Episode Report Card Gustave: B- | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Welcome to the Hotel Virus-fornia!
By Gustave | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.23.2004
The time is 03:15:53 AM. In Palmerville, Brother Palmer is on his cell phone with Mrs. Ocean. "I thought I told you not to contact me," he says. "I'm scared," she says. "They've already started to question Beatrice and I'm next." Your maid's name is Beatrice? "Where's your lawyer," says Brother Palmer. "He's not here yet," says Mrs. Ocean. Um what? That's bullshit. People like William Ocean III have live-in lawyers. Brother Palmer tells her to remember that she's innocent. "I'm not innocent," says Mrs. Ocean. "I let Lady Mac convince me not to give William Ocean his medication. I could have saved his life." "You don't know that," says Brother Palmer. Mrs. Ocean breathes heavily some more and asks Brother Palmer if Lady Mac has said anything. Brother Palmer maintains that Lady Mac told Palmer that it was an accident, and that Palmer believes her. Just as he's saying that, Palmer enters the room. Brother Palmer pretends to be speaking to a congressman, and gets off the phone. "Have you spoken to Mrs. Ocean yet?" asks Palmer. Brother Palmer says no. "Maybe you should call her and get her side of the story," says Palmer. Brother Palmer says that maybe they should stay as far away from the Ocean imbroglio as humanly possible. "Which means you don't believe Lady Mac," says Palmer. Wait. Why is Palmer getting all oversensitive about Lady Mac's reputation? I mean, the only reason he called her in the first place was precisely because she's a reckless, lying bitch. Brother Palmer says he doesn't know what to believe. "You call in Lady Mac and a few hours later, Milliken winds up dead," says Brother Palmer. Palmer has nothing to say.
Out in the CTU parking lot, Kiefer and Charlie Brown are loading up the Kiefmobile in preparation for their journey over to the FluBar. Spawn comes out of the building to brief her father on some men from Division who will be providing backup. "Are you okay?" asks Kiefer. Spawn says she's fine, but she wants to know more about Chappelle's questioning. "I said I wasn't sorry that Nina was dead. I wasn't sorry that I shot her," says Kiefer. "I told him that she posed an immediate threat to you, to me and to thousands of innocent people." For some reason Kiefer doesn't also mention the dozen or so men she killed during her escape -- the bodies of whom have magically disappeared within the last twenty minutes. "You had to do it, didn't you?" says Spawn pointedly. After much hesitation, Kiefer is all, "Yeah." They hug, and then Kiefer has to go. He gets into the Kiefmobile with Charlie Brown and they're off. Spawn doesn't say goodbye to Charlie Brown, nor he to her.
Back in Palmerville, Brother Palmer bursts into Lady Mac's dark office, where Lady Mac is taking a nap, and turns on the lights. "I know about William Ocean III," says Brother Palmer. "Yes, it's awful," says Lady Mac evasively. Brother Palmer tells her that he knows about how she prevented Mrs. Ocean from giving William Ocean his medication. "You stood there and you watched a man die," says Brother Palmer. "You would have done the same thing if you had been there," says Lady Mac, pouring herself a glass of water. "I wouldn't have been there in there in the first place!" shouts Brother Palmer. "David asked me to come here to clean up your mess," says Lady Mac, doing the finger-point. "What did you expect me to do?" Brother Palmer says that they wanted William Ocean III off their backs, but not like this. "Complex problems sometimes have the simplest solutions," says Lady Mac. "What's done is done." Brother Palmer wants to tell Palmer, but Lady Mac insists that Palmer should be kept in the dark for his own good. "If he doesn't know anything, he's got nothing to deny," says Lady Mac. She asks him what he told Mrs. Ocean to do. Brother Palmer says that he told her not to talk to anyone before conferring with a lawyer. "As long she keeps her mouth shut," says Lady Mac, "we'll be fine."