Episode Report Card Gustave: C+ | 10 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Nina lives
By Gustave | Season 3 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.09.2004
Meanwhile, on the CTU plane en route to L.A., Nina sits on a bench, her leather "bad girl" boots shackled together as well as both of her slender wrists. Kiefer enters. "I let you live, tell me what you know," he says. Oh, nice line, Kiefer. How many weeks did you practice that in front of the mirror? Nina tells Kiefer that Amador always deals with a guy named Alvers whenever he has business on the west coast. Nina? If you're so "in the know" about Amador's business practices, how come you didn't anticipate that he'd rip you off? And furthermore, why did the Salazars have to go through Kiefer to get to Amador when it appears that Kiefer doesn't know the first thing about Amador himself? Unfortunately, Nina has never met Alvers herself. Nor does she know how to get in touch with Alvers, or even if Alvers is a first or a last name. Kiefer, in turn, gives this information over the phone to Soul Patch and has him run a check on the name "Alvers" as cross-referenced with "Amador."After he hangs up, Kiefer walks over to where Special Agent Charlie Brown is standing and asks about his hand. "Don't worry about it, it's fine," says Special Agent Charlie Brown in this really surly manner. And now that Charlie and Kiefer have a moment together, I daresay it's time that Charlie apologized to Kiefer for breaking protocol and almost ruining his undercover gig with the Salazars. However, Charlie Brown doesn't feel particularly apologetic. In fact, it's just the opposite. He rips into Kiefer for not telling him about the secret Salazar plan in the first place, and for almost shooting him with that gun that Hartmano gave him. Charlie? No one would have had to put a gun to your head -- unloaded or not -- if you had followed orders and stayed at CTU. And Kiefer kind of says this, but then he totally eats his own words by concluding that he "probably would have done the same thing." And after much velvety explanation, Kiefer is finally able to convince Special Agent Charlie Brown that apprehending the V-I-R-U-S is really the most important thing at the moment. Why is it that they keep referring to Charlie Brown as this really great agent?
Back at CTU, it appears that due to the creator's insistence on not mapping the season's story arc out in advance, someone wasn't able to secure a commitment from Jesse Borrego to be in this episode, so there's this new CTU tech person named Dalton that we've never seen before who has clearly been whipped up by the writers of 24 in order to do whatever they originally wanted Gael to do, because Jesse was asked to participate in some Fame reunion tour and now he's performing in shopping malls all over Southeast Asia. Anyway, AngloGael is played by the guy who played Michael Bolton in Office Space. He has done research on Alvers and found out that Amador has an old college buddy from Cambridge University named Michael Alvers, who is Austrian and helped him sell weapons-grade anthrax once. Adam the Woman Hater shows everyone slides of Alvers and Amador photographed together by surveillance cameras all over the world. Unfortunately, none of these photographs show them making out or anything. Soul Patch has Bitchelle give Dalton access to Division resources that can tell them more about Alvers.