Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | 215 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT A Terrorist Walks into a Bar[ometric Pressure Chamber]
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2010.03.01
At the Terror Diner, Samir's phone rings. It's Marcos, still able to get a cell phone signal even inside a room with solid metal walls a foot thick. "It was a trap," he reports. "Farhad was already dead." He says he's locked in someplace where they can't get at him yet. "You know what you must do," Samir says. Marcos says the detonator's scrambled, and Samir tells him to set it off manually. "I don't know how to do that," Marcos says, so Samir offers to talk him through it. "Work quickly. You can not let them take you alive." But doesn't that chamber have external controls? Kiefer could be exploring whole new frontiers in torture right now. He could turn the pressure up until Marcos's eardrums rupture, and then turn it back down until his eyes bug out even further than they already do. I don't know why he's not rubbing his hands together in sadistic glee.
Instead, Kiefer is just now noticing the external video screen showing what's going on inside the chamber. There's a matching one inside, so Marcos can see Kiefer's face. "Can you hear me?" Kiefer asks. Marcos can, over an intercom speaker, and he puts down his cell phone. He tries to turn off the video feed, but none of the buttons on the panel seems to do anything. "I just want to talk," Kiefer lies. Marcos just gives the camera his creepiest stare yet, which is saying something, then winds up and knocks it out, with yet another cot leg. It's 2:00:00, and unless Kiefer gets Marcos out of there soon, it's only a matter of time before either Manhattan or that cot is in ruins.
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