Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Together Again
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.06.2005
Commercials, including a local one for that casino next door to the nuclear power plant. They don't mention that part, though.
2:52:34. Eric has surprisingly failed to make Special Agent Breck talk by torturing her into unconsciousness, DaD has joined the Blue Man Group, DoDder hopes she doesn't get another Secret Service detail killed out from under her, and AIIIEEEE!sha looks around for more people she can frame. However, she's focused on her monitor again when Lispy Skip approaches her with this confusing speech: "About an hour ago you asked me to bump up your security clearance? I was a little busy with the MacGuffin but I finally got it for you." Okay, she actually asked him about three and a half hours ago, and he got it for her ten minutes later, before anybody at CTU had even heard of the MacGuffin. Unless she came and bugged him for another clearance bump while he was singlehandely trying to prevent a coast-to-coast atomic monsoon, in which case, whoa. AIIIEEEE!sha absently thanks him, but he continues to loom over her. "What?" she says impatiently. Skip explains that she needs to choose a password, and sets up a screen for her to do so. Then he heads back to his own desk, where he's apparently hacked into AIIIEEEE!sha's system. There are sneaky glances back and forth between the two of them across the floor until the words "Old CTU substation in Torrance" pop up on Skip's screen. Holy shit! Skip's the mole! Oh, wait. Never mind. AIIIEEEE!sha appears over his shoulder and he closes down the window with the practiced speed of a veteran TWoP reader. Now there's nothing on his screen but the map showing the six unstable plants. Hey, that one in Pennsylvania has gone to Virginia! It's not just melting down, it's on the move! Somebody had better warn the President. AIIIEEEE!sha appears to have figured out that Skip is onto her, but so far she's only asking him to step outside and talk in private. Skip wants no part of that. AIIIEEEE!sha reminds him of their blackmail arrangement. Instead of caving, Skip nervously scoots away from her towards Curtis and invites him up to the DrisCube with him. Curtis is confused, but Skip insists, and the two of them head towards the DrisCube at 2:55:03 while AIIIEEEE!sha stands there snacking on a fingernail.
Driscoll is talking with Scott when her employees come in. Skip breaks the news that Special Agent Breck is innocent. Scott's not buying it, but Skip technobabbles about how AIIIEEEE!sha hacked into Special Agent Breck's system using a plain old AC power line. I know, I don't get it either. Curtis steps out of the DrisCube just in time to see AIIIEEEE!sha walking towards the exit as if she's experiencing severe intestinal urgency. Curtis sounds the alarm and chases after her.