Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Final Countdown
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 24 | Aired on 05.18.2009
7:13:53. The Faux-yer quietly tells Tony that Wilson doesn't know about their relationship, and she wants to keep it that way for now. Tony agrees, like he cares one way or another at this point. The monitor shows Wilson's convoy rolling onto the grounds, and they go outside to meet him.
Wilson has arrived in a stretch limo bookended by Humvees, a clear sign of a man who wants to protect his anonymity. Of course if he were really careful, he'd be riding in one of the Hummers. Or possibly in a sling underneath it. A small army of bodyguards gets out of the two larger vehicles, but Wilson stays put inside the limo for now. His men fan out and take up positions all around the courtyard, their weapons plainly visible. Tony and the Faux-yer meet up with them, and the guards pat them both down. Tony is relieved of his handgun, but he gets to keep his cell phone. Yes, that's the same phone that's now his detonator. The goon didn't even bother opening it to see if Tony's homepage screen was a picture of a big black cartoon bomb with Kiefer's face on it. Satisfied, Wilson finally steps out of the back of his limo. Tony tries to hold his cell phone as casually as he can as Wilson approaches. The Faux-yer walks ahead to meet him, but Tony is held back as Wilson stone-facedly says, "Hello...Kara," without taking his eyes off Tony. She pecks Wilson on one impassive cheek, and I think I just figured out why she didn't want to tell Wilson that she and Tony are shtupping. She introduces Tony, and Wilson asks where Kiefer is. She gives directions on where to find him inside the building, and Tony hands over the keys to Kiefer's handcuffs at 7:16:46. Two of Wilson's men scurry into the warehouse as Wilson says that Tony's "been an asset," which is practically gushing for him. Tony says he has more to offer, as Kiefer is frog-marched out of the building. Wilson asks for Kiefer's pathology report, and the Faux-yer produces it on a PDA. Kiefer is dragged closer to Wilson. Tony fingers his cell phone. It's about to go down.
But suddenly, a helicopter roars into view over the courtyard. Walker's amplified voice rings out: "This is the FBI. You're surrounded." Looks like Chloe came through after all. "Lay down your weapons," Walker orders. Instead of doing that, Wilson's men start firing them at the chopper, as Wilson grabs Kara and they run for cover. Armored agents on the helicopter's landing gear open up with machine guns, and while bullets rain down around him, Tony takes a gun off one of Wilson's fallen men. Government SUVs are also rolling onto the scene, disgorging yet more armored agents. Kiefer breaks away from the men holding him and dives behind a parked pickup. Walker gives her pilot the order to land as the firefight rages on. A fuel drum gets pierced, and Tony creates a diversion for himself by shooting the stream on the ground and setting the stack of barrels alight, allowing him to run for the door through which Wilson and the Faux-yer just fled. Shortly thereafter, Walker runs from the helicopter and orders an agent to drive her over to the pickup Kiefer's hiding behind. She jumps on the running board, shooting as she goes, and finally somersaults off and ends up next to Kiefer. With the tape still on his mouth, he shakes his head and grunts at her, and tells her to get away as soon as she removes the tape. "I'm wired with C-4, Tony's got the detonator," he warns. But she opens his jacket and says she knows how to disarm it. Lucky, that. As she gets to work with the little screwdriver that apparently all FBI agents have on them at all times, she tells him Spawn's safe, and he tells her in return, "Tony's been playing both sides all along." He adds that Tony's after Alan Wilson, the man behind the conspiracy, and she needs to stop him. Quit distracting the lady who's fiddling with the explosives strapped to your body, Kiefer. Finally she finishes defusing him, then takes off his handcuffs. They go running off in search of Tony, Kiefer still wearing the bomb. It is surprisingly slimming, I suppose.
At 7:19:44, Wilson and the Faux-yer are making their way through the warehouse, Wilson on the phone to someone to get them out. Then he asks the Faux-yer how the FBI tracked them, but she doesn't know. Ooh, hey Kara, do you suppose it was through the operatives you left twisting in the breeze at the airport? Didn't I warn you about that, you dumb-ass? I'd be so much better at her job than she is. Hearing footsteps, she calls out to Tony and goes to him, telling him help is on the way. He's so relieved to hear it that he shoots her in the gut. She's quite surprised as she crumples, but his full attention is already on Wilson before she even hits the ground. Wilson just blinks at Tony, until Tony lunges at him, grabs him, and puts his gun to Wilson's forehead. Which is totally blowing his cover. Wilson wisely doesn't say anything. Tony says it took a long time, but it was worth it. "Ever since the day you had her killed, the only thing that kept me alive was this moment right here." "You sound like you were involved in some kind of a tragedy, but I had nothing to do with it," Wilson says, and gets pistol-whipped for it. Tony says that he and Michelle had escaped their lives in counterterrorism and were starting over. You know, in private security. "Until you came along and took it all away in a split second." Tony clubs Wilson to the ground and kicks him before telling us something we didn't know: "It wasn't just my wife you murdered. She was carrying my son. You killed my son! My son!" Tony screams. Drama queen. "And now I'm going to kill you." But before he does, a bullet hits him in the shoulder and he goes down. Walker has arrived just in time, with Kiefer right behind her and now carrying a gun of his own, although in fairly shaky hands. Tony tries to crawl over to recover his gun from the floor, despite having two FBI weapons pointed at him and Kiefer warning him not to move. Finally Kiefer shoots Tony in the wrist, making it a GSW hat-trick for Tony today. More armored agents arrive to drag Tony away, but not without Tony favoring Kiefer with an unhinged rant. "These people think they can take everything away from us, Jack. Somebody had to stop them. And what'd you do, huh? You ran away! You're one of them now! Congratulations! How would Teri feel about that, huh, Jack?" I don't think Teri would be able to make sense of a word Tony just said, frankly. Meanwhile, Wilson sits submissively on the floor, allowing himself to be handcuffed and dragged to his feet. Walker glares at him, while Kiefer collapses against a pillar at 7:23:13. I think his next grand mal is long over due, don't you?
So now it's all over but the crying, and since it's only At 7:27:36 when we come back, there's clearly going to be quite a lot of crying indeed. Let's get it over with.
Outside the warehouse, Walker goes over to where Wilson is submitting to the attentions of a paramedic for the gash in his temple and tells him, "A lot of people died today because of you. Including someone close to me." She threatens him with charges of treason and the death penalty unless he talks, but he plays dumb. "How can I cooperate if I have no idea what you're talking about?" he asks, far too smoothly for an innocent man. He adds that whatever this conspiracy might be, "I guarantee you won't find a shred of material evidence connecting me to it. In the eyes of the law, I'm an innocent man." She grabs him by the jacket, but he just tells her to talk to his attorneys. Ooh, that's torn it. But before she can do more, an agent says that Kiefer's ready to be taken to the hospital. Instead of tuning up on Wilson right now, she storms off into the building.
She finds Kiefer sitting up on a gurney, declining a shot of hydromorphone for the pain. Probably because he was once a heroin addict, and the last thing he needs right now is for a painkiller to send him back on a long, opiate-fueled downward spiral that ends with him dead in an alley three years from now. Of course, for that to happen, his three-year-old remains will need to be exhu