Episode Report Card Gustave: B+ | 278 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Amnesia and other personality disorders
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2002.03.26
Soul Patch saunters over to Xander Berkeley's office and tells him about the Safe House being attacked and the rest of his call from Spawn. They call the Safe House. No answer. Xander sends agents over to check out the story, and orders Soul Patch to do a "Whatever Search" of every single pay phone in Southern California to find Spawn's whereabouts. "You gonna call Jack or do you want me to?" asks Soul Patch. Xander doesn't want Kiefer notified. The "emotional reaction" might "distract" him. Bad bureaucratic Xander!
Back at the Palmer suite, the un-distracted Kiefer touches base with Nina, who doesn't think Faux-licity should be involved in Operation Vagina. "I don't know if we're doing the right thing," says Nina. Kiefer reminds her how helpful the successful operation would be for their investigation. Plus, worse comes to worst, SWAT teams break in to the hotel room, they arrest TakeOnKief and "turn him." Nina's female intuition is no match for Kiefer's velvety delivery. She backs down. He gets all patronizing on her ass and reminds her to "stay focused." Nina calls him on his shit and asks him what's up his ass. Kiefer breaks down and describes in velvety intensity the worry he has about the safety of the Kieferettes. He is upset that Nina didn't see to it personally that they were safe, and wants to know why she left the debriefing to HandsomeBlackAndNowDeadGuard. Debriefing: the word that never gets old. Nina tries not to tell him about her conversation with Bride. She exits to go wait in the surveillance room for Kiefer.
Back at Chez Rick, Rick has put a shirt on, but lest we feel cheated of any Rick objectification, he's lying face down on the bed, providing the camera with a big close-up of his perky jeans-clad ass. The phone is always ringing, and now is no exception. I guess Rick is so down and out that he and his girlfriend can't afford an answering machine to go with their AT&T cordless phone. He answers. It's Spawn. Of course. But now Rick is listening, because she tells him about the Safe House being attacked and how her mom is gone. Oh yeah, that's just the girl you want to come spend the night. A girl who is being hunted by the terrorist organization that you just deserted. Don't even worry about bringing an extra toothbrush, Spawn! Mi casa es su casa. Rick is predictably reluctant to have Spawn come crash at his pad, so Spawn threatens to expose Rick to CTU if he doesn't let her come over. He reluctantly gives her his address just as his one-shouldered-fatigue-tube-top-wearing girlfriend saunters in to be a jealous horny skank. Wow, Rick has a Noguchi lamp. Or maybe it's just the Ikea version.