Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Together Again
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.06.2005
It's 2:33:23 as she heads back into the observation room, her home turf. She expresses her doubts about Special Agent Breck's guilt to DaD. She agrees that Scott's evidence is strong, but she wants to watch for a few minutes before continuing. DaD says he'll brief Kiefer. Driscoll watches Eric descend on Special Agent Breck with a syringe. Good thing she decided to back off.
Kiefer is still at Soul Patch's computer, while DoDder, lying on the couch, asks what he's doing. She's got her shoes off, at least. Kiefer's watching more of the surveillance tape to see if he can find out who TerrorGringo talked to. So he downloaded the whole tape onto that Flash memory stick while assassins were closing in on them? Huh. Soul Patch comes out of the bedroom, presumably having just given SoSP a conciliatory bone. "Anybody want a beer?" he says to the room. DoDder is the only taker.
As Soul Patch hands over a Bud (the product-placed beer of angry, shiftless, traitorous layabouts!), Kiefer's cell phone rings. DaD's calling to tell him that they've got their mole. Kiefer says that that means Marcy at the DoD can start sharing data with CTU. Super. DaD asks after DoDder, and Kiefer says it's time to have someone come pick her up. Hey, Soul Patch is pouring his beer into his Cubs mug! Awesome! And yet also kind of weird. Kiefer gives DaD Soul Patch's address (21408 Kipling, North Hollywood, which doesn't actually exist, which somebody could have told me before I dropped the airfare), and when DaD asks who's there, Kiefer simply says, "A friend." Soul Patch raises an eyebrow at that. After Kiefer hangs up, he tells DoDder that her ride back to CTU is on the way. Then he crosses the room to where Soul Patch is watching some futbol on the TV and turns it off. "Don't you think you've made me miss enough TV today, Kiefer?" Tony complains. It's 2:35:32. Kiefer slowly moves to sit on the coffee table across from Soul Patch. "Why didn't you ever call me?" he says softly. Aw, poor, jilted Kiefer. "For what?" Soul Patch says. "I'm considered a traitor to this country. My wife left me. So how you gonna help me, huh?" Kiefer says what he always says when he has nothing else to say: "Yeah." It's probably best that Soul Patch didn't call after all. Soul Patch leans forward on the couch, so that his head overlaps with Kiefer's from DoDder's POV. If she's jealous of their scorching chemistry, it's not apparent. Soul Patch has something to say: "I owed you for getting me out of prison. But today I repaid that debt. To tell you the truth, all you do is remind me of a past I'm trying to forget. So why don't you do me a favor. Do what you need to do here, and let's leave it at that. All right?" "Yeah," Kiefer says again, and turns the futbol back on. GOOOOOOOOOO AWAY! It's 2:36:58.