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
The time is 3:51:29 PM. CTU. Bitchelle tells Mason that they were able to make out a name from the otherwise worthless audio recording of Faheen's confession: Marko Khatami. Not that this was made clear from the show itself, but according to the episode guide on fox.com, Marko Khatami is the name of BenKingsley'sNephew, who was just shot by JoeyFatone'sOlderBrother. Lo and behold, Mason recognizes the name as one of the terrorists connected to Syed Ali. Mason takes off his jacket and walks over to Marie and Reza, who look like they're having a discussion over which long distance carrier they should go with. "Who is Marko Khatami?" asks Mason, going ballistic and grabbing Reza by the neck. Marie screams. Soul Patch breaks them up. Mason has another coughing fit.
Police station. PolicemanWithSpeakingPart goes over to a bench where Spawn and Enricky are cuffed and tells them that they're being transferred to CTU. And we all know how great those police-to-CTU transfers always turn out for Spawn, don't we? Spawn wants to know what's going to happen to JonBenet. I dunno. I hear Rosie O'Donnell hooked up with Paula Poundstone and they're shopping around for a little cutie patootie of their very own. Uh oh. I'm going to be getting a lot of irate email over that one. PWSP doesn't know what will happen to JonBenet. Spawn insists that JonBenet can't go back to L.A. PWSP kneels in front of Spawn and Enricky and asks them quietly what's really going on. Spawn tells him about the B-O-M-B…but tells him to keep it on the DL because they don't want to create a panic or anything. Too late for that.
CTU. Soul Patch asks Bitchelle if she uncovered anything else from the tape of Nina and Faheed. Bitchelle drops her head into a bandaged hand, bursts into tears, and admits that it's 99 percent noise. Soul Patch tells her to eat something and assures that they'll get through the day. Bitchelle insists she's fine even though there's blood on her neck. "It's someone else's blood," she says.
NSA. Rolaide enters Palmer's office to give him some reports. Palmer asks her how she feels about his wife being around. Rolaide does the high school girl euphemism thing again and insists that if Lady Mac's presence is okay with Palmer, it's okay with her. PoorMan'sHumeCronyn enters. Be still my heart. "You've got to get out here," he says. Palmer and Rolaide gather around a television with the rest of the staff in time to hear Weiland giving a press conference about a terrorist attack on the U.S. that is being hushed up by the Palmer administration. Palmer demands to know how Weiland got free, and asks to speak to Armus.