Episode Report Card Gustave: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Flight 69 goes down
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 12.16.2002
Back in the Van of the Apocalypse, BenKingsley'sNephew is having second thoughts. The kids playing basketball and the kindness of ObesePoolGuy is just too much for him. He slams on the brakes. "Akalakalakalak I can't do this," he says. "I can't kill anyone." Justin Guarini tells him to just do his akalaking job. Oh, like people who are sent on terrorist missions like this aren't brainwashed out of doing this sort of thing. Joey Fatone pulls out a gun and shoots Ben Kingsley in the chest. He and Justin get out of the van to remove his body and continue the mission. They exchange a tension-filled round of akalaks. As Joey opens the driver's side door, Ben Kingsley isn't dead yet. He shoots Joey Fatone, and now they're both dead. Justin Guarini is now alone with the van and the bomb. Wow. That kind of changes everything. The time is 03:33:13 PM.
The time is 03:37:40 PM. Klockwise from the top left, the TerrorTruck makes its way to wherever, Papa Crew sits in his interrogation room, and Kiefer stares at Nina. Back at Chez Crew, Mikey Palmice and Cate have gotten into Papa Crew's personal files. They find a half a million dollars in checks made out to Syed Ali. Cate is all, "Maybe they were just doing business." Palmice is all, "Syed Ali's only business is terrorism." Yeah, like, when Syed gives you his business card, it just says, "Syed Ali: Terrorist," and the checks made out to him say "for terrorism!!!!" in the memo section. But Palmice can't figure out if Papa Crew made these transactions or if Reza faked Papa Crew's authorization of them. "My father is not involved with terrorists," says Cate emphatically. "The government made a mistake!" They go into more of Papa Crew's files and find a file with a "resource tab." Palmice thinks that looks strange. They open it, and immediately auto delete is activated. Palmice looks at the file some more and finds codes inside. Apparently the only people who have files like these on their computers are people with high-level government security clearance. "Why would my dad have that?" asks Cate. Palmice is stumped.
The screen splits to reveal Papa Crew waiting in one of the (spotless) interrogation rooms. Soul Patch enters. Papa Crew complains about having to wait. Soul Patch is all, "Sit down!" Papa Crew explains that he is a consultant for the CIA. He even pulls a business card out of his wallet. Um, if this is supposed to be such a secret, why does Papa Crew have business cards that say "CIA Consultant" in his wallet? Papa explains that he was recruited by the CIA several years ago to set up his company as a conduit for exchanging information. Soul Patch asks why he was doing business with Syed Ali. Papa Crew claims not to have any knowledge of these transactions, and emphatically states that he is a "patriot." An odd choice of words, considering that the Junkyard Gang called themselves "patriots" too. Soul Patch vows to get to the bottom of the connection between Papa Crew and Syed Ali.