Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The EMP Strikes Back
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 03.13.2005
I assume that CTU has looked up the home address used by ImhoTerror's alias "Harris Barnes" and dispatched a team that has either staked out his house or wound up at the front entrance of Dodger Stadium a la The Blues Brothers. Not that we'll ever see any of that, because ImhoTerror's not going home anyway. Instead, he's just arrived back at his restaurant headquarters at 7:10:02. Still on foot, mind you. Silly ImhoTerror. Hasn't anyone ever told you that nobody walks in L.A.? He picks up a few message slips from the bartender on his way to the back room. Hey, you know what ImhoTerror needs? A cell phone. There are four guys sitting around a table in the back room. This is the organization that threatens to bring the United States to its knees? When not one of four guys who literally have nothing to do can be bothered to get off their asses and come pick up the fucking boss? Rather than yelling at his lazy underlings, he whips out his cell phone and dials.
In some fancy loft somewhere, a Poor Man's Eric Stoltz answers, and ImhoTerror tells him, "It is time for you to go." Poor Man's Eric Stoltz is worried about ImhoTerror's being a public figure now, but ImhoTerror says everything will proceed as planned, and asks, "How long will it take you to get there?" Poor Man's Eric Stoltz says it'll be less than thirty minutes, which still puts us in this episode, not that we'll see where he's going or what he does when he gets there this week. "I'll inform the others," ImhoTerror says, and hangs up. Poor Man's Eric Stoltz reaches into his closet and pulls out an Air Force uniform. Dear God! ImhoTerror knows a guy with an Air Force uniform! It's 7:11:03.
7:15:13. The outside of MF HQ doesn't look much darker than it did before the blackout, Bitchelle is working the floor, and Soul Patch is working an uncertain eyebrow. Kiefer and Grayadder come out through a back exit of MF HQ, just in time to spot a helicopter approaching for a landing.
Special Agent Breck also spots the helicopter on her computer screen, represented as a blinking icon traveling through the black, amoeba-shaped area that represents the blackout zone. She reports it to Curtis, who calls Bitchelle over. They speculate on whose helicopter it might be, until Soul Patch recognizes the chopper's type (displayed below the icon) and calmly explains that it's a "search-and-destroy mission. A chopper that size carries twenty men. Fully armed." Otherwise it can't take off. You have the pilot going, "All right, who's in my bird that isn't totally jacked?" Soul Patch further concludes that the chopper was called in by whomever set off the EMP. They must also have a Bat-signal and a really bright campfire. Bitchelle tells Curtis to get the word out to the CTU field teams.