Episode Report Card Gustave: B+ | 110 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Bitchelle of Mercy
By Gustave | Season 3 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2004.04.06
Back at Palmerville, Brother Palmer escorts Palmer to his hastily put-together press conference and assures him that the FBI is on the lookout for any suspicious activity signaled by the phrase "the sky is falling." Then they argue some more about whether or not to ground any domestic flights. Palmer takes the podium, and the televised press conference begins. While Sahhhhn-ders watches on TV from his hideout, Palmer announces that the terror level has been increased to red and that all flights are being grounded. "I'm not taking this action because the sky is falling," he says. "But I'd rather be overprotected than underprepared." He walks offstage, but the press has questions. Brother Palmer announces that Palmer isn't taking any questions, but Palmer doubles back and offers to answer one or two. Way to undermine your brother in public, Palmer!
Meanwhile, at MI-6, which is housed on one floor within a glass skyscraper, Kiefer, Diana, and Special Agent Charlie Brown arrive to see Trevor, Prince of the Sewers. They lead Diana down a hallway while Trevor PotS announces that he's just learned that Diana is the registered owner of Flu Bar, that Chinese Bar with the Greg Brady curtains where the V-I-R-U-S was sold to Sahhhhn-ders. Diana claims not to have seen him there. Kiefer doesn't believe her, but before they can settle it, a helicopter can be seen approaching the building. "Get down!" says Kiefer as machine gun fire comes into the building from the helicopters. Everyone hits the deck. Kiefer and Charlie Brown portentously draw their handguns and shoot back in vain. Diana is fatally wounded. Trevor, the Prince of the Sewers, is also fatally wounded. But before he dies, Kiefer asks him where his data on Sahhhhn-ders is kept. Trevor, Prince of the Sewers, gives Kiefer a grid number and collapses to the ground. Kiefer and Charlie Brown take to the stairwell in search of the server. Sleek-looking gunmen from a variety of racial heritages wearing black turtlenecks shoot at them. Kiefer and Charlie manage to shoot a few and escape unharmed. They reach the basement computer room and find the desired server. Just as Kiefer is disengaging the server from the wall unit, he notices a bomb-like apparatus lying on the other side of the room and giving off mechanical blips. Kiefer orders Charlie Brown to get out of there. Yet again, Charlie ain't following anyone's orders, not even Kiefer's velvety ones. Finally Kiefer gets the server disengaged just as the blips are getting faster, and there's this ominous buzzing sound too. They manage to get out of the room just microseconds before the room explodes. The time is 05:49:26 AM.