Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Can Take the Man Out of CTU…
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 01.08.2005
At 7:46:55, Kiefer and Driscoll walk through CTU as she offers him the use of one of their workstations so he can look over budget spreadsheets. I hope that scene falls during a commercial break. It just so happens that a handcuffed TerrorTurk is being brought in, and it further just so happens that Kiefer recognizes him as a bomber they were tracking under a different name back in the '90s. Driscoll apologizes for her earlier abruptness and thanks Kiefer for his help with the arrest before she breezes off. Kiefer makes his thinking face for a few seconds, then catches up with Driscoll to tell her that TerrorTurk is too big a wig in the terror industry to have risked himself over a train bombing. Driscoll assures Kiefer that she'll take that into consideration, and breezes off again. She's quite the breezer, this woman. Kiefer stomps over to Potato Face's desk to ask her if there's anything that indicates TerrorTurk was up to something besides the train bombing. Potato Face answers in the negative, but mentions the intel about the supposed attack at 8:00. Kiefer's surprised that it had a specific time rather than a window, and Potato Face tells him that Driscoll thought it was close enough. Kiefer comes around Potato Face's desk and leans in over her keyboard as he railroads her into logging him into Interpol. He pulls up the original intel source, and the time and the phrase "unless target deviates" (which trains don't do, he notes -- my word, the things they teach you in Secret Agent School) makes Kiefer more convinced than ever that TerrorTurk is up to something big -- something that's going down at 8:00. "That's ten minutes from now," Potato Face says. The close-up on Kiefer's pensive face is replaced by the clock digits displaying 07:50:15. When Potato Face is right, she's right.
7:54:13. Driscoll watches TerrorTurk's interrorgation on a monitor, Kiefer wonders if maybe he shouldn't have spent four of the last ten minutes leading up to a major terror attack just standing there and thinking, and the TerrorFamily digests TerrorBreakfast. DoDder is still in the back of DaD's limo, but now she's on her cell phone telling her husband that she wants to go ahead with the divorce. Soon-to-be ex-husband sounds confused, but that's only because he hasn't met Kiefer yet. Speaking of that gentleman, he's ringing DoDder's other line, and she picks it up. Kiefer insists that she go interrupt DaD's meeting with DiCK so he can get clearance for Kiefer to get in on the interrogation of TerrorTurk. DoDder reluctantly gets out of the car to give the phone to DaD.
Who appears to be at something of a stalemate with DiCK. DiCK breaks the awkward silence by telling his DaD that he's going to speak at the rally, not because he hates his father, but because it's something he believes in. DaD tells DiCK that the rally organizers are only using him because he's DaD's son. Not for his spine-melting charisma? "Well, I wish I weren't," DiCK says. Ow. As father-son blowouts go, it's not exactly Everwood. This is when DoDder makes her entrance and hands DaD the phone. "What could be more important than intimidating me?" DiCK bitches as DaD excuses himself to go outside to take Kiefer's call. DoDder and DiCK disagree briefly over DiCK's plans. No surprises there.