Episode Report Card Gustave: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The one where everybody died
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 3 | Aired on 11.11.2002
CTU. Bitchelle (Nina 2.0) tells Soul Patch that Spawn's on line one. Then she leans back so that we get a clear view of Soul Patch's Chicago Cubs coffee mug. Soul Patch picks up, and Spawn whines from a pay phone that Kiefer hung up on her. Soul Patch explains that Kiefer is undercover, and tells Spawn that he'll send someone to pick her up. Spawn says she can't wait that long because the police are after her. She starts explain her predicament, but some fake-o sounding static interrupts their conversation. Seriously, it sounds like a Foley assistant is literally saying "hissssss, hissssss" into the microphone. Soul Patch tells Spawn to jiggle on over to CTU and they'll straighten everything out from there. Spawn tells him she'll be arriving by bus. They hang up. Bitchelle complains that there's something wrong with the phone lines. Darlene enters and explains that she tried to fix things with some Whatever Technology, but that didn't work, so it must be an outside problem. Soul Patch tells Darlene to switch the phone systems over to their wireless system and call the phone company.
Meanwhile, back at the Tim McVan, we see that SpindlyBeckLookAlike is the one screwing with the CTU phone system. Eddie Grant explains to Kiefer that they're causing interference so that the phone company will send out a crew. SpindlyBeckLookAlike is tired of Kiefer's kwestions, so Eddie sends Kiefer down the road to call CTU on his cell phone and ruin their plan…I mean, "keep an eye out." Kiefer komplies. Once safely enskonced behind the Tim McVan, Kiefer kalls CTU. He kan't get through because the phone lines are down -- duh -- so he kalls Palmer's office. Rolaide answers and tells him that Palmer kan't kome to the phone because he's at the press konference. Kiefer tells her to warn CTU about the bomb. "You need to evakuate CTU and you need to alert a bomb squad." Rolaide writes this all down, but Kiefer has to hang up because the Junkyard Gang have finished screwing with the phone lines and are back at the Tim McVan. Raise your hand if you want to see Kiefer meet and hook up with Rolaide!
Meanwhile, Rolaide approaches Raygun (formerly known as KreepyEric -- tm SunniLee) and tells him what Jack told her about the bombing of CTU. Raygun deduces that the Junkyard Gang is bombing CTU to cripple their investigation and to divert attention away from the nuclear device. Rolaide agrees with his analysis. "Has Kiefer kalled CTU?" asks Raygun. Rolaide explains that he couldn't because the phone lines are down. "But somehow we have to alert CTU!" says Rolaide. "We kan't," says Raygun. He reasons that if the Junkyard Gang fails, they'll realize that Kiefer is a plant, and that will jeopardize Kiefer's overall mission to use them to find the ever-more-important nuclear bomb. Rolaide is stunned that Raygun is suggesting they let the CTU-ers die just to keep Kiefer's kover intact, and wants to leave the decision up to the president. Unfortunately, the president is at his press conference and therefore unavailable. Rolaide wants to interrupt the press conference, but Raygun tells her not to. "I don't work for you," she snips. Uh, so why did you bring this matter to his attention in the first place? She calls AsianPatty and has her interrupt the press conference.