Episode Report Card Gustave: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Marie's Crisis
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 01.13.2003
Meanwhile, although it has taken Kiefer about twelve seconds to arrive at the Maison Du Pain, Reza and HandsomeBlackAgent have only now managed to find Papa Crew's invoice files. I mean, they're invoice files. How hard is it to find them? Back when I temped, I was given access to the company invoice files on my first day. Just as they enter, HandsomeBlackAgent's female sidekick can be heard having a discussion outside the office. "You can't go in there, Miss Warner," she says. Hey, whaddya know? It's Marie. She wants to talk to Reza for just a sec. She sits on his lap, and they cuddle. She takes back what she "said before" and proclaims that she's "the man [she's] going to marry" and she understands that he has to do whatever he has to do. HandsomeBlackAgent sends her away, as they have work to do.
Back at Maison Du Pain, PonchoDude checks out Cate's earlobe. It's bleeding. Cate is crying hysterically. PonchoDude assures her that it's "just a nick" and that it's "not as bad as it feels." As he wipes the blood from her neck, Kiefer and his new Krew begin to surround the house and advance inside. Meanwhile, Cate begs PonchoDude not to kill her, but PonchoDude explains that "something terrible which will cause much suffering" is about to happen, and Cate would probably want to be killed now because it will be painless. Okay, I don't get it. First he starts mutilating her like he's going to torture her slowly, and now he saying he's going to put her out of her misery really fast. Huh? He takes out an automatic handgun, cocks it, and holds it behind her head. But before he can shoot her, he sees a shadow pass over the skylight. Agents rush in. PonchoDude releases a hailstorm of gunfire before shouting that he "has a vooman" in his custody, and he'll kill her if they come any closer. When no one responds, PonchoDude concludes that the agents are not rescuing Cate as much as they're trying to capture PonchoDude. Kiefer bursts into the room behind one of those riot shields and shoots PonchoDude in the arm. PonchoDude bites down on a cyanide capsule and begins to foam at the mouth. Kiefer escorts Cate out of the room and assures her that everything's going to be okay. Hey, how do they even know that she's not a terrorist too? Because she's blonde? HandsomeAsianAgent notices that PonchoDude is convulsing. He dies right then and there. Damn. Despite all those creepy knives and stuff, he was kind of hot. Kiefer gets on a walkie-talkie and orders someone to confirm -- through fingerprinting and DNA -- that PonchoDude is Syed Ali. D'oh! The time is 05:34:44 PM.
Oh, I just love this Volkswagen commercial with the Beck-ish looking waifboy going to his low-level office job day after day in a variety of "office casual" outfits while "Mr. Blue Sky" by E.L.O. plays. I love E.L.O. The only problem with this ad -- from a fiscal point of view, anyway -- is that I can never remember that it's a car commercial. Every time it comes on I say, "Oh goody, it's that Target commercial that I really like!" and I even start checking out the clothes because I'm thinking that I might have to go to Target and get some new pants; Mario, my ex, works in retail and provided me with free clothes for almost two years, and now that we're not together, I'm going to have to start actually buying clothes again like a normal person. And then it turns out to be an ad for the new Beetle Convertible and I'm like, "Oh, that's right!" But then the next day the ad comes on again and I'm like, "Yay! It's that Target ad!" I never remember. And no matter how cute or stylish an ad is, if you don't remember what the ad is for, it's not serving its purpose.