Episode Report Card Gustave: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT When the chips are down...
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on 04.28.2003
The Trial of David "The Beer Can" Palmer. Now that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior have voted against Palmer, fourteen votes are in, according to PMHC's gay accounting system. And the count is seven to seven, with Pippin just about to cast the deciding vote. "I've never met a man I respected more than you," says Pippin. "But we are talking about tens of thousands of American lives." He votes against the President. PMHC notates it with that gay counting thing, and closes the top to his laptop ominously. Like, he lost, we get it. We don't need it on an electronic display. This isn't televised. PoorMan'sAlexanderHaig tells Palmer that he can appeal their decision to Congress in four days…or whatever the Constitution says. Meanwhile, Palmer must remove himself from the decision-making process. That Secret Service agent with a speaking part from last week arrives with two Marines in camouflage. Oh, wait, I can't see them. They're in camouflage. "I'm not a lawyer," says SSAwSP. "But as far as I can tell, the Constitution has been followed." With that, SSAwSP is no longer Palmer's Secret Service Agent; he's his warden. Although I'm confused as to why Palmer is being imprisoned. He was removed as President, but when did he get sentenced to prison?
Meanwhile, at Jack Hewitt's Loft of Fringe Activity, Kiefer enters to find the door forced open and the place ransacked. He shines a flashlight everywhere. There's no sign of Hewitt. Meanwhile, bombers make their way toward the Middle East, and PoorMan'sAlexanderHaig is sworn in as President of the United States on a split screen. Klockwise from the top left, the floor of CTU is abuzz with activity while Chappelle watches over everyone, not unlike Mr. Burns from The Simpsons; Spawn waits to arrive at NoDaddyNo Manor; Palmer is taken to his Holding Cell. Meanwhile, someone else has entered Hewitt's loft. Kiefer hears the elevator arrive at his floor. He turns off his flashlight and waits for what he hopes will be Hewitt. It's not. It's Lady Mac, looking for Hewitt herself. No shit. The time is 04:59:58…04:59:59…05:00:00 AM.