Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Kiefer to the Rescue! Um, Kiefer?
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 3 | Aired on 01.09.2005
Potato Face walks off in the middle of Driscoll's instructions. She picks up her phone to call the train station, but there's no new information. She hangs up about a second before Special Agent Breck rings her extension. Oh, and guess what? Now CTU has these LCD videophone displays that show the caller's face in fish-eye peephole-vision. I have no idea why, since anybody in the place can just look across the floor and see anybody else, usually without even standing up. But maybe they'll come into play later. I hope so, because even Special Agent Breck looks like hell on it. Anyway Special Agent Breck is asking for Potato Face's help with something or other. Potato Face gives her about four seconds of her time before snapping, "My friend, Witless, who I promised would be okay, do you mind if I try to find him?" She hangs up with a resounding [sic].
Speaking of Witless, he's trying to sit up and peer through the back window of the VVH-mobile, until VVH smacks him back down. VVH checks his rearview, then dials his cell. Poor Man's Robert Davi puts down the Briefcase and answers the call at 9:07:16. VVH tells Poor Man's Robert Davi that he has Witless, although he had to kill Kiefer 2.0. He also figures that anyone following him from the station would have caught up with him by now. Poor Man's Robert Davi says that's true, unless he's being followed by someone who doesn't want him to know he's being followed. Which is correct. But what if nobody was following him, but wanted him to think he was being followed? Or what if VVH is secretly following someone without telling Poor Man's Robert Davi, who in turn is having Kiefer followed without Kiefer's knowledge? Oh, never mind. Poor Man's Robert Davi ends the call by telling VVH to "take precautions." At the next exit ramp, the VVH-mobile dives across two lanes of traffic and the tip of the median to get off the freeway. Kiefer watches this from the middle lane, too close behind to follow him down the off-ramp, even if he could without giving himself away. Kiefer guns it to the on-ramp and heads down it in the wrong direction, honking and yelling, "Move!" Stupid sheep, going up the on-ramp the right way. One of the vehicles is the obligatory yellow school bus, although it's visibly empty of students. Kiefer gets to the bottom of the ramp and spots the VVH-mobile turning off the road to his left. Does VVH notice in his rearview the Kiefmobile that just appeared where no vehicle of any kind had any business appearing? No; Kiefer follows the VVH-mobile's turns and pulls onto a residential street with a clear view of the VVH-mobile a block or two ahead. Well played, Kiefer. Too bad that school bus was empty; you could have made that the most exciting field trip ever.