Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Take These Secondary Characters, Please!
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 02.20.2005
4:47:55. Grayadder is still pacing his hotel room when there's a soft knock on the door. He opens the door and invites DoDder in. He ordered a bottle of her favorite champagne. Well, that was a bit forward, wasn't it? He fills flutes for both of them with his back turned to her, and she notices a couple of documents on a table. She sidles over to peek at them. Dammit, DoDder, you're just here to stall him, not investigate. Get back on task before you screw this up. When he turns around and seems to notice what she's doing, she puts her pocketbook and phone down on top of the papers to cover her nosiness. Smooth. They talk about their relationship and how they got here. She's acting all flirty with him. I need some Pepto. He says, "I still have feelings for you. And you must have some for me. Otherwise you wouldn't be here, right?" Riiiight. As he approaches her, he whispers, "I would hate to think you're playing some kind of game with me." "I don't play games," she lies. He hands her a glass of champagne and they toast to "new beginnings." Kiefer horns in on this private moment with his splitscreen window showing him driving to the hotel as DoDder and Grayadder sip their champagne. It's 4:49:44.
4:53:52. Grayadder refills champagne glasses, Kiefer's on the phone, and Curtis and AIIIEEEE!sha are walking through an office building with their security escort. Kiefer, who's literally sweating over his girlfriend hanging out with her ex-husband, asks Driscoll about the backup teams due at the hotel. They were "caught up in traffic," Driscoll says. At ten minutes to five? In L.A.? That's unpossible! Kiefer says he wants their guys to bypass hotel security and bust into Grayadder's room as soon as they get there. Driscoll suggests a fiber optic camera like they used on TerrorMom last week, but Kiefer doesn't want to risk spooking his competition. Even though spooking an actual terrorist is fine, apparently. Kiefer asks whether Curtis found out anything about Grayadder from AIIIEEEE!sha. Driscoll says no, but they're about to access the computer files. Since it's just over five minutes from the end of the episode, I'm sure that'll go off without a hitch, aren't you?
Sure enough, AIIIEEEE!sha is leading the security detail and a visibly nervous Curtis through an empty-looking office complex. Curtis suspects a trap. AIIIEEEE!sha lets the security team in to inspect a cavernous, glass-walled office at the end of a hallway. At 4:55:34, they give Curtis the all-clear. They station themselves outside the door to get killed first while Curtis and AIIIEEEE!sha go inside. Curtis closes the door behind them as AIIIEEEE!sha goes right to the computer. He paces around nervously as AIIIEEEE!sha successfully logs in to TerrorGringo's computer. But when she tries to open a folder marked "Company Listing Directory," she gets another password prompt. This seems to throw her a little bit. She's just about to try a second password when, right on cue, a dead CTU agent rolls into the room. Two armed white guys in suits come in right behind him, the one with the shotgun ordering Curtis to get his hand away from his sidearm. AIIIEEEE!sha jumps away from the keyboard like it's on fire, assuring the men that she didn't access the files. As a Poor Man's John Malkovich appears behind the armed men, the guy with the hand cannon plugs her twice in the chest. So she's done. Beware seeing your name in the freeze-frames in the previouslies, people. The guy with the shotgun tells Curtis to disarm. Curtis places his handgun in TerrorGringo's inbox. Shotgun brings Curtis before Poor Mans' John Malkovich. "Your name is Curtis Manning. You work for CTU. You're going to tell me how far along you are in your investigation." Yes, yes, and no. Curtis observes from the man's appearance and accent, "You're American. And you're working with the terrorists? Who are you?" His answer: "I'm going to ask you one more time: what does CTU know about the MacGuffin?" Curtis says, "Wow, that's a mouthful. Can I just call you 'I'mgoingtoaskyou'?" Actually, he says nothing, so Poor Man's John Malkovich tells him, "Good night," and Shotgun poleaxes him from behind with his gunstock. The goons pick Curtis up and drag him out of the room and into the upper left corner of the frame. I think if Curtis were to wake up now, he'd just pass right back out in shock at not being dead. In the upper right, AIIIEEEE!sha's lying eyes-open-dead on the office floor. In the left half, TerrorMom and TerrorTeen wonder if they'll get more lines next week. And DaD frets at CTU in the lower right.