Episode Report Card Gustave: A- | 226 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT The final hour
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 24 | Aired on 2002.05.21
Wait, there are voices. Male Serbian voices from far away. The search is on for Spawn. Spawn emerges from Lake Terrorpisakee, her hair glistening with light-catching sewer water, gazes openmouthed at all the big complicated machinery around, and hides from a flashlight-wielding TerrorMinion. Flashlight-WieldingTerrorMinion gets a call on his cell. It's FATB. Of course. He asks FWTM how the search for Spawn is going. FWTM says he hasn't found her yet. FATB stresses the importance of "finding zee girl," and goes back to discussing strategy with WasteOfProductionBudget…I mean, "Dennis Hopper." More Flashlight-WieldingTerrorMinions comb the area with flashlights. They barely miss finding Spawn, who is panting quite deliciously in her skintight and wet jeans and jean shirt. The shirt, incidentally, is buttoned up all the way to her collarbone. I can't believe they missed an opportunity for Spawn cleavage. She makes a run for it. Is this a reference to her earlier opportunity to run away from the TerrorKompound with Rick that she passed on? She scales a barbed wire fence, jumps into a road full of big rigs -- that, incidentally, we never heard in the background until now -- and stands down an eighteen-wheeler until it stops.
Back at the Palmer Suite, the press gathers outside, having just learned of Palmer's death. Lady Mac enters the office in her bad-ass fuchsia Pucci leisure suit and Toni Braxton 'do and starts to lecture Poor Man's Hume Cronyn and Palmer. "Since no one has seen a body, the media is circulating all kinds of rumors," she says, gesturing along with her manicured hands. I love it when she talks with her hands. You just know shit is going to fly. Palmer assures her that he'll come clean as soon as Kiefer's Spawn is safe. Lady Mac bitches about having to play the "grieving widow." "Just how long do we have to keep this charade up?" she bellows. Well, actually, Lady Mac, no more than an hour. Lady Mac tries to get Poor Man's Hume Cronyn on her side, but he just wants to keep out of it. "You came clean earlier today," she tells Palmer. "You got lucky. But it could just as easily gone the other way." Oh, whatever. She just needs another reason to defy Palmer in order to keep the storyline moving. Palmer lays down the law and tells her that Kiefer saved his life twice today, and he will not sacrifice Kiefer's daughter for his political career. Lady Mac tries to catch Poor Man's Hume Cronyn's eye for back-up, but he stares at his shoes. She exits.