Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Mole Patch II: Electric Whatever
By M. Giant | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2004.05.04
In any case, Keeler gets serious in a hurry. He stands up to kick Lady Mac out of his office, which isn't as good as calling the police right there, but it's a start. Sadly, it's a false one, as he sits back down to hear Lady Mac out. What a moron. She continues: "David lied to the Chief of Police last night to provide an alibi for me and I can prove that he lied…Proof that the President of the United States lied to cover up a murder." Keeler wants to know what kind of proof. Lady Mac has Milliken's prescription bottle, "in a very safe place." Well, that's ironclad. Keeler leans forward, like he's explaining something to a small child: "You are talking about incriminating yourself. You would go to prison." Ladies and gentlemen, can I get a "Duh!"? Lady Mac says, "So would David…It's quite simple, John." No, it's not. "All you have to do is go to David, and tell him that you have this evidence…this medicine bottle with my prints on it, and I guarantee you, David will drop out of the race." Oh, for fuck's sake. If Palmer was the kind of guy who habitually gave in to personal blackmail and covered stuff up, she wouldn't have had anything to argue with him about in Season One and they'd still be married. But Keeler seems to buy it. He asks Lady Mac, "And for all of this…?" Lady Mac wants a position on the White House staff. "Nothing so high that it'll raise too many eyebrows," which in my opinion eliminates every job higher than White House Speed Bump. Keeler says, "All of this, for you to be a mid-level staffer in my administration?" Lady Mac says, "You and I both know that it would be a little more than that." Man, I don't know and I don't care. This just reeks of a desperate attempt to give Lady Mac something evil to do, with no regard for how ricockulous it may be or how weak her bargaining position really is. My only hope is that she's really doing this for Palmer and this is some ploy to suck Keeler into making a fatal mistake. Which, if it is, he's too stupid to be president anyway. In fiction, at least. ["No stupider than the fictional incumbent." -- Sars] It's 9:37:00.