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
"Our time" is, in this case, 8:33:19. Fauxbayashi is agitating to fly the coop, but Saunders refuses. He knows that CTU has their location and is watching on satellite. He assures Fauxbayashi that they'll slip away after they're surrounded. Fauxbayashi's not going for it. "I'm leaving, Stephen." But then he stops and turns, as if waiting to see what Saunders does to stop him. The answer, as it turns out, is a bullet to Fauxbayashi's chest. Well, that was simple. Saunders checks his watch and goes to the windows, a few cracks appearing in his veneer of cool. He calls a henchman on the phone to ask if "she" has left yet. "She" hasn't. Saunders says, "She will. Stay on her. We're going to need to do this soon." He hangs up.
Meanwhile, Spawn and Spawnders, back in their own clothes, are being led to a four-door sedan. As Team Spawn gets in the back seat, Spawn seems to notice a suspicious character lurking near the police barricade. She tries out a thoughtful expression, but that causes her to look away, which in turn causes her to forget what she was just worried about. Oh, well. It's 8:34:48.
8:39:01. Kiefer flies, Saunders gets ready to skedaddle, and Team Spawn rides toward Los Angeles. Spawnders asks where in L.A. they're taking her, and Spawn tells her CTU -- Counter Terrorist Unit. Spawnders is still trying to get her head around the fact that her dad's a terrorist. How's that foot taste, Spawn? Spawnders works through her daddy issues, while Spawn, to her credit, doesn't try to relate with stories about how difficult it was for her to learn that her own dad is a world-saving super-agent. ["Who got her mother killed, which seems also to have slipped Spawn's 'mind.'" -- Sars] Spawnders asks what's going to happen to her dad, and Spawn just says, "My dad's going to try to bring him in." My dad can arrest your dad.
Kiefer's still in the helicopter. Hey, it's pointed in the other direction now! Kiefer, are you lost? Kiefer confirms with Adam that nobody has left Saunders's building and that the LAPD are set up a block away and out of sight. Kiefer says he'll be there in a few minutes. Not if he doesn't turn around, he won't. Meanwhile, Potato Face is just getting off the phone, having heard some news that doesn't appear to please her (not that anything does. Ever). It's 8:41:44. She galumphs over to where Soul Patch is in the middle of another meeting and insists on talking to him right now. She's just learned that Adam's sister is in one of the quarantine zones and has tested positive for the V-I-R-U-S. Soul Patch takes this news as if Adam is about to be demoted. Now that he knows his wife is okay, not much gets to him, it seems. He'll be paying for that attitude before long. Soul Patch moves to break the news to Adam, but Potato Face blocks his way: "You're not going to tell him, are you?" Soul Patch says he has to. Potato Face jabbers about whether it's a good idea to jeopardize Adam's concentration in the midst of an important operation. Why'd she tell Soul Patch, then? She even puts her hands on the walls on each side of the passageway, effectively blocking Soul Patch's escape. Subtle, that. Soul Patch speaks for two-thirds of the viewing audience when he says, "Chloe…" Wait for it… "I'm getting real tired of your personality." Pow! Potato Face says she's just trying to help. Soul Patch tells her to get back to work, and blows right by her.