Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 256 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Ill Bill
By M. Giant | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on 2004.04.20
In the AV trailer, Kiefer waits for Spawn to come back out of the bathroom. I don't know who decided that this would be more interesting for the viewing audience than watching Spawn change into Spawnders's clothes, but there you go. Finally Spawn comes out dressed as Spawnders, keeping her head turned away from the guy in the red shirt as she passes by him. He stares after her skeptically. Spawn goes behind the reference desk as though she belongs there, and sits down at Spawnders's computer. I don't know what's going on, but she's had, like, six opportunities to screw this up already, and yet she hasn't. Kiefer warns her through her earpiece about the guy in the red shirt. It's a nice shirt, but it's not really your primary red. It has a touch of maroon in it, or perhaps fuchsia. So technically, it's not exactly red-red…more of a herring-colored red. Oops, did I give something away? Red Herring, meanwhile, is making a show-stopping effort at being casual.
At CTU, Soul Patch is leading a little meeting on the CTU floor, bringing everyone up to speed on Ill Bill's movements before he was isolated. Special Agent Charlie Brown apparently hit pay dirt in his interrogation of Ill Bill, and he did it in time for Adam the Woman Hater to put together a whole PowerPoint presentation, complete with photographs. The bad news: at the drugstore in Burbank, Ill Bill came in contact with the pharmacist, a person whose name and address are known, and two other customers who are unknown and are now out spreading the disease. Plus there are six people who left the urgent care center after Ill Bill arrived, but before the quarantine was put in place. What? He was there for less than a minute before they recognized him. I guess National Health Services should have been a little more specific with their instructions. In any case, Adam and Soul Patch figure that up to seventy-five people may have been exposed by now, and if any of them are in a mall or supermarket when they become symptomatic, we'll be in The Stand territory. Soul Patch orders a quarantine of two whole neighborhoods and puts everyone to work. Then he turns and stares at the last slide of Adam's PowerPoint presentation, looking profoundly unhappy. I guess he hates that color scheme.