Episode Report Card Gustave: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT If These Perforated Aluminum Wall Dividers Could Talk...
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.24.2003
The time is 09:27:56. Klockwise from the top left, Marie is still screaming like a dolphin trapped in a tuna net, Spawn awaits her fate in the faux-bomb shelter, and Lady Mac massages her temples. Raggedy Marie is brought into one of the hangars by two CTU agents, followed by Kiefer and Cate, who has a bug up her ass for some reason about the amount of pain that Marie is in. "You can't let her suffer like that," says a bossy Cate, demanding that they give her something. I've got something for Marie's pain. It's called table salt. Ask her if she wants iodized or non-iodized. Nevertheless, Kiefer explains that they need Marie to be in pain so they can koerce her into kooperating. There is, after all, a second B-O-M-B still at large. The agents handcuff Moaning Marie to a chair. Kiefer enters. "Where is the B-O-M-B, Marie?" he says in his velvetiest authoritative voice. "I'm not going to tell you guys anything," says Marie in a surprisingly low throaty voice. Kiefer grabs her arm right at the site of the wound and explains that the bullet is still inside of it and that's why the pain is so severe…and even more severe now that his finger is right there. Kiefer promises to remove the bullet if she tells them where the B-O-M-B is. "No," shouts Marie, her defiance dissolving into whimpers. "I'm not afraid to die." Kiefer doesn't believe her. "I've seen people willing to die," he says. "I've looked them straight into the eyes just like I'm doing with you right now and you are not one of them." Once again, he promises her something for the pain if she tells them where the B-O-M-B is. Marie tosses her sweaty, sticky head back and screams some more. Wow, if Laura Harris has trouble finding work after this job, she could always make a lot of money appearing in Bukkake videos.
Back at the Lonnie-bomber's cabin, Spawn has finally calmed down and the two of them are drinking coffee. Although she now kind of looks like Jessica Lange as Frances Farmer after the lobotomy. While Lonnie-B goes over and pretends to try to fix the radio, Spawn asks if there's any sugar in the shelter. Lonnie-B points her in the direction of his sugar supply on one of the utility shelves. Spawn finds the sugar next to a canister of CoffeeMate. Oh, you don't want me to go off on the evils of CoffeeMate again, do you? Also on the shelf next to the sugar is a TV set. Spawn turns it on and sees that all the stations are coming in clearly, and there's nothing on to indicate that the end of the world is near…well, except for Married by America on the FOX network, but that's a whole other rant. Meanwhile, Lonnie has no idea that the TV is on because he's listening to the shortwave radio on his headphones. She covers up the TV again, grabs the sugar, and pretends that nothing is amiss.