Episode Report Card Gustave: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT No Blondes For Oil!
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.31.2003
The Inconvenient Convenience Store. The police take HisPanic's wife away in a cruiser. She sobs in the backseat and stares at her husband through the window with her top teeth sticking out. Spawn asks what will happen to her. HisPanic tells Spawn not to push him, and blames her for pointing the gun at him and setting off the whole brouhaha. "What were you doing with the gun in the first place?" he asks, threatening her with it. "Were you planning to rip this place off?" Spawn tells HisPanic that she was armed only because her father died in the explosion and she was scared. Moved by her story, HisPanic puts down the gun and answers the phone, which has begun to ring again. It's the police, begging him to let Spawn go now that his wife has been delivered to safety as requested. He threatens to kill Spawn if they raid the store. As he talks to the policeman, Spawn runs to the ladies' room -- where she should have stayed in the first place -- and locks herself inside. The police help her escape outside. HisPanic panics.
Back at the warehouse, PMAA ties up the Second Banana and asks him if there were any other men helping him. The Second Banana says no. "Cate, turn the other way," says PMAA suavely, and makes as if to shoot the Second Banana in the head. "There's no one else," cries SB. PMAA knocks him out cold. He takes Cate and sweeps the outside perimeter to make sure there are no other men, an action that will take a few minutes. He notifies Kiefer of this, so Kiefer must hang out inside with SCS. "And here we are without a deck of cards," says SCS. SCS starts to reminisce about how he was at Fort Benning when Colonel Sanders unsuccessfully tried to recruit Kiefer to be a Coral Snake. "He was real disappointed you turned him down," says SCS. "He said you were a born killer." Kiefer looks down at his shoes. The time is 12:39:49 AM.
CTU. While working at her station, Bitchelle gets an error alert from her computer. "Nee nah nee nah nee nah" go the electric violins on the soundtrack. She calls Lesbo-Carrie to ask if she received the same alert, but Lesbo-Carrie says the problem must be on her end. Bitchelle goes off to find a solution. Lesbo-Carrie then walks over to Bitchelle's station. She does something to Bitchelle's computer so that she can track Bitchelle's keystrokes or whatever on her own computer. Hey, whatever happened to those spy cams? I didn't think Lesbo-Carrie would actually have to go over to Bitchelle's desk in order to spy on her.
District. PoorMan'sHumeCronyn tells Palmer about Kiefer's abduction of Cate from CTU and a variety of other misdeeds. "I know how much this country owes him," says PMHC. "But it seems that he's going through some kind of emotional collapse." Palmer, however, trusts that Kiefer is doing what is necessary to prove that the Cyprus recordings are not authentic. PMHC argues that they already have "incontrovertible proof" that the Cyprus records are legitimate. Nevertheless, Palmer orders PoorMan'sHumeCronyn to find Kiefer.