Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT In-fil-tra-tion. Ready? Begin!
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.20.2005
It's 8:05:27 as the helicopter comes in for a landing. CTU clinic docs rush out with a still-warm-from-Driskid gurney and offload Grayadder onto it. I'm pretty sure that's something that only happens on TV. My wife Trash used to work at a hospital, and there was one time where she went up to the roof to meet the helicopter. That's when she learned that in real life, you don't approach the chopper until the blades have stopped turning. She stood there mildly freaking out inside the door while doctors and nurses chatted calmly around her and someone inside a helicopter fifty feet away was patiently waiting to meet his new liver already. But Paul McCrane had to leave ER somehow, didn't he? Kiefer jumps off the helicopter right behind Grayadder. DoDder rushes straight to her husband's side without a glance at Kiefer, who's now just standing there helplessly under the whirling blades. She runs along next to the gurney for a few seconds, trying to get her husband's attention (because really, this is all about her), before she gives up and stomps towards Kiefer. "I'm sorry," he says again. "Please tell me he's not going to die," DoDder sobs. All he can do is pull her into a hug and say they don't know. She pulls away and looks at him. He looks back, more upset than we've seen him all season. Certainly a lot sadder than when stupid DoDder was in danger of getting blowed up by a Tomahawk cruise missile, that's for damn sure. DaD grabs DoDder by the arm and they rush inside together, leaving Kiefer standing there by himself.
Just in time for Bitchelle and Soul Patch to run up to him. Bitchelle asks if he's all right, and he's not remotely surprised to see her. Of course he snaps, "I'm fine," in that pissy, defensive, "I wasn't crying" way. You won't believe this, but CTU has already decoded the encrypted document that Kiefer gave to Agent Castle less than ten minutes ago. Looks like I underestimated CTU's typists and cryptographers. They've pulled a name off the document that was on their watch lists, but they didn't know that the name was connected to ImhoTerror. They lead Kiefer inside to explain. It's just so ridiculous that everyone assumes that someone as tight-assed as ImhoTerror would store anything remotely incriminating on his work computer. A computer engineer, of all people, should know better. I think it would be awesome if all the drama of the last two hours over getting ImhoTerror's computer files yielded nothing but some company org charts and staff meeting minutes. That would just serve everyone right.