Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Closers
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 01.16.2005
Driscoll arrives at the CTU clinic, and the way she talks to the psychiatrist there makes it sound like they're basically going to admit DrisKid indefinitely as an inpatient. Oh, joy. Seriously, the doctor in charge of the clinic seems way too cheery about having a new nutbar to do stuff to. Driscoll goes in to see her daughter. What you need to know: DrisKid is sad and crazy, Driscoll is sad and frustrated, they hug, nobody cares. Let's just pretend that we don't know DrisKid only exists so she can a) humanize Driscoll, b) throw a wobbler and get loose on the CTU floor during the final minute of some future episode, or c) act as a love interest for DiCK, who, after a few more hours of sitting forgotten in an interrogation room hooked up to the mind-melter, will probably be an ideal mental and emotional match for her.
TerrorDad takes a call from Poor Man's Robert Davi telling him that VVH "martyred himself. Without hesitation." TerrorDad is so broken up at the news that he asks about the TerrorServers. PMRD says they're doing okay. TerrorDad offers to come in and help out, but PMRD declines, saying it's too risky. "If the servers don't work correctly, we're in trouble," TerrorDad says. "This trial is only the beginning." Just in case you thought the season finale was next week. After they hang up, PMRD turns to address a Caucasian man who has been examining the contents of the Briefcase (again, we can't see inside). He kind of stands out amid all of these Hispanic actors playing Middle-Easterners. TerrorGringo assures PMRD that the Briefcase and its contents survived the train crash just fine. Lucky, that. PMRD tells him to "get started." It's 11:45:10.
Suddenly PMRD smells gas and connects it with DaD. He and the head of the kidnapping crew run down the hall. His reaction when he opens the observation hatch suggests that either the smell of gas in the cell is very strong or DaD totally let one rip. Guards rush in and untie the unconscious Team DoD from their chairs and drag them out into the hallway, where a door to the outside is thrown open to let in fresh air. TerrorGringo watches nervously as the men try to revive DaD. Finally, they succeed. Poor DaD. Still alive. DoDder wakes up too, and her first words upon regaining consciousness and spotting TerrorGringo are, "I know you." Good move. TerrorGringo freaks and tells PMRD that she has to be killed. PMRD assures him (quietly, but not all that quietly) that she will be and that TerrorGringo should go "do" his "job."