularly velvety hostage among them. They make knowing eye contact. The time is 05:11:14 PM.
Due to some graphic violence, viewer discretion is advised. Woo hoo!!! The time is 05:15:40 PM. Klockwise from the top left, Dr. Anne watches the debate, Palmer advocates what sounds like Al Gore's "locked box," Special Agent Charlie Brown examines the floor plan of the prison, and Spawn looks meaningfully at her computer screen. So back at CTU, Adam the Woman Hater is hating again. He's all over Spawn for some Whatever Technology misdeed. "I don't know where your head is at," says Adam TWH. "But we need to find Kyle Singer before he's contagious." Spawn is all, "Relax, I'm doing the best I can." So then Adam TWH is all, "The best we can isn't what we do around here. It's either done or it's not." What is this? An est seminar? Bitchelle calls Adam from her desk and tells him to chill out. She also briefs him on the Kiefer-induced riot going on at the prison, and concludes that Spawn needs a little slack today because that prison riot is, essentially, her fault; she was the one who issued the prison transfer. This, of course, is like saying that the Menendez brothers need a hug because they're orphans. "We're all under a lot of pressure here," says Bitchelle. "So let's just find Kyle Singer before it's too late."
Back in the Terror-arium, Kyle has found some wires and attached them to those pipes. What are wires doing in a giant glass and cement cage that doesn't have electricity inside it? "What are you doing?" asks Jennie. "There is no way out of here!" "You don't deserve what happened," says Kyle, fashioning a makeshift noose out of the wires and putting it over his head. "If I die, the V-I-R-U-S dies with me." He jumps off the chair and hangs by his neck. PoorMan'sJennieGarth frantically tries to steady the chair and get him to stand on it again. Failing that, she stands on the chair herself, grabs the pipes, and brings them down with her weight, thus saving Kyle. They lie breathlessly on the ground of the Terror-arium. Damn. I wanted Kyle to die.
Back at Rancho Narcotico, Hector oversees the housekeeping staff as they set up for a party outside on the veranda. PoorMan'sAngelinaJolie enters. "You shouldn't be doing this," she says, referring to the "welcome home" party for Felipe Hartmano that is being prepared. Hector asks her what she means. "You've been running things," she replies. "Show Felipe that you're his partner…not his caterer." She exits, and Hector's cell phone rings. It's Crystal Gael with news: the prison riot is still going on, Hartmano is still alive, and CTU is thisclose to finding Kyle Singer. "If they do [find Kyle Singer]," says Crystal Gael, "they'll never let Hartmano go." "Then make sure they don't find Singer," says Hector. Crystal Gael promises to do the best he can. He observes Spawn over the surveillance cameras as she focuses on surveillance tapes of Kyle Singer in the Piquante Pickup. Once she concludes it's definitely Kyle, Adam the Woman Hater takes a look and notices a shiny object in the back that looks like a gun. "Someone's got him," concludes Spawn. they work on IDing the vehicle.
Back at the prison, Special Agent Charlie Brown and the warden are trying to get a shot of Kiefer and Hartmano on the prison surveillance cameras. First they find the room where they believe the hostages are being held, but unfortunately they are out of the camera range. "Pan the camera over," says Special Agent Charlie Brown. The warden warns that the prisoners might see the camera moving and realize they are being watched. Charlie maintains that they have no choice. The camera pans over to reveal the hostages, Kiefer and Hartmano among them. True to the warden's warning, the camera is noticed, and Mista Clean shoots it out of commission. "We've got to get in there before they start killing everyone," says Special Agent Charlie Brown.
Meanwhile, in the laundry room where the hostages are being held, Mista Clean and his cohort, a Poor Man's Martin Donovan, are arguing about what to do about the hostages. They prepare for sniper attack by pushing the furniture up against the windows because, according to Mista Clean, "that's what went down in Chino!" So then, for reasons unclear to me due to the fact that I can't understand half of what anyone is saying, and also that I never was educated in the ways and means of prison riot social custom, they decide to make the guards play Russian Roulette. I take it this was the purpose of the "viewer discretion" warning. Now I understand that strange things happen to the psyches of people in custody…even after they're released from said custody. The Jews in Auschwitz, for instance, initially resisted the Red Cross's attempts to free them, and some of them even picked up the abandoned uniforms of their Nazi captors and tried to order each other around. However, I can't really understand why these prisoners aren't just trying to get the fuck out of there instead of sticking around to play Russian Roulette. But then, I'm just a white boy from the suburbs. I mean, if you want to kill the guards, kill the guards. If not, why not keep them all alive so you can use them as hostages to buy your way out of there. But don't make a game out of it. Frankly, I suspect that this Russian Roulette game is there a) because it's much more suspenseful than a mass execution and b) they want to make us think, yet again, that they're actually going to kill Kiefer. They're not going to kill Kiefer. They're not. Oh sure, they'll do really crafty things like have Kiefer do interviews in which he hints darkly that his character might be killed off, but at the end of the day it's not going to happen. I mean, let's face it, they didn't have the guts to finish Palmer off last season. So don't even think about it.
Anyway, as "wind chimes in a windy desert" plays on the soundtrack, Mista Clean has his cohorts put all of the guards on their knees. "Who wants to live!?!?" he shouts. No one answers, so he randomly shoots one of them. "Okay," he says. "Let's try it again. Who wants to live?!?!?!" Finally that guy who played Forrest on Buffy steps forward. They sit him down at a table. "Who else?" shouts Mista Clean. No answer, so he selects Kiefer because he's "new." he grabs a pistol from one of his cohorts, removes all but one of the bullets from the chamber, spins it, and hands it to Forrest. After an eternity of hesitation, scenery-chewing, intimidation, and pathos, Forrest is finally induced to pull the trigger. Oops. Bye, Forrest. Kiefer is proclaimed the winner of Round One of Russian Roulette. "Let's hear it for the new guy!" shouts Mista Clean. The time is 05:24:35 PM.
Viewer discretion is still advised. The time is 05:28:59 PM. Klockwise from the top left, Kiefer waits to not die, PoorMan'sJennieGarth nurses Kontagious Kyle back to health in front of what looks -- at least on my television -- like a bare human butt, and Palmer continues to debate Ruby Keeler. Back at CTU, Spawn pushes lots of buttons on that thingamajig machine at her desk and uses big words to inform Adam the Woman Hater what she's doing with her magic typewriter/television. She looks a little down, so Adam tries to cheer her up by offering to tell the grownups at CTU that he was partially responsible for Spawn's issuance of that prison transfer. "Thanks," she says giving him a half-smile. God, I wish I had a vagina. But wait, something's coming up on Spawn's magic television. An error message. Adam the Woman Hater is getting the same thing. He does some typing on the keys of his magic typewriter and concludes that the problem has to do with an "internal router."
Back in Crystal Gael's back room, Crystal is taking a screwdriver to this big computer-y wall unit thingie while he watches Spawn and Adam TWH flail at their desks on his monitor. Spawn walks over to his back room and asks him what he's doing. "There's a problem with one of the routers," says Crystal Gael. "I'm trying to fix it." Spawn asks him why he doesn't call a tech. Crystal gives her some unlikely Whatever Technology explanation and basically assures her that he's just fixed it. "Let me know if you have any more problems," he says. Spawn is all, "I will." But there's something rotten in Denmark, and even Spawn can smell it. When she goes back to her desk, the system is up and running, and Adam has zeroed in on the license plate number of the car Kontagious Kyle was captured in. They call Bitchelle at her desk with their news, and she orders them to alert the authorities to search high and low for the vehicle. After she hangs up with them, she has another call on hold that she gets back to. It's someone she calls "Ryan," and one can only assume it's Ryan Chappelle. "Do you have any idea if Kiefer is trying to break out Hartmano on his own or is he working with someone?" asks the voice from the other end of the line. "I'm working on it," says Bitchelle.
They hang up, and Bitchelle gets in touch with Potato Face on her interoffice videophone. Potato Face is aware of the prison riot from some interoffice memo, and is all, "What the hell is happening?" "I don't know all of the details," says Bitchelle, "but Kiefer's behind it." She orders Potato Face to search Kiefer's office and look at his phone logs, emails, et cetera. "What am I looking for?" asks Potato Face. "Anything that will help us figure out why he's doing this," says Bitchelle. "Do you really want me snooping in his office?" asks Potato Face. Bitchelle pauses for a moment and finally answers "yes." They hang up, and Bitchelle dials another number. The hospital. She asks about Soul Patch, and once again she's told that no information is available to her until he comes out of surgery. She asks the nurse what room he's in. The nurse tells her that he's in "Operating Room Four." She hangs up and calls someone in IT, who hooks her computer up to an "OR feed." Well, it turns out that an "OR feed" is literally a cam that's in the same operating room as Soul Patch, recording his operation. Ew. She watches, fights off a wave of nausea, and then starts to cry. Finally she turns the camera off. And cries some more.
Back at the prison, Special Agent Charlie Brown and a team of riot guards gather in a room near the laundry room. They find an impossibly large -- even by network television standards -- air duct that leads them close enough to the laundry room for them to monitor the activity inside with their fiber optic spy technology. They arrive just in time for "round two" of Russian Roulette. Mista Clean selects Felipe Hartmano as Kiefer's new challenger. Hartmano protests that he's not a guard, but a prisoner. Kiefer vouches for him, and admits while doing so that he's a federal agent. Great move, Kiefer. Mista Clean announces the round of Russian Roulette: Federal Agent Jack Bauer against Felipe Hartmano. And this time, it's a battle to the finish. One of them will die. Gee, do you think it will be Kiefer? Or do you think it will be this year's principal villain? Or will this scene play out just like the scene that it's ripped off from in The Deer Hunter with Kiefer using the bullet to shoot himself out of trouble? Kiefer goes up. Click. Hartmano goes up. "If I die," he warns Kiefer. "My brother will…" He's cut off by the shouts of the rioting prisoners urging him to "Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!" Click. Kiefer notices the optic camera peeping through the air vent. There's one bullet left. Kiefer pulls the gun on Mista Clean. Mista Clean goes down. Hartmano grabs a gun in the confusion. The laundry room is stormed by the riot guards. Bullets are flying everywhere. When the dust settles, Kiefer is nowhere to be found. Neither is Hartmano. "Kiefer?" shouts Special Agent Charlie Brown. "Kiefer!" The time is 05:38:49 PM.
The time is 05:43:16 PM. Klockwise from the top left, the debate continues, Potato Face goes through the Kiefer Kube, and Bitchelle frets over Soul Patch some more. In the Kiefer Kube, Potato Face has been going through Kiefer's papers, but hasn't found anything. She starts to dig through his trash and finds a telltale amber vial. "My God," she says to herself. She gets on the phone and asks for someone from "the drug unit" to come down.
Back at the debate, Ruby Keeler wants to talk character. He refers to the "allegations and indictments surrounding the President's former wife." Yeah, it's about time that someone mentioned that the Commander in Chief was once married to someone who almost got L.A. dusted off the map. That's kind of a big deal, now that I think about it. "Most people have operated under the assumption that the President wouldn't repeat his history of associating with persons of questionable character," continues Ruby Keeler, who then proceeds to announce that his office has just learned about Dr. Anne's medical scam. A medical scam, incidentally, that may have led the deaths of three innocent people. (Yeah, but what were their names? They've got to have names!) Now am I high, or am I the only person watching who is thinking that if Palmer's first wife was responsible for bringing a nuclear bomb into the country, and his latest girlfriend might have been involved in a white collar crime, that Palmer's taste in women is improving? I mean, "progress not perfection," right? Palmer interrupts and scolds him for "launching a personal attack on a private citizen." Ruby Keeler continues to make parallels between Palmer's character and his competence as leader of the free world. Finally it's Palmer's turn for a rebuttal, and he announces that Ruby Keeler's accusations are false and he's merely making personal attacks to avoid the real issues at stake. Meanwhile, backstage, Dr. Anne is totally freaked out. "Now do you get it?" asks Brother Palmer. Get what?
Back at CTU, the guy from the drug unit does his thing with some Q-tips and something that looks like a 1980s home pregnancy test, then informs Potato Face that the test was "positive." Potato Face's face twitches for a few moments. Then she concludes that she's got to "tell Bitchelle." Drug Guy packs up his case and leaves just as Spawn walks by. "What are you doing in my dad's office?" asks Spawn. Potato Face answers that she was going through Kiefer's things per Bitchelle's request in order to piece together his reasons for starting that prison riot. Spawn asks Potato Face something about the Whatever Technology and whether their system problems have anything to do with a line surge. Potato Face explains that it's not possible for a line surge to cause said system problems. "Why?" asks Potato Face. "It's probably nothing," says Spawn, getting ready to go downstairs. All of a sudden she hesitates. "Did you find anything?" she asks, referring to Potato Face's search. "I can't talk about this," says Potato Face briskly. Spawn offers to help her, but Potato Face rejects her offer and asks her to leave. "What's in the box?" asks Spawn, referring to a box of evidence that Potato Face has gathered. "This is really inappropriate behavior, Spawn," says Potato Face. They get into a pointless discussion of "field op regulations" and "jurisdictional prerogatives." Spawn refuses to leave until she knows what Potato Face has on Kiefer. "I think your dad's been using drugs," says Potato Face, always the tactful one. She produces, for Spawn's benefit, Kiefer's tourniquets and syringes, and informs her of the positive test for opiates. "And he's been acting really weird, okay?" she says. Jeez, looks like Potato Face could use a fix herself.
Then, in a total violation of the real-time format, Potato Face is downstairs all of a sudden, informing Bitchelle of her findings in the Kiefer Kube. They are interrupted by Adam the Woman Hater announcing that they've found the Piquante Pickup. Bitchelle orders everyone out into the field. "Let's get him!"
Back at the prison, Kiefer and Hartmano are on the roof. A copter with a back-up team lands. "Gimme the shotgun," says Kiefer to Hartmano. He does. "Now take off your uniform," says Kiefer. No comment. The time is 05:50:18 PM.
The time is 05:54:45 PM. Klockwise from the top left, Dr. Anne watches the debate, PoorMan'sJennieGarth continues to nurse Kontagious Kyle, and Spawn reacts to the news that her father is a junkie. Bitchelle's phone rings. It's someone in the field, informing her that the teams are closing in on the Piquante Pickup. , Bitchelle orders Adam the Woman Hater to get some infrared satellite technology to help the team out. Adam asks for Spawn's help, but she's totally out to lunch. "What's the matter?" asks Adam as Spawn wipes a tear away. Spawn swears she's fine. Get thee to an Narc-Anon meeting.
Back at the prison, Special Agent Charlie Brown and the warden are on the roof, trying to lock down all of the exits to the prison. Meanwhile, just outside of the roof, Kiefer is all, "If you want to get out of this thing, you're going to have to trust me," to Hartmano. He goes out onto the roof with Hartmano and demands the chopper. Charlie pleads with Kiefer to wait until they find Kontagious Kyle, but Kiefer isn't having any of it. Finally Charlie tells the S.W.A.T. team that have their guns pointed at Kiefer to let him have the chopper. The warden orders all teams to stand down. The teams stand down. Kiefer escorts Hartmano into the chopper.
Back the Terror-arium, a team of CTU agents swarms in and grabs "Kyle Singer plus one."
Back on the prison roof, the chopper is spinning as Kiefer does stuff to the control panel. "What's he doing?" asks the warden. Charlie Brown replies that Kiefer is "disabling the com and the locater." The chopper takes off. Charlie's phone rings. It's Bitchelle. "We have Kyle Singer!" she says. But it's too late. The chopper has left the ground with a disabled radio. "We found Kyle Singer!" screams Charlie Brown to the helicopter, but the spinning blades drown him out. The chopper rises and heads for points unknown. The screen splits. The debate continues. Yawn. Kyle is led out of the Terror-arium by a team of Haz-maticians. Hector Salazar does something intense and broody. Spawn cries some more. Back in the chopper, Hartmano is chuckling to himself. "Congratulations," he says to Kiefer. "Now you are an even bigger enemy to your country than myself." The time is 05:59:58…05:59:59…06:00:00 PM.