Episode Report Card Gustave: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The rekapture of Kiefer
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 21 | Aired on 04.22.2002
Back at CTU, Chappelle finally calls Mason back. Okay remember how on Three's Company -- according to the E! True Hollywood Story -- Suzanne Somers was so disliked by the rest of the cast that they ended up having her character Chrissy move out and keep in touch by phone so that none of the other actors had be in the same room with her when she shot her scenes? Well, I don't know what Paul Schulze did to piss off his co-stars, but Chappelle is phoning it in tonight a la Chrissy Snow. Chappelle is angry at Mason because he didn't keep Kiefer on a "tighter leash." If the news of Drazen being alive and being in custody of the U.S. government gets out thanks to Kiefer, it will be potentially embarrassing and/or scandalous. "We have to end this thing," says Chappelle. "And I'm not talking hours, I'm talking minutes." But what about Kiefer? "Nobody asked him to go out there tonight," says Chappelle, essentially letting Mason know that saving Kiefer's life isn't a priority. Mason calls Nina and orders her to "launch a full assault." Nina does what she does best: suffers quietly and professionally at her desk while making the call.
Back in the Konfrontational Koffee room, Bride paces and awaits news of her family. The extension rings. It's Soul Patch. Apparently, Skank did the right thing, because Spawn's been found at the local klink. "Patch her through as soon as she calls!" says a joyful Bride. Her elation is kut short by Nina's entrance. She tells Bride that Kiefer has been rekaptured by the TerrorSquad. "I knew you'd want to be told," says Nina to a tearful Bride.
Meanwhile, U.S. military personnel -- wearing totally silly looking helmets of their own -- storm the Lou Diamond Phillips Memorial Kave with orders not to try to save Kiefer. Mason tells Nina that the time has come. She sits down at her desk, straps on a headset left over from Madonna's 1990 world tour, and braces herself. The time is 8:48:38 PM.
The time is 8:53:28 PM. Klockwise from the top left, Bride shields her eyes from all the trouble she's been seeing, the storming of the Lou Diamond Phillips Memorial Kave continues, and Spawn is still in jail. Everyone is Cellblock 24 is Spawn's bitch now. She paces the cell while Vintage Tank Girl's former minions watch her warily. KopKennyG and Skank enter. KopKennyG escorts Skank back into the cell and summons Spawn. They're releasing her, explains KopKennyG, because Skank finally told the truth about Spawn's involvement in the drug deal. Uh, since when did anyone trust Skank's word either way? Apparently, KopKennyG then called CTU and found out about Spawn being missing. Skank and Spawn don't even say goodbye as Spawn is led out of the klink so that KKG himself can drive her to CTU and reunite her with her mother.