Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT End of the Line
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.11.2009
an imposter, he'd better hope he's not in view of a security camera right now. Jibraan slouches through the turnstile at 5:13:03.5:17:25. Olivia is loitering in a park when Aaron calls on her cell phone, sounding pissed and wondering where the hell she is. "Secretary Woods is asking for you." Tim's the Secretary of Homeland? I thought he was just some liaison. Of course, field promotions aren't unheard of on this show, but normally we get to see how they come about. Anyway, Olivia stalls by asking what Tim wants, and Aaron tells him that the Justice Department is looking into Hodges's murder, and they want internet and phone records, as well as interviews with everyone. "Apparently there were only eleven people who knew Hodges was alive," Aaron explains, sounding pretty in the know for a Secret Service guard. "It stands to reason that information was leaked." Yeah, maybe next time Olivia calls in a hit she'll want to make sure she's part of a larger pool of potential suspects. Olivia promises to hurry back, but Aaron isn't satisfied. "Where are you?" he asks with uncharacteristic directness. Olivia claims it's a personal errand, but Aaron isn't mollified. Still, Olivia has the nerve to ask him to cover for her until she returns. Aaron reluctantly agrees. I'm not so mad at Olivia for killing Hodges, who obviously needed it, but possibly getting Aaron in trouble like this is beyond the pale.
Olivia hangs up, and Martin shows up about three seconds later, still calmly telling her to chill out. She tells him what's going on back at the White House. "Okay, did you think no one would bat an eye when a government witness was murdered?" Martin asks. Olivia reminds Martin that she changed her mind, and didn't make the transfer, and she thought that would effectively call it off. Except, as Martin explains, the hit man called Martin. "He called me and told me the money hadn't come through yet. I told him you were good for it and to proceed." So there goes my theory that it was actually The Group behind it. My bad. I shouldn't have guessed something that complicated this late in the season. Anyway, Olivia demands to know why, and Martin says they didn't have much time, and because that's what Olivia wanted. "Despite all my warnings for you to reconsider, you looked me straight in the eye and you said you wanted Hodges dead." Horrified, Olivia starts talking about her phone records and computer. Martin tells her not to worry about the calls, and promises to send her "a program" to clean her internet records, which I don't know how that's going to work if she was almost certainly on the White House network. He also says it's too late for her to grow a conscience now. "You let this eat away at you, people are going to notice and get suspicious. You will bring us both down, destroy your mother, and her administration." So relax! He promises it'll blow over if she follows his instructions. The last thing he tells her is to transfer the funds to the hit man. "You do not want this man unhappy with you," he warns. Yeah, he'll totally sandbag your eBay user rating.
Walking through the airport with her rolling suitcase, Spawn calls home, but at least she didn't wake the boyfriend, who's been up with the kid anyway. "She misses her mother." "Aw," Spawn says unconvincingly, and quickly moves on to say her flight was delayed by an hour or two. He suggests that maybe this is a sign to stick around and spend some more time with Kiefer. She points out that she's not welcome, and he promises to pick her up at the airport when she gets home. Her phone is starting to make a low-battery noise, so she quickly wraps up the call. I know how that is. Maybe she has a phone charger with her and maybe she doesn't, but either way, plugging a phone in at an airport is always such an awkward affair. And we'd hate to see Spawn lose her dignity. After hanging up, she looks around and spots a dude staring at her. He turns away, and Spawn runs into another traveler, who's actually quite friendly about it, especially for someone who's in an airport at stupid o'clock in the morning. Spawn apologizes and goes to sit down.
Jibraan sits alone on the train, while the Faux-yer makes her way up through the car. As the PA announces an upcoming stop at L Street, she opens the bag, reaches in to activate the timer on the canister for 15 minutes, and kicks the bag under a seat. Then she gets off at the next stop, walking past Jibraan's window as she goes. He doesn't fail to notice, but he doesn't move or say anything, either. "Next stop, Washington Center," the PA says. "Next stop will be the last stop." Could you say that with a little more finality? Walking down the platform, the Faux-yer tells Tony through her own earpiece that "The package is in place." Tony says he'll pick her up at 22nd, and gets behind the wheel of the van to pull away from the curb at 5:23:26.
Just in time, Chloe has managed to hack Tony's phone block, and even though he's not on his phone any more, it's still giving her real-time updates on Tony's location. She calls Kiefer to tell him, and guides him toward Tony while Janis gives the order for teams to move in. I don't know why Walker's letting Kiefer drive when he could still go spazzmatoid on her at any moment and wrap them around a national monument. Tony's black van pulls out of the intersection ahead of Kiefer, who says, "We can't let this turn into a pursuit. Hold on." With that, he rear-ends Tony's van right off the road, then backs into it, pushing it up on the sidewalk. Tony spills out of the driver's seat, his JPS clattering to the floor next to him. As Kiefer and the converging cops roll up and pull him out, Kiefer sees the device and tells the cops about it while hauling Tony away and applying one of his patented sleeper holds. Except this one is a bit modified from the usual, because instead of saying, "Don't fight it" in the middle of it, he tells an officer, "Lock down this piece of crap" after he's done. It's a lot less friendly that way. He goes over to Walker, who hands him the JPS with its screen now cracked and dark. Kiefer tells her to have Chloe get on it while he searches the van for the canister. Before climbing in, he fights off another attack of the twitchies. It's 5:24:52.
At 5:29:14, Chloe is on the phone to Kiefer and Walker, who have Tony's JPS plugged into a laptop. She's telling them it's too damaged for her to do anything with it. "Do me a favor, send me your screen," Janis says to Chloe. "Why?" Chloe demands. "Why not?" Janis shoots back. Chloe complies, and Janis says she can "reconstruct the technobabble of the technobabble at the time it was damaged." Chloe says it can't be done. "Really?" Janis says with sarcastic sweetness. Oh, it's on. Or at least it will be on, after Janis succeeds in turning it on.
An officer comes over to tell Kiefer that Tony's awake again. Kiefer goes over to where Tony's sitting handcuffed on the front stoop of an apartment building and tells Moran, the Field Ops guy, "I need you to walk away." After a moment, he and his men do, so now Kiefer's alone with Tony. He launches the interview by socking him one in the mush and demanding, "Where is it? Where is the canister?" Tony's not talking, so Kiefer keeps hitting him. After ten punches in quick succession, Kiefer pathetically asks, "Why did you betray me?" All about Kiefer, again. When there's still no answer, Kiefer pulls his gun and puts it to Tony's forehead. "I have nothing left to lose," he says. "You either tell me where that canister is or so help me God I will lay you down right here right now." Tony finally responds by suggesting that he doesn't have much to lose either. "Do it." Bluff called. Tony wins again.
Except that over at the laptop, Janis has just sent Walker a live feed of a red locator blip traveling though an unlabeled map of D.C. "And they just went right through St. Matthew's Cathedral and out the other side," Janis adds. Walker realizes that's the Metro. Chloe throws a subway map overlay up on the screen and says it's the Red Line, terminus Washington Center. So Walker runs over to