Episode Report Card Gustave: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT All about Todd
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.01.2002
Back at CTU, Secretary Soul Patch enters the Kiefer Kube, where Xander is finishing up a heated discussion over the phone with someone. Soul Patch requests some extra men to help look for the Kieferettes. Xander cracks a joke about Soul Patch being lazy. Ahem. Soul Patch protests that he's swamped with Nina gone. "Because she's with Kiefer," says Xander pointedly. Ah yes, it's time for yet another senior CTU official to try to come between Soul Patch and Kiefer. This time, Xander tries to imply that Nina might still be involved with Kiefer and that that might ruin CTU. "She covers for everyone who doesn't follow code and everyone who doesn't follow code covers for her," says Xander. Gee, I thought she was just kinda slutty. I never noticed that she wasn't following procedure. Soul Patch tries not to take seriously what Xander is implying about his girlfriend.
Palmer Suite. Now that spring is here, I thought I'd tell you all that DWR makes patio furniture too. Palmer paces the balcony a little and sits down on a Ronde Chair designed by Aldo Ciabatti. The chair is $80 and available in two finishes: graphite and aluminum. Palmer has chosen "aluminum," and I believe I'd have done the same. Theo enters and asks his father, "What's up?" Palmer just wanted to talk to Theo and make sure that Theo knows what he's getting into before he turns the Kreepy Karl tape over to the DA's office. Theo sits down across from his father at the "simple but functionally sound" Pinot Bistro Table, which costs $195, and tells his father that he's "ready to go." Palmer reminds Theo that the Kreepy Karl tape will reveal Theo's role in the death of Li'l Lisa's rapist. "You're going to be accused of a krime you didn't kommit," says Palmer. "Can you live with that?" Theo assures Palmer that he "kan." He was scared to come forward before, but now he's finally ready to do the right thing. Oh, and that remark that Theo made about Palmer never being there for him? Untrue. "It's what I told myself so I could blame you for my screw-ups." Palmer gives Theo a crinkly-eyed smile and kounters that there was some "truth" to what Theo said; he apologizes for not being there enough. Oh, please. Palmer deserves the Father Of The Year award for not smothering Theo with a pillow back when he was born. And besides, didn't they already have this conversation?
ForeignAccentedTerrorBoss calls Faux FBI Agent from the TerrorMercedesKarPhone and asks him if he's spoken to LittleTerrorBrother lately. "I haven't heard from him in twenty minutes," says FATB. "I need to talk to him." Hey! LittleTerrorBrother just had a date with Faux-licity. I think he needs more than "twenty minutes" before he returns his brother's phone call. I mean, yeah, he's been stabbed and all, but FATB doesn't know that. Faux FBI Agent -- whose real name is Jovan and therefore is henceforward known as Jovan Musk for Men -- reports that he's got a "situation" of his own trying to find the Kieferettes. FATB suggests that he czech the hospitals. Jovan Musk for Men whines that he's czeched everywhere, but assures FATB that he will "find them and kill them" soon enough. ["Which is a really smart thing to say in so many words over a cellular frequency. Not. Don't these people watch The Sopranos?" -- Sars] They decide that Jovan Musk for Men should go stake out "the Bauer house." JMfM gets into his TerrorJaguar and heads for Casa Kiefer.