Episode Report Card Gustave: B- | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Day 2: 4:00 AM - 5:00 AM
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on April 28, 2003
24. Damn! No graphic violence this week. Previouslys. Palmer feels out PoorMan'sHumeCronyn for any hidden regrets or disagreements. PoorMan'sJoeLieberman calls a meeting with the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment. Spawn is legally off the hook for everything that happened that morning, since NoDaddyNo is the police department's number one suspect. Chappelle can't relieve Soul Patch of his duties, because he just doesn't have anyone to take his place. The sandblasting rednecks have Cate and the chip until Kiefer bursts in, armed to the teeth. So they lock themselves into the bathroom with the chip and threaten to smash it.
Kiefer's still outside that bathroom, pounding on the door like a Brady sibling waiting for Marcia to finish brushing her hair. "Ninety-eight…ninety-nine…" He lays on the Sutherland velvet and begs for the chip, even explaining that it has important information on it about who was really responsible for the B-O-M-B. He even gives a velvety promise of total amnesty once they open the door and turn the chip over. Kiefer gives them thirty seconds. Meanwhile, Cate butts in and is all, "What do mean they can go free, they tried to kill me?" Kiefer has to give her an extra-velvety assurance that millions of lives depend on this chip. One of the rednecks begs the other to give up the chip already. The Redneck holding the chip, however, is hesitant to trust Kiefer; after all, Kiefer killed one of their own just moments earlier, and now, without the chip, they'll have no bargaining power. "You don't have a choice," says Kiefer, explaining that the rednecks have got to trust him. The rednecks start struggling over the gun, and it accidentally goes off. Kiefer shoots his way in and orders the men up against the wall. HesitantRedneck drops the chip on the bathroom floor. "Where's the chip?" barks Kiefer. HesitantRedneck shows him where he dropped it. Kiefer has Cate go fetch some wire so she can tie the rednecks up. The chip is now in Kiefer's hands!
Meanwhile, at that cold tall glass and steel building known as "Division" -- also known as the least catchy location ever -- where armed guards stand at attention outside of the lobby like this is some Soviet Government building, Palmer is reading a briefing inside his sleek but lifeless temporary office. There's new music. It's this eerie minimalist (what else?) string piece with lots of scary double bass. PoorMan'sHumeCronyn enters, and Palmer tells him that he just learned that the bombers did not return to their bases as he ordered. PoorMan'sHumeCronyn, by way of an answer, asks Palmer to come with him.