Episode Report Card Gustave: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Ladies with an attitude
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 02.04.2002
Speaking of the devil, Gaines is indeed trying to contact Jalapeno, to no avail. His phone rings. Hey, guess what? Gaines has his own TerrorBoss! He's a rich guy with some kind of European accent named "Mr. Drazen," and he's played by Zeljko Ivanek, last week's Hey, It's That Guy! Maybe now I'll get the suave villain that I always wanted. He's calling from his private plane to bitch Gaines out for dropping the ball on the Palmer assassination mishap -- but in a really reserved old-world-European kind of way. Gaines assures ForeignAccentedTerrorBoss that Palmer will be dead by the end of the television season…I mean, "day"…and that they have the Kieferettes as leverage, so they can still use Kiefer and set him up. "If Plan A doesn't work," says ForeignAccentedTerrorBoss, accepting a vodka on the rocks from a pretty-boy minion, "you have to have a Plan B, not Plan A recycled." He tells Gaines that he's coming to L.A. personally to "assess the situation," and if he doesn't see a "substantial improvement" in the next episode…I mean, "hour"…he'll have Cofell cut off Gaines's money and maybe a body part or two. ForeignAccentedTerrorBoss also refers to a brother of his who has a personal vendetta against Kiefer. Gaines starts to lose his cool and, strangely, starts unbuttoning his own shirt and caressing his collarbone. What's up with that? Did someone slip him a tab of X?
Speaking of mysterious men in suits, there's a bunch of them in Kreepy Karl's office. Lady Mac calls Kreepy Karl from her cell from the ladies' room of the elementary school and tries to work out a private deal with him to "take care" of Reporter Maureen. Turns out Kreepy Karl has a plan of his own that he's already begun to put into action. He's planning to "take care" of the Theo situation in his own special way, and the men in his office are the main financial backers of Palmer's campaign, who are also concerned. Lady Mac, unaware of the suits in Kreepy Karl's office, is startled by Karl's willingness to play hardball, and asks Karl what he's up to. Kreepy Karl tells her not to worry her pretty little head about it. "But Lady Mac," says Kreepy Karl, framed by an L.A. view out his window and a cloud of atmospheric cigar smoke that only seems to emanate from the ashtrays of powerful ruthless men, "if we give David a way out of this, make sure he takes it." They hang up, and one of the suits, who has bug eyes just like Steve Forbes, gets up and exits Karl's office as though he's a little freaked out. Lady Mac is freaked herself, judging by some difficulty she seems to be having balancing on her super-high heels. She exits the ladies' room and returns to the safety of her Secret Service detail. Watch out, Kreepy Karl. I don't think many people make Lady Mac nervous.