Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT In-fil-tra-tion. Ready? Begin!
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.20.2005
Potato Face is doing what I'm sure passes for relaxing when you're her, looking at websites about DaD's kidnapping. She's surprised to hear from Bitchelle: "Are you calling from Division?" Bitchelle says she's at CTU, having been asked to step in for Driscoll. "She got fired?" Potato Face asks gleefully. "That's too bad." She asks Bitchelle to have Lispy Skip do some technobabble, and then Bitchelle says, "You're better at what you do than anyone I've ever worked with. I need you here." Potato Face thanks Bitchelle for the compliment, but says she's had enough. Bitchelle says it's for Kiefer, and explains about the operation that's about to get underway in which Kiefer's risking his life. Potato Face is finally prevailed upon to come in, thanks to her undying loyalty to the man who got her fired and let her friend get pounded flat while she watched. Bitchelle thanks her. "You're welcome," Potato Face lies, and hangs up with a mighty bitchface. Then she flops down on her ass as if she isn't going to be at CTU in another seven minutes.
8:23:27. Kiefer and Soul Patch pedeconference about how they're staging a fake ambush scene using cars and the bodies of terrorists that he and DaD shot at the TerrorDome earlier. Soul Patch warns Kiefer that if the bad guys decide to take Kiefer out without warning, there's nothing they can do. Kiefer understands. Duh, Soul Patch. That's why he's doing it. If Grayadder dies, Kiefer doesn't want to lie. Soul Patch suggests that Kiefer has time to say goodbye to DoDder before he goes. Kiefer says she has a lot on her mind, and declines. Soul Patch pushes, but Kiefer closes the discussion by saying, "She's been through enough today," and lets them into the room with TerrorMom.
TerrorMom has just been relieved of her shackles. Soul Patch wants to go over the cover story timeline, but she's not doing anything until she sees TerrorTeen. Kiefer says it's okay. He's in such a downer mood right now, worried about his gentleman friend. Kiefer halfheartedly admonishes TerrorMom about learning the cover story, then says she can see TerrorTeen, but only for a minute. They leave the room together.
TerrorTeen is cooling his heels in a cell as TerrorMom comes in. Kiefer hangs back in the doorway as the Terrors rush into each other's arms. She explains that everything is going to be okay, now that she's agreed to help CTU find ImhoTerror. "It's too dangerous," TerrorTeen protests fearfully. He begs her not to do it as she gets more and more get-a-room-y with him. Kiefer, clearly getting uncomfortable like the rest of us, tells her it's time to go. She makes out with her son some more, then walks out of the room slowly, smiling at him creepily over her shoulder. She even gives him a defiant little head toss. She doesn't look away from his weepy puss until she passes Kiefer in the doorway, who stares at TerrorTeen for a moment before shutting the door. Wow, I don't get what she sees in him, he thinks. It's 8:26:13, and TerrorTeen now has to spend the entire commercial break wiping slobber off of himself.