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
And going by what Kiefer says next, DaD doesn't know what's going on between this particular pair of his employees. Kiefer wants them to tell the Secretary about their relationship before he figures it out on his own. I feel him there. Boning the boss's daughter is tricky at the best of times. But most of them can only fire you; this guy could invade you. DoDder wants to put off breaking the news a while longer, for lame reasons that have to do with DaD still considering her married to someone else despite being separated. All the more reason, Kiefer says, but she misdirects him by telling him she's falling in love with him. Kiefer flinches and looks at the floor. "Look," she continues, "I don't want you to say anything and I don't need you to feel the same way. I just wanted you to know." Jeez, we met this woman three minutes ago and she's already painting a big target on her forehead. Kiefer smiles at her, says he'll see her downstairs, and books. She smiles at the closed door, showing off her Sarah Jessica Parker-esque profile.
Back at CTU, a meeting is just getting started. A handsome black agent named Curtis is facilitating. He's got a projector set up, which blows up in his face and kills him instantly. No, not really. Over his little AV display, Curtis explains about TerrorTurk and the suspicion that he was behind the train derailing. If he was, Curtis says, TerrorTurk is going to want to leave the country quickly. Driscoll points out that this means they might have a chance to nab him, and asks who's covering airport security. Sopranos fans, guess who raises his hand? It's Lispy Skip, Big Pussy's FBI handler from Season Two. He starts to chime in, but Potato Face interrupts him, saying, "As usual, we can't hear you. Also, where's your laptop in case you need to pull data?" Lispy Skip promises to speak up, and claims to have everything memorized. The whole internet? Cool. Anyway, the upshot of the meeting is that they're going to concentrate on the airports to collar TerrorTurk. As the meeting breaks up, Potato Face waylays Driscoll to ask if it's a mistake to assume TerrorTurk is leaving the country, since the time on the intel and the time of the bombing don't quite match. Potato Face gets told for the first time this season to just do what she's asked. Oh, Potato Face, how I've missed you. But, as they say, my aim is getting better.
7:10:34. TerrorTurk is indeed somewhere in town -- a couple of blocks from a mosque, incidentally, so we can get started nice and early on being offended on behalf of the religion of Islam -- but he doesn't seem to be in much of a hurry. He strolls along the sidewalk, talking to somebody on a cell phone. He assures the caller that "Dar" is "on his way" to "you" now with "the Briefcase." "What about Maurice?" TerrorTurk continues. The voice says, "He is waiting for you. He has everything you need." We see the man on the other end as he disconnects the call. It's Nestor Serrano, that dead-eyed dude who is always playing different kinds of nogoodniks on various iterations of Law & Order. Except now he's doing a sort of indeterminate Middle Eastern accent, which seems to consist largely of sucking his voice down as low as it will go. He's standing in a nice suburban house, watching as his wife makes breakfast and his teenage son drinks orange juice straight from the carton. I wouldn't do that where that guy can see me. He creeps me out. The son bops upstairs, with a promise to be back in time for breakfast.