Episode Report Card Gustave: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT And she said, "Kiefer, it's 3 AM and I'm feelin' lonely."
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 11.26.2001
At 3:29:33, the Kiefmobile is speeding toward the mystery address on San Fernando Road. Kiefer calls BoK on the Kar Phone, but that's the precise moment that BoK decides to get out of Mr. York's car and try to argue with the police some more, leaving her cell in the front seat so that Kiefer has to leave a voicemail. Finally, he finds the address, which turns out to be yet another seedy-yet-picturesque warehouse. He enters and draws his gun. A guy appears in the distance, lighting a cigarette. "Don't move!" says Kiefer. The guy runs off, and they trade gunfire. Cue the drum machines. A suspiciously camera-friendly African-American female police officer just happens to be driving by. She hears the shots, radios for 'back-up," and approaches the warehouse to investigate. When she gets out of her car, Flee-er from Kiefer runs past. She draws her gun and tells him to stop, but he keeps running. Then Kiefer runs by, and Officer Macy Gray (tm Amorak) stops him with a "hold it right there!" Kiefer tells her he's a special agent, and after he puts down his gun and throws her his wallet, she believes him. She lets him pick up his gun again, and they both go after FfK. Well, I just never knew that chasing an armed assailant through a dark warehouse with a uniformed stranger could be so damned sensual. OMG lends Kiefer a flashlight, and they run cautiously through the mazelike hallways, getting each other's backs. To the left, a split screen shows Bride of Kiefer calling Kiefer on his cell that Kiefer forgot to turn off. Kiefer turns off his phone, and OMG turns off her radio, which is also sputtering unwelcome noise. "I wish you hadn't called for back-up," says Kiefer. "The police have to play by the rules. We have to break a few with this guy." FfK runs by again.
Back at the CTU koffee room, where kaffeine and sexually charged konfrontation are always in steady supply, Mason is reminding Nina how Kiefer schtupped her and then went back to his wife. Subtle. Then Mason reminds Nina expositorially that her career with the agency was initially promising until she got involved with Kiefer. "You were going places, everyone knew it," says Mason. And by "places," I imagine that he means the CTU broom closet. "Do you know what your reputation is now?" says Mason. "Jack's flunky." Flunky? Is that what the kids are calling it these days? Mason explains in so many words that Nina could get her career back on track if she distances himself from Kiefer and helps Mason out. "He's a loose cannon," says Mason, reminding Nina that he shot him with a tranquilizer gun. Nina continues to play dumb. Mason has another sip of coffee. Motherflunker!
And speaking of loose cannons who break the rules, Kiefer and OMG continue their pursuit of FfK through the dark seedy warehouse, but now the drum machine has been set aside in favor of some atmospheric industrial music, so we can hear every breath they take as they inch down the hall. A figure appears in front of them, and they draw their guns, only to find that it's a janitor who has to clean the building in the dark for some reason. The janitor puts up his hands and falls to the ground. FfK runs by, and there's more shooting. OMG tells the janitor -- in Spanish -- to remain there until they can come back and talk to him. "Bueno," says El Janitor.