Episode Report Card Gustave: B- | 217 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Kiefer Underkover
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2002.11.05
Meanwhile, back at CTU, Darlene is sitting behind the perforated metal wall divider, tracking something important-looking on her monitor. It blips and everything. Okay, who knows, maybe it's a video game. Soul Patch enters and asks her how her work is going. Nervous Darlene asks him if they should be working on this project somewhere outside of L.A. You know, because of that whole "bomb planted in L.A. thing"? Soul Patch tells her to stop thinking about it. "You never know how good the intel is," he says. And no, I don't know if "intel" is short for "intelligence" or if Soul Patch is referring to the PC that only 24 moles use. And yes, Darlene is using a PC. Dun dun dun! Mason enters and tells Soul Patch and Nina 2.0 that moments ago border patrol uncovered two forged Middle Eastern plot devices…I mean, "passports" in a van they were searching. Uh, why would someone forge a "Middle Eastern" passport to cross the Mexican border? Wouldn't you want to, say, forge a U.S. passport to get into the U.S.? Nevertheless, Nina 2.0 opens up a computer program that gives her iMac the power of omniscience, because with just a few clicks of a button she is able to pull up digital images of that very passport to show Mason and Soul Patch. From there they are able to determine that the paper stock used to make the forged passports is the same paper stock used to make other TerrorPassports…or something. Like, why don't they just type "where's that bomb and who planted it?" into this computer and thwart this terrorist plot that way if it's that simple? Apparently this van was headed toward an address in Culver City, and Mason wants an agent to investigate said address. Oh yeah, like terrorists give accurate information to immigration officials about exactly where they're headed in the interests of fair play. What this all boils down to is that the CTU agent assigned to go find Kim and get her out of L.A. is now needed in Culver City, and basically Mason is breaking yet another promise to Kiefer. Soul Patch protests, so Mason tells him to send a lesser agent to No!DaddyNo! Manor to wait for Kim. And no, we don't ever actually see either of these agents at No!DaddyNo! Manor, because apparently there's no more money in the budget to cast a couple of handsome black men in these roles.