Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Closers
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 01.16.2005
Kiefer watches and reports to CTU. As they all try to figure out how to keep their only lead from getting Arab-bashed right in front of them, a cop car pulls up with a toot of its siren and instructions for "you three" to stay where they are. Kiefer's all pissy, because now he can't do something ridiculous to save the day, and because he ordered the APB on the stolen truck cancelled. Assuming the Screaming Yellow Pickup's driver reported the truck stolen immediately, despite being unconscious, in the middle of nowhere, and phoneless, that APB existed in the first place for all of six minutes, you'll recall. But Driscoll figures that maybe all the local branches didn't get the cancellation call. Kiefer tells them to get on that as the cops pull in behind the car behind VVH and the driver strolls up to the scene. Don't ask me why the driver of the car behind VVH hasn't left already, because I don't know. Other than the fact that if he did, VVH could leave and we wouldn't have this scene and the ensuing developments that change the whole course of the next five minutes. Anyway, the cop asks that driver to move his car as he approaches the three dudes surrounding VVH. He asks VVH to hop out of his Screaming Yellow Pickup. VVH complies, looking quite wee among his harassers. The dudes are all, "We just workin' some things out." The cop asks the dudes to stand by their car while he quietly asks what's going on. VVH says, "There's really no problem, officer. They're just upset about what happened this morning." Assuming they've heard the news about DaD, of course. They might just be kind of defensive about the fact that their fly hooptie is a Vista Cruiser. VVH asks if he can go. The cop asks him to hang tight for one minute while he radios to his partner in the car to "call this in." The partner types the license plate of the Screaming Yellow Pickup into the dashboard computer. Are they going to run the plates on the Grocery Getter as well? What if it was involved in a hit-and-run at a soccer field parking lot?
Special Agent Breck patches CHP dispatch through to Kiefer, because between the two of them they have to do everything. Kiefer tells the dispatcher to have VVH cut loose toot-sweet. Which is right when the blinking "VEHICLE REPORTED STOLEN" text pops up on the cops car's dashboard computer. The cop's partner gets out of the car and starts walking toward an increasingly nervous VVH, hand on gun. But he's still several yards away when his radio squawks. "We're all clear," the partner says, and VVH is on his way. The cops move on to the Benetton Posse and Kiefer is back in pursuit. Almost immediately, Lispy Skip sees that VVH is making another cell phone call. Again, the call is patched through to Kiefer.