Episode Report Card Gustave: B- | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT 12:00 AM - 1:00 AM
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on November 5, 2001
No way.Soul Patch has found his way into Xander's offshore bank account. He calls Kiefer and tells him he's emailing him the results. Kiefer gets the email, wakes up Xander, shows him the incriminating account statement, and blackmails him into revealing the source of the assassination information. "You have no idea what you're getting yourself into," says Xander, typing the name of the source on Kiefer's computer screen so that we, the viewers, don't know who it is.
Now that Martin/Eurotrash is in his seat, Mandy limps pathetically out of the bathroom by herself, having just checked his stolen wallet for his press pass. When a stewardess tells her to take her seat as they'll be landing soon, Mandy kills her with a lethal injection to her jugular vein. Wow, I didn't see that coming at all. Martin notices that his wallet is missing. He tries to get up and find Mandy, but a stewardess stops him and tells him to take his seat because they're landing soon. Mandy pulls a suitcase out of the front compartment and rigs up some explosives. She puts on a parachute and some stylin' gloves and gives us a mournful sidelong glance not seen since the days of Susanna Hoffs's tenure with the Bangles. The bomb busts open the plane door, and she flies out. As Mandy begins her descent, the bomb goes off and explodes the plane. Thank God the producers of 24 decided not to show the actual airplane exploding, because that would be insensitive. Instead, Mandy is shown flying away from a ball of fire we can barely see, which many viewers assumed was the sunrise and was therefore a major blooper as far as this whole real time gimmick is concerned. How quaint. A terrorist who thinks it's important to save her own life.
Kiefer calls Bride of Kiefer, who is in the car with Mr. York. Kiefer is concerned that Bride of Kiefer is driving around so late at night with someone she doesn't even know. The connection is broken -- damn those cell phones -- and Kiefer asks Nina to cover for him while he leaves the office. Nina agrees, but before Kiefer can get to his call, Soul Patch tells him about a plane exploding over the Mojave desert due to a bomb on board. Um, if this show is in real time, would they really know already? Kiefer asks for a passenger list and gets back to work. Back in the purple van, Spawn of Kiefer tells PMMS's boyfriend to take the next exit. Boyfriend of PMMS ignores her. "You missed my turn," whines Spawn of Kiefer. Rick, who is acting strangely cold all of a sudden, tells her to relax.