Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Unlovely Rita
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.11.2007
The bad guys have moved Morris to the bathroom, where they're holding his head down in the tub. Which is full of water, I should add. At least it won't mess up his hair. When they let him up for air, Morris coughs out about a gallon of water and begs them to stop. Fayed says that they will, if Morris agrees to do what he wants. Before Morris answers, however, the building's fire alarm goes off. One of Fayed's henchmen looks out the window and reports that people are leaving: "If there really is a fire, what do we do?" Fayed responds by borrowing an assault rifle from another one of his men, using the butt to bash the fire alarm off the wall, and returning the weapon. "CTU knows we're here," he says. Rita would really like to leave now, but Fayed tells her to shut up and storms back to the bathroom, now carrying a cordless drill with a very long bit attached to it. Uh-oh. Fayed has his men push Morris face-first against the wall and tells him, "Your time is up." And he sinks the spinning drill bit into the back of Morris's left shoulder. Owie. At least we don't see the bit actually going in, much less coming back out in front. Morris screams obligingly, and then sinks to the bloody floor when Fayed pulls the bit out. Standing over him, Fayed tells Morris, "I will use this all over your body until you die of shock or blood loss. Then I will just find someone else to do what I need. Do you understand?" If Morris does, he's too busy crying to say so. Or to point out that Fayed really doesn't have that kind of time. Not that I would myself. I'm only mocking Morris for crying because I'd still be too busy screaming to cry. Rita comes in, begging to be let go. She says she doesn't even care about the money any more. Which is stupid, because it tells Fayed that McCarthy isn't waiting to hear from her after all, and that he can kill her with impunity. Which he forthwith does. Rita falls to the ground, eye-to-dead-eye with Morris. That, plus the sound of the drill revving up again, is enough to break Morris. "I'll do it," he says tearfully. It's 1:38:34.
1:43:02. Tom sits in his office reading a memo. When Chad Lowe comes in, Tom says that Assad's going to be giving a televised address. "Not only are we giving free airtime to a mass murderer and an avowed enemy of democracy, we are proving terrorism works." Something wrong with killing two birds with one stone? This just makes him want his resignation letter more, but of course Chad Lowe doesn't have one for him. Instead, Chad Lowe asks him, "What if I told you the climate could change?" What does that even mean? "What does that even mean?" Tom asks. Chad Lowe says that there are others who believe "that a change in leadership is imperative to ensure this nation's security." If Chad Lowe expects to be thanked for mentioning this, he's going to be disappointed. Tom slowly gets up, comes around his desk, and dangerously asks who Chad Lowe is talking about. Chad Lowe backpedals so quickly that he practically redshifts, but he says that Tom's plan would have plenty of support if the Veep were president. Tom says that while he may disagree with Wayne, he doesn't think it warrants Wayne's removal. "I'm not talking about holding hearings," says Chad Lowe. "Something more immediate would have to happen." Oh, well, that sounds much better than hearings. But now it's out there. Well, as "out there" as it's going to get, since Chad Lowe is done saying what he means for the next two episodes. Tom is shocked at what Chad Lowe seems to be suggesting. Chad Lowe says he's only "musing," and Tom warns him not to "muse" himself into jail for treason. Then he sends him off to write that damn resignation letter already. Surprisingly, he doesn't tell Chad Lowe to put his own name on it as well.