S4.E10

Chinese Box

Episode aired Dec 14, 2007
TV-PG
45m

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David is held hostage in an elevator at the F.B.I. building, and Don keeps brushing aside Charlie's suggestion to save David as an all-out assault is planned.David is held hostage in an elevator at the F.B.I. building, and Don keeps brushing aside Charlie's suggestion to save David as an all-out assault is planned.David is held hostage in an elevator at the F.B.I. building, and Don keeps brushing aside Charlie's suggestion to save David as an all-out assault is planned.

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1sandcrab277

total waste of an hour with commercials

The writers must have been empty to come up with an episode waster like this one...better time would have been spent exploring don's love life....makes you wonder though where such an elevator could be tied up for filming such garbage.. perhaps the entire cast was tired of learning lines each week, or they weren't agreeable to go on strike for better wages so they just stood there for a bye week... david and don show their weaknesses and cave to the manic-depressive

7Hitchcoc

Suspenseful Elevator Drama

David ends up in an elevator with a guy who has worked for the Bureau for 25 years. He has what appears to be a high level of paranoia. Since this is a continuing show, we know how it will all play out. I never felt any suspense here. Don's current romance is disintegrating. Charlie express his hurt feelings because people don't understand him.

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Trivia
Enrico Colantoni, who plays the hostage taker in this episode, began playing the regular role of a hostage negotiator on Flashpoint (2008), which was also broadcast in the USA by CBS.

Goofs
At the end, inside the elevator David pushes the "LL" button to get the car moving. Moments later, the elevator stops at the lobby "L", not the lower lobby "LL".