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
Agent Castle hauls TerrorMom over to the hospital laundry chute where Soul Patch is helping Kiefer get set up with his spelunking equipment. Kiefer explains to her that they've located the TerrorMen in the basement, and Soul Patch is going to take her down there and have her call her husband and try to keep him on the line as long as possible. She readily agrees, happy to hear that her son is still alive. Kiefer and Agent Castle finish getting Kiefer ready to plumb the depths of the laundry chute, an operation which for some reason requires both of them to do some fiddling with Agent Castle's groinal area. I knew there was something going on between those two. At 4:10:06, Kiefer dives into the chute headfirst, hanging upside down and looking pretty limber for a guy who just got run over by a car twelve minutes ago. Over his headset, he whispers directions to Agent Castle, who slowly lowers him into position.
Soul Patch and TerrorMom take up position in a stairwell, and Soul Patch hands her a cell phone, reminding her to keep TerrorDad on the line as long as possible. Helleeeew?
TerrorDad's busy rummaging through a locker of cleaning supplies (?) when his phone rings. TerrorMom begs for her son's life, which starts him off on a rant. He must be pretty pissed off, because he's got to realize that his wife wouldn't be calling without the permission, if not at the specific instruction, of the agents holding her, for reasons that can only be to his detriment. And yet he launches into a selection from Poor Man's Robert Davi's Big Book of Boring Radical Terrorist Tirades while Kiefer uses a nifty telescoping dental mirror to establish the positions of the two figures in the room below him. Kiefer whispers that he's ready to go. He gets lowered headfirst on his Mission Impossible harness, gun at the ready, and quickly rights himself once he's on the ground. It's a pretty big room and there are shelves and lockers everywhere, so neither TerrorTeen nor TerrorDad has noticed his entrance. Kiefer unclips himself from the cables and takes up position behind a cabinet, instructing Agent Castle to reel the harness rig back in. Sadly, TerrorDad's yammering isn't so loud that he doesn't hear the even louder clang of the harness frame against the edge of the laundry chute. Kiefer makes an "oh shit" face, as if anything that shuts up TerrorDad right now could be bad. I don't think Agent Castle is going to be getting any more groinal fiddling from Kiefer on this day. TerrorDad carefully moves towards Kiefer's position, drawing his gun as he goes. TerrorDad comes around the corner to receive a perfectly-timed, straight-armed backhand to the nose that sends him sprawling and his gun skittering across the floor towards TerrorTeen. Kiefer orders TerrorDad to his feet and tells him to put his hands on his head.