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
9:42:49. Saunders's new IT guy, who sort of resembles Ving Rhames with hair, notifies him that CTU is working on triangulating their location from his last phone call. They're not on the phone now, so I don't know how Ving Rhames With Hair could know that without being hacked into CTU's systems. He tells Saunders that eventually they might get close. There are a dozen agents a seven-minute walk away, Saunders. I'd say they're close already. But Saunders isn't having it. He leads Ving Rhames With Hair and his conspicuous handgun to Bitchelle's room, where VRWH plunks her back in her chair and puts a knife to her throat. I'd like to see Fauxbayashi try that. Saunders wants to know what CTU is doing to try to trace him. I think VRWH already explained that, dude. Bitchelle's still refusing to talk, pointing out that if they kill her, he'll never get Spawnders back. Saunders smarms, "That's not the only option. You're an attractive woman." Oh, he's icky. "I'm guessing your husband would prefer you returned without disfigurement." Bitchelle's still not talking, so Saunders wants to talk to the pushover in the family. VRWH dials his cell phone and hands it to Saunders, telling him to keep the conversation short. Saunders says to Soul Patch, "Let me paint you a picture. I have a sharp knife, the tip of which is drawing blood from your wife's face right now. If whatever you're doing to trace these phone calls doesn't stop in thirty seconds, she'll be unrecognizable." He hangs up. Yeah, that was pretty short.
Soul Patch, looking busted and guilty, makes a beeline for the nearest phone and buzzes Potato Face on the Nebuchadnezzar to tell her to stop what she's doing. He's running low on explanations, so he doesn't have one for her. She doesn't want to drop it, but Kiefer's closing in on him, so he just tells her he'll explain later and hangs up. Kiefer comes up and asks Soul Patch what he's doing, in a not at all friendly way. Soul Patch falls back on the liar's last resort: the babble. Kiefer just glares at him flatly. "Why are you lying to me?" he quietly demands. Busted! Kiefer just got off the phone with Hammond, confirming that Soul Patch lied about the status call. So he was just shooting the shit with Hammond for the last ten minutes while there was a mole on the loose? Soul Patch pretends to come clean, thinking fast and talking faster about how someone forged the satellite transmission that caused him to leave Saunders's building open, and the same person deleted the missing frames. He takes responsibility for his "mistake" and promises to resign after the day is over, but claims there's too much going on for him to step down. Kiefer doesn't let him off the hook: "Making a mistake is one thing. Covering it up is another." Kiefer is taking over command of CTU. I'm always amazed that people can just do that. I should try it sometime. Preferably on a quieter day than this. Soul Patch says, "I made a mistake, Kiefer." Kiefer: "No, Soul Patch. You made two." Actually, Kiefer, that count's a little low. Soul Patch submits to Kiefer's decision and storms off. It's 9:46:36.