Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mole Patch
By M. Giant | Season 3 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.26.2004
Back at Saunders's building, the standoff continues. I wonder how things are in San Francisco. Saunders calls Kiefer's cell phone to congratulate Kiefer on finding him. Kiefer tells Saunders to come out, but Saunders prefers not to. They jibber-jabber for a minute, Saunders brings up his eleven vials, Kiefer brings up Spawnders, and Saunders hangs up. I'm not sure what the point of that was, except to give CTU a chance to confirm that Saunders is in the building, which they have. Saunders's computer monitor has a display of the immediate vicinity, with the surrounding cops showing up as white dots. I could get to work a lot faster if I had one of those, I bet. He's syncing it up to a handheld device when his phone rings. "Is it done?" he asks the caller. "It" is. He tells the caller to stay on the line, and dials another number.
At CTU, Soul Patch's phone rings. Hmm. It's Saunders. He tells Soul Patch he's calling with "an update on the situation." Well, isn't that right neighborly of him? He instructs Soul Patch to go somewhere private, but where he can still communicate with the ground teams, and also take a look at the IP address 257-211-16-5. Soul Patch looks suspicious, but he moves to comply. Saunders congratulates Soul Patch on Bitchelle's good health. Wow, he is getting really good intel somehow. Soul Patch is the first to ask him about that, but the question fades in importance once he's entered the IP address. It's what appears to be a real-time webcam shot of Bitchelle, bound, gagged, and with a hooded henchman's arm around her neck. Gah! Can nobody catch a break around here? And by the way, nice misdirect there with Team Spawn at the railroad crossing. I'd say more, but it's hard to talk with this fishhook in my mouth. I'm also wondering how Saunders's guys hijacked the van of uninfected people, which I would dub the Clean Machine if I thought I would ever have cause to mention it again. Soul Patch is maddened with fear for his wife, and also just plain maddened, but Saunders just wants him to order the agents at the southwest corner of his building to change positions. Soul Patch tries to weasel out of it, saying he doesn't have the authority, and Saunders pleasantly instructs his henchman to "take out an eye." You know, I try not to judge people to quickly, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say, Saunders? Not a nice person. Soul Patch caves before Mrs. Soul Patch becomes Eye Patch, and Saunders gives him thirty seconds to get the agents out of his way. It's 8:58:29.