Episode Report Card Gustave: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Wanna Fanta?
By Gustave | Season 3 | Episode 7 | Aired on 12.08.2003
CTU. Remember the first two seasons and how they were all about towels? Ah. Memories. Well, this season is all about needles. Needles deliver pleasure. They deliver pain. In this particular instance, they are delivering pain. I don't know what "Johnson" -- hee! -- is injecting into the back of Gael's neck, but it's making him cry like a little girl. Truth serum, I've heard, is quite pleasurable, so this must be something else. Meanwhile, Chappelle is offering to cut Gael a deal if he'll rat out the other moles at CTU. Gael still refuses to talk. Gael's cell phone rings. Assuming that it's Hector, Chappelle runs out into the hall and orders Adam to trace the call. Adam and Spawn -- who has barely had time to wash the adhesive from her face -- run over with their laptops. Unfortunately, Spawn is holding her laptop in front of her chest so we can't see it bounce. They work quickly to attach some Whatever Technology to Gael's cell phone. Chappelle orders Gael to answer his phone. "Where have you been?" asks Hector. Gael manages to tell Hector that he's busy and hasn't had time to call. But he does assure him that Hartmano is safe and on his way to Hector's hiding place. Hector asks about Kiefer. Gael replies that he doesn't know. "What do you mean you don't know?" shouts Hector. "They're watching me," replies Gael. "Call me when you have something," says Hector, slamming down his phone. "Did you get it?" asks Chappelle, referring to the call trace. Spawn and Adam don't have a trace. Chappelle throws down his earpiece in frustration. The time is 07:39:07 PM.
The time is 07:43:33 PM. Klockwise from the top left, PoorMan'sStevenBauer and Special Agent Charlie Brown trace Hector's money flow, Palmer wonders privately what he did to deserve such a lame subplot, Soul Patch recovers from surgery, and Hartmano remains Kiefer's hostage. Bitchelle arrives at the hospital to find Soul Patch just beginning to wake up. They kiss tenderly, and Bitchelle is all, "You scared the hell out of me." Bitchelle asks the doctor, who is trying to ignore their slurpy reunion, how Soul Patch is doing. The doctor says that Soul Patch can probably go home tomorrow and should be back on his feet in a few days. Soul Patch asks the doctor to leave the room. "Did the President let Hartmano out of prison?" he asks. Bitchelle replies that he didn't, but Kiefer broke him out of prison. "I have to talk to Gael right away," says Soul Patch, getting out of bed. Bitchelle tells Soul Patch that that Gael has been working for the Salazars, and recaps how he was using CTU's technology to monitor Hartmano's escape and how he tried to run when that was discovered. "Where is he now?" asks Soul Patch. "He's still at CTU," replies Bitchelle. "Chappelle and Johnson are questioning him." Soul Patch starts to get up from his sick bed. "You have to get me over there right now," he says. Bitchelle panics and calls for the doctor. They try to restrain him, but Soul Patch insists on going back to the office. "If you're worried about liability," says Soul Patch, "my wife can sign me out." Whatever that means. He tells Bitchelle that he needs her to trust him. Badly.