Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Out of Time
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.15.2005
But outside the door to the Undal Office, the Speaker accosts the Veep one-on-one with his concern that the Veep is making a mistake by not informing the public. The Veep says he's "thought a lot about this, and…I'm certain it's the right course." "If I may say so, sir, you do not seem certain," says the Never Fucking Shutter-Upper of the House. The Veep blows him off and ducks into the Undal Office. Shut down but still congenitally unable to take a hint, the Speaker then approaches Poor Man's Hume Cronyn and throws stress at him about how the Veep needs all the help he can get, having just been sworn in a few hours ago. PMHC assures the Speaker that the Veep is seeking advice from everywhere. "Not from his Cabinet, or the Congressional leadership," the Speaker complains. "Give it time," PMHC says, which is probably the worst thing you could say to an already prickly Speaker of the House who just found out a minute ago that a nuclear missile is on its way to a domestic target. But the Speaker finally puts a sock in it and watches in puzzlement as PMHC enters the Undal Office to confer with the Veep and…Palmer. The Undal Office has glass doors, you'll recall. Someone might want to look into that, if you'll pardon the expression.
4:18:32. Soul Patch joins Bitchelle in the BitchelleHole. They discuss how Curtis and Kiefer are on their way back, and CTU agents are tossing DiCK's house as they speak. Bitchelle says they'll have to tell DoDder that Kiefer's going to be interrogating her brother. Soul Patch and I are sure DoDder will be all over that. Bitchelle says it can't be helped. Soul Patch again expresses his amazement at Kiefer and DoDder's abruptly shitty relationship: "Now he's responsible for her husband's death and he may have to torture her brother." Bitchelle: "And yet, every move he's made has been the right one." Oh, for God's sake. I never thought I'd say this, but shut up, Bitchelle. "Not if he wanted to be with her," Soul Patch says. Which raises a related issue for him: "I look at what this job does to people in our positions, and I realize, I want us to be together again. But it's got to be away from all this." Bitchelle asks, "You want us to leave our jobs?" He simply nods rather than pointing out that, technically, she's the only one with a job right now. She seems unsure: "Where would we go? What would we do?" Soul Patch says that people start over every day, "if it's important." "You're asking me to leave the only thing I've ever done," she says. Soul Patch nods grimly. "Yes, I am."