Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Down with EMP?
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 12 | Aired on 03.06.2005
It's 6:10:52 as DoDder and Curtis walk in to CTU. So they got there from the Rocklyn Building downtown in less than ten minutes? This throws something of a wrench into my ongoing project to triangulate the exact location of CTU, but I remain undaunted. Even if it forces me to conclude that the office is several miles wide. DoDder's cell phone rings -- it's Kiefer, suggesting she go back to the hotel and get some rest, but she declines, saying, "My father still needs me." I thought he needed you at the local DoD office, though. No? Am I the only one who remembers that? Besides, as you'll recall from the season premiere, the hotel is even closer to CTU than the Rocklyn building. Hell, it's closer to CTU than parts of CTU are. DoDder wants to ask Kiefer a favor: "Take care of Grayadder. He's not like you." Well, of course he's not. I thought that was the whole point. Kiefer's reluctant to do it, but he can't really give his reasons, because the guy he's supposed to "take care of" is sitting right next to him. Finally he grudgingly agrees, just to get her off the phone. And then he hangs up, takes out his gun, and puts a bullet through Grayadder's head. Because that's what "take care of" means on this show, right? No, that's not what happens. Despite the ambiguity of DoDder's request, Kiefer apparently prefers to give Grayadder the benefit of the doubt by sitting there and sulking. There's not much light coming in through the Kiefmobile windows, so for the first minute or so of this scene, I thought they were driving through a tunnel. And then I thought they were driving through a really long tunnel, like maybe to Catalina. But then I realized that it's gone full dark outside already. Damn, that was fast. The sun must have set so hard that I'm surprised we didn't hear it. Grayadder breaks the silence by saying, "Look, uh, I don't resent you." "For torturing me," he doesn't elaborate. "I wouldn't blame you if you did," Kiefer responds. "I did torture you, after all," he fails to add. Because it turns out that they're actually talking about DoDder. Who, after all, is really just another form of torture. Grayadder admits that although he and DoDder separated before Kiefer came on the scene, he doesn't plan to let Kiefer "take her from me." Kiefer rightly points out that that's not really up to either Grayadder or himself, but Grayadder announces his intentions to try to win DoDder back. "You're gonna have to do what you gotta do," Kiefer says, which is more polite than "whatever," but less pussy than his usual "Yeah." Progress! It's 6:12:22. I guess they'll talk about that torture thing during the commercials.