Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The EMP Strikes Back
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 03.13.2005
Anyway, Soul Patch figures that MF knows Kiefer and Grayadder found something, and that the company now wants them dead. Bitchelle uses her first line of the season to ask whether rescue teams have been sent in, but Soul Patch has been waiting until the effects of the EMP subside so they can send in guys with functioning electronics. Bitchelle sums it up for the room: sure, they want to save Kiefer and Grayadder, but the priority is retrieving whatever information they found. Because Bitchelle is all cold and ball-busting now. While Soul Patch is walking away, Bitchelle stops him to ask for the access codes for CTU and Division. He hands over a key card and asks what she wants him to work on. She gives him some kind of demeaning busywork, and he chafes at it. She insists. He says he should be helping find Kiefer and Grayadder. Their voices are starting to rise, and DoDder -- sitting alone in the conference room that they're right outside of -- looks over at them. Bitchelle starts to walk into the conference room where DoDder is patiently waiting, but Soul Patch grabs her arm. "The last time I saw you, you couldn't stay sober long enough to keep a job," she hisses. "That was six months ago," he says. Thanks for the timeline. He really wasn't in prison very long at all, was he? Bitchelle says he can either do the task she's assigned him, or quit. He says he'll need a security clearance, and she says she'll make sure he gets a level three. "I used to have a six," he whines. Was that the clearance you used to facilitate the escape of a terrorist, destroy the evidence of it, confuse your staff, and illegally remove the terrorist's daughter from CTU custody? All righty then, we'll just fire that up again. "Right now all you need is three," Bitchelle says, relatively diplomatically. Soul Patch stomps off.
Bitchelle enters the conference room, where DoDder asks her if there's going to be a personal conflict between Bitchelle and Soul Patch. She sticks her nose in all that juicy backstory until Bitchelle cuts her off, insisting that it isn't going to be a problem. "I won't let it," she snaps. Her mellow attitude is certainly reassuring, isn't it?
Curtis and Lispy Skip are watching a news report referring to looting and gunshots in the blackout area, less than fifteen minutes after the lights went out. Wow, you Angelenos don't waste any time, do you? Lispy Skip asks what Kiefer could have found that would be worth triggering an EMP. Curtis explains, "Anything they do now is insignificant if there's proof that they helped ImhoTerror with today's attacks." Insignificant. That's what I was thinking, more or less. Actually, I was thinking "idiotic and self-destructive," but "insignificant" is good too.