Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Take These Secondary Characters, Please!
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 02.20.2005
4:31:50. Kiefer scans the walls of the hideout for more glamour shots of himself, DoDder is driving herself somewhere, and Lispy Skip is still waiting to be properly thanked by Special Agent Breck. Instead, the two of them work on figuring out who owns the TerrorHideout. From a complicated list of holding companies, one name rings a bell for Special Agent Breck: Galaxy Financial Services.
Kiefer's on the phone with someone, micromanaging their filing system. After he gets off, he tells Soul Patch that they need to have The Talk. Or at least A Talk. But his phone rings again and he apologetically takes the call. It's Special Agent Breck. Kiefer doesn't seem too surprised to be hearing from the person who was, last he heard, a CTU mole. She's remembered where she heard of Galaxy Financial: she was the one who ran Grayadder's security clearance earlier, so she knows he's "a general partner" in the firm. Kiefer spells it out: Grayadder owns the TerrorHideout. He asks Special Agent Breck to patch him through to DoDder. She does.
DoDder is thrilled to hear that they've found the operation's planning center. Kiefer asks her if she's ever heard of Galaxy Financial. "No, should I have?" "Your husband's the Chief Financial Officer," Kiefer says. Actually, Special Agent Breck said "general partner," but whatever. DoDder's surprised to hear it, and insists that Grayadder had nothing to do with the kidnapping. Kiefer says that may be, but given his connection to the TerrorHideout, as well as to the kidnapping victims, Grayadder's got some 'splainin' to do. DoDder doesn't know where he is, since he apparently marched out of CTU in a huff, so she'll have to call him on his cell phone and find out. Kiefer tells her to "keep it personal," and not to give away what they know. He just wants to know where Grayadder is. DoDder doesn't say anything. Kiefer plays the "five power plants" card, DoDder reluctantly agrees to do what he asks, and they hang up. This should go well. Do you suppose Special Agent Breck was still listening that whole time? Kiefer looks at his photo on the wall. Yep, still sexy, he thinks.
DoDder dials her cell phone. At 4:35:02, Grayadder's cell phone rings on a hotel room desk. It's worth noting that his cell phone ring is a familiar little ditty I like to call "Minor Arpeggios of the Ambiguously Creepy." DoDder's name shows up on the phone's display, even though she lost her own phone in the kidnapping and is now using a phone with a 310 area code. An efficient cuss, that Grayadder. Grayadder takes a second or two to answer it in a noncommittal tone of voice. DoDder identifies herself and yammers about how she doesn't "like the way we left things between us." Grayadder is in agreement, but he was "just about to check out" of his hotel. After 4:00 PM? Also: he got on a plane as soon as he heard about the kidnapping, but took the time to check into a hotel before going to CTU? Because he wouldn't have checked into one after leaving CTU if, as he's clearly planning to do, he was planning to go back to wherever he came from this very afternoon. DoDder acts like she's having second thoughts about divorcing him, and plays him along on her little fishing line until he agrees to let her come over. "I don't want to have the most important conversation of my life over the phone," she oversells, leaving out the fact that what's about to happen between the two of them isn't even in the top hundred of the most important conversations in her life. He gives the name of his hotel and the room number. She says she'll be there "soon." He promises to wait for her and hangs up so he can sit there and look ambiguous.
Kiefer climbs out of the cellar and instructs the leader of the advance team to tell the forensics team how to do their job when they get there. Soul Patch is already outside, fiddling with his gun. Kiefer approaches him and says, "I need to follow up a lead on my own. I need you to do me a favor. I need you to take TerrorMom and her son back to CTU and head up the interrogation." I need, I need, I need. It's all about Kiefer, isn't it? Soul Patch's head practically explodes in incredulity, along with everyone else's, as he points out that they're not going to let him near CTU. Kiefer says Soul Patch is the only one he can trust, and "Over the last two hours, I saw my friend come back to life… If I press hard enough, I can get you reinstated, but I need to know now: is that what you want?" Soul Patch doesn't know. Kiefer looks sad and says, "Maybe I was wrong." He walks away, then turns back, calling, "You saved the life of the daughter of the Secretary of Defense, who happens to be my boss. You do know that, right?" Soul Patch has nothing to say to that, and Kiefer continues on his way at 4:37:23. Soul Patch calls out to say with a pained expression, "Kiefer! Thanks. I'll do it." Clearly his own issues cannot stand against the impossibility of Kiefer ever being wrong about anything. Kiefer smiles and tells Agent Castle that Soul Patch will be driving his car. Heh.