Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Mole Patch II: Electric Whatever
By M. Giant | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2004.05.04
At another location that looks like it was also recently blown up but not rebuilt, two henchmen haul Bitchelle into an empty room and yank off the cloth hood that's covering her face. They don't seem too nervous about touching the clothes she was wearing the whole time she was at V-I-R-U-S ground zero. They leave her alone in a chair that they don't bother to secure her to, although her hands are still cuffed behind her back and her mouth has been duct-taped. She looks around in dismay. It's 9:11:12.
9:15:37. Soul Patch broods, Kiefer drives, Bitchelle enjoys her duct-tape facial, and Adam sits on the phone. Potato Face pulls up a strip of satellite footage on her screen, and looks none too happy at the conspicuous stretch of blank frames staring back out at her. She schleps over to Adam's station and interrupts his incredibly painful conversation with his terminally infected sister about the virus and suicide pills. Adam, understandably, would just as soon not talk to Potato Face right now -- even less than usual, in fact -- but she's insistent, and Adam tells his soon-to-be-dead sister that he'll have to call her back. He follows Potato Face back to her computer, and she shows him the missing frames. Adam is suddenly all business despite the tear streaks still on his face. They figure that the chances of Saunders's departure being contemporaneous with a random satellite glitch are pretty low, and Potato Face fears that Saunders has access to their systems. Well, not directly. Potato Face isn't ready to take her theory to Soul Patch yet; she wants Adam's help in confirming it. I don't know why Adam's screw-up (or "screw-up," as the case may be) from the last episode doesn't come up here, or why Potato Face went to Adam about this given her opinion of his current capacity, but if we don't go with it we'll never get out of here. "So if you could just do that and then you could call your sister back," Potato Face finishes. I suppose she's trying. Adam heads back to his computer, and they exchange a significant look across the CTU floor. I don't detect any unspoken lust in it at all.