Episode Report Card Gustave: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Blondes and Bombshells
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 10.28.2002
God, I would kill for a commercial right now. Commercial-free episodes are like "all you can eat buffalo wing night" at the local diner. It's great for all of the buffalo wing lovers out there who come for miles around with their coupons and plunk down their six dollars for unlimited servings of buffalo wings and tap water. But I'm the waiter who has to schlep back and forth from the kitchen and my tables with water pitcher and the endless refills of buffalo wings, celery sticks, and blue cheese dressing as my face breaks out from the deadly combo of Fryolater grease and sweat that will have covered every exposed surface of my epidermis by evenings end. And the tips suck. I don't know how Aaron does this every week.
So the UnaKiefer is now in the CTU parking lot, leaving a message for Spawn's Aunt Carol to get Spawn out of L.A. Could this "Aunt Carol" be Teri's twin sister? We can dream, can't we? Kiefer gets into his car and prepares to leave L.A. But wait. He sees a hippy mom and her cute little boy walking down the street in front of the CTU parking lot. Okay, thinks Kiefer, maybe I lost my whole family, but others might lose their families today too. He returns to CTU -- because his pass still works -- and barges into Mason's office, where Mason is in the middle of chastising Soul Patch for letting Kiefer slip through their fingers and snarking on Nina 2.0. Kiefer demands that Spawn be taken out of L.A., and that her safety be confirmed throughout the day by Tony. "Sorry, I don't trust you," says Kiefer to Mason, referring obviously to last season when Mason didn't let Kiefer know that the safe house had been penetrated. Ree-ow! Mason agrees to Kiefer's conditions, but stresses that this crisis is bigger than all of their differences and they've got to work together blah blah blah. Tony leaves to arrange Spawn's protection. Kiefer sits down, and the briefing starts. Nina 2.0 exposits that a suspected cell leader named Joseph Wald is their best link to the Second Wave, and since Jack knows him from doing some undercover work with him in the past, he's their target. Apparently, this Joseph Wald guy got out of jail after Kiefer put him away. This guy is also somehow magically not aware that Kiefer was the undercover agent who put him away, even though you'd think something like that would come up at the trial. Nevertheless, Wald is awaiting trial for some brand-new charges that could put him away for life, but no one can track down his exact location. "Are there any key witnesses against him at his trial?" asks Kiefer. Darlene tells him about a witness named Marshall Goren. "Without him, there's no case," she says, giving Kiefer a file. Kiefer tells Mason to bring Marshall in…now. Mason asks why. Kiefer doesn't answer.