Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Veep Is A Creep
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.25.2007
The call rings through to the cell phone of a white guy making a depressing little scrambled-egg dinner in a depressing little kitchen, while another man sits and waits at the kitchen table. The guy with the phone, a Mark Hauser, isn't happy to be talking to Gredenko. It seems that he sold Gredenko some kind of access to his employer's something or other, but now it's not working any more, so Gredenko needs fresh protocols. With a guilty look at the guy he's making dinner for, Mark puts up a weak protest. But he quickly caves and says it's going to take a half-hour or more. Gredenko says that he'll be there in forty minutes, and hangs up. Mark returns to the kitchen, where the man sitting at the table announces, "I hongry." Oh, I see how it is. This makes me very, very worried. Mark scoops dinner out of the skillet onto his brother's plate, and his brother complains that it contains red peppers. "I don't eat red food," he Rain Mans. As stressed out as he must be right now, Mark swallows his temper and agrees to take the peppers out. "You take care of me, Mark. You always take care of me," his brother Lennys. For a developmentally disabled character, he certainly is astute about how quickly the show needs him to set up the dynamic between the two brothers. While Mark's de-peppering dinner, he asks his brother Brady to get on the computer and get some files from his office mainframe. Brady gets up and goes to the laptop without asking what files, but that's why you have an autistic-savant brother in the first place, so you don't have to worry about the details. Mark stands and watches him. Doesn't he have some peppers to fish out?
At 8:07:32, Gredenko and three of his men hop into his Range Rover and drive off to visit Mark and Brady.
At CTU, Milo's still doing nothing but sitting and staring at his monitor, which is still tuned to Nadia TV. It's not like anything's happening in Nadia's interrogation room, either, what with her still being cuffed to the chair. Maybe that's why Milo stopped trying to type commands on his keyboard. Buchanan comes along to let Milo know that Nadia's going to be getting the full enemy combatant treatment. Milo is still having trouble getting his brain around the idea that Nadia is a spy, which is surprising, because that seems to be the only thing he's been working on for most of an hour. Buchanan says that the evidence sure doesn't look good for Nadia. Before he can say anything even more obvious, Chloe calls Buchanan over to report that she's conveniently been monitoring their entire Gredenko-related watch list, and that allowed them to flag Gredenko's call to Mark from a few minutes ago. She's pulled up Mark's file and found out that he works for an energy company, and although the call was scrambled, they have Hauser's address. Why not have someone stop by? It's not like they have anything else to go on right now anyway.