Episode Report Card Gustave: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Are you my B-O-M-B?
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.17.2003
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The time is 08:53:21 PM. Klockwise from the top left, Yulin gives his patented "old boy in disgrace" look, Spawn "hangs out" with the Lonnie-bomber, and a nuke emergency team approaches the plane. Meanwhile, at CTU, Poor Man's William Petersen grudgingly tells Mason that they can stay at CTU until the threat passes, but after that, Division is going to inspect them again. Mason escorts him to the exit but pauses momentarily for a coughing fit. "You should see someone about that cough," says PMWP. Okay, that line was funny, but it hardly justified that entire lame plotline. Mason brushes PMWP's concern aside and exchanges a knowing glance with Bitchelle as he ascends the stairs to the old Kiefer Kube.
In the cabin, as Spawn is preparing to leave, Lonnie is listening to the police band to see if he can pick up any information about Spawn's APB and the location of any roadblocks, et cetera. "Looks like you're not going to make the ten most wanted," jokes Lonnie. Spawn smiles and starts packing up her stuff. All of a sudden, Lonnie starts panicking and tells Spawn that the bomb must have gone off, because all the local stations are playing nothing but static and a station from outside the county reported a flash in the sky. Spawn starts to panic and looks out the window. "I don't see anything!" exclaims Spawn. Lonnie gives her his earphones so she can hear the static herself. Spawn wants to go find her dad, but Lonnie insists that they go down to his bomb shelter and hide from the deadly radiation coming their way. Spawn, um, believes him. They run down to the cellar, and Lonnie locks them both in.
The time is 08:55:38 PM. An overhead pan of an unharmed Los Angeles at night establishes that Lonnie was totally lying. Back at Norton Airfield, a bomb specialist who looks like Moby works feverishly to override the trigger but doesn't think he can defuse it in time. Kiefer makes plans to put the bomb on a plane and fly it out over the Pacific where it can do less damage. Yeah, I'm sure the state of Hawaii has a few things to say about that. ["Japan probably has a couple of pithy comments as well." -- Sars] All of a sudden, Moby realizes that what they're looking at isn't a bomb at all. It's a fake. According to a radiation reading, there was probably a bomb in the case at one time, but it's gone now. Kiefer notifies his team that they are still looking for the B-O-M-B. The screen splits to reveal Bitchelle getting the news about the fake bomb and passing it on to Mason and Soul Patch, Spawn and Lonnie hiding out in the bomb shelter, and Palmer walking down the hallway at NSA.