Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Terrorist Leader: 2. Bloated Government Bureaucracy: 1.
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.27.2005
Which means it's time to wire up TerrorTeen with his tracers. A Redshirt leads him into a room which also contains the CTU Tracer Guy, I guess, and Curtis, now in a bulletproof vest. TerrorTeen wants to know what's up. Whatever drug he was on courtesy of Eric the Torture Guy seems to have worn off. That just went right through him, didn't it? Eric the Torture Guy could probably mop up the puddle on TerrorTeen's chair, wring it out, and use it on the next guy. Curtis matter-of-factly explains ImhoTerror's offer, and that they accepted it. "We'll be behind you every step of the way." Heh. As if TerrorTeen is actually doing anything. "Does my mother know about this?" TerrorTeen demands. "Yes," Curtis lies. TerrorTeen reminds him of the witness protection deal. Curtis flatly states, "We'll do everything we can to abide by that agreement…now put this watch on." TerrorTeen refuses, so they help him out a little. He also gets an injection in the back of the neck -- the second tracking device, as Curtis explains. Curtis gives his word that he'll do everything possible to keep TerrorTeen safe. "You don't care about me," TerrorTeen whines. "Or your word. You're just using me." Sure, now he figures out what's going on. Curtis, to his utter lack of credit, looks guilty and sad at this as TerrorTeen is led from the room.
Lispy Skip is just about to open up that red CD-ROM that Meg brought him when Soul Patch comes up to ask him to do some technobabble. Skip complains about all the other stuff he has going on. Soul Patch says he'll take on one of Skip's tasks. When Skip waves the red CD in Soul Patch's face, he's instructed to check it as soon as he's finished the technobabble Soul Patch just assigned him. Lispy Skip puts the red CD back down, unexamined. I was never a big fan of Special Agent Breck, but at least she could do a few hundred different things at once.
At 9:45:07, TerrorTeen is being led across the CTU floor. Soul Patch watches him get frog-marched past, then confirms with Potato Face that both trackers are working. He also tells Lispy Skip to "make sure all cellular stations are put on auto-trace." Somebody please tell me there's no such thing. Soul Patch then meets up with Bitchelle and Buchanan in the center of the floor as they discuss final details and plot points. That's when Lispy Skip's phone rings, with ImhoTerror on the other end. Bitchelle puts in her earpiece again. You know, when every second counts, why does she want to spend so many of them screwing around with that thing? At least Driscoll wasn't above picking up a damn receiver. In any case, ImhoTerror gives his final instructions, and agrees to let CTU's agent at the exchange see Kiefer -- whom he calls "your boy scout" -- before releasing TerrorTeen. And of course he threatens to kill Kiefer if there's any CTU interference. By the way, this call lasts a full minute, and there's no indication that they're trying to trace these calls anymore. But it's still less time than they took to trace Saunders last season, so I'm allowing it. "We'll see you in five minutes" is ImhoTerror's sign-off. "That should keep them busy," he tells his IT minion. Since it's about time for a suspenseful cut to commercial, the IT minion asks what to do about Kiefer. "As soon as we have TerrorTeen," ImhoTerror says, "we kill Kiefer." It's 9:46:54.