Episode Report Card Gustave: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Flight 69 goes down
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 12.16.2002
Oh, if laughing at the misfortunes of JonBenet, Spawn, and Miguel is wrong, I don't want to be right. Back at the side of the highway, JonBenet cries some Cindy Brady tears over…well, it could be one of a number of things: the fact that her father just had the shit beaten out of him by her nanny's boyfriend, the existence of her mother's dead body in the trunk of a stolen car, the sight of her beloved nanny being hauled off to jail, or maybe the inevitable fact that she's going to be placed in a foster home before the day is over. It's official. JonBenet is this season's PMMS. Anyway, Spawn protests that JonBenet cannot be taken back to L.A. "It's not safe," she whines. The police ignore her. Enricky -- who is somehow still able to speak privately to Spawn even though they are both being cuffed by the police -- urges her to tell the police about the B-O-M-B. "My father told me not to," says Spawn. Oh, like a warning from Daddy ever worked before. "Yeah, but he didn't know you were going to be charged with murder," says Enricky limply. Spawn still refuses to disobey the Kiefer. Enricky urges her to tell the police who her dad is and explain why they were trying to get JonBenet out of town. Oh, that will work. Just tell the police that you were trying to save a little girl from being vaporized in a nuclear blast…the very same nuclear blast that will surely kill these very officers. I'm sure they'll be very understanding and let you go on your way. Then it will be like one of those Scooby Doo delayed reactions where an hour later, the officers will be looking at each other and they'll all go in unison, "A nuclear bomb? In L.A.? Run!" Another officer grabs Enricky and puts him in his own squad car. PolicemanWithSpeakingPart gets into a squad car with Spawn and they're all on the road back to L.A.…but not before we get another shot of a crying JonBenet with her little pig nose pressed against the glass of her very own squad car. Spawn asks PolicemanWithSpeakingPart to call CTU and talk to her father, who will explain everything. PolicemanWithSpeakingPart tells Spawn that she can call her father after she's been processed.
Visalia. Back at Crescent Collectibles, Nina is trying to get a now conscious Faheen to give her information about the bomb. "Alakalak alakalakal akalak Los Angeles," says Nina. "Alakalak alakalakalak alak jihad jihad," says Faheen. This is translated into English by Bitchelle, who is patched into their conversation through some Whatever Technology. According to her, Nina asked Faheen to tell her about the bomb, and Faheen said that he won't tell her anything but the bomb is going off regardless. Kiefer enters the room to see how Nina is progressing and concludes that this all might not be such a great idea. Nina insists that she just needs a little more time. The agents grab Faheen and Nina to take them to Los Angeles. Kiefer wants to interrogate them at CTU. Nina warns him against this. "The deeper you bring him into the system the more he'll shut down." Oh, Nina. He's a terrorist, not a foster child. Kiefer pushes her into a van. Nina whines to PoorMan'sSeanAstin about how she's being treated. PMSA tries to intervene. Kiefer pushes him. A bunch of agents pull guns on Kiefer. Kiefer slams the van door shut in frustration. The time is 03:09:31 PM.