Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Kiefer to the Rescue! Um, Kiefer?
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 3 | Aired on 01.09.2005
Aisha has arrived at CTU and is being met by Driscoll, Curtis, and Special Agent Breck. It takes three people to greet a temp? No wonder the Secretary of Defense is still missing. Curtis leads Aisha off to a vacant work station. She gives a half-assed apology for going over his head, but says, "I'll let it go if you will." Curtis gets right up in her face and says, "Get to work, Aisha." She smirks at his retreating back.
Curtis goes over to Potato Face, who is acting like the proverbial one-armed paper-hanger in the proverbial one-armed ass-kicking contest and asks her what she's working on. She makes something up, and he asks her to build a firewall around Aisha's computer to make sure she doesn't make any more trouble. Potato Face gives one of her trademark "Fine"s and Curtis wanders off, oblivious to the blood clot making its way to his lung. Kiefer calls Potato Face again and she tells him she's not sure she can pull off the satellite thing. Kiefer tells her they have about five minutes before they're going to be on a road with no other cars, which will make shadowing VVH pretty tricky. Potato Face looks over at Lispy Skip at his computer and gets an idea. After hanging up with Kiefer, she does something on her computer that makes Lispy Skip's screen go all kooky. He calls her for help, and she suddenly comes over all helpful-like, suggesting to Lispy Skip that he retrieve his files from the back room. He scampers away, and Potato Face, who can't even be grateful that she works with idiots when it serves her purposes, leans over and fixes Lispy Skip's computer with a few keystrokes. Which Aisha notices, even though she had to turn 180 degrees in her chair to see it. Wow, she really got right to work, didn't she? She must have scored a Karl Malden.
Back at her desk, Potato Face gets an "Access Granted" message on her screen and calls Kiefer with the good news. The bad news is that there's no continuous coverage, so she's going to have to order a satellite reposition. Kiefer tells her that they're in luck, since VVH is pulling into a gas station. Potato Face says that's good, because repositioning the satellites is going to take a while. Yes, Potato Face is going to be manipulating objects in orbit. Those of you reading this in the greater Los Angeles area may want to start wearing skateboard helmets when you go outside. It's 9:48:55.
9:53:11. Potato Face is lost in space. Kiefer stakes out the gas station from inside the parked Kiefmobile. VVH trots into said gas station, presumably having filled his tank and not wanting to pay at the pump using his Terrorist Express card. DaD and DoDder languish some more. At CTU, Aisha appears at Lispy Skip's side and starts shaking him down for info. "The Secretary of Defense has been kidnapped," Skip lisps. Aisha knows that, she says pleasantly, but she's looking for more of a tactical overview. Lispy Skip is too busy to tell her anything, but not too smart, because she doesn't let him walk away until he's told her that Kiefer's off on his own following a terrorist. "All right," Aisha says, with an expression from Lady MacPalmer's Big Book of Ambiguously Evil Half-Smiles.