Episode Report Card Michael Neal: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT No Period? Exclamation Point!
By Michael Neal | Season 2 | Episode 15 | Aired on 05.08.2008
C.C.! It's C.C. voiced by one of my favorite voices on television Edie Falco. Jack dragged her out of a meeting hoping to convince her to lend him the money for the Gay Bomb project. "I did certain things for you in bed that you were going to reciprocate but then we broke up before my birthday so now you owe me," says Jack in what is surely not a first in American political bartering. Zing! Politics. C.C. begrudgingly agrees to help him get fired. Later Jack sits by candlelight in his office about eat a slice of pizza when he plays his cell phone voice mail messages. They are all from Lemon. The first one is the "It's all happening" message and from there it echoes all the crazy events of her day. She's pregnant. It's Dennis Duffy's. She wants it. Duffy he knows. Kenneth just did a flip into the elevator. Baby crib shopping. Happy. Sabor de Soledad. Doctor call waiting. Never mind. I'm not preg ...
Jack jets back to New York and Lemon's apartment. "It was the cheese curls," is the first thing she says when she opens the door to find him. It was Sabor de Soledad that caused all of the false positives on Lemon's pregnancy tests. But the whole experience taught her something valuable. She's ready for a child. "I want to adopt." Jack stands up. "Then Lemon, I want to assist you." Not like that, he then goes on to clarify.
Three months later. The Pentagon. Jack breaks it to the military brass that the Gay Bomb experiment was a failure. The chemical dissipates harmlessly in open tactical environments therefore only is effective in closed quarter and unventilated spaces. Spaces such as the tightly secure meeting room they all presently sit in. Cooter remarks "Ooh pens," but when he goes to reach for one, you guessed it, he knocks over the Gay Bomb compound on the table. "Let's do this," says Jack. Across the table a guy who looks remarkably like Dick Cheney strokes the hair of General Petraeus as he's getting a neck rub from behind. Outside that highly secure room Frank walks into Tracy's dressing room with the video game in his hand and a full beard. He thinks he's been playing it for a few hours. "Frank you've been in your office for three months," informs Tracy. "Yes, I'm going to be a billionaire!" Meanwhile in a hotel room in Beijing, China Kenneth lays comfortably in his bathrobe on a bed with a very beautiful Chinese woman. She speaks to him in Chinese (no subtitles) and Kenneth responds in an alarming fashion. The door bursts open and a man holding a gun aims it at him. Roll credits. What the hell just happened?